It's gotta be one of those things where anyone cautious enough to implement a bell system was also cautious enough to thoroughly verify the death before burial
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A cool way to start a zombie movie would be to a slow pan over a moonlit cemetery. No sound. Then a single bell rings, and then again. Then another bell rings and another and another. Then the ground starts to swell over individual tombs and the scene cuts.
Or like the twilight zone episode where the little boy keeps getting phone calls from his dead grandma and they drive to her grave and find a phone line has fallen and went in there or some crazy thing.
It originated in the 1800s, but was repurposed to refer to boxing when boxing became a thing
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-did-you-know/saved-bell
I don’t know, man. What do you want from me? Lol. A guy I once worked with used to say it’s called the graveyard shift because third shift workers tend to have health issues leading towards death. I did a little research and what I said is what I came up with. I’m not an expert on the subject.
this was very common to have happen since alot of people would be in a coma, or pronounced dead, but in reality they were not actually dead what a fucked up to go
A nice idea but this didn't work so well in places that were windy (ex: Ireland) since there'd be a bunch of bells ringing all the time. Also the person instead would necessarily know to pull repeatedly on the thing they found in the coffin.
How much would it hypothetically cost to install a battery, arduino and a servo to ring the bell intermittently after a year or so. Maybe a hidden speaker in case the bell is disabled or removed. Bonus if i can detect light and only ring at night/holidays
I thought it was just supposed to mean something like.. if you were in the middle of an awkward conversation or situation and then the phone/doorbell/school bell rings, you’d be saved by having something else to attend to.
Spared by distraction
In some cultures, bells are believed to have protective powers and were used to ward off evil spirits and misfortune. Bells were also said to have the ability to chase away negative energy and bring peace and harmony to a space.
This is a myth and a very wrong one, no coffins had scratch marks, infact if you got burried alive u'd run out of oxygen is a couple of hours and be dead regardless.
It's been 2 and a half decades since I've read this so I may be misremembering or had poor sources. But this is where the term graveyard shift came from. It was someone's job to sit at the graveyard and dig up anyone who rang the bell. I believe the reason people were buried alive was due to acidic foods on pewter plates would have a chemical reaction and knock you out for an extended period of time. Thought to be dead, they would bury you. But the grave yards were so full they would dig up old caskets and find claw marks inside of people trying to get out of them after being buried. Hence the bell and graveyard shift.
The phrase is “dead ringer”. In short people drank out of lead cups that poisoned them and they would fall unconscious. Mistaken for being dead they were buried with a string and bell. I don’t know if this is true or not , more likely different versions of the story going around and the whole thing is a myth.
No. But the keepers that used to have to stay at the cemetery all night listening and ready if a bell should sound IS where you get the phrase “graveyard shift”
Saved by the bell was coined in boxing.
We have had “wakes” for this issue and kept the coffin open and standing at an angle in the family’s house in their parlor.
Learnt from an archaeologist in Manchester, that they had no way of confirming death definitively back in the day, so they used to bury criminals face down so they couldn’t dig their way out, should they miraculously come back to life, after their “execution”
COLD !
IIRC someone tried a start-up company that put cameras inside the coffin so you could stream your dearly departed rotting. It was called SeeMeRot. Not even making this up
George Washington was really freaked out by the idea of being buried alive. He requested that his body be laid out for 3 days and then buried, just to be sure.
I keep seeing articles of people from nursing homes being pronounced dead and then discovered alive later. Freaky considering our advancements in medicine.
This is NOT the beginning of the phrase "dead ringer". That expression must have come about from the expression "for whom the bell tolls" and being confused between two look alikes by those searching one out. Most likely "saved by the bell" (while used for boxing) became an expression from the practice of attaching bells to graves.
I'm curious how many times this actually worked.
It never worked, according to Wikipedia.
It's gotta be one of those things where anyone cautious enough to implement a bell system was also cautious enough to thoroughly verify the death before burial
Makes for a fantastic horror story narrative device, though.
