Taphephobia Traditional Cache
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The Phobia series is a collaborated effort between eyewise and 2Morrows. The idea came to us when one of us did a single phobia cache and we decided phobias would make a nice series. Next we found the fairly clear playing field of Rittman, OH (and a couple surrounding areas) and went to work hiding the caches. There are a total of 27 caches.
This is a cemetery cache. Daylight hours only. This cache is not close to any graves. Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive. Along time ago, I was told about someone who had been buried alive - probably an old legend. In the 1800's a woman died and was buried in the family plot on the same property as the house. That night, grave robbers came and dug up her body to steal the valuables that were buried with her. When they couldn't get her wedding ring from her swollen finger, they cut her finger off, bringing her back to life. The robbers ran off in fear, as the woman made her way up to the house. Another interesting tidbit about being buried alive comes from the debated origin of the phrase "Dead Ringer." The following is taken from wiki.answers.com. "People would be buried with a rope leading from inside the coffin to a bell above the ground. This enabled anyone who was buried alive to ring the bell and to draw attention to the mistake. Since people would not expect to see their 'dead' loved ones again, a person resembling the deceased is a 'dead ringer'. This is also reputed to be the origin of the expression 'graveyard shift' because people from the village used to take it in turns to listen for the bell."
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