See, I think this about when people bitch and moan about having to wear masks or take tests, let alone the vaccine. Don't bitch about it; be thankful for it! Do you think people living through the Spanish flu, cholera epidemics, smallpox outbreaks, or any of the other myriad of diseases would have chosen not to do what they could? No. Their choice was a. Be rich enough to live in the countryside and avoid most people, or b. Roll the dice and probably die. We live in a world where a half hour wait can tell you if you have a disease, then slap on a mask and hand sanitiser and off you go. I think that's brilliant!
my whole family, out to 4th and 5th cousins, for generations now have all been cremated. It all started because my great grandpa was a carpenter who volunteered at his local church in Norway (they were extremely devout Lutherans) back in the late 1800s. One day they had to relocate some graves and one of the coffins fell open. He said the inside was scratched up and the fingernails on the corpse were broken off like he'd been buried alive. I'd say it was all just a ghost story but back in those days cremations were fairly rare among extremely conservative and devout christian since they believed in burying the body whole, partially due to an aversion of "pagan" cremations, partially tradition, partially because they thought bodies should be whole for the End Days so for his family to suddenly switch to cremations was a big deal, and he told his family his whole life "dont bury me. wait a couple days and have me cremated" and he said that for decades. My grandma said when she was a little girl he even had some nightmares of being buried alive and he'd wake up in a sweat like her brother did after he got back from the invasion of Italy. 100 years after this all happened halfway around the world, my grandma made every member of the family down to the great grandkids promise her she'd be cremated and her 3 kids that passed away before her she cremated as well.
glad he added the "wait a few days" part... imagine waking up while being cremated, seems at least as scary as being buried alive, if not worse (well at least its over faster I guess? but the pain of being burned seems worse than running out of air tbh.)
It's sad she had 3 of her kids die before her. :/ One would always hope their kids outlive them. But yeah my whe family gets cremated as well, except for one uncle of mine. I don't know if there's any history of one of ours being buried alive, but it's a freaking terrifying prospect.
premature burials also decreased in frequency when embalming came into general practice as the procedure requires the blood to be drained from the body to be replaced with embalming fluid, and you don't need to be a doctor to know that if they weren't dead before they will be dead now.
My grandparents (born 1899 & 1900) were following a cart loaded with a coffin to the cemetery when a banging sound began emanating from the inside of the coffin. Yep, she was still alive. This occurred in rural Missouri, early 20th century. Thanks mom for telling me that story when I was a kid.
Want to make sure someone is actually dead before burying or cremating them? Perform an autopsy or embalm them. Because if the stiff wasn't dead before, it certainly is afterwards.
For those finding this now. Formaldehyde takes upwards of a century to degrade. And most often times, the presence of an embalmed corpse pollutes the soil for equally long, so food chains and such. The practice was only popularised in the American Civil War because it was too fiddly to get corpses not drippy to their loved ones for burial. Since that ended it really hadn't been necessary and is really quite horrid a practice. Just let your loved ones get squishy y'all!
"We Schrutes don't need some Harvard doctor to tell us who's alive and who's dead. But, there was an unlucky streak of burying some heavy sleepers. And, when grave robbers discovered some scratch marks on the inside of some of the coffins, we decided to make sure that our dead were completely dead. Out of kindness."
@@marcbeebee6969 I wish I could see the analytics of how much watch time I've given each channel. Because I'm pretty sure the majority of mine would be the Simonverse aka all his different shows.
@@Shadowsc133 I mean it's going to be pretty hard to beat being buried alive or dying from a toothache man. Hopefully as a human species we do not regress to that point again.
For those in the modern age afraid of being buried alive, consider human composting! It’s eco-friendly, and your body spends a month in an oxygen-rich environment. So by the end of the time being composted, if you were actually dead, you’ll be some soil to be used by your loved ones or donated, and if you’re alive, all you have to do is knock on the door or the capsule. Too bad it’s not legal yet in most US states…
This just helps to enforce my view that of all the matter and energy over the billions of years the universe has existed, I'm just thankful that it combined in just the right way to have me born when I was.
I remember a story about one of those graves with an air pipe and a bell. During the night the bell rang loudly and the cemetery custodian went to look at the grave with a light. The night was windless so he loudly asked into the air pipe if anyone was there. From the pipe came a faint but clear request: "help, please take me out i am locked in here!" To which the cemetery custodian asked if his name was the same as the name on the grave to which he received a positive answer, than the custodian asked again if the man was sure that he was the same man as described on the gravestone. When the voice said "yes! Let me out!" The cemetery custodian just took a cloth and stuffed down the air pipe, as the man in the grave was buried several years prior and what was down there was definitely either not alive or not human.
