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Sadhu Haridas was voluntarily buried alive for a month

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Proving your mastery over bodily functions is tough, but willingly getting locked in a sealed vault underground is next level. In the nineteenth century, this practitioner allowed himself to be buried in the court of a highly skeptical ruler for forty straight days. When they finally dug him up, he was entirely unresponsive until revived, making it the most aggressively dangerous nap in recorded history.

Sadhu Haridas was voluntarily buried alive for a month
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