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Angel Hays

Angel Hays

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Angelo Hays (born c. 1918; died 12 January 2008, Saint-Quentin-de-Chalais, France) was a French celebrity and inventor. Some sources, using the misspelled name Angelo, claim he survived a premature burial for two days.[1]

Hays, a farm worker and inventor, said that on 1 September 1937 he fractured his skull in an accident, and he said he was "considered to be dead"[2] and "was almost buried alive"[3] The incident led Hays to develop a coffin that could sustain human life, which he demonstrated at a fair in Saint-Aulaye, France in 1974, surviving 30 hours buried underground,[4] and in 1984 survived two days buried at the "Festival des records et inventions" in Aubigny, France.

His invention led to several appearances on TV.

References

  1. [1]
    Marshall, Kelli (15 February 2014). "4 People Who Were Buried Alive (And How They Got Out)". mentalfloss. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-07-24. Retrieved 2019-07-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. [3]
    "Le Charentais qui avait inventé le cercueil électrique".
  4. [4]
    Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Culte : Enterré vivant dans un cercueil pendant 30h | Archive INA. YouTube.


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