Chuck

you got to leave a key on the inside of that thing.

So if you pop out of the coffin and you're still locked in the tomb, that's no good either.

Yeah, for sure.

Edgar Allan Poe didn't help things much when in 1844 he wrote a short story called The Premature Burial, where in it he says –

To be buried alive is beyond question the most terrific of these extremes, which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality that it has frequently, very frequently so fallen will scarcely be denied by those who think.

And then he talks about the boundaries between life and death being shadowy and vague, kind of playing into that.

He was writing of the times, you know, because that's like we talked about.

That's kind of how people thought of things.

So after that, I think there were even more people coming out with these things.

Yeah.

Yeah, he's not the only one.

It seems like the big showman, because this was sort of around the snake oil time where you would put on a big show to try and talk people into buying your thing.

Sure.

And in the 19th century, there was a guy, Count Michel de Carnice Carnicky.

Such a great name.

He dubbed himself as the Chamberlain to the Tsar of Russia, whatever that means.

Oh, okay.

So he was like, yeah, like a butler.

Like the head butler.

Yeah.