Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

It's one of our greatest fears, waking up in a small confined space under six feet of

dirt.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, safety coffins were manufactured with bells attached

to let passer-buyers know if someone had been accidentally interred.

Being whether someone had passed on or not wasn't entirely scientific.

It usually involved putting pepper and vinegar in the person's mouth or poking their feet

with hot pokers.

But no amount of testing was enough for Hannah Bezwick, nor was a safety coffin.

Bezwick, like many folk living during the middle of the 18th century, had a pathological

fear of accidentally being buried alive.

It was kind of a problem too.

Thousands of people were buried alive in England and Wales during the 17 and 1800s.

She didn't want to go through that in the event of her possible death, and with good

reason.

A number of years before she died, Hannah witnessed the loss of her brother, or so she thought.

She, along with the other mourners, watched as the lid was lowered over his coffin until

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