"The past was the worst " needs to front its own channel! As always 'hat off and bow' to writers, editors and that nutty, enthusiastic, bearded (many respected academics have beard!), beloved announcer.
Embalming wasn't even common until 1865 with the death of Lincoln. Corpse preservation happened all over the world, but not in the traditional sense of embalming like we do today. The modern embalming technique was developed to preserve bodies so that they didn't decay on the trip home. It's completely pointless nowadays and just an expensive upsell
@@raymondmoore2707 Incorrect. If you can't bury immediately, you keep the corpse on ice. That's literally the purpose of a morgue/mortuary. They have a cold storage to place bodies so they're not decomposing when they arrive. How long do you think embalming takes? They can't exactly have dead bodies just cooking at room temperature waiting for their turn. Embalming is unnecessary, except for in specific cases i.e. a long distance burial/death, a traumatic death with an open casket funeral. It's just another way to profit off of people's grief.
Great video. It would have been interesting to include some of the anecdotal accounts of the various Lady with the Ring stories that have been circulating in Europe for a few hundred years of a lady prematurely buried, exhumed by grave robbers, awoke when the robbers tried to cut her finger off to obtain a ring, and promptly got up and walked home after the robbers fled in terror.
The issue with that is that there are so many anecdotal accounts, from the graveyard workers who would hear the bells above graves ringing on windy days, to people just making up stories. We do it all the time. Look at the killer clowns a couple years ago - only a handful of accounts could even be confirmed as possible due to footprints and broken brush. Most were just lies, and the only real sightings were mostly of kids laughing at the craze. But when you research sightings, there's over a hundred in the US alone. It'd be interesting but when most accounts were only anecdotal, it's way more important to focus on the major cases we know happened.
@@OfftheWallTales exactly why there are so many versions of this story from both sides of the Atlantic. Commenting that some of these are popular stories are myths wouldn't be a bad idea.
Wouldn't waiting for rigor mortis be a good way to determine if someone is dead? It does not take very long and bodies usually turn rather blue or gray before they start stinking...
That's one good thing about how we do it now, I basically have no worries about it happening to me because the way we bury our dead here involves draining the blood and removing the organs, so there's basically no way I'm going to make it into the hole intact, unless someone intentionally buried me alive, and luckily my life isn't interesting enough to get into a situation like that lol
Being buried alive accompanied by flesh eating spiders that are waiting for you to awake from your slumber. Your final gasp for air is met by swarms of spiders crawling down your throat slowly eating their way out
I honestly had no fear of being buried alive until watching this. It will now take weeks to get this out of my head. Thanks Simon and I will keep watching
Can you do the history of The Thunderbirds? The aircraft are always evolving. From unmatched skill to tragedy, the story is decades long, entertaining millions. Thank you from Nellis AFB, home of The Thunderbirds!
Supposedly (I read this in a historical fiction book), when a sailor dies at sea, he is sewn into a piece of sail cloth and dumped overboard, but the last stitch goes right through his nose. Just in case he wasn't really dead. Also it probably isn't related but there is a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels who needs to hold a little card saying "I ATEN'T DEAD' when she goes into a deep trance because she nearly got buried once. Hans Christian Andersen reminded me of that one.
Oh cool, a super in depth and very informative video on my single biggest fear first thing in the morning. Thanks team!!! *eff being cremated while still alive too
Imagine, if you will, a cemetery with several of these bell alarms above the graves. All the bells are ringing because of a particularly windy day, so the gravekeeper ignores them. But then the wind stops... And the bells continue to ring
Death comes for us all, but luckily Simon has a space heater with a substantial following, to take over his shows. An OG BB reference. If you know, you know.
This is 1 of the more morbidly fascinating topics when it comes to how we handle our dead. There are tales of suspected vampires being exhumed for heart-staking, dismemberment, or cremation, & the bodies being found to have shifted in their coffins, accompanied by splashes of blood & Gore around the insides. Most of these tales are attributed to natural decomposition, but a few of them DO seem to be evidence of premature burial. For the ultimate in ghastly "buried alive" stories, nothing beats "The Fall of the House of Usher", by horror master, Edgar Allen Poe. THAT 1 will have someone re-thinking their OWN death plans! Happy nightmares!
Just 2 years ago in Detroit a woman was sent to the funeral home because the medical folks thought she was dead. She wasn't. She did die weeks later, however...but certainly is freaky!
A friend of mine worked part time at the local hospital while we were in school and her job was to clean the bodies that came in before they were autopsied. She actually did have someone that was brought in literally sit up mid cleaning. The person had some kind of rare seizure and was pronounced dead then a few hours later they came out of it while my friend was working on them.
