E776 - Legally Dead But Still Breathing

When Bureaucracy Kills You on Paper and the 1906 exorcism of Clara Germana Cele.

 What if you woke up one morning and discovered the government had already buried you—on paper?

 In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro explore the quietly terrifying phenomenon of bureaucratic death: real cases in which living people were officially declared dead due to clerical errors, missing-person rulings, or database failures—and then found it nearly impossible to prove they were alive again. Bank accounts frozen. Benefits canceled. Identities erased. All because a system designed for finality has no pro...