Daily Mail – by LUKE GARRATTA man who woke up in a body bag at a funeral home after being pronounced legally dead in what the coroner described a ‘miracle’.
Walter Williams from Lexington, Mississippi, was zipped up in a body bag while funeral home workers prepared to embalm him, but instead they soon found him kicking to get out, according to WAPT.
The coroner suspected that Williams’ pacemaker had likely stopped for a brief period and then started up again.
Back to life: Walter Williams from Lexington, Mississippi, after being pronounced dead and waking up at a funeral home inside a body bag
The body bag that contained Williams for the duration of his ‘death’ which lasted a few hours. He shortly woke up in a shocked state
Williams was resting on the small trolley, inside the bag, and was found struggling to find his way out of the bag
The funeral home where Williams was being prepared for embalming by funeral workers
The coroner said that he had checked Williams’ pulse at 9pm that night, pronouncing him dead shortly after.
Williams’ nephew Eddie Hester said: ‘I stood there and watched them put him in a body bag and zip it up.
‘That was at 10:30pm, and at 2:30am, my cousin called me and said “Not yet” and I said “what do you mean not yet?”
Williams was rushed to Holmes County Hospital, and was treated by paramedics and doctors until he was in a stable condition
A map broadcast by WAPT, showing the town in Mississippi where Williams’ miraculous recovery happened
WAPT’s coverage of where the event happened, in the Yazoo Street Porter and Sons Funeral Home
‘He said, “Daddy still here”.’
Paramedics took Williams to hospital where he stabilised, and was said to be ‘happy to be alive’ by family members.
Hester said: ‘I don’t know how long he’s going to be here, but I know he’s back right now and that’s all that matters.’
Eddie Hester, nephew of Williams, who originally saw Williams get zipped up in the body bag following a coroners announcement that he had died
Brian Porter, the manager of the funeral home in Lexington. He claims that he had never seen anything like this happen, and described it as a ‘miracle’
Sheriff Willie March of Holmes County, who said the coroner described the event as a ‘miracle’
Byron Porter, of Porter and Sons Funeral Home, said it was the first time he had seen anything like it.
He said: ‘He was not dead. Long story short.’
Holmes County Sheriff Willie March said: ‘I asked the coroner what happened, and the only thing he could say is that it’s a miracle.’
Williams had been a long time farmer and had worked for the local school board. He was described by his family as a ‘fighter’.
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I’d rather wake up in a body bag than a coffin! Some consolation for this old fellow.
Glad this good ole boy is still alive. Yea they were too quickto pronounce him dead for sure.
Yea blame it on a pace maker or something, that is no excuse.
This was a hard workin` old black farmer man and that is it. Probobly worked all his life at that too.
Bet this would never ever have happened if he was a kennedy or some politicion or elite bastard, but because he was a older farmer they just passed the buck on him and declared him dead.
Do I see lawsuit here as this should never have happened. IMOHO.
maybe they should start installing glow in the dark zipper pulls on the inside of the body bags also.
The new Obamacare … tag ’em, and bag ’em before they get cold.
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Reminds me of a story I once read (can’t remember the title for sure, but I believe it was “The Autopsy”) where a man was bitten by a snake that had escaped from a nearby collector’s home and was not native to the region. The venom from this snake slowed down the heart rate to almost nothing, and put the victim into a near comatose state, as well as paralyzing him. Anyway, this man returned to consciousness while on the autopsy table. He could see and hear what was going on around him, but was still paralyzed, and unable to alert the coroners to the fact that he wasn’t quite dead. Interesting dilemma.
That sounds like “Autopsy Room Four” by Stephen King.
http://www.bestlibrary.net/horror/Autopsy_Room_Four/
Highly likely, Angel. I read a lot of Stephen King years ago. 🙂