Buried Alive
30 Morbid Minutes
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Is Silver Nitrate on the Inside of the Coffin?
A late eighteenth century english invention involved a pane of glass placed over a coffin. The writing was invisible unti until putrefication set in and the gases released from decomposition caused a reaction to make it appear. A physician named cristo wilhelm hufland who built and designed these small chambers known as licken hause, or waiting house.
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