Surprised you didn’t mention the “graveyard shift” being coined as now overnight workers. Thought it originated from people sitting at graveyards listening for bells
Simon Whistler, mate you are so damn awesome that I have a whole playlist dedicated soley to your videos, thanks so much for all your incredible content making learning fun and interesting for everyone.
In May 2021 an 76yo indian lady avoid cremation by the minutes. The all story is kind of crazy. The old woman fell ill from c19. Her family took her to the nearest hospital . Due to poor hospital service (no bed) she remains in the car waiting for a bed where she finally fainted. When her family came back to the car they did not called a doctor to check on her and assumed she was dead. So they drove back home and started to prepare the funeral. And she suddenly woke crying as they were about to cremate the body. She was then bring back to the hospital but the article did not precised if she survived c19. That was a close call.
We have a family story about a probable case of premature burial from my great-grandmother's native village in the Carpathian Mountains. The village is now in Slovakia, but at the time it was part of Austria-Hungary. It seems a man had been declared dead by the village priest. The priest was probably the only person in the village with an education and also probably the only one who had ever been anywhere outside the village apart from military conscripts, so everyone took him at his word. The man was duly and promptly buried. But unless the rest of the village later came to a correct conclusion, he was in fact in a deep coma. At this point he was both lucky and unlucky. Lucky because there was apparently enough of an air pocket around his head that he could actually breathe for awhile, hardly a given since it was customary to bury the dead in a simple shroud rather than a coffin. This meant that, with no coffin to confine him, he was actually able to claw his way out of his grave. Unlucky because the experience seems to have had a deleterious effect on his mental health, and because as far as the general local mindset was concerned it might as well have been the middle ages. The only way I can account for what happened next is that the man decided the Second Coming had happened and that everyone had been taken up into heaven except him, because in something of a panic he made his way to the church and climbed atop the highest tower. And that's where the rest of the village found him, insanely raving. (What exactly he was raving about, I don't know. I had this story from my father, who had it from his grandmother. Either she didn't know, didn't include it in her telling of the story, or _he_ forgot.) This being the rural Carpathian Mountains in the 19th century, the village thought the situation obvious. The man was a vampire. And they knew how to deal with vampires. Turns out a wooden stake through the heart will kill a normal human being too. They were also careful to drive nails into his feet before reburying him, so that if he somehow came back from his staking, it would be too painful to walk around.
This. Thank you Simon. I loved Myth busters, but this was my least favourite episode. We have a plethora of proof that it happened and was possible, it's just highly unlikely to happen today. They made it sounds like it was a myth from the get go, but it's not. It's just extremely unlikely to happen today.
I think it was on Business Blaze that Simon said he wanted to be frozen and put in a corner with his hand raised and smiling. Just need to put a pully in the wrist to make the hand wave back and forth.
I've been buried alive, happened while I was very young. It wasn't under any circumstances in this video (long story) but needless to say as a young child I was actually afraid of being on the ground. Grandparents (part of the long story) had to carry me for a while until I got over the fear.
I’m just imagining people going about their day hearing the screams of someone buried alive and going. “Ehhhhh it’s probably nothing.” Like what the hell? People knew it was common and when they herd it they did nothing about it until the screams stopped.
Could have been worse... they could have been cremated. Also, if worried about being buried too deep, why not be buried standing up with an escape hatch built into the top of the coffin? make sure the that the top of the grave is covered by an easily removable slab and there you go...
I remember reading a book, in 1976, called “The Romeo Error”, about this exact topic. It’s entirely responsible for my decision to be cremated! I can’t find the book anywhere, probably just as well, it was scary enough the first time I read it.😳
Waiting for Simon's new new channel, "The Past Was the Worst," with each episode documenting some horrifying reason being alive before the 20th century absolutely sucked.
@@trishapellis Does Simon even do collabs? I don't think I've ever seen him feature anyone or be featured on anything. That would be amazing, though. I discovered her through a collab with PBS's channel Monstrum and she is awesome.
I work in engineering at a hospital, security was busy one day so engineering was sent to the morgue for the undertaker. Routine day and I was the lucky engineer sent in this task. So I met the undertaker and confirmed proper paperwork then proceeded to go to body. As we where doing final paperwork, some of the paperwork was lying on the body and I noticed it moved. At first myself and the undertaker thought it was off fading. But it move with a steady but light rhythm. My first thought was oh shit, satan is here. But I quickly called security on the radio to call a code. CPR in the morgue and started unzipping body bag. My response from security was it the undertaker and I replied nursing is not done and I have one to return back from the dead. This video reminds me of that event
Main risk of this these days is in more rural areas where a shoddy doctor can get away with screwing up unnoticed. Theres reasons for sayings like your only dead when your warm and dead. Not that it couldn’t happen in a bigger city but theres by default more people around to notice and question the failure to properly follow protocol. Though never underestimate human stupidity.
