Buried Alive

Do you ever watch LOST? Did you see the episode where two island dwellers are paralyzed after being bit by a rare spider, and when found by the other island dwellers, they're thought to be dead, only to regain consciousness after being buried alive?

How about Heroes? Did you see the episode where the character who can never die (unless shot in the brain), gets buried alive and is sentenced to his shallow grave for all of eternity.... You can watch it here, just click the link.... (With some dubbed in lines from Star Trek so they would allow it on YouTube.... You'll still get the gist of it....)

Those two scenes have scarred me for life.... I think it's part claustrophobia, part slowly conceding to death, part knowing your loudest screams are going unheard and unanswered by people only six feet above you. Come to think of it, being trapped in a small space where nobody can get to me might be my greatest fear....

Well, he won't be buried, but starting today, journalist Tim Shaw is being locked in a metal box in an undisclosed location for 30 days and 30 nights. Mr. Shaw won't even know where he's located.... All he knows is that he'll be somewhere in the United Kingdom and it's somewhere he has been before. The box is only 3 feet high, 4.5 feet wide and 8 feet long, and will contain only himself and mattress.

Only once a day will he have any contact with the outside world, when a silent source will bring him a delivery of food and water through a tiny hatch in the box. The entire 30 days and 30 nights will be filmed and broadcast online with a short delay (to remove anything offensive that might be said), and the lights will be on in the box from 12:00 p.m. GMT to 12:00 a.m. GMT (That's 4:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. PST and 7:00 a.m to 7:00 p.m. EST). However, the microphones will be running 24 hours a day.


Throughout Tim Shaw's stay inside the isolation box, viewers will be given an opportunity to guess his whereabouts.... If someone can correctly guess where he is, the lights on the door of the box turn green and Mr. Shaw is released. Oh, and the person who guessed the location of the box correctly will receive approximately $47,000 (30,000 pounds).... By the way, if nobody figures out where he is..... He'll complete the entire 30 days and 30 nights in the box.... There are three types of clues that will be given to help find Mr. Shaw:

1. A cryptic object, with relevance to the location of the box, will be delivered to Mr. Shaw daily.
2. Mr. Shaw will be able to talk about his life and the places he's been while inside the box. Since the place he's hidden is somewhere he's been, he might reveal it while talking to the camera.
3. Mr. Shaw may mention the names of people of interest while inside the box. Contact of people Mr. Shaw may mention during his time in the box may be helpful in finding his location.

This whole thing intrigues me and scares the crap out of me at the same time. Just thinking about watching this man trapped inside this super tiny space makes me cringe..... But on the other hand, I'm fascinated and I want to have the website up on my computer all day to see if he'll crack! The incentive to win $47,000 doesn't hurt either.....

You can get more information on Mr. Shaw, and watch him throughout the ordeal at the following site. Just click the logo to visit....:

By the way.... While you're here.... What's your greatest fear?