Cases when people came to life at a funeral. Scientists: it is possible to revive dead people a day after death
It is not for nothing that in almost all countries of the world, funerals are usually held not immediately after death, but only a few days later. There are many examples when a “dead man” suddenly came to life before the funeral, or, worst of all, directly in the grave, finding himself buried alive...
Imaginary death
The “pseudo-funeral” ritual occupies an important place among ministers of shamanic cults. It is believed that by going to the grave alive, the shaman is given the gift of communication with the spirits of the earth, as well as with the souls of deceased ancestors. It’s as if some channels are opening in his mind, through which he communicates with other worlds unknown to mere mortals.
Naturalist and ethnographer E.S. Bogdanovsky was lucky in 1915 to witness ritual funeral shaman of one Kamchatka tribe. In his memoirs, Bogdanovsky wrote that before the burial the shaman fasted for three days and did not even drink water. Afterwards, the assistants, using a bone drill, made a hole in the crown of the shaman, which was then sealed with beeswax. Next, the shaman’s body was rubbed with incense, wrapped in a bear skin and, accompanied by ritual singing, lowered into a grave, which was built in the center of the family cemetery. A long reed tube was inserted into the shaman's mouth, which was taken out, and his motionless body was covered with earth. A few days later, during which ritual actions were continuously carried out over the grave, the buried shaman was removed from the grave, washed in three running waters and fumigated with incense. On the same day, the village magnificently celebrated the second birth of a respected fellow tribesman, who, having visited “ kingdom of the dead", took the top step in the hierarchy of ministers of the pagan cult...
IN lately a tradition has appeared of putting a charged mobile phone next to the deceased - suddenly this is not death at all, but a dream, suddenly a dear person will come to his senses and call his loved ones - I’m alive, dig me back up... But so far this has not happened - in our time, with advanced diagnostic devices , in principle, it is impossible to bury a person alive.
However, people do not trust doctors and try to protect themselves from a terrible awakening in the grave. In 2001, a scandalous incident occurred in America. Los Angeles resident Joe Barten, who was terribly afraid of falling into lethargic sleep, bequeathed to make ventilation in his coffin, leave food and a telephone in it. And at the same time, his relatives could receive an inheritance only on the condition that they call his grave 3 times a day. It is curious that Barten’s relatives refused to receive the inheritance - they found the process of making calls quite creepy...
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This article contains only the most real and famous cases when a dead person came back to life. For example, in the Crimean capital there was recently a case with metal rockers. The guys decided to rehearse in the morgue.
They received this decision from their superiors. However, the metalheads had no idea that after their strong music, a human scream could be heard in the complete silence of the morgue.
According to the authorities of this morgue, the guys very quickly left their musical instruments, also remained drum set with satanic emblems on it. The authorities also said that the person had never run so fast as he did that day.
Read also the article about how, in which you will find out what dreams about a living dead mean.
According to morgue workers, the dead can actually come back to life. This happens, of course, rarely. But this can still happen. For example, if a person is an ordinary drunkard or alcoholic for a long time I didn’t look at the pathologist because of the other corpses.
And here's another one real case when the dead man came to life. This happened in Zimbabwe. Brighton Dame Zante, who was 34 years old, died in Gweru. Within a few days the man was completely dead. All his relatives and friends considered him dead. But the strangest thing happened during the start of the funeral procession. As soon as his relatives wanted to say goodbye to the deceased, he suddenly moved his legs. People couldn't believe their eyes. But after some time, the deceased began to move on, terrifying everyone around him. Naturally, after such an event, everyone in the area fled in all directions. Doctors took the body of the deceased to the hospital and connected him to a life-sustaining device.
No less interesting case, when the dead man came to life, took place in Egypt. A 28-year-old Egyptian died and his relatives already wanted to bury him. But suddenly the man came to life, and this also happened at the beginning of the funeral ceremony. At that moment, a doctor came to sign a certificate that would indicate the man’s death. But the doctor discovered that life was still barely glimmering in this man’s body.
