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Tapophobia. The fear of being buried alive has existed as long as well we've existed.

Examples of this were even documented in ancient times.

Plenty of the elder recorded such cases among the Romans and his work Natural History in 77 CE.

Supposedly true stories of premature burial have been told throughout the ages.

And the uncertainty of the signs of death and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, published in 1748,

an account was made of an English woman named Alice Blunden who died in 1675.

As the story goes, she became unconscious after having imbibed an unusually large amount of poppy tea.

She showed no signs of life, and after a doctor held a mirror to her nose and mouth, she was pronounced dead.

Two days later, she was buried. But soon, children playing near her grave claimed a herd noises coming from the ground.

Their schoolmaster checked the gravesite for himself, and he discovered Alice to still be alive.

However, it took an additional day to exhume her, and after all that time on the ground, she quickly expired after she was unearthed.

And she was returned to her grave, where a guard was employed to stand by.

The guard, however, was apparently exceptionally irresponsible at his job, and he deserted his post.

The next day, she was found dead, but not before she regained consciousness and struggled to free herself without success.

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