In a post shared on his IG page, Young C said he intends to broadcast live footage from the coffin at night.

Sharing a video on his Instagram account, he said:

“I am going to be spending the next 24 hours buried in this casket. Guys, this is real, not fake. And the most amazing part is that I am going to go live by night.”

In a subsequent update, Young C revealed that, he had been buried for over 8 hours and was experiencing physical discomfort, including excessive sweating.

In an update on Wednesday evening, he said in part, :Guys, I have been buried alive for over 8 hours now. For those of you who saw my first video, I have been down here. As you can see, my camera is still rolling, and I have my light down there, I am sweating, guys.”

In yet another update, Yong C said he has started experiencing heat and feared his rechargeable fan not to run out of power.

He has connected a video and sound system to his friends above in case the challenge becomes life-threatening.

Low budget Mr beast, Young C has now been burièd alive for 23 hours.

He doesn’t look like who is going to survivè in the next one hour. https://t.co/7Gc3BmeY1k pic.twitter.com/km0eUCSzQ3

— Just Eniola ? (@EObaniyi) May 9, 2024

Last night, I was watching Kill Bill Vol. 2 for about the 20th time, and, as always, when I got to the scene where The Bride is buried alive, I felt the same cold chill wrap around my spine, like the serpent around the tree of life.

Being buried alive used to be one of my biggest fears. I’ve had horrifying nightmares in which dirt has been poured over me by a grader while I’m tied up lying in a freshly dug grave.

I wake up and I can sometimes still taste dirt in my mouth… My friend Andy thinks he’s some sort of Amateur therapist, and he suggests that these dreams mean that I’m afraid of dying before my time.

I think he’s full of crap, but I’ll never forget the story he told me that miraculously cured me of that fear.

One day, an old donkey accidentally fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer came upon the scene and evaluated the situation.

The mule was old, and was due to be replaced. The well had not struck water, and probably never would. He decided that neither the well nor the old mule was worth the effort to save them, so he decided to bury the donkey in the well.

So the farmer called his neighbours and together they started shovelling dirt into the well. The old mule was terrified and hysterical in the beginning. He really didn’t like the feel of the dirt on him, so every time a shovelful landed on his back, he would shake it off. Soon, there was a large pile of dirt at his feet, and suddenly, the mule knew exactly how he was going to get out of the well.

Each time dirt was shovelled onto his back, he would shake it off and step up. He repeated these words to himself again and again: “Shake it off and step up”. The people above kept shovelling in more and more dirt. He just shook it off and stepped up.

Calmly and patiently. He actually started to look forward to each shovelful of dirt, because he recognised their true value as stepping stones to freedom.

Before long, the old mule stepped over the well‘s wall and strolled away to freedom as the people looked on, dumbfounded.  Although terribly tired, he was the winner. They had decided he was worthless and had sought to bury him alive, but their dirt had become his victory.

My friends, to paraphrase the Good Book, ‘for all have sinned and fallen into a well of some description’. There are many of us who have been written off. Perhaps your family thinks you will always be a failure. Perhaps your efforts at work have been overlooked.

Perhaps your friends don’t think you’ll amount to much in life. Perhaps there’s little hope that you’ll ever be healthy again. Perhaps the one you love is replacing you with a newer, richer, prettier model. Perhaps for you, being at the bottom of a well means you’re at the bottom of your class.

Whatever your situation, it must not surprise you that many will consider it a hopeless one. Let it not shock you when they give up on you and start shovelling the dirt to cover you up. Just remain calm, shake it off and step up.

Winston Churchill once said, “I’m not very tall. The only reason why I’m visible to the world is because I rise above insults. The bigger the insult, the higher I rise”.

They say it’s all over and there’s no hope for you. Shake it off and step up. They say it’s your fault you’re in this predicament, and you brought it upon yourself. Shake it off and step up.

They say better people with bigger brains than you have failed at what you’re trying to do. Shake it off and step up. I promise it won’t be long before you step over the edge and walk away to freedom.

My name is Kojo Yankson, and as long as I’m alive, I cannot be buried.

GOOD MORNING, GHANAFO.

By the side of a remote road in the northern Chernihiv region of Ukraine, Mykola shows the unmarked grave in which he and his two brothers were buried three-and-a-half weeks after the war began, in land seized by Russian forces. All three had been shot; he was the only one to survive.

“It’s like being resurrected,” Mykola, 33, told CNN.