The man worked as a waiter, his name was Hamdi Hafeza al-Nubi. An accident happened to him at work, happened to him heart attack. The family did everything in accordance with traditions, they washed his body and were already waiting for the funeral.
But all this is nonsense compared to the story of Claudia Ustyuzhanina. This happened in Barnaul in 1964. The woman was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of cancer. Doctors stated that the disease had progressed so much that the woman had only one way - to the next world. Doctors pronounced him dead. But three days later, lying in the morgue, Klavdiya Ustyuzhanina was able to open her eyes. Claudia survived. She said that she had traveled to the next world. She saw everything that happened to her in the operating room. When the woman’s soul rose upward, some voice said that her life program had not yet been completed, so the woman was returned back.
Here are just a few cases when a dead person actually came back to life. There is still a lot of evidence of how a person who is considered dead comes to life after some time. In general, doctors have several dozen ways to determine whether a person is alive or dead. Only by following all these methods can we advise that I want to say that he is a dead man. However, the most incredible miracles happen in life; a person who was considered dead can actually come to life at some point.
1. Teen Woke Up at His Own Funeral The idea of attending your own funeral is quite common, especially in movies where people fake deaths and have fake funerals. Fortunately, most of...
1. A teenager woke up at his own funeral.
The idea of attending your own funeral is quite common, especially in movies where people fake deaths and have fake funerals.
Fortunately, most of us have not had this experience. But 17-year-old Indian teenager Kumar Marevad experienced it himself. He had a high fever after being bitten by a dog and stopped breathing.
Kumar's family prepared his body, placed him in a coffin and went for cremation. It's good that the guy woke up before becoming a pile of ashes.
2. Nacy Perez Was Buried Alive, But She Died After She Was Rescued From The Grave
Neysi Perez, a pregnant girl from Honduras, suddenly dropped dead and stopped breathing.
The family buried Neisi and her unborn child, but the next day, when the girl's mother visited her grave, she heard sounds from inside. Neisy was dug up, and it seemed she was saved!
But fate had other plans. A few hours after her release, the girl actually died and returned again to where she had recently been rescued.
3. Judith Johnson was sent to the morgue without being seen breathing.
Judith Johnson went to the hospital with what she thought was indigestion, but soon went straight from there to the morgue.
Unfortunately, what she thought was indigestion was a heart attack, and resuscitation efforts did not help her. She was rescued by a morgue worker who discovered that Judith was still breathing.
The poor thing did not die, but her psyche suffered catastrophically as a result. The grave does not let people go so easily.
4. The Miracle of Walter Williams
Walter Williams died in 2014 at the age of 78. The old man's body was taken to the morgue, but when the worker began embalming, Walter began to breathe.
The family considered this return to life a miracle. However, science has its own explanation, called Lazarus syndrome, when dead man suddenly it can come to life again.
This syndrome is very rare, but sudden resurrection after recorded death is also possible.
5. Eleanor Markham, who was almost buried alive
Eleanor Markham was 22 years old when she died in 1894 in New York. It was hot in July, so the inconsolable family mourned the girl and decided to bury her quickly.
As the coffin was being carried to the cemetery, sounds were heard from inside. The lid was removed, and what followed was a furious dialogue between the revived Miss Markham and the person accompanying her to last path attending physician.
According to a local newspaper report, their conversation went something like this: “Oh my God! - Miss Markham screamed heart-rendingly. “You are burying me alive!” Her doctor calmly replied, “Hush, hush, you’re fine. It's just a mistake that can be easily corrected."
