The Strange Story Of Essie Dunbar, The Woman Who Was Allegedly Buried Alive In 1915
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Briggs was a physician associated with Blackville who allegedly made the original diagnosis of death in 1915.
The story was reprinted in various publications over the following decades and eventually served as the basis for Jan Bondeson’s account in his 2001 book Buried Alive.
The story was “known to most of this south-central Carolina town’s older residents” as of 1955, suggesting it had been circulating in community oral tradition for four decades.
Essie Dunbar was alive and physically active (picking cotton) in 1955, at approximately age seventy.
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