BURIED FIVE DAYS AND STILL LIVED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 226, 13 December 1927, Page 9

BURIED FIVE DAYS AND STILL LIVED

WHITE FAKIR’S FEAT CAREFUL INVESTIGATION By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. BERLIN, Monday. After a voluntary interment, lasting 120 hours, a resident of Dusseldort'. who was buried alive, was uncovered on Saturday night in the presence of 5,000 people. The man claimed to have a Knowledge of the methods of Indian fakirs, and he declared he could remain alive although placed in a coffin and buried in a grave. When he was uncovered he said he was suffering nothing worse than a severe headache. He lost 221 b as a result of being buried for five days. He apparently w T ent into a kind of trance. The case will be the subject of a most careful investigation.—A. and N.Z. The experiment was carried out under proper precautions to prevent fraud. The police and doctors were s-trengly represented. Before he stepped into the coffin the man ate a substantial meal and was overhauled by the doctors, and searched for beef extract, lozenges, oxygen flasks, and other things inconsistent with his claims. He thereupon nonchalantly drove half a dozen hatpins into his cheeks and ears and neck, and calmly lay down in the coffin. He was enveloped in a band of cloth 10yds long and the ends were sealed to prevent its removal. The authorities insisted that a small wooden shaft Din square should be left, in order that his face might be visible through a glass top. Then the coffin was lowered and the grave was filled in.