It is no coincidence that in almost all countries and among all peoples it is customary to bury the body not immediately after death, but only a few days later. There have been many cases when “dead people” suddenly came to life before the funeral, or, worst of all, right inside the grave... Imaginary death
Lethargy (from the Greek lethe - “oblivion” and argia - “inaction”) is a largely unexplored painful state similar to sleep. Signs of death have always been considered the cessation of heartbeat and lack of breathing. But during lethargic sleep everything life processes also freeze, and distinguish real death from imaginary sleep (as lethargic sleep is often called) without modern equipment is quite difficult. Therefore, earlier cases of burial of people who did not die, but who fell asleep in a lethargic sleep, took place quite often, and sometimes with famous people.
If now burial alive is already a fantasy, then 100-200 years ago cases of burial of living people were not so uncommon. Very often, gravediggers, digging a fresh grave on ancient burials, discovered twisted bodies in half-rotted coffins, from which it was clear that they were trying to get out to freedom. They say that in medieval cemeteries every third grave was such an eerie sight.
Fatal sleeping pill
Helena Blavatsky described strange cases lethargy: “In 1816, in Brussels, a respected citizen fell into a deep lethargy on Sunday morning. On Monday, as his companions prepared to hammer nails into the coffin lid, he sat up in the coffin, rubbed his eyes and demanded coffee and a newspaper. In Moscow, the wife of a wealthy businessman lay in a cataleptic state for seventeen days, during which the authorities made several attempts to bury her; but since decomposition did not occur, the family rejected the ceremony, and after the expiration of the mentioned period, the life of the supposedly dead woman was restored. In Bergerac in 1842, a patient took sleeping pills, but... did not wake up. They bled him: he did not wake up. Finally he was declared dead and buried. A few days later they remembered to take sleeping pills and dug up the grave. The body was turned over and bore signs of a struggle.”
This is only a small part of such cases - lethargic sleep is actually quite common.
Scary awakening
Many people tried to protect themselves from being buried alive. For example, the famous writer Wilkie Collins left a note at his bedside with a list of measures that should be taken before burying him. But the writer was educated person and had the concept of lethargic sleep, while many ordinary people Something like that never even occurred to me.
So, in 1838 in England there was incredible incident. After the funeral of a respected person, a boy was walking through the cemetery and heard an unclear sound from underground. The frightened child called the adults, who dug up the coffin. When the lid was removed, the shocked witnesses saw that a terrible grimace was frozen on the face of the deceased. His arms were freshly bruised and his shroud was torn. But the man was already actually dead - he died a few minutes before being rescued - from a broken heart, unable to withstand such a terrible awakening to reality.
Even more terrible incident occurred in Germany in 1773. A pregnant woman was buried there. When screams began to be heard from underground, the grave was dug up. But it turned out that it was already too late - the woman died, and moreover, the child who had just been born in the same grave died...
Crying Soul
In the fall of 2002, a misfortune happened in the family of Krasnoyarsk resident Irina Andreevna Maletina - her thirty-year-old son Mikhail unexpectedly died. A strong, athletic guy who never complained about his health, died at night in his sleep. The body was autopsied, but the cause of death could not be determined. The doctor who drew up the death report told Irina Andreevna that her son died of sudden cardiac arrest.
As expected, Mikhail was buried on the third day, a wake was celebrated... And suddenly the next night his mother dreamed of her dead son crying. In the afternoon, Irina Andreevna went to church and lit a candle for the repose of the soul of the newly deceased. However, the crying son continued to appear in her dreams for another week. Maletina turned to one of the priests, who, after listening, said disappointing words that the young man might have been buried alive. It took Irina Andreevna incredible efforts to obtain permission to carry out the exhumation. When the coffin was opened, the grief-stricken woman instantly turned gray with horror. Her beloved son was lying on his side. His clothes, ritual blanket and pillow were torn to shreds. There were numerous abrasions and bruises on the hands of the corpse, which were not present during the funeral. All this eloquently indicated that the man woke up in the grave, and then died for a long time and painfully.
