20151105 - Gregory Paxson - Past Life Regressions - Live Show Chat Thread

[malachi.martini]

Who is listening to an internet radio show while they are at a restaurant? And, better yet, why would you call in when you're at a restaurant?

How many husbands have you broken with your ceaseless complaints?

[Barfly]

Well...we are weirdos.

I had a nice conversation with Curtis tonight on his show

[AppealPlay]

Oh, parallel lives...that's a new spin and I like it!

[Catsmile]

I think before long we'll be able to reconstruct a complete itinerary of Michelle's typical day.

4:40PM Friday, Nov. 6 2015 Eating at izakaya.

[doctor weird]

lol the guest is about to wrap up Arts show for him

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

I still don't get that.  A dead person turns cold and shades of blue as their blood pools.  How could anyone misdiagnose that?

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10 Horrifying Premature Burials

Listverse Staff February 2, 2010

Being buried prematurely is one of the most terrifying of all fears. Edgar Allan Poe wrote about it and it has been the subject matter of many horror movies. Surprisingly real life cases of this terrible mistake are more common than one might think. Years ago when embalming wasn’t as common and because of inferior medical equipment to detect life there are numerous cases where people have had the terrifying experience of regaining consciousness in their own coffin. This list includes 10 such cases. Some sources for the list are from newspaper articles or journals and include the exact text which gives you a feeling of the time period. Another main source used for this list is a book written in 1905 called Premature Burial and How it May be Prevented which includes several actual cases of premature burials.

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Virginia Macdonald
1851

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Virginia Macdonald lived with her father in New York City and became ill, died, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. After the burial, her mother declared her belief that the daughter was not dead when buried and persistently asserted her belief. The family tried in vain to assure the mother of the death of her daughter. Finally the mother insisted so strenuously that her daughter was buried alive the family consented to have the body taken up. To their horror, they discovered the body lying on the side, the hands badly bitten, and every indication of a premature burial.

Interesting Fact: When the Les Innocents cemetery in Paris, France was moved from the center of the city to the suburbs the number of skeletons found face down convinced many people and several doctors that premature burial was very common.

9

Madam Blunden
1896

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When Madam Blunden was thought to be dead, she was buried in the Blunden family vault at Holy Ghost Chapel in Basingstoke, England. The vault was situated beneath a boys’ school. The day after the funeral when the boys were playing they heard a noise from the vault below. After one of the boys ran and told his teacher about the noises the sexton was summoned. The vault and the coffin were opened just in time to witness her final breath. All possible means were used to resuscitate her but it was unsuccessful. In her agony she had torn frantically at her face and had bitten the nails off her fingers.

Interesting Fact: A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th and 19th centuries. Safety coffin were fitted with a mechanism to allow the occupant to signal that he or she has been buried alive. You can see one of the variations here.

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New York Times article
1886

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“WOODSTOCK, Ontario, Jan. 18- Recently a girl named Collins died here, as it was supposed, very suddenly. A day or two ago the body was exhumed, prior to its removal to another burial place, when the discovery was made that the girl had been buried alive. Her shroud was torn into shreds, her knees were drawn up to her chin, one of her arms was twisted under her head, and her features bore evidence of dreadful torture.”

Interesting Fact: In the 19th century, Dr. Timothy Clark Smith of Vermont was so concerned about the possibility of being buried alive that he arranged to be buried in a special crypt that included a breathing tube and a glass window in his grave marker that would permit him to peer out to the living world six feet above. You can see his grave here.

7

Daily Telegraph article
1889

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“GRENOBLE, Jan. 18- A gendarme was buried alive the other day in a village near Grenoble. The man had become intoxicated on potato brandy, and fell into a profound sleep. After twenty hours passed in slumber, his friends considered him to be dead, particularly as his body assumed the usual rigidity of a corpse. When the sexton, however, was lowering the remains of the ill-fated gendarme into the grave, he heard moans and knocks proceeding from the interior of the ‘four-boards.’ He immediately bored holes in the sides of the coffin, to let in air, and then knocked off the lid. The gendarme had, however, ceased to live, having horribly mutilated his head in his frantic but futile efforts to burst his coffin open.

Interesting Fact: The Fear of being buried alive is called taphephobia. The word “taphephobia” comes from the Greek “taphos” meaning “grave” + “phobia” from the Greek “phobos” meaning “fear” = literally, fear of the grave, or fear of being put in the grave while still alive.

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The Sunday Times article
1838

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“TONNEINS, Dec. 30- A frightful case of premature interment occurred not long since, at Tonneins, in the Lower Garonne. The victim, a man in the prime of life, had only a few shovelfuls of earth thrown into his grave when an indistinct noise was heard to proceed from his coffin. The grave-digger, terrified beyond description, instantly fled to seek assistance, and some time elapsed before his return, when the crowd, which had by this time collected in considerable numbers round the grave, insisted on the coffin being opened. As soon as the first boards had been removed, it was ascertained beyond a doubt, that the occupant had been interred alive. His countenance was frightfully contracted with the agony he had undergone, and, in his struggles, the unhappy man had forced his arms completely out of the winding sheet, in which they had been securely enveloped. A physician, who was on the spot, opened a vein, but no blood flowed. The sufferer was beyond the reach of art.”

