"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife

Posted on Sunday, 16 September, 2007 | Comment icon

A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy. Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding.

They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.

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#19 Posted by Luziadus on 17 September, 2007, 10:23

LOL I wouldn't mind to have that job

#20 Posted by kez71 on 17 September, 2007, 12:32

If they thought she was dead..why would they dig her up and open her coffin?? That sounds like an Urban myth to me!!

#21 Posted by evil inside on 17 September, 2007, 20:14

I wonder how long it will take for them to hit the talkshow circuit?

#22 Posted by rosenrot on 18 September, 2007, 14:07

I think I heard the same story, Harriet. The reason they dug up the coffin was because they heard noises coming from it; and the dead don't make noises (unless of course, your a vampire )

#23 Posted by BiffSplitkins on 18 September, 2007, 14:25

Isn't that where the phrase "Dead Ringer" came from? The story I heard was that a string was tied to the toe and ran up through the ground and attached to a small bell hanging above the grave. They had people sitting in the cemetaries all night just to listen for ringing... they worked the "Graveyard Shift".

#24 Posted by SaphireDreams on 19 September, 2007, 13:22

Well, if this doesn't give someone the heebie jeebies about "dying", I don't know what does. *shivers* Imagine if the knot wasn't tied very well and the string came off your toe, you couldn't very well bend down there inside the coffin to pick it up and start ringing, could you? Great, now I'm gonna have nightmares....

#25 Posted by Madeleine on 23 September, 2007, 8:15

This is or is a lot like the case of bloody mary where the legend of bloody mary comes from a scary story huh?

#26 Posted by InsanePunk22 on 5 October, 2007, 17:32

How can a doctor not know if the man is dead or not.thats crazyy.at least hes alive.

#27 Posted by Open your mind on 30 March, 2008, 21:01

he could have died of a heart attack

#28 Posted by therion24 on 30 March, 2008, 21:16

Wouldn't they have tested for brain activity? If his pulse was strong enough for him to bleed wouldn't it have been detectable???

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