A resident of the city of Bereznyaki near Solikamsk, Elena Ivanovna Duzhkina, recalls how once in her childhood she and a group of children saw a coffin floating from nowhere during the spring flood of the Kama. The waves washed him to the shore. The frightened children called the adults. People opened the coffin and saw with horror a yellowish skeleton dressed in rotten rags. The skeleton lay prone, legs tucked under itself. The entire lid of the coffin, darkened by time, was covered with deep scratches from the inside.
Living Gogol
The most famous such case was scary story, associated with Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. During his life, several times he fell into a strange, absolutely motionless state, reminiscent of death. But great writer He always came to his senses quickly, although he managed to fairly scare those around him. Gogol knew about this peculiarity of his and, more than anything else, he was afraid that one day he would fall into a deep sleep for a long time and be buried alive. He wrote: “Being in the full presence of memory and common sense, I express here my last will. I bequeath my body not to be buried until obvious signs of decomposition appear. I mention this because even during the illness itself, moments of vital numbness came over me, my heart and pulse stopped beating.”
After the writer’s death, they did not listen to his will and buried him as usual - on the third day...
These scary words were remembered only in 1931, when Gogol was reburied from the Danilov Monastery on Novodevichy Cemetery. According to eyewitnesses, the lid of the coffin was scratched from the inside, and Gogol's body was in an unnatural position. At the same time, another terrible thing was discovered, which had nothing to do with lethargic dreams and burials alive. Gogol's skeleton was missing... its head. According to rumors, she disappeared in 1909, when the monks of the Danilov Monastery were restoring the writer’s grave. Allegedly, they were persuaded to cut it off for a considerable sum by the collector and rich man Bakhrushin, with whom it remained. This wild story, but it is quite possible to believe in it, because in 1931, during the excavation of Gogol’s grave, a number of unpleasant events occurred. Famous writers, who were present at the reburial, literally stole from the coffin “as a souvenir,” some a piece of clothing, some shoes, and some a rib of Gogol...
Call from the other world
Interestingly, in order to protect a person from being buried alive, in many Western countries A bell with a rope still exists in morgues. A person thought to be dead can wake up among the dead, stand up and ring the bell. The servants will immediately come running to his call. This bell and the revival of the dead are often played out in horror films, but such stories almost never happened in reality. But during the autopsy, the “corpses” came to life more than once. In 1964, an autopsy was performed in a New York morgue on a man who died on the street. As soon as the pathologist’s scalpel touched the “dead man’s” stomach, he immediately jumped up. The pathologist himself died of shock and fright on the spot...
Another similar case was described in the Biysk Rabochiy newspaper. An article dated September 1959 told how, during the funeral of an engineer of one of the Biysk factories, while delivering funeral speeches, the deceased suddenly sneezed, opened his eyes, sat up in the coffin and “almost died a second time, seeing the situation in which located". A thorough examination at a local hospital of the man who rose from the grave did not reveal any pathological changes in his body. The same conclusion was given by the Novosibirsk doctors to whom the resurrected engineer was sent.
Ritual burials
However, people do not always find themselves buried alive against their own will. So, among some African tribes and nationalities South America, Siberia and the Far North, there is a ritual in which the tribe’s healer buries a relative alive. A number of nationalities perform this ritual for the initiation of boys. In some tribes they use it to treat certain diseases. In the same way, old people or sick people are prepared for the transition to another world.
The “pseudo-funeral” ritual occupies an important place among ministers of shamanic cults. It is believed that by going to the grave alive, the shaman receives the gift of communication with the spirits of the earth, as well as with the souls of deceased ancestors. It’s as if some channels open in his consciousness through which he communicates with worlds unknown to mere mortals.
