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unusual facts about Buried Alive


Buried Alive: Live in Maryland

It was recorded at the Capital Center Arena in Largo, Maryland on May 5, 1979 during the band's only concert tour.


Dale Swann

He also appeared in the miniseries The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory and in numerous made-for-television movies, including Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure, Do You Know the Muffin Man?, Buried Alive, The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson, Switched at Birth and Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story.

Gimme Some Neck

The Largo concert of the tour was recorded and released as Buried Alive: Live in Maryland in 2006.


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Anarkali Bazaar

The market derives its name from a nearby mausoleum thought to be that of a slave girl named Anārkalī, buried alive by order of the Mughal Emperor Akbar for having an illicit relationship with the Emperor's son, Prince Salīm, later to become Emperor Jahāngīr.

Dzyarzhynsk

The Lithuanian Twelfth Schutzmannschaft (auxiliary police) Battalion's 1st Company, led by Lieutenant Z. Kemzura, massacred between 1,000 and 1,900 Jews from the city on October 21, 1941, shooting them and throwing them into a pit; many were buried alive.

Gene Miller

He wrote two nonfiction books: "83 Hours Till Dawn," an account of a notorious Florida kidnapping in which the victim, Barbara Jane Mackle, was buried alive, and "Invitation to a Lynching."

Israr Ullah Zehri

In August 2008, the Asian Human Rights Commission reported that five women (including three teenagers) in a remote village in Balochistan had been beaten, shot and buried alive in a ditch for the 'crime' of having wished to choose their own husbands.

Nick Gravenites

Nick wrote various songs for Joplin, including her Woodstock hit Work Me, Lord and the unfinished instrumental track "Buried Alive In The Blues".

Panhala Fort

There were reports of Jijabai bestowing a plot of land to an oilman or Teli in return for the grant of his daughter-in-law to be buried alive under one of the Panhala towers.

Premature burial

During his career, Hungarian-American magician and escapologist Harry Houdini performed two variations on a "Buried Alive" stunt/escape.

Stranger on the Shore

It was also played by Karl Pilkington on his phone while riding a camel across the desert and on his MP3 player when he is buried alive in Russia on an episode of An Idiot Abroad.

The Fartz

The Fartz often opened for and toured with other west coast hardcore bands such as the Dead Kennedys and D.O.A. Their song "Buried Alive" appeared on the 1982 Eastern Front Vol. II punk compilation album.

The Lazarus Man

Calling himself Lazarus after the man resurrected by Jesus (John 11:41-44), he sets out to discover his true identity and the reason why he was buried alive.

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

In the film Kill Bill Volume 2, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, the character played by Uma Thurman is buried alive in a grave marked "Paula Schultz."