People Who Were Buried Alive And Lived To Tell The Tale

Being buried alive, for many people, is the scariest thing imaginable. But it's not necessarily a death sentence. Here are 12 amazing true stories about people who were buried alive and lived to tell the tale.

Back in 1915, the "modern" part of modern medicine was still lagging behind a bit, and our understanding of epilepsy as a neurological disorder was fairly primitive.

According to author Jan Bondeson, when Essie Dunbar, a 30-year old woman in South Carolina, suffered a sudden epileptic attack, the doctor who attended her found no signs of life and declared her dead. Dunbar's body was placed in a simple wooden coffin, and the funeral was scheduled for late the next morning in order to give her sister time to travel there.

Although the ceremony was fairly lengthy, Dunbar was lowered into the ground before her sister arrived. Dunbar's sister is said to have showed up just a few minutes after the burial and pleaded with the ministers to dig up the body so she could say her final goodbyes, which they agreed to do. When the coffin lid was removed, Dunbar sat up and smiled, apparently unaware of what had happened to her.

To say there was pandemonium would be an understatement. The other mourners thought they were seeing a ghost and fled, screaming, and the ministers fell into the open grave and suffered severe injuries. Dunbar never quite lived it down, with some in town regarding her as a zombie of sorts — but she lived another 47 years, passing away peacefully in 1962.

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