Picture it. You've spent half the night digging up a fresh grave, you finally prise open the lid and the corpse you came to steal greets you with a face full of lead shot. That was the whole point of the coffin torpedo, a gadget designed to turn the dead into their own bodyguards.It sounds like something out of a cartoon, and in some ways it was. But it came out of a very real panic in 1870s America, and at least one newspaper swore it had blown a body snatcher to pieces.Quick Answers• What
I first imagined this like it was Spock where they launched him out into space
In my mind, it was like one those burials where they push you out onto the ocean in a boat, but fast.
Same, I was thinking - designed to… sink, surely, not float? heh