To lighten up the mood, here’s a joke: A drunk stumbles home from the tavern, and takes a shortcut through the cemetery. He falls into an open grave and, confused, falls asleep. The next morning he stands up with his head poking out of the grave, looks around and exclaims “It’s Resurrection Morning and I’m the first one up!”
A new shape of coffin will have to be produce in an upside down 'L' shape so youtube vlogers can fit in without having to break their go-pro holding arms lol
0:33 : “As much as we may not want to dwell on it, death comes to us all, eventually, in the end…” -says the man who wants to be cryogenically frozen and live forever 💀
This S*** is EXACTLY why I'm getting Cremated and having my ashes mixed into a batch of Steel. Addendum: if you insist on burial yet are afraid of being buried alive, install a panel with some Cyanide Capsules or something.
Get a degree or certification in something productive (STEM) instead of a BA in nonsense that doesn't benefit society and student loan debt won't be a problem. I graduated in 2003 with 2 degrees (Economics and Finance) and a minor in Manufacturing with only one additional semester. I worked full-time the whole way through and by 2006 my loans were paid off and I had enough saved for a down-payment on a $600k house. You are responsible for your own outcome
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nah, don't need a website. Or any of the other same 10 things pitched over and over again all over YT.
"The Past Was the Worst" is my favourite series title on TH-cam...because it was!! As a history major, I cannot disagree.
See, I think this about when people bitch and moan about having to wear masks or take tests, let alone the vaccine. Don't bitch about it; be thankful for it! Do you think people living through the Spanish flu, cholera epidemics, smallpox outbreaks, or any of the other myriad of diseases would have chosen not to do what they could? No. Their choice was a. Be rich enough to live in the countryside and avoid most people, or b. Roll the dice and probably die.
We live in a world where a half hour wait can tell you if you have a disease, then slap on a mask and hand sanitiser and off you go. I think that's brilliant!
Would Climate Change lessen that “Past was the Worst” thing a bit, or is it generally outweighed?
@@Lauren_C it depends on how close to the coast you live. People are pessimistic, but I can't wait for my new beach front property in Kansas
my whole family, out to 4th and 5th cousins, for generations now have all been cremated. It all started because my great grandpa was a carpenter who volunteered at his local church in Norway (they were extremely devout Lutherans) back in the late 1800s. One day they had to relocate some graves and one of the coffins fell open. He said the inside was scratched up and the fingernails on the corpse were broken off like he'd been buried alive. I'd say it was all just a ghost story but back in those days cremations were fairly rare among extremely conservative and devout christian since they believed in burying the body whole, partially due to an aversion of "pagan" cremations, partially tradition, partially because they thought bodies should be whole for the End Days so for his family to suddenly switch to cremations was a big deal, and he told his family his whole life "dont bury me. wait a couple days and have me cremated" and he said that for decades. My grandma said when she was a little girl he even had some nightmares of being buried alive and he'd wake up in a sweat like her brother did after he got back from the invasion of Italy.
100 years after this all happened halfway around the world, my grandma made every member of the family down to the great grandkids promise her she'd be cremated and her 3 kids that passed away before her she cremated as well.
glad he added the "wait a few days" part... imagine waking up while being cremated, seems at least as scary as being buried alive, if not worse (well at least its over faster I guess? but the pain of being burned seems worse than running out of air tbh.)
Hmm which is worse? being burned to death or being buried alive? Hard to choose!
@@Nepheos the 1800⁰+ heat would probably kill you before you had time to wake up. Probably.
It's sad she had 3 of her kids die before her. :/ One would always hope their kids outlive them. But yeah my whe family gets cremated as well, except for one uncle of mine. I don't know if there's any history of one of ours being buried alive, but it's a freaking terrifying prospect.
@@Sashazur buried alive...
premature burials also decreased in frequency when embalming came into general practice as the procedure requires the blood to be drained from the body to be replaced with embalming fluid, and you don't need to be a doctor to know that if they weren't dead before they will be dead now.
My grandparents (born 1899 & 1900) were following a cart loaded with a coffin to the cemetery when a banging sound began emanating from the inside of the coffin. Yep, she was still alive. This occurred in rural Missouri, early 20th century. Thanks mom for telling me that story when I was a kid.
Cool Story.
Want to make sure someone is actually dead before burying or cremating them? Perform an autopsy or embalm them. Because if the stiff wasn't dead before, it certainly is afterwards.
