Hey, it's Sherry, Max here, Twirdos. Thanking you again for listening to this podcast. We are

dropping into the feed today an episode called The Living Corpse. This episode recently won a handful of

gold communicator awards for the subject matter and the writing and history podcast. And this is the story of Country Bill

White. So Country Bill White is a classic American flim flam kind of guy. His real official job

title was burial artist. But here was Country Bill's deal. He would persuade driving movie theaters and car dealerships and trailer parks to bury him

alive as a publicity stunt.

And they did.

And he was a ladies, Max, was he not a ladiesman?

So he'd be buried alive.

He'd have a telephone and he'd be romancing the ladies on the phone as he's buried alive.

I mean, it's hard to get a boyfriend and all, but there were women lining up to date the living corpse.

Only in America, a country where if you've got a big enough dream and a fast enough smooth patter, you too can become a famous burial artist.

So settle back and please enjoy this Gold Communicator award-winning episode of True Weird

Stuff, The Living Corpse.

There's a fancy word for it. Tffophobia, the fear of being buried alive. It does happen, though,

not so often in these days of modern mortuary science. People are mostly good and dead and thoroughly

pickled by embalming chemicals before we send them off to their eternal

rest. Now, if you hear a story about a person being buried alive, it's usually not a mistake

made by an undertaker. It's a crime, like this one in Washington State, November 22.

The court will order that the defendant be held no bail.

53-year-old Cheon will remain behind bars awaiting charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, and felony harassment.

His wife asking for this message to be shared in front of a judge.

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