Man 'comes back to life' at his own wake as he starts moving inside coffin

Mourners at a home in Peru were horrified to see a dead man’s coffin begin to shake – before the “corpse” began to twitch and make sounds, as it was seemingly “resurrected.”

A video of the bizarre event appears to show the moment when the deceased man “came back to life” while inside a coffin in his home, just days before his planned . The clip, which showed the dead man's family and friends reacting to the shock event, was recorded in the town of Olmos, in the country’s Lambayeque region.

The clip has gone . According to posts on TikTok and X, the deceased, identified by a one witness as 'Iván', was being mourned by his family and close friends, but everything suddenly changed when the dearly departed apparently regained consciousness.

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There are several theories about how the dramatic event may have occurred. One witness declared the incident a miracle from God, even comparing it to story of Lazarus from the New Testament Gospel of St John.

In the video, she can be heard saying: "Glory to God! This man is alive. All those watching us, your prayers for this man, Iván, may God show His glory. Just as He resurrected Lazarus, God can do so with this man. Oh, holy! Pray for this man!”

A less supernatural explanation for the apparent “resurrection" is that the man had been in a cataleptic state.

Catalepsy is a symptom of certain nervous disorders or conditions, such as and epilepsy. Its symptoms include paralysis, slowing down of bodily functions, such as breathing, and a stiffness that could be mistaken for rigor mortis.

Several commenters on the video put catalepsy forward as an explanation, with one suggesting that the man had been lucky to emerge from the state before he was buried, and another adding: "Those who don't believe in God will say catalepsy, and those of us who do believe, we know it's resurrection.”

In one notorious case, Argentine socialite Rufina Cambaceres fell into a cataleptic state on her birthday in May 1902, and was declared dead. But after her burial, the caretaker of La Recoleta Cemetery heard noises coming from her vault.

The coffin appeared to have been moved. When it was opened, scratch marks were found on the inside of the lid and the girl's face. It became clear that Rufina had been buried alive. The reason for her bout of catalepsy has never been fully clarified but it is presumed that she died of suffocation after waking up.

Even with modern medical methods, mistakes are still sometimes made and people can be declared dead before apparently “coming back to life”.

In April, paramedics were called to a funeral home in Son Valenti funeral parlour in Palma, Majorca after a “dead” woman began to move in her coffin. The incident follows a similar case in February last year, when morgue workers in Guatemala were left terrified as a woman seemingly returned from the dead – moving inside a body bag.

In a similar case last year, a Texas teenager named Sammy Berko, 16, suffered a cardiac arrest at a rock climbing gym and was pronounced dead. However, he was revived two hours later following continuous CPR, leading one of his doctors to hail him as a "literal miracle".

Sammy’s mum Jennifer described how the teenager lost consciousness after climbing a wall, and she was told that he had died. After medics had abandoned efforts to resuscitate him, Jennifer said: “I started talking to him, just telling him how much I love him and sorry that we didn’t know how to save him. Suddenly, as I started praying, my husband said, 'Oh my gosh, he’s moving'."

In another shocking incident from June last year, Bella Montoya Castro, 76, was declared dead at a hospital in southwest Quito, Ecuador. However, she woke up during her funeral hours later.

Her son Gilber Barberan reported that friends placing flowers on the casket heard noises coming from inside the coffin, and suddenly realised that it was Bella making the sounds.