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Buried Alive in a Coffin by a Narrow Escape
The narrator, a Bristol man named Hodgson, recounts a near death experience after being buried alive following a fit. He describes waking in a sealed coffin, enduring hours of terror and pain, discovering a light through a coffin lining, then hearing outsiders fret about releasing him before a dramatic rescue by tomb robbers.
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