Grave Situation: These Fear Factor Competitors Are About To Be Buried Alive

Fear Factor is about to take a hell-filled field trip to a cemetery. So you could guess what that means...


In a sneak peek of the Fear Factor: Season From Hell season premiere -- debuting in a brand-new Sunday night slot -- host Ludacris tells the competitors that they're about to be buried alive. Nevertheless before he launches into the logistics of the challenge, he gives the pairs (who will go underground with each other) a brief history lesson about the cholera epidemic of the 1800s and why it made some people so sick, they were falsely pronounced dead.


"People paid for 'dead ringer' coffins," the wide-ranging entertainer explains in the clip above. "That way, in the event you were accidentally buried alive, you can could genuinely ring a bell to be saved." And then he makes a priceless Saved By The Bell comment.


Yet there's more to the challenge, appropriately titled "Dead Ringer." To find out the disgusting twist (hint: it necessitates some firm in the coffin), watch the video and visualize how these folks fare once Fear Factor returns on Sunday at 7/6c!