Until March 18, life for the Kulichenko family had changed little despite the Russians occupying their village of Dovzhyk since the start of the war. Then, when a Russian column was bombed, Russian soldiers fanned out looking for those responsible.

They arrived at the wood-plank house where Mykola lived with his two brothers, Yevhen and Dmytro along with their sister, Iryna — who still hasn’t forgiven herself for not being home that day.

Three soldiers told the brothers to kneel in the front yard while they searched the home looking for anything that would link them to the bombed convoy, Mykola said.

According to Mykola, once they found the military medals their grandfather owned and a military bag belonging to 30-year-old Yevhen, who had been a paratrooper, the soldiers were convinced they had something to hide.

Mykola, Yevhen and Dmytro were driven to a basement where they were interrogated for three days, he said. Mykola kept hoping the Russians would release them, but on the fourth day, he said, their mood changed.

“They beat my whole body with a metal rod, and they put the barrel of a gun inside my mouth,” he said.

Along with his brothers, Mykola was tortured until he lost consciousness. He says they were blindfolded, had their hands and legs bound with tape and were driven in a military vehicle by five Russian soldiers to a desolate plot of land. They were made to kneel, blindfolded, while a pit was dug, Mykola said.

First, he said, he heard a shot behind him, and 36-year-old Dmytro, the eldest of the three, fell to the ground. Next, he felt Yevhen, the youngest, drop by his side.

“I was thinking that I was next,” he said. But the bullet entered Mykola’s cheek and exited next to his right ear. He knew his only hope of survival was to play dead.

The soldiers kicked the brothers’ bodies into the pit, covered them with earth and left, according to Mykola. He can’t say how long he lay buried alive, only that with his hands and legs still bound he somehow managed to maneuver his way out from under his older brother’s corpse and back to the land of the living.

“It was hard for me to breathe, since Dima (Dmytro) was lying on top of me, but using my arms and knees, I was able to push my older brother off to the side of the pit, and then I climbed out.”

In the dark, he staggered through fields to the nearest house, where a woman took him in and cared for him overnight before he was able to get back to his sister, who’d been anxiously waiting for days at their father’s home.

“I came home and there was Mykola. I looked at his eyes and asked where are the others? He said there are no others,” Iryna recalls, sobbing.

Mykola says it’s a miracle he survived. Scars on his cheek and behind his ear are still visible today.

“I was lucky… and now I have to just go on living,” he said. “This story needs to be heard by everyone, not just in Ukraine, but around the world because these kind of things are happening and this is just one in a billion.”

A war crimes investigation has now been opened by the Chernihiv region prosecutor’s office. Investigators confirmed to CNN that the brothers’ hands and legs had been tied and they had been blindfolded.

Across Ukraine, more than 11,600 alleged war crimes have been recorded so far, according to local authorities. CNN also reached out to Russia’s Ministry of Defense but got no response.

As with so many of the other alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces, the story of Mykola and his brothers could only be told once the Russian retreat from Chernihiv region began in early April.

It was also only then that Mykola could start looking for the pit from which he had, against all odds, escaped with his life. He knew he had to find his brothers in order to give them the decent burial they deserved.

On April 21, one month to the day after Mykola says his brothers were executed, Dmytro and Yevhen were finally laid to rest beneath elaborate tombstones in a well-tended grave, in land that was in Ukrainian hands once more.

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He was put before the Breman Asikuma Magistrate Court, presided over by Her Honour Ms Araba Nunoo, on Monday.

The suspect is to reappear on 31st August 2021 while the case is under investigation.

Meanwhile, the prophetess, Ama Nkansah, the leader of Christ Faith Tabernacle Church at Gomoa Eshiem in the Gomoa West District is still on the run.

Police in the Central Region are, therefore, appealing to the general public to assist them to arrest her.

The wife has been granted bail because she is breastfeeding her newly born baby.

The couple buried their two-year-old baby alive on the advice of the prophetess at Brakwa Awoyom, a suburb of Bremang Brakwa.

According to reports, the child was buried near the stream the community relies on for water.

The man and wife said they were convinced by a fetish priestess that their child, who could neither walk nor talk, was a spirit child and had to be killed.

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Narrating what happened, Abubakar Mohammed, a tenant of the couple, said at midnight on Monday, suspect Adoba and Maame Atta and the fetish priestess dug a grave and buried the two-year-old alive.