Interesting Fact: In The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, one of the worst case scenarios listed in the book is how to survive if you are buried alive in a coffin. If anyone finds themselves in the same predicament as the people on this list you can read some life saving information here.

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British Medical Journal
1877

Catriona From Within The Coffin

“December 8- It appeared from the evidence that some time ago a woman was interred with all the usual formalities, it being believed that she was dead, while she was only in a trance. Some days afterwards, the grave in which she had been placed being opened for the reception of another body, it was found that the clothes which covered the unfortunate woman were torn to pieces, and that she had even broken her limbs in attempting to extricate herself from the living tomb. The Court, after hearing the case, sentenced the doctor who had signed the certificate of
decease, and the mayor who had authorized the interment, each to three months’ imprisonment for involuntary manslaughter.”

Interesting Fact: Today, when a definition of death is required, doctors usually turn to “brain death” to define a person as being clinically dead. People are considered dead when the electrical activity in their brain ceases.

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New York Times article
1884

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“DAYTON, Feb. 8.-A sensation has been created here by the discovery of the fact that Miss Hockwalt, a young lady of high social connections, who was supposed to have died suddenly on Jan. 10, was buried alive. The terrible truth was discovered a few days ago, and since then it has been the talk of the city. The circumstance of Miss Hockwail’s death was peculiar. It occurred on the morning of the marriage of her brother to Miss Emma Schwind at Emannel’s Church. Shortly before 6 o’clock the young lady was dressing for the nuptials and had gone into the kitchen. A few moments afterward she was found sitting on a chair with her head leaning against a wall and apparently lifeless. Medical aid was summoned in, Dr. Jewett who, after examination, pronounced her dead. Mass was being read at the time in Emannel’s Church and it was thought best to continue, and the marriage was performed in gloom. The examination showed that Anna was of excitable temperament, nervous, and affected with sympathetic palpitation of the heart. Dr. Jewett thought this was the cause of her supposed death. On the following day, the lady was interred in the Woodland. The friends of Miss Hockwalt were unable to forget the terrible impression and several ladies observe that her eyes bore a remarkably natural color and could not dispel an idea that she was not dead. They conveyed their opinion to Annie’s parents and the thought preyed upon them so that the body was taken from the grave. It was stated that when the coffin was opened it was discovered that the supposed inanimate body had turned upon its right side. The hair had been torn out in handfuls and the flesh had been bitten from the fingers. The body was reinterred and efforts made to suppress the facts, but there are those who state they saw the body and know the facts to be as narrated.”

From Listverse

[Sandra Kristen]

How many husbands have you broken with your ceaseless complaints?

You complain more about me than I ever "complain". But hey it's your gimmick so gotta run with it I guess.

[norland2424]

You complain more about me than I ever "complain". But hey it's your gimmick so gotta run with it I guess.

lol

[AppealPlay]

Tomorrow's Open Lines show needs a line for past lives.  That would bring out the crazies.

[Morgus]

Shoutout to the "weirdos" at bellgab

[malachi.martini]

You complain more about me than I ever "complain". But hey it's your gimmick so gotta run with it I guess.

So 3, 4?

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

From Listverse

I'll have to read it after the show

[Sandra Kristen]

Tomorrow's Open Lines show needs a line for past lives.  That would bring out the crazies.

YES! Email it to Art!

[Morgus]

Tomorrow's Open Lines show needs a line for past lives.  That would bring out the crazies.

Excellent idea - need to send this to Art right away!

[SciFiAuthor]

Tomorrow's Open Lines show needs a line for past lives.  That would bring out the crazies.

Wormhole it! Great call in and great idea.

[coaster]

Tomorrow's Open Lines show needs a line for past lives.  That would bring out the crazies.

Good idea.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Separated at birth?

Too much LOL

[Barfly]

You complain more about me than I ever "complain". But hey it's your gimmick so gotta run with it I guess.

Don't fuck with my pal Bob, i WILL punch you

[norland2424]

hell my last dream was about treating people nicer  lol

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Tomorrow's Open Lines show needs a line for past lives.  That would bring out the crazies.

Beats the hell out of the "I'm married to an alien" line.

[Morgus]

Interesting - parallel life, another incarnation in a parallel universe?

[AppealPlay]

Dave breaks into a lot of cars.

[Catsmile]

Beats the hell out of the "I'm married to an alien" line.

Yep, or the "I'm currently beating my meat line."

[AppealPlay]

Yep, or the "I'm currently beating my meat line."

That's like $4 a minute.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Yep, or the "I'm currently beating my meat line."

At least he'd get a lot of callers with that one.

[norland2424]

Dave breaks into a lot of cars.

only way he can pay for tommy's Viagra pills

[Sandra Kristen]

I'd be interested in his book.

[malachi.martini]

Art had a blast, great show!


https://vine.co/v/e30YQw30uTJ

[Barfly]

Arts kissing ass now..makes him look bad

[coaster]

Enjoyed the show. later weirdos.