Suspended animation in fiction which is indistinguishable from death. In American fiction, the first story to deal with suspended animation is the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. In the story, a British subject in the American colonies wanders into the Catskill Mountains in the years before the American Revolutionary War, and finds a group of fairies, whose moonshine he drinks. He then falls asleep for 20 years, and returns to his village in what is now the United States, finding his home town
Travis Van Winkle Van Winkle guest starred in an episode of "Scorpion", where he played Ensign Nathan Hall, who gets trapped with Walter (Elyes Gabel), Happy (Jadyn Wong) and Cabe (Robert Patrick) in a downed submarine and must figure out how to escape before they run out of air. In 2015, he starred in the PixL original movie "Bound & Babysitting" alongside Tammin Sursok. In 2017, Van Winkle starred as Scott Hays in Hallmark channel original movie "Christmas Getaway" alongside Bridget Regan. Van Winkle is a member of the Bahá'í Faith. Travis Van Winkle Travis Scott Van Winkle (born November 4, 1982) is