Booby-Trapping Your Grave with a Coffin Torpedo

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

During the period between the advent of medical anatomy classes and the rise of cadaver donation, you could make a lot of money by digging up fresh graves and selling whoever was in them. Many of the living dreaded this possibility, and invented ways to make graves burglar-proof. The simplest of these was a concrete slab, but there were also metal cages, locks, and the spectacular coffin torpedo. That was invented in Ohio after the notorious disappearance of the deceased son of a US president (