Case file · High strangeness
Sadhu Haridas buried alive, Lahore
In 1837, at the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore, the yogi Haridas was reportedly sealed in a chest and buried for some forty days under guard, then revived.
1837 CE · 31.59, 74.31 · status: claim
The account
The account comes from Sir Claude Wade and the court physician Johann Martin Honigberger, who heard it from witnesses and described Haridas's preparation.
The sceptical view
Wade saw only the exhumation; a hidden air supply or substitution cannot be excluded, and Haridas was later accused of fraud.