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Episode 253: Buried Alive

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J. Jenkins and the Death of a Man

In February of 1885, a man named Jenkins got sick. They tried to wake him up but couldn't feel his pulse or heartbeat. So because it was 1885 and no one could actually be there to officially name someone dead, they were like, well, he's dead. Now 10 days later, they had to dig up his coffin not because they thought he was still alive, but because they were going to transport this wooden coffin 20 miles to the family burial grounds. And I was like, whoa, what episode is that? That doesn't happen.

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