EPISODE · May 10, 2016 · 12 MIN
Buried Alive!
from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins
In the spring of 1891, wealthy Pikeville, Kentucky, businessman James Hatcher buried his young wife, Octavia, after she apparently died while giving birth to their baby boy, who also died. Unfortunately, there was a bout of African sleeping sickness going around the coalfields at about this same time, with the symptoms mimicking death. On this […]
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