‘Dead' boy wakes up and asks for water at funeral in Brazil

DubDJ

Very freaky if it's actually true.

A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy sat up in his coffin and asked for water before laying back down again lifeless, according to a Brazilian news website.


Website ORM claimed that Kelvin Santos stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia at a hospital in Belem, northern Brazil.

He was declared dead at 7.40pm on Friday and his body was handed over to his family in a plastic bag.

The child's devastated family took him home where grieving relatives held a wake throughout the night, with the boy's body laid in an open coffin.

But an hour before his funeral was due to take place on Saturday the boy apparently sat up in his coffin and said: "Daddy, can I have some water?".

The boy's father, Antonio Santos, said: "Everybody started to scream, we couldn't believe our eyes. Then we thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life.

"Then Kelvin just laid back down, the way he was. We couldn't wake him. He was dead again."

Mr Santos rushed his son back to the Aberlardo Santos hospital in Belem,where the doctors reexamined the boy and confirmed that he had no signs of life.

He said: "They assured me that he really was dead and gave me no explanation for what we had just seen and heard."

The boy's family decided to delay the funeral for an hour in the hope that he would wake up again, but ended up burying him at 5pm that day in a local cemetery.

Convinced that his son was victim of medical malpractice, Mr Santos has now registered a complaint with the police who have launched an investigation

He said: "Fifteen minutes after rushing him away for resuscitation, they came and told me he was dead and handed me his body. Perhaps they didn't examine him properly. Dead people don't just wake up and talk. I'm determined to find out the truth."

The local state department today confirmed the boy had been admitted to hospital in a critical condition and was declared dead after suffering cardiac-respiratory failure.

Original story here.

MagicMarker

Bollocks.

mongdesade

I'm calling 'Shenanigans' !

My name is URL

I dunno, but I've heard of similar things happening

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/25/man-wakes-after-21-hours-in-morgue-fridge_n_908886.html

http://voices.yahoo.com/dead-woman-comes-back-life-1492963.html

Lazarus syndrome

who what when

MagicMarker wrote: »

Bollocks.

Thanks for putting us straight all seeing, all knowing one!

Rocket19

If he was so sure that the boy wasn't really dead, and is planning an investigation, why on earth did they go ahead and bury him anyway lol?
Poor child...

Though of course I think this story is bullsh*t, it's kinda sick someone would play this kind of game regarding their dead two year old.

Will I Amnt

Bollocks and shenanigans.
Trying to make money off the death of your child is about as low as you can get.

MagicMarker

who what when wrote: »

Thanks for putting us straight all seeing, all knowing one!

My pleasure.

smash

But the most important thing is that he didn't try to eat someone's face... he's a good zombie!

PizzamanIRL

Bull****, nobody would bury their son if he supposedly came back to life once already.

Battered Mars Bar

I remember years back some remote island had people waking up from the "dead" all the time. They had bells fitted in the graves eventually incase anyone else woke up. T'was some disease that slowed their heart, pulse etc and gave the illusion that they were dead to an untrained eye or a hasty doctor. Very plausible that the kid wasn't dead at all to begin with. Hope they got it right the second time :pac:

davet82

lazarus syndrome - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_syndrome

stovelid

Hate to say it but would this claim somewhat help the complaint they are pursuing against the hospital?

SafeSurfer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxWS1ufr5xI

number10a

The boy's family decided to delay the funeral for an hour in the hope that he would wake up again, but ended up burying him at 5pm that day in a local cemetery.

Riiiight. So, the boy's family are convinced that he could still be alive, but they bury him anyway.

MagicMarker

Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

I remember years back some remote island had people waking up from the "dead" all the time. They had bells fitted in the graves eventually incase anyone else woke up. T'was some disease that slowed their heart, pulse etc and gave the illusion that they were dead to an untrained eye or a hasty doctor. Very plausible that the kid wasn't dead at all to begin with. Hope they got it right the second time :pac:

Jesus, how fúcking old are you?

davet82

MagicMarker wrote: »

Jesus, how fúcking old are you?

he is 34 but only 5 in the mind

My name is URL

cambo2008 wrote: »

Bollocks and shenanigans.
Trying to make money off the death of your child is about as low as you can get.

And you know that's what they are trying to do, how exactly?

smash

davet82 wrote: »

lazarus syndrome - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_syndrome

After a few days though? Sure the blood will have clotted and rigor mortis will have happened long ago, how could the body move?

Battered Mars Bar

MagicMarker wrote: »

Jesus, how fúcking old are you?

I saw it on tele box when I was a nipper, think it happened in the 50's or 1850's I don't know I don't really remember. :pac:

My name is URL

smash wrote: »

After a few days though? Sure the blood will have clotted and rigor mortis will have happened long ago, how could the body move?

It wasn't a few days later, it was the next day. See the links I posted earlier.. in one case it was 21 hours, and the other was 17 1/2 hours.

Battered Mars Bar

davet82 wrote: »

he is 34 but only 5 in the mind

5 and a half

Lapin

They should have just given the poor kid the water he asked for instead of screaming and frightning the poor lad to death.

davet82

smash wrote: »

After a few days though? Sure the blood will have clotted and rigor mortis will have happened long ago, how could the body move?

it was the best i could come up with, looks like this is a case for mulder and scully then

celtictiger32

well brazil is a hot country he must of been dead thirsty:D

davet82

celtictiger32 wrote: »

well brazil is a hot country he must of been dead thirsty:D

BOOOO!! GTFO! :P

SEPT 23 1989

I had a hamster who did that

davet82

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I had a hamster who did that

:eek:
seriously?!?

he asked you for a glass of water?

micropig

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I had a hamster who did that

He called you Daddy?

stovelid

Maybe he'll make a comeback at Easter.

Will I Amnt

My name is URL wrote: »

cambo2008 wrote: »

Bollocks and shenanigans.
Trying to make money off the death of your child is about as low as you can get.

And you know that's what they are trying to do, how exactly?

Educated guess