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Country Bill White
Charles William White ( – 2006), known by his stage name "Country" Bill White, was an American burial artist who gained notoriety as the "living corpse" and was voluntarily buried alive as a publicity stunt throughout the 1960s–1980s. Career White was born in the Florida panhandle. He met burial artist Herbert "Digger" O'Dell Smith in 1964 and decided to attempt to endure voluntary burial himself. He was buried at Christie's Beachcomber in Galveston for 49 days, breaking O'Dell's record. By 1966, he was touring as "The Human Corpse" or "The Living Corpse", releasing a few tie-in country LPs as well. On June 9, 1966, he married Lottie White who also volunteered to be buried alive, billing herself as "Mrs. Living Corpse." The couple divorced in 1968. White married 7 times in his lifetime. In April 1968, he was buried for 62 days, besting Irish burial artist Michael "Mick" Meaney. BBC fixed a live satellite link between London and the States in order to broadcast a joint inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burial Artists
Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive. Animals or humans may be buried alive accidentally on the mistaken assumption that they are dead, or intentionally as a form of torture, murder, or execution. It may also occur with the consent of the victim as a part of a stunt, with the intention to escape. Taphophobia, the fear of being buried alive, is reported to be among the most common phobias. Physiology Premature burial can lead to death through the following: asphyxiation, dehydration, starvation, or (in cold climates) hypothermia. A person trapped with fresh air to breathe can last a considerable time and burial has been used as a very cruel method of execution (as in cases of Vestal Virgins who violated the oath of celibacy), lasting sufficiently long for the victim to comprehend and imagine every stage of what is happening (being trapped in total darkness with very limited or no movement) and to exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galveston
Galveston ( ) is a Gulf Coast of the United States, coastal resort town, resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island (Texas), Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of , with a population of 53,695 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County, Texas, Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county. It is also within the Greater Houston, Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area at its southern end on the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Galveston, or Galvez's town, was named after 18th-century Spanish military and political leader Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez, Bernardo de Gálvez, 1st Count of Gálvez (1746–1786), who was born in Macharaviaya, Málaga, in the Kingdom of Spain. Galveston's first European settlements on the Galveston Island were built around 1816 by Kingdom of France, French pirate Louis-Miche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael "Mick" Meaney
Michael "Mick" Meaney was an Irish barman and burial artist who gained notoriety for being entombed alive in an underground coffin for 61 days in 1968. Michael Meaney was born circa 1935 in County Tipperary, Ireland. He worked as a builder and laborer and had dreams of a boxing career. In the early 1960s, Meaney became a barman for former strongman Michael "Butty" Sugrue at the Admiral Nelson pub in Kilburn, London, Kilburn London England. Human endurance contests and specifically enduring premature burial had become a fad in the 1960s. Meaney had survived a workplace accident in which he was buried under rubble and thought he could endure the task for a longer period of time. He and Sugrue developed the idea of the publicity stunt, enlisting local friend Mick Keane who would provide the land for the burial as well as the truck to transport the coffin. On February 21, 1968, Sugrue hosted a final dinner and "live wake" at the Admiral Nelson pub, inviting press and general public to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