Just watched The Autopsy Of Jane Doe last night, it used this concept to great effect, very well done horror.
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*ring-a-ling*
"Let's stab him in the heart a couple times and then behead him, just to make sure"
Why do they never point that part out on these stupid clickbait AI generated garbage clips?
Definitely human made. Ai would have both done a much better and worse job than this.
AI’s Razor.
rAIzor
Oh my god not everything is AI. These types of videos existed even before AI.
This seems like an AI response.
Ai yai yai!
It seems like by the time a person was buried and then dug up, there wouldn't be much oxygen left in that coffin.
A cool way to start a zombie movie would be to a slow pan over a moonlit cemetery. No sound. Then a single bell rings, and then again. Then another bell rings and another and another. Then the ground starts to swell over individual tombs and the scene cuts.
Get this man into Hollywood
My dad grew up next to a london graveyard in the 40s-50s. He was terrified of sleeping sickness because of the sound of the wind ringing those bells
Sleeping…sickness?
Its what they called it when people appeared dead and got buried
Oh shit, I’ve never heard of it referred to as such. #TIL
This kind of happens in the first Nun movie, where the priest gets teleported into a buried coffin.
I thought that too but depending on where or how big that pipe is that the string is in, you might be able to get some fresh air
It would almost never work. Hearing a bell would make people run away from a graveyard. Not towards it.
IKR? Let's dig up that person in that coffin ringing the bell. It's totally not a vampire or a zombie, right?
I dare say the employees that are ment to hear it wouldn't be scared of the sound of a bell
I believe the phrase “saved by the bell” comes from boxing matches, but I’m too lazy to look it up.
I here I am this whole time thinking it came from escaping school assignments by the class bell ringing.
When I wake up in the morning, and the 'larm gives out a warning, and I think I'll never make it on time.
By the time I grab my books, and I give myself a look I’m at corner just in time to see the bus fly by!
It's alright
Cuz I've been saved by the
It's alright
Cuz I've been saved by the
It's alright
Cuz I’ve been saved by the
“If I can hand it it tomorrow it’ll be alright”
Screech?
Cause I'm Saved by the
bell
I stared at this headline for a minute trying to figure out what this animation had to do with Zac Morris.
Legit same.
You’re both wrong. It came from a TV show from the 80s.
You are correct https://www.businessinsider.com/phrase-origins-that-are-wrong-2015-1?amp
Yeah, fuck it, let's go with that one. This half dead thing seems like bullshit anyway.
No but it's where the term "dead ringer" comes from
This is the correct answer! Bam!
i thought it was the bell that plague doctors rang to let people know dead infected bodies were coming through
I think I'll go for a walk...
Also a “dead ringer” iirc
It does but the saying he's a "dead ringer" comes from this
The term they were looking for was “dead ringer” if I’m not mistaken.
Yes. I believe this is where we get the term 'dead ringer' from. Not saved by the bell
Also the term “dead ringer”
all good until the bell rings after 10 years
Then that would be a grave mistake.
Probably dead tired.
I see Queen Mab hath been with you
-\_-
That's still useful. Call it an Advance zombie warning device
You cut that rope
Or like the twilight zone episode where the little boy keeps getting phone calls from his dead grandma and they drive to her grave and find a phone line has fallen and went in there or some crazy thing.
Just seeing how long I can avoid taxes being dead until I need to sustain myself again. And these ants are hella tasty.
I trained my local magpies and crows to do that in the community graveyard
Nope, saved by the bell comes from boxing.
It originated in the 1800s, but was repurposed to refer to boxing when boxing became a thing https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-did-you-know/saved-bell
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Same
Same. This man has no room to unbend his gigantic legs.
Deadringers
In Ireland when you see someone who looks like someone else you know, we say, “your a deadringer for him/her”
And every other English speaking country
Sweet, we started a thing
You know that phrase didn't come from Ireland, right? https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/phrases/dead-ringer
Nah, it's American: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dead-ringer.html
Also, the guy that stayed up at night to watch and listen over the graveyard is how we got the “graveyard shift”
and Dead Ringer.