Naturalist and ethnographer E.S. Bogdanovsky was lucky in 1915 to witness the ritual funeral of a shaman of one of the Kamchatka tribes. In his memoirs, Bogdanovsky writes that before the burial the shaman fasted for three days and did not even drink water. Then the assistants, using a bone drill, made a hole in the crown of the shaman, which was then sealed with beeswax. After this, the shaman’s body was rubbed with incense, wrapped in a bear skin and, accompanied by ritual singing, lowered into a grave built in the center of the family cemetery. A long reed tube was inserted into the shaman's mouth, which was taken out, and his motionless body was covered with earth. A few days later, during which rituals were continuously performed over the grave, the buried shaman was removed from the ground, washed in three running waters and fumigated with incense. On the same day, the village magnificently celebrated the second birth of a respected fellow tribesman, who, having visited the “kingdom of the dead,” took the top step in the hierarchy of servants of the pagan cult...
IN recent years a tradition arose of placing charged mobile phones- suddenly this is not death at all, but a dream, suddenly a dear person comes to his senses and calls his loved ones - I’m alive, dig me back up... But so far such cases have not happened - these days, with advanced diagnostic devices, it is in principle impossible to bury a person alive.
But nevertheless, people do not believe doctors and try to protect themselves from a terrible awakening in the grave. In 2001, a scandalous incident occurred in the United States. Los Angeles resident Joe Barten, terribly afraid of falling into a lethargic sleep, bequeathed ventilation in his coffin, putting food and a telephone in it. And at the same time, his relatives could receive an inheritance only on the condition that they call his grave three times a day. It’s interesting that Barten’s relatives refused to receive the inheritance - they found the process of making calls to the next world too creepy...
Scientists have managed to develop a technique for reviving people a day after their death.According to resuscitation expert Sam Parnia, if resuscitation is carried out correctly, brain cells do not die five minutes after cardiac arrest, as previously thought.
Today, in the case of using special manipulations and necessary equipment, the human brain is capable of living for several hours after recorded death. This period of time can last up to 72 hours.
According to the specialist, if the patient’s body is cooled to a temperature of 34 to 32 degrees Celsius, he can remain in this state for up to 24 hours. With a decrease in body temperature, the brain uses less oxygen, the formation of toxic substances stops, which, in turn, prevents the death of cells and gives doctors a chance to “pull a person out of the other world.”
At the same time, Parnia especially notes that for successful work method, it is necessary to strictly perform all resuscitation procedures, because even one small mistake can lead to death or brain damage.
The doctor also recalled cases of “resurrection” in modern medicine. Thus, doctors were able to bring English Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba back to life. The athlete lost consciousness on March 17, 2012 in an FA Cup match with Tottenham, his heart didn't beat for about 1.5 hours.
July 2, 2009 Ha'aretz reported that an elderly Israeli man "came to life" after an ambulance team issued his death certificate and was about to send his body to the morgue.
Arriving on an urgent call to the apartment of an 84-year-old resident of the city of Ramat Gan, ambulance doctors found him lying on the floor without signs of life. Attempts to resuscitate the old man were considered unsuccessful, and doctors signed official documents declaring his death. However, when the doctors left, the policeman who remained in the apartment noticed that the “deceased” was breathing and moving his hands. By the time the ambulance arrived again, he had already regained consciousness.
August 19, 2008 Reuters reported that the baby, who was born in an Israeli hospital as a result of a forced abortion, showed signs of life after a five-hour stay in the refrigerator.
A girl weighing only 600 grams was born on August 18. Her mother had to have an involuntary abortion due to severe internal bleeding at 23 weeks of pregnancy. Doctors, considering a very premature baby dead, put it in the refrigerator, where the girl spent at least five hours. Signs of life in the newborn were noticed by her parents, who came to pick her up for burial.
According to doctors, the temperature inside the refrigerator slowed down the child's metabolism, and this helped him survive. The child was admitted to the intensive neonatal care unit.
IN early 2008A Frenchman who suffered a myocardial infarction and whose cardiologists declared cardiac arrest “came to life” on the operating table when surgeons began to remove his organs for transplantation.
