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Contributors have half-hour to free themselves from a coffin by fixing puzzles
BARCELONA (Reuters) – The worry of being buried alive and trapped in a coffin haunted author Edgar Allan Poe’s characters and has now impressed what’s billed because the world’s smallest escape room – a mortuary-themed expertise not appropriate for claustrophobes.
The live-action puzzle sport developed by Spanish firm Horror Field in Barcelona is known as “Catalepsy”, a reference to a medical situation simply mistakable for loss of life.
Contributors have half-hour to free themselves from inside a coffin by fixing puzzles by means of teamwork with their accomplice in a neighbouring casket, speaking through loudspeakers.
They’re monitored over CCTV cameras by gamemaster Aurora Alvarino, who outlined escape rooms as “a health club for the thoughts”.
She stated the attraction aimed to recreate “a state of affairs that in the end we’ll all expertise: your individual funeral”.
Miriam Castella, a 22-year-old actress chosen by the corporate to show the sport, acknowledged she felt “a bit of bit scared” after the coffin’s lid closed.
Her accomplice within the demonstration, 39-year-old dancer Carlos Granedo, stated he had taken half in about 15 escape rooms earlier than however described this expertise as distinctive.
Whereas reserving their tickets, gamers can customise a number of features, together with the kind of casket or whether or not they wish to be “cremated” in a blaze of digital flames and synthetic smoke.
“Catalepsy” attracts inspiration from the worry of being buried alive – or taphophobia – that was widespread in the course of the nineteenth century, as mirrored in Poe’s brief story “The Untimely Burial”, which was tailored into movie in 1962.
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