Buried Alive!

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In the 19th century, America and Europe experienced a panic over premature burial, believing that anyone could be accidentally declared dead and entombed before their time was really up. Led by a movement of quacky Spiritualists, the panic culminated in the creation of safety coffins with mechanisms that promised to save anyone who awoke six feet underground. Mere decades later, burial artists began performing all over America as a part of advertising gimmicks. They spent months underground in decked-out coffins, and the public could pay a dime to look down a viewing chute and see these "living corpses." For this Halloween special, we'll look at the panic-turned-spectacle of the American fear of being buried alive. Get tickets for A MASSIVE SEANCE Live Show with You're Wrong About: linktr.ee/amassiveseance Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts Leave us a message on our Urban Legends Hotline or get your mitts on some merch at americanhysteria.com Sound Designer and Associate Producer: Riley Swedelius-Smith Producer and Editor: Miranda Zickler Voice Actor: Will Rogers Written, Produced, and Hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What could possibly go wrong when two skeptical podcasters try to summon a ghost?
0:11.1	Join me Sarah Marshall of, of you're wrong about. And me, Chelsea Weber Smith of American
0:16.8	hysteria for a historical, theatrical, ecstatic, spectacular for the living and dead.
0:26.0	Hold hands with your favorite disembodied voices for a spiritualist seance featuring mystifying tricks,
0:34.5	campfire conversation, special guests,
0:38.4	and a dash of burlesque.
0:40.5	Plus, music from The Little Lies, the only Fleetwood Mac tribute band that may actually be ghosts.
0:49.0	Join us to release the phantoms of the past year and make room for the spirit of the new.
0:56.5	We promise that your mortal soul has never seen a podcast live show quite like this. Unless he came last year. Then you
1:06.6	seen something like it. Chelsea, when will we hold our seances and where?
1:13.2	Well, Sarah, December 3rd and 4th in Portland, Oregon
1:16.8	at the Aladdin Theater, December 11th in Seattle,
1:20.4	Washington at the Moore Theater,
1:22.8	January 11th in San Francisco, California
1:26.1	at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater,
1:28.5	and January 24th in Los Angeles, California
1:32.2	at the Regent Theater.
1:34.0	Thea.
1:35.0	Warning may contain exercises. On this podcast we explore fantastical thinking moral moral panics, urban legends, conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and crazes,
1:57.0	examine the forces that shape our culture and tell the stories that create the realities we share and sometimes the realities
2:08.3	we don't.
2:09.4	I'm your ghost, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American Hiscaria.
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