Just lot decomposition set in a little. Much cheaper, and less risk of contamination.
For those finding this now. Formaldehyde takes upwards of a century to degrade. And most often times, the presence of an embalmed corpse pollutes the soil for equally long, so food chains and such. The practice was only popularised in the American Civil War because it was too fiddly to get corpses not drippy to their loved ones for burial. Since that ended it really hadn't been necessary and is really quite horrid a practice. Just let your loved ones get squishy y'all!
That last suggestion... I'm not sure what terrifies me more. Waking up buried or waking up on fire.
"We Schrutes don't need some Harvard doctor to tell us who's alive and who's dead. But, there was an unlucky streak of burying some heavy sleepers. And, when grave robbers discovered some scratch marks on the inside of some of the coffins, we decided to make sure that our dead were completely dead. Out of kindness."
Lamest tryhard shit character from a tryhard shit show.
Another one to remind us in the past is always the worst. Thank you for everything you do man. Many hours of enjoyment.
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@@marcbeebee6969 I wish I could see the analytics of how much watch time I've given each channel. Because I'm pretty sure the majority of mine would be the Simonverse aka all his different shows.
How do you know the future?
@@Shadowsc133 I mean it's going to be pretty hard to beat being buried alive or dying from a toothache man. Hopefully as a human species we do not regress to that point again.
@@duncanbrock7303 Yeah, I hope we only die from heart attacks and cancers. It is much better now.
Many a day in Pikeville KY. now known for Four Wheeling though the mountains but the Skeeter are still relevant
For those in the modern age afraid of being buried alive, consider human composting! It’s eco-friendly, and your body spends a month in an oxygen-rich environment. So by the end of the time being composted, if you were actually dead, you’ll be some soil to be used by your loved ones or donated, and if you’re alive, all you have to do is knock on the door or the capsule. Too bad it’s not legal yet in most US states…
This just helps to enforce my view that of all the matter and energy over the billions of years the universe has existed, I'm just thankful that it combined in just the right way to have me born when I was.
I remember a story about one of those graves with an air pipe and a bell. During the night the bell rang loudly and the cemetery custodian went to look at the grave with a light.
The night was windless so he loudly asked into the air pipe if anyone was there. From the pipe came a faint but clear request: "help, please take me out i am locked in here!" To which the cemetery custodian asked if his name was the same as the name on the grave to which he received a positive answer, than the custodian asked again if the man was sure that he was the same man as described on the gravestone.
When the voice said "yes! Let me out!" The cemetery custodian just took a cloth and stuffed down the air pipe, as the man in the grave was buried several years prior and what was down there was definitely either not alive or not human.
R/fairy tales/myth/bs
100% fiction.
@@gomahklawm4446 it's just a story
So, perhaps the obvious next question then. How many times have people been cremated alive?
"The past was the worst " needs to front its own channel! As always 'hat off and bow' to writers, editors and that nutty, enthusiastic, bearded (many respected academics have beard!), beloved announcer.
We should bear in mind this was when enbalming was an expensive and often unavailable process. The creepiness factor is high. Excellent episode
Yeah, being embalmed pretty much rules out any chance of being buried alive.
Embalming is also pointless if you're going to bury them right away anyways.
Embalming wasn't even common until 1865 with the death of Lincoln. Corpse preservation happened all over the world, but not in the traditional sense of embalming like we do today. The modern embalming technique was developed to preserve bodies so that they didn't decay on the trip home. It's completely pointless nowadays and just an expensive upsell
@@Amarianee provided you plan to bury immediately with no viewing. Human bodies begin to decompose pretty wuick
@@raymondmoore2707 Incorrect. If you can't bury immediately, you keep the corpse on ice. That's literally the purpose of a morgue/mortuary. They have a cold storage to place bodies so they're not decomposing when they arrive. How long do you think embalming takes? They can't exactly have dead bodies just cooking at room temperature waiting for their turn. Embalming is unnecessary, except for in specific cases i.e. a long distance burial/death, a traumatic death with an open casket funeral. It's just another way to profit off of people's grief.
Great video. It would have been interesting to include some of the anecdotal accounts of the various Lady with the Ring stories that have been circulating in Europe for a few hundred years of a lady prematurely buried, exhumed by grave robbers, awoke when the robbers tried to cut her finger off to obtain a ring, and promptly got up and walked home after the robbers fled in terror.
The issue with that is that there are so many anecdotal accounts, from the graveyard workers who would hear the bells above graves ringing on windy days, to people just making up stories. We do it all the time. Look at the killer clowns a couple years ago - only a handful of accounts could even be confirmed as possible due to footprints and broken brush. Most were just lies, and the only real sightings were mostly of kids laughing at the craze. But when you research sightings, there's over a hundred in the US alone.
