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True Weird Stuff

The Living Corpse

True Weird Stuff

Now! Media

History, Science, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9655 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Today's True Weird Stuff - The Living Corpse

 

Taphophobia is the fear of being buried alive. During the Victorian Era, people being mistakenly buried alive was so common that extensive measures were taken to prevent it. But throughout history, there have been individuals like "Country" Bill White, a man who made a career out of burying himself alive for the fame and notoriety. He will forever be known as The Living Corpse.

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0:45.4

There's a fancy word for it. Taffophobia. The fear of being buried alive.

0:53.4

It does happen, though not so often in these days of modern mortuary science.

0:58.7

People are mostly good and dead and thoroughly pickled by embalming chemicals before we

1:04.3

send them off to their eternal rest.

1:06.6

Now, if you hear a story about a person being buried alive, it's usually not a mistake made by an undertaker.

1:14.0

It's a crime.

1:15.1

Like this one in Washington State, November 2022.

1:19.5

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

1:22.6

53-year-old Chey Ann will remain behind bars awaiting charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, and felony

1:29.0

harassment. His wife asking for this message to be shared in front of a judge. These are her words.

1:36.1

Please no bail. I am really afraid from my life. I just want to emphasize that I fear him so much

1:43.3

and he will kill me again if he is out.

1:46.3

It was this past weekend. Probable Cause documents alleged Onn kidnapped his wife and threatened to

1:51.5

kill her. Their daughter told police the two were going through a divorce and Onn would come by

1:56.4

their home in Lacey to do laundry. Security camera footage shared by a neighbor shows a man who

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