This is an I-Heart podcast.

And we return to our American stories in our Halloween special.

Up next, a story about a man in a hermetically sealed

see-through coffin in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Here's our own Monty Montgomery with a story

of a glass coffin, a robbery, and a local legend. The year is 1927, the place, Benton Harbor,

Michigan.

Home of the House of David, a religious colony led by Benjamin Pernow who preached that

if you followed his message and gave all your worldly possessions to him, you would never

die.

Unfortunately for Ben though, he contracted tuberculosis, which he died from.

Here's Chris Seriano with what happened next.

He didn't teach ever that he was going to die.

So here he died.

And it was pandemonium.

It was mass chaos at the House of David.

So Benjamin, they kept wrapped in damp warm towels for eight days,

thinking that he was going to rise again.

Finally, the Bering County coroner said,

listen, it's been eight days.

You either bury the guy or we're going to bury him.

But luckily for the House of David,

they had the Soviets to look towards for inspiration.

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