The Strange Story Of Essie Dunbar, The Woman Who Was Allegedly Buried Alive In 1915
Any honest engagement with the story of Essie Dunbar has to begin with the question of documentation, because the question of what can be verified is not a minor methodological concern.
It is the central tension of the entire account.
The story, as it is most commonly told, is presented as historical fact.
Websites, books, videos, and articles repeat the narrative as if the events of that summer morning in 1915 were as well-documented as a court case or a newspaper report published the same day.
But the evidentiary trail is substantially thinner than these confident retellings suggest.
No contemporaneous newspaper account of the events of 1915 has been identified by researchers who have investigated the story.
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