2006-09-12 18:15:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
As far as I know the answer would be no. See back in those days a lot of people were buried alive. So to combat the problem they had 1 inch diameter shafts that came from the coffin and about 1 foot above the ground at the end of the shaft was a bell attached to a rope and it went down to the body. So if you woke up you could just pull the string and someone working in the cemetary would get you out. That is also where the term the graveyard shift came from.
2006-09-12 18:25:53 · answer #1 · answered by firemanwfd17 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allan Poe Buried Alive
2016-10-04 06:24:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Was Edgar Allan Poe buried alive?
2015-08-13 16:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by Elka 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My best guest is that many people were accidentally buried alive during that time, so it would have been a good source of realistic horror for Poe's audiences. People were even buried with bells attached to their fingers or other contraptions to let the world know if they were still alive.
2016-03-18 01:10:31 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. He was found unconscious on a Baltimore street. In a brief obituary the Baltimore Clipper reported that Poe had died of "congestion of the brain." He did write a story called 'The Premature Burial.' Link below.
2006-09-12 18:22:53 · answer #5 · answered by uknative 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but Stephen King really did meet the Crimson King.
Ps. Poe is cool. His detective stories are aces.
2006-09-12 18:24:18 · answer #6 · answered by rolandofgileadiscool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No he wasn`t buried alive and the cause of his death is disputed. If u need to know more info about this click on the link below
2006-09-12 18:26:30 · answer #7 · answered by mystic_chez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he died in a Baltimore Infirmary in 1849. There's a picture of him in his coffin on the site 'Celebrity Morgue.' The pic looks real enough to me. I think its the genuine thing.
2006-09-12 19:05:16 · answer #8 · answered by Bronweyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but he wrote a few horror stories about that ,one was called the tell tale heart.
2006-09-12 18:23:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may be confusing his death with his storyline in "The Tell Tale Heart."
2006-09-12 18:18:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