It'd be interesting but when most accounts were only anecdotal, it's way more important to focus on the major cases we know happened.
@@OfftheWallTales exactly why there are so many versions of this story from both sides of the Atlantic. Commenting that some of these are popular stories are myths wouldn't be a bad idea.
Wouldn't waiting for rigor mortis be a good way to determine if someone is dead? It does not take very long and bodies usually turn rather blue or gray before they start stinking...
That's one good thing about how we do it now, I basically have no worries about it happening to me because the way we bury our dead here involves draining the blood and removing the organs, so there's basically no way I'm going to make it into the hole intact, unless someone intentionally buried me alive, and luckily my life isn't interesting enough to get into a situation like that lol
Literally cannot imagine anything more terrifying
Being buried alive accompanied by flesh eating spiders that are waiting for you to awake from your slumber. Your final gasp for air is met by swarms of spiders crawling down your throat slowly eating their way out
How about being eaten alive
Scaphism
I honestly had no fear of being buried alive until watching this. It will now take weeks to get this out of my head. Thanks Simon and I will keep watching
Can you do the history of The Thunderbirds?
The aircraft are always evolving.
From unmatched skill to tragedy, the story is decades long, entertaining millions.
Thank you from Nellis AFB, home of The Thunderbirds!
I thought you meant Gerry Anderson at first!😆
Supposedly (I read this in a historical fiction book), when a sailor dies at sea, he is sewn into a piece of sail cloth and dumped overboard, but the last stitch goes right through his nose. Just in case he wasn't really dead.
Also it probably isn't related but there is a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels who needs to hold a little card saying "I ATEN'T DEAD' when she goes into a deep trance because she nearly got buried once. Hans Christian Andersen reminded me of that one.
Interesting that Poe wrote Cask of Amontillado around when this fear was peaking within society. My boy was on it lol
This is the 1st time I've heard of someone that was actually saved by an insurance company not wanting to pay out benefits.
Oh cool, a super in depth and very informative video on my single biggest fear first thing in the morning.
Thanks team!!!
*eff being cremated while still alive too
That X-Files episode where a corrupt police officer gets cremated alive for double crossing the mafia 😬
I’d rather watch this first thing in the morning that at 2 am…….. oh well here I am
Imagine, if you will, a cemetery with several of these bell alarms above the graves. All the bells are ringing because of a particularly windy day, so the gravekeeper ignores them. But then the wind stops...
And the bells continue to ring
OMG! This is NOW my worst nightmare! Thanks for that !!
When a person dies, body temperature drops very fast. At least from my experience. And then rigor mortis sets in soon.
Uhhhm…? Should I call the police?
Death comes for us all, but luckily Simon has a space heater with a substantial following, to take over his shows. An OG BB reference. If you know, you know.
This is 1 of the more morbidly fascinating topics when it comes to how we handle our dead. There are tales of suspected vampires being exhumed for heart-staking, dismemberment, or cremation, & the bodies being found to have shifted in their coffins, accompanied by splashes of blood & Gore around the insides. Most of these tales are attributed to natural decomposition, but a few of them DO seem to be evidence of premature burial. For the ultimate in ghastly "buried alive" stories, nothing beats "The Fall of the House of Usher", by horror master, Edgar Allen Poe. THAT 1 will have someone re-thinking their OWN death plans! Happy nightmares!
"In the past it was better." This video is the best cure for that mentality.
Glad to see you back fact boy
Just 2 years ago in Detroit a woman was sent to the funeral home because the medical folks thought she was dead. She wasn't. She did die weeks later, however...but certainly is freaky!
A friend of mine worked part time at the local hospital while we were in school and her job was to clean the bodies that came in before they were autopsied. She actually did have someone that was brought in literally sit up mid cleaning. The person had some kind of rare seizure and was pronounced dead then a few hours later they came out of it while my friend was working on them.
Omg, just imagine
Yeah, right.
one of the best sideprojects videos of all time!!!!
Surprised you didn’t mention the “graveyard shift” being coined as now overnight workers. Thought it originated from people sitting at graveyards listening for bells
Simon Whistler, mate you are so damn awesome that I have a whole playlist dedicated soley to your videos, thanks so much for all your incredible content making learning fun and interesting for everyone.
In May 2021 an 76yo indian lady avoid cremation by the minutes. The all story is kind of crazy. The old woman fell ill from c19. Her family took her to the nearest hospital . Due to poor hospital service (no bed) she remains in the car waiting for a bed where she finally fainted. When her family came back to the car they did not called a doctor to check on her and assumed she was dead. So they drove back home and started to prepare the funeral. And she suddenly woke crying as they were about to cremate the body. She was then bring back to the hospital but the article did not precised if she survived c19.
