Woman prepared for cremation ‘strikes in coffin and knocks to come back out’ after being wrongly believed lifeless
A woman in Thailand was lying in a coffin at a Bangkok temple when staff heard knocking from inside and discovered she was alive, after her brother had driven 300 miles believing she had died
A woman gave temple staff quite the shock when she moved inside her coffin as it was brought in for cremation. Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Bangkok in Thailand, posted a video of the eerie incident on its Facebook page.
The footage shows a woman lying in a white coffin in the back of a pickup truck, with her arms and head making slight movements.
Pairat Soodthoop, the temple’s general and financial affairs manager, explained that the woman’s brother had driven her from Phitsanulok province for her cremation. He told The Associated Press that they heard a faint knock coming from inside the coffin.
“I was a bit surprised, so I asked them to open the coffin, and everyone was startled,” he admitted. “I saw her opening her eyes slightly and knocking on the side of the coffin. She must have been knocking for quite some time.”
Pairat revealed that the woman’s brother said she had been bed-ridden for about two years. When her condition deteriorated, she became unresponsive and appeared to stop breathing two days prior, reports the Mirror US.
Thinking she had passed away, he placed her in a coffin and drove approximately 300 miles to a hospital in Bangkok, where she had previously expressed a desire to donate her organs.
The hospital did not accept as he did not have an official death certificate, Pairat revealed. The brother contacted his temple which provides complimentary cremation services, but was similarly turned away due to the lack of documentation.
While the temple manager was advising the brother on obtaining a death certificate, they heard the knocking sounds and examined her before rushing her to a local hospital. The abbot confirmed the temple would shoulder her medical costs, according to Pairat.
This follows an incident where mourners were stunned when a man, believed to be deceased, arrived at his own funeral service announcing, “I’m alive!”.
The 22-year-old man, who had vanished during a multi-day drinking spree, had been declared dead after a corpse was discovered underneath a sugarcane lorry in Alderetes, a city in northern Argentina. Initially, local police suspected the death was suicide, but prosecutors reclassified the matter as negligent homicide and demanded a post-mortem to determine the exact cause.
His mother, who had been unable to reach him for several days, feared the worst and identified the man based on his garments and particular physical features. Authorities subsequently released the body to the family, and a funeral was quickly arranged.
This occurs as a death row murderer died ‘foaming at the mouth’ following a chilling new execution method. However, as the mourners were expressing their sympathies to the bereaved family, the man walked in, very much alive and unaware that he had been declared dead.
The man, whose identity has not been disclosed, informed the stunned attendees and police that he had been heavily drinking and was oblivious to the fact that a body had been mistaken for his.
His unexpected appearance sent ripples of shock through the room, leaving everyone wondering about the true identity of the man in the casket. The man was taken to the local police station for questioning, while the body in the casket was returned to the morgue for correct identification.
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