A 45-year-old man, who did not follow the regimen prescribed by doctors, suffered a massive myocardial infarction at the beginning of the year. Arrived ambulance took him to a nearby hospital. However, when the man arrived at the hospital, his heart was not beating. Doctors decided that it was “technically impossible” to help him.
According to the law, in such cases of cardiac arrest, patients can automatically become organ donors. However, when surgeons began the operation, they found signs of breathing in the potential donor and suspended operations.
In November 2007A resident of the American city of Frederick (Texas, USA), 21-year-old Zach Dunlap was pronounced dead in a hospital in Wichita Falls (Texas), where he was taken after car accident. Relatives have already given consent to the use of organs young man for transplantation, but during the farewell ceremony he suddenly moved his leg and hand. Then those present pressed Zach's nail and touched his foot with a pocket knife, to which the young man immediately reacted. After the “resurrection,” Zach spent another 48 days in the hospital.
In October 200573 year old pensioner from Italian city Mantov unexpectedly came to life 35 minutes after doctors declared him dead.
An elderly Italian man was lying in the cardiology department of the Carlo Poma Hospital in Mantova when an echocardiograph indicated that his heart had stopped. All attempts by doctors to resuscitate the man were useless: cardiac massage and artificial ventilation did not produce results. Doctors recorded death. However, suddenly the line on the echocardiograph began to move again: the man was alive. Soon the man, already declared dead, began to move and then began to recover.
As the doctors stated after the test, the equipment worked perfectly and the only plausible explanation is the assumption that a person is able to endure cardiac ischemia for such a long period.
In January 2004In the northern Indian state of Haryana, an Indian man was brought back to life after spending several hours in a morgue refrigerator.
The man was taken to the morgue by police, who found him lying by the road with injuries. The doctors of the hospital where he was taken, based on the results of the examination, wrote down: “dead at the time of arrival” - and identified the “body” to the morgue immediately after they handed over all the necessary papers to the police.
However, after a few hours, the “deceased” began to move, leaving the morgue staff in a state of shock. Morgue workers immediately took him back to the hospital.
January 5, 2004Reuters reported that a funeral director in New Mexico found Felipe Padilla, who had been pronounced dead at the hospital, breathing. The man “came to life” just minutes before Padilla’s body was to be embalmed. Felipe Padilla, 94, was taken to the same hospital where he was previously pronounced dead. However, a few hours later the old man died in the hospital.
In January 200379-year-old pensioner Roberto de Simone was taken to the cardiology department of the Cervello Hospital in almost hopeless condition. The patient was immediately connected to cardiac and brain activity. Roberto de Simone's heart stopped for two minutes. Doctors attempted to restore the heart's function using adrenaline, but despite all efforts, death was recorded after some time. The doctors decided that the patient had died and handed over his body to his relatives so that they could say goodbye to him before the funeral. De Simone was taken home as if dead.
When everything was ready for the funeral ceremony and the coffin was to be closed, Simone opened his eyes and asked for water. The relatives decided that a “miracle” had happened and called the family doctor. He examined the patient and ordered to take him to the hospital. This time with a diagnosis of pneumology - a serious respiratory disease.
In April 2002 the man “came to life” a few hours after doctors in the Indian city of Lucknow (the capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh) issued his relatives a death certificate.
A resident of one of the state's villages, 55-year-old Sukhlal was taken to the hospital with a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The prescribed course of treatment did not produce positive results, and one day the doctors had to declare the patient’s death. The patient's son was given a death certificate. When preparations for cremation were completed, the son came to the morgue to take his father's body, and then discovered that he was breathing. He immediately called doctors, who felt the “corpse’s” pulse and demanded that his son return the death certificate. Only thanks to the persistence of journalists, the hospital management undertook an internal investigation into this incident. However, the attending physician Mehrotra rejected all doubts about his professionalism; in his opinion, the case of the “revived” Sukhlal was a “miracle” that happened for the first time in his practice.
This is only a small part of the “miraculous” resurrection.