That was a close call.
'The Past was the Worst" is definitely worthy of a series
You posted this at the same time Ask A Mortician uploaded her latest video!! Ironic. There is sooo much interesting stuff on that channel!!
We have a family story about a probable case of premature burial from my great-grandmother's native village in the Carpathian Mountains. The village is now in Slovakia, but at the time it was part of Austria-Hungary.
It seems a man had been declared dead by the village priest. The priest was probably the only person in the village with an education and also probably the only one who had ever been anywhere outside the village apart from military conscripts, so everyone took him at his word. The man was duly and promptly buried. But unless the rest of the village later came to a correct conclusion, he was in fact in a deep coma.
At this point he was both lucky and unlucky. Lucky because there was apparently enough of an air pocket around his head that he could actually breathe for awhile, hardly a given since it was customary to bury the dead in a simple shroud rather than a coffin. This meant that, with no coffin to confine him, he was actually able to claw his way out of his grave. Unlucky because the experience seems to have had a deleterious effect on his mental health, and because as far as the general local mindset was concerned it might as well have been the middle ages.
The only way I can account for what happened next is that the man decided the Second Coming had happened and that everyone had been taken up into heaven except him, because in something of a panic he made his way to the church and climbed atop the highest tower. And that's where the rest of the village found him, insanely raving. (What exactly he was raving about, I don't know. I had this story from my father, who had it from his grandmother. Either she didn't know, didn't include it in her telling of the story, or _he_ forgot.)
This being the rural Carpathian Mountains in the 19th century, the village thought the situation obvious. The man was a vampire. And they knew how to deal with vampires. Turns out a wooden stake through the heart will kill a normal human being too. They were also careful to drive nails into his feet before reburying him, so that if he somehow came back from his staking, it would be too painful to walk around.
1:20 - Chapter 1 - How could it happen ?
2:55 - Chapter 2 - The past , the worst
8:35 - Mid roll ads
10:00 - Chapter 3 - Safety first
This. Thank you Simon. I loved Myth busters, but this was my least favourite episode. We have a plethora of proof that it happened and was possible, it's just highly unlikely to happen today. They made it sounds like it was a myth from the get go, but it's not. It's just extremely unlikely to happen today.
"The past was the worst" just made it to a non blazed channel's name. Embrace the blaze Simon you know you want to.
I’m sorry, I just keep thinking:
“Marooned for all eternity at the center of a dead planet. Buried alive… buried alive…”
KHAAAAN!
I think it was on Business Blaze that Simon said he wanted to be frozen and put in a corner with his hand raised and smiling. Just need to put a pully in the wrist to make the hand wave back and forth.
I've been buried alive, happened while I was very young. It wasn't under any circumstances in this video (long story) but needless to say as a young child I was actually afraid of being on the ground. Grandparents (part of the long story) had to carry me for a while until I got over the fear.
I never really noticed about it... until now. Thanks Simon😑
Simon, you have to start one more channel: “The Past WasThe Worst”. Please!!!!
It must have happened a shit ton of times to have had a term coined for it
Glass coffins. Will they work? Remains to be seen! 😂😂😂
SIMON NEW CHANNEL!!! The Past Was The Worst 😅😅 or I'm nicking it for a song!!!! 🤣🤣
I read somewhere (years ago) about croque en mort-the practice of biting the outer corner of the pinkie finger to check for a reaction. Anyone else?
The actor George Eads was "buried alive" twice as two different characters (CSI and the new Macgyver. The CSI episode still haunts me.
May I ask what the background music for the last 2-3 minutes of the video is?
I’m just imagining people going about their day hearing the screams of someone buried alive and going. “Ehhhhh it’s probably nothing.” Like what the hell? People knew it was common and when they herd it they did nothing about it until the screams stopped.
12:49 Second from left. SWEET JEBUS, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!??!
Could have been worse... they could have been cremated. Also, if worried about being buried too deep, why not be buried standing up with an escape hatch built into the top of the coffin? make sure the that the top of the grave is covered by an easily removable slab and there you go...
I remember reading a book, in 1976, called “The Romeo Error”, about this exact topic. It’s entirely responsible for my decision to be cremated! I can’t find the book anywhere, probably just as well, it was scary enough the first time I read it.😳
Waiting for Simon's new new channel, "The Past Was the Worst," with each episode documenting some horrifying reason being alive before the 20th century absolutely sucked.