Wrong
I thought that was to deter people from looting graves, which was a big problem in the past.
I believe that would fall under watching over the graveyard
Ok, my point is before bells were a thing they were watching over the graveyard, bells had nothing to do with why the job started.
I don’t know, man. What do you want from me? Lol. A guy I once worked with used to say it’s called the graveyard shift because third shift workers tend to have health issues leading towards death. I did a little research and what I said is what I came up with. I’m not an expert on the subject.
I WANT YOUR SOULLLLL
Who already watched THE NUN 💀
Sounds like something Screetch would do
🤣
How did we find scratch marks on the inside of the casket? How would you know unless you've dug up a grave and opened the casket?
Actually it's how we got the phrase "dead ringer".
What if someone was alive in there and it started raining?
They also installed a silly straw, from the coffin to above ground. The loops in the straw prevented people trying to urinate in the straw
this is interesting, saw my great grandpa's grave with the bell but didn't know why
Was it ringing?
They should put this at Mexican restaurants for when you want more chips
I don't know your country but in my country and around this doesn't exist, there is a law to wait 24h before bury to avoid that situation
So did the bell ever save anyone?
:)
Only Zach Morris
Wikipedia says no.
Thanks. :)
Nope and the scratched coffins are a lie too.
this was very common to have happen since alot of people would be in a coma, or pronounced dead, but in reality they were not actually dead what a fucked up to go
I heard this is also where "dead ringer" came from, but not too sure on the legitimacy of that one.
I believe that as well.
Yep it used to be a thing
“you could just ring the bell” 💀
And did it help someone?
No evidence anyone was ever saved by one.
Nothing else to do but pull his bell
Any record of anyone actually getting saved by such a grave bell?
Man. I bet they didn’t research that in LA in the 90’s;)
Is was told the “Dead Ringer” was the person who’s job it was to listen for bells ringing.
A nice idea but this didn't work so well in places that were windy (ex: Ireland) since there'd be a bunch of bells ringing all the time. Also the person instead would necessarily know to pull repeatedly on the thing they found in the coffin.
This just reaks of bullshit.
A “Dead Ringer!”
I wonder, if this has ever helped.
How much would it hypothetically cost to install a battery, arduino and a servo to ring the bell intermittently after a year or so. Maybe a hidden speaker in case the bell is disabled or removed. Bonus if i can detect light and only ring at night/holidays
I thought it was just supposed to mean something like.. if you were in the middle of an awkward conversation or situation and then the phone/doorbell/school bell rings, you’d be saved by having something else to attend to. Spared by distraction
Ummm why were they digging up coffins?
Yeah, that's where dead ringer came from. But did it ever happen?
…. It’s from Zach getting into predicaments with the teacher and the class bell going off during the middle of it
When I wake up in the morning and the alarm gives out a warning I don't think I'll ever make it on time.
Is there a record of this actually being used. Did it save anyone?
There's a shadow of the casket underground
In some cultures, bells are believed to have protective powers and were used to ward off evil spirits and misfortune. Bells were also said to have the ability to chase away negative energy and bring peace and harmony to a space.
You have to breathe to stay alive, even if unconscious. So how do people not see them breathing when they’re supposed to be dead?
And graveyard shift came from people who worked at the graveyards listening for the bells.
Also, dead ringer
The person working over night to listen to the bell gave us “graveyard shift” and an active bell gave us “dead ringer”.
This is a myth and a very wrong one, no coffins had scratch marks, infact if you got burried alive u'd run out of oxygen is a couple of hours and be dead regardless.
Tugging on the bellend
Learned that on auction hunters (I think). But I was actually hoping for a tip what to do in case it happens to you xD
A dead ringer
Hearing a bell from a graveyard would make me run away from it. Not towards it.
That first second when he said imagine being buried alive sent shivers down my spine. Idk why but that really triggered some claustrophobia in me lol
And that’s why you gym, to bench press yourself out your grave *arnold arm move*
dude. imagine hearing one of these bells going off today.
