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Episode 253: Buried Alive

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The History of the Safety Coffin

A 1921 patent shows a device that could prevent premature burial. The inventor, William Teb, had his reputation ruined when someone in the box couldn't trigger it properly and they had to hastily dig the person out. "It was just going to cause a lot of people to get dug up," he says.

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