10 Chilling Stories Of People Who Were Buried Alive

3. Mina El Houari

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Remember all those horror stories you'd hear about people meeting absolute creeps via an online dating service? Mina El Houari's experience with a man she met over the internet might just be the most frightening case out of the lot.

Morocco World News reported that the 25-year-old Hourari - who lived in France - had been chatting online with a man for a number of months, and in May 2014, she actually travelled to Morocco to meet him, checking into a hotel in the city of Fez.

The two soon went out on a date, but midway through the night, disaster struck, when Houari - who was diabetic - fainted.

Naturally, her date was rather distressed by this turn of events, but rather than taking her to a hospital, he took her home and buried her in his backyard, believing she'd suddenly dropped dead.

But Houari was very much alive, and because of the man's actions, she suffocated to death. After her body was found, the man took full responsibility for the incident and was charged with involuntary manslaughter.

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