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Episode 253: Buried Alive

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The Importance of Chewing on Yourself

In 1679, a popular theologian at the time published a 24 page like dissertation basically. And it was called Mastication Mortorum or the Chewing of the Dead. This book cited instances where people would exhumed corpses and find that they had chewed on themselves. So this is the first beginning of people saying, well, wait a second. Or people live when they're being buried and they're like going so crazy under there that they start like gnawing at their own arms and shit.

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