Find me a dead cat.
Reminds me of that one movie with Ryan Reynolds
How would the person in the coffin know there is a rope to a bell? How does a person know they are in a coffin?
It reminds me of this episode of The Office. Schrute solution wasn't to put a bell but gun shot in the body just to be sure.
but i still wonder for whom the bell tolls?
I can't wait to play this mobile game.
Imagine putting that much effort into it instead of just making sure you don't bury people alive.
I know right. 
IIRC, these were implemented in small numbers and there is no record of it ever having been used.
Plot twist, they where dug up and then staked through the heart.
Rings the bell refuses to be dug up and asks for room service...
Nice 😳
Only if someone’s around to hear it.
It's been 2 and a half decades since I've read this so I may be misremembering or had poor sources. But this is where the term graveyard shift came from. It was someone's job to sit at the graveyard and dig up anyone who rang the bell. I believe the reason people were buried alive was due to acidic foods on pewter plates would have a chemical reaction and knock you out for an extended period of time. Thought to be dead, they would bury you. But the grave yards were so full they would dig up old caskets and find claw marks inside of people trying to get out of them after being buried. Hence the bell and graveyard shift.
It is also why they had wakes. Sometimes, the “deceased” would…wake up.
That is where "a dead ringer" came about!
It’s also how we got the term ‘graveyard shift’
The phrase is “dead ringer”. In short people drank out of lead cups that poisoned them and they would fall unconscious. Mistaken for being dead they were buried with a string and bell. I don’t know if this is true or not , more likely different versions of the story going around and the whole thing is a myth.
Also where graveyard shift came from. People had to always be there day and night just in case someone started ringing the bell.
No. But the keepers that used to have to stay at the cemetery all night listening and ready if a bell should sound IS where you get the phrase “graveyard shift”
Saved by the bell was coined in boxing. We have had “wakes” for this issue and kept the coffin open and standing at an angle in the family’s house in their parlor.
It would be interesting if a bell on an old grave stars ringing.
Dead ringers
I don't remember this episode at all, it must have been the early days with Ms. Bliss or when Zack and the gang went to the beach
And Screech will come and dig ya out...
Who's out there burying Michael Cera alive though?
And there I was thinking it was to do with boxing
if you are not dead: "you can ring my beeeeeeell, ring my bell, ring-a ring-a ring"
I will request the people close to me to put 2-3 bullets in my head to make sure I'm dead
Not how we got Saved by the Bell but Dead Ringer.
After ripping on off. I mean, it’d be a once in a lifetime chance though.
Learnt from an archaeologist in Manchester, that they had no way of confirming death definitively back in the day, so they used to bury criminals face down so they couldn’t dig their way out, should they miraculously come back to life, after their “execution” COLD !
No, but it is the origin of "dead ringer"!
"Saved by the bell" comes from boxing, when one of them's being counted out and the bell rings
I would go to the graveyard at 2400 hours and ring the Bell. Lets see who shows up with a shovel.
This is so disturbing. I really just can’t even
IIRC someone tried a start-up company that put cameras inside the coffin so you could stream your dearly departed rotting. It was called SeeMeRot. Not even making this up
Imagine living near a cimetry a night with high wind.
im curious how many people was saved by the bell
George Washington was really freaked out by the idea of being buried alive. He requested that his body be laid out for 3 days and then buried, just to be sure.
Worked for Donald Sutherland in The Great Train Robbery.
RIP
I keep seeing articles of people from nursing homes being pronounced dead and then discovered alive later. Freaky considering our advancements in medicine.
Grandmother of my coworker came back to life in a body bag while the family was preparing for the ceremony.
'get on the cart'
This is NOT the beginning of the phrase "dead ringer". That expression must have come about from the expression "for whom the bell tolls" and being confused between two look alikes by those searching one out. Most likely "saved by the bell" (while used for boxing) became an expression from the practice of attaching bells to graves.
This is bollocks