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Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive. Animals or humans may be buried alive accidentally on the mistaken assumption that they are dead, or intentionally as a form of torture, murder, or execution. It may also occur with the consent of the victim as a part of a stunt ...
1976 Chowchilla kidnapping. On July 15, 1976, in Chowchilla, California, three armed men hijacked a school bus. They abducted the driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, and imprisoned them in a truck trailer buried in a quarry in Livermore, California. The bus driver and children managed to escape before the kidnappers could issue their ransom ...
The Premature Burial (1962) is a Roger Corman film starring Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Alan Napier, and Heather Angel. A novelization of the film was written by Max Hallan Danne in 1962, adapted from Charles Beaumont and Ray Russell 's screenplay and published by Lancer Books in paperback. In 1961 the TV series Thriller – starring Boris ...
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry ...
Buried Alive is a 1990 American made-for-television horror thriller film directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton and Hoyt Axton. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and has often been overlooked in Darabont's directorial catalogue due to the success of his later films.
Ancient Egyptian retainer sacrifices. Ancient Egyptian retainer sacrifice is a type of human sacrifice in which pharaohs and occasionally other high court nobility would have servants killed after the pharaohs' deaths to continue to serve them in the afterlife. In Egypt, retainer sacrifice only existed during the First Dynasty, from about 3100 ...
Safety coffin. Taberger's Safety Coffin employed a bell as a signaling device, for anybody buried alive. A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that they have been buried alive. A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th ...
In 1992, escape artist Bill Shirk was buried alive under seven tons of dirt and cement in a Plexiglas coffin, which collapsed and almost took Shirk's life. [ 20 ] In 1999, illusionist and escape artist David Blaine was buried in a plastic box underneath a 3-ton water-filled tank for seven days across from Trump Place on 68th St. and Riverside ...