Short Stuff: Safety Coffins
The podcast episode explores the historical fear of being buried alive—known as taphophobia—and the bizarre, inventive world of 19th-century safety coffins designed to prevent or escape premature burial, complete with bells, tubes, ladders, and even a grave with a window to check on the c
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