I’m Just Sleeping!

I remember growing up in the ’80s (yes, that dates me) when all kinds of fears and phobias seemed to be in the air—fear of the dark, snakes, scorpions, spiders. Someone in my own close circle was afraid of feet! But the children’s author Hans Christian Andersen had a particularly unusual phobia: he was terrified of being buried alive. To ease his mind, he kept a note on his bedside table explaining that he might “appear dead,” but was actually just sleeping.

Interestingly, some skeptics apply a similar idea to Jesus’ death…