Two plots, one rake, a cat and a gentleman in a top hat he has never seen at work. Newest entries first.
In short: The Groundskeeper’s Logbook is a comic, fictional work log by Horace, who looks after the two plots of Buried Alive at Escape This Northbridge and Sydney CBD. It is safe for work and safe to read before you play: he has never once seen how anybody gets out.
Buried Alive is a strictly 18+ escape room for exactly two players, designed, built and run by Escape This at Escape This Northbridge and Escape This Sydney CBD, with Escape This Melbourne CBD booked from 1 March 2027. Each player wakes in a separate coffin, buried by the Undertaker, and the pair have 60 minutes to get out.
Horace and his cat Tuppence are invented for this website diary by Escape This; neither appears in the room. The logbook is comic fiction: no real cemetery, burial or person is described, the players in it are never real players, and no puzzle is given away.
The Undertaker keeps his own fictional diary at theundertaker.com.au, where he also claims Asylum’s intercom voice and Cannibal’s Butcher as alter egos. The two diaries nod to each other but share no text. Facts beside each entry come from Escape This’s booking records and are kept current.
A comic, fictional work log that Escape This writes for the website in the voice of Horace, the night groundskeeper who looks after the Undertaker’s two plots and finds them dug up from the inside every morning. Horace and his cat are invented for the diary and don’t appear in the room. It is safe for work; Buried Alive itself is strictly 18+.
Not a word of it. Horace has never seen inside a session and writes only about soil, weather, the pairs at the gate and the house rules. Read the whole logbook before booking Buried Alive and the Undertaker’s puzzles will be exactly as hard as their 8 out of 10 rating.
No. Horace is a separate, made-up character who tidies up after the Undertaker and has never seen him at work. The Undertaker, Buried Alive’s villain, keeps his own comic diary at theundertaker.com.au, where Asylum’s intercom voice and Cannibal’s Butcher are his alter egos. The two diaries refer to each other but share no text.
The openings. Escape This’s booking records give Buried Alive’s first night at Escape This Northbridge as 5 August 2021 and at Sydney CBD as 28 March 2025, and list Melbourne CBD from 1 March 2027; Horace’s entries for those days carry those dates. The rest are picked for the story.
Roughly once a month through 2027, after a night shift. Each entry appears on the Buried Alive site on the date at its top, so there is usually a new tally from the plots when you come back.
Book Buried Alive at Northbridge or Sydney CBD. Exactly two players, both 18 or over.