He can collab with Caitlin Doughty (Ask A Mortician) for a "The Middle Ages Were Magic" special
@@trishapellis Does Simon even do collabs? I don't think I've ever seen him feature anyone or be featured on anything. That would be amazing, though. I discovered her through a collab with PBS's channel Monstrum and she is awesome.
@@semaj_5022 First time for everything?
This reminds me of self mummification, I'd love a video on that!
I work in engineering at a hospital, security was busy one day so engineering was sent to the morgue for the undertaker. Routine day and I was the lucky engineer sent in this task.
So I met the undertaker and confirmed proper paperwork then proceeded to go to body.
As we where doing final paperwork, some of the paperwork was lying on the body and I noticed it moved. At first myself and the undertaker thought it was off fading. But it move with a steady but light rhythm.
My first thought was oh shit, satan is here. But I quickly called security on the radio to call a code. CPR in the morgue and started unzipping body bag. My response from security was it the undertaker and I replied nursing is not done and I have one to return back from the dead.
This video reminds me of that event
Read 'The Romeo Error' by the late Lyall Watson.
Main risk of this these days is in more rural areas where a shoddy doctor can get away with screwing up unnoticed.
Theres reasons for sayings like your only dead when your warm and dead.
Not that it couldn’t happen in a bigger city but theres by default more people around to notice and question the failure to properly follow protocol.
Though never underestimate human stupidity.
How is this not a brain blaze series?
"The past is the worst" is my most quoted uhhh. Quote
To lighten up the mood, here’s a joke: A drunk stumbles home from the tavern, and takes a shortcut through the cemetery. He falls into an open grave and, confused, falls asleep. The next morning he stands up with his head poking out of the grave, looks around and exclaims “It’s Resurrection Morning and I’m the first one up!”
Mythbusters also tested a buried alive myth. Apparently, your average, modern-day casket can't even withstand the weight of six feet of earth.
That is why cemeteries require cement vaults.
One can leave body outside until stomach turns green or at least stiffnes and livor mortis sets in to assure not burying alive somebody.
"The note says he only appears to be dead."
"Yeah but his checkout date was 4 days ago."
are we sure angelo hays wasn’t an impromptu insurance scam?
Wow! So what year was the death Horn available; and for how long?😊
A new shape of coffin will have to be produce in an upside down 'L' shape so youtube vlogers can fit in without having to break their go-pro holding arms lol
This is my worst fear ever.
"We've got a burner in number 12! Tell them to prep, please."
With being cremated, imagine a case again of someone being cremated who was only thought to be dead.
Those last 2 blokes coffins. Surely they're just taking the piss? 🤣🤣🤣🤣✌🤣🤣🤣🤣
Being composted requires lots of air, so if you wake up you can still breath... And shout
This is why I want to be cremated and not buried. It's my actual worst fear
I wonder if this qualifies as a Sideprojects video. How about the Night Witches, the Russian All Women Squadron during WW2?
0:38 to 0:54 in those last precious moments you will want to hit subscribe and smash like, so you can die a legend.
Allegedly...
casually waiting for Simon's 85th youtube channel "The Past Was The Worst" 😄 (always enjoy these The Past Was The Worst topics)
I am pretty sure that the safety coffins are only being used by vampires these days.
Need a 'The past is the worst' T shirt
0:33 : “As much as we may not want to dwell on it, death comes to us all, eventually, in the end…”
-says the man who wants to be cryogenically frozen and live forever 💀
I'm sort of surprised that there's no comments from Ask a Mortician haha
10:20 sounds like the dark souls soundtrack
“The past is the worst” should be simons next channel
"Ah, ah, ah, ah buried alive, buried alive...ah, ah, ah, ah, buried aliiive...!"
I'm not wearing my glasses and for some reason I thought the thumbnail was talking about side windows on your coffin 😅
" I aten't dead"
-- Granny Weatherwax
Why did I watch this episode?? Why??
oh....this was a fun one.
At least they weren't prematurely cremated without being tied to a stake first.
This S*** is EXACTLY why I'm getting Cremated and having my ashes mixed into a batch of Steel.
Addendum: if you insist on burial yet are afraid of being buried alive, install a panel with some Cyanide Capsules or something.
And now people just get buried alive in student loan debt
At least we know they’re debt😂
Get a degree or certification in something productive (STEM) instead of a BA in nonsense that doesn't benefit society and student loan debt won't be a problem. I graduated in 2003 with 2 degrees (Economics and Finance) and a minor in Manufacturing with only one additional semester. I worked full-time the whole way through and by 2006 my loans were paid off and I had enough saved for a down-payment on a $600k house. You are responsible for your own outcome
" I aint dead"
- Granny Weatherwax
Don't know about that last suggestion...I'd rather not wake up on fire.