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Veli-Matti ”Weltsu” Lehtikangas (born 1955) is a Finnish fakir who beholds the world record for being buried alive for total of 8 days. The record happened during 21 - 29. September in 2000. He also holds the world record for staying awake for total of 34 days and 20 minutes, thereby beating the former record of 11 days and 25 minutes (1964) by Randy Gardner.

Fame

Thanks to journalists Veli-Matti has also been known in both UK and USA for other ”stunts” such as walking on volcanic rocks, sitting for 15 hours straight and being buried under shattered glass. His stunts have been in the BBC in the United Kingdom and they were discussed in Jay Leno Show in the USA.

During his best stunt times Veli-Matti had in total of 4 mentions in the Guinness World Records.

Buried alive

Veli-Matti has been buried alive 4 times. Nearly each time has been problematic and one nearly fatal. He nearly ran out of oxygen as the air pipes got blocked. Veli-Matti mostly ate blueberry soup to survive the days in the coffin.

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