By Shirley Farmer 
one of the biggest”The urban legends of Portugal are that Carlos Baiao was buried alive After the tragic car accident on August 26, 1988.
It is not known for certain when the rumors began to spread, but they remained in the public imagination as facts, and even led a journalist to search for this information to finish his doctoral thesis.
So that there is no doubt: Carlos Baiao died in a car accident on August 26, 1988, in the afternoon, while on his way to a show at Penalva do Castelo. The car collided with a truck causing the death of another victim, a technician from the Paião team also named Carlos – Carlos Miguel Souza. Jorge Esteves, The other technician in the car survived. Last Friday 26 Widow of Playback author Zaida Cardoso, mentioned that Her husband died shortly after the accidentHowever, her father tried to protect her and did not immediately provide the information over the phone, preferring to deliver the news in person. “On that day, Carlos had left the house a few hours earlier with his usual jokes, goodbye and we went to get the sound and lights technicians. Soon I went to work. My dad called me to say Carlos had a serious accident and was in a serious condition.This is what Zaida said in an interview with SIC’s “Casa Feliz”.
Zaida Cardoso, the widow of Carlos Bayo, with the guitar that the musician was carrying in the accident
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“He didn’t want to tell me right away. I didn’t know exactly what had happened until I got to my parents’ house and that Carlos was already dead. They already had this news, but they didn’t want to give it to me over the phone.”
No trace when the “legend” started
In 2018, at the time of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Carlos Baiao, Journalist Joanna Martins, MSc in Communication Sciences and author of her doctoral dissertation “Death in Journalism: The Evolution in Media Treatment of the Death of Public Figures”, commented that she even sought information on the hypothesis that Carlos Baiao was buried alive, to include in the document, but nothing was found in the press.
“I did not find any reference to it in the newspapers at the time. It was a baseless and hardly credible myth, But newspapers at that time were not even inclined to pick them up and nowadays they certainly do,” he said in an interview with Sapo24.
In addition to being the author of the thesis, Joanna Martins also has an almost familial relationship with the singer, despite her age at his death. “He was a friend of my family, and he was my mom’s childhood friend And I vaguely remember him as he was dying, I was six years old at the time.”
At the heart of the rumors is the story that when they lifted the singer’s bones they found the coffin scratched inside and the bones overturned. Just like FLASH! I already reported it 2 years agoZaida Cardoso denied, asserting that the body of the author of “Playback” and “Pó de Arroz” was Autopsy in Lisbon.
Everyone who remembers Carlos Baiao, on the anniversary of the singer’s birth and death, is Antonio SalaOne of the musician’s best friends, who is still missing. Antonio Sala also noted on his Facebook page highlighting the tragic circumstances of his friend’s death, in a car accident, without any reference to this strange urban legend.
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