There are certain things in life that you think will never happen to you. Horrendous tragedies like being struck by lightning or mauled by a bear only happen to people in far away places, right?    

These things never happen close enough to home to even seem real. Sure, movies and television can paint a pretty vivid picture of just how traumatizing being buried alive would actually be, but your mind still can't quite comprehend it.    

Unless it happens to you or someone you know, these events seem like impossibilities. Horror stories told simply to keep you on guard.    

I thought the same exact way.    

That changed the day I was kidnapped.