Sipho William Mdletshe, from South Africa, was in his 20s when he ended up in a serious car crash alongside his partner and knocked unconscious, only to wake up in a mortuary
A fiancée was left grieving for her partner after the couple were in an apparently fatal car crash – only he was still alive.
Sipho William Mdletshe was declared dead after a serious car crash in 1993, but just 48 hours later he was screaming to be let out of the freezing cold morgue he suddenly found himself in. The man in his 20s, from the township of Sebokeng south of Johannesburg in South Africa, was soon taken to a mortuary.
He was then placed in storage, as is routine following such declarations. But the story took a chilling twist two days later when workers at the morgue heard creepy noises coming from inside one of the metal drawers.
Realising something was terribly wrong, staff opened the compartment and to their shock Mdletshe was alive, having regained consciousness and called out for help from inside.
His survival was nothing short of extraordinary and, according to published reports, he slowly awoke after the crash, became alert enough to realise where he was, and then began shouting. This act ultimately saved his life.
However, the ordeal didn’t end there for unlucky Mdletshe, reports Unilad. When he later tried to reconnect with his fiancée – who herself suffered a few injuries in the crash – she reportedly recoiled, believing he was something other than human after being told he had died. She even thought he was a zombie back from the dead.
In a separate tale of someone returning from the dead, the loved ones of Essie Dunbar were devastated when she died aged just 30 after suffering an epileptic seizure.
Her funeral was quickly arranged and she was buried six feet under the ground inside a wooden coffin in South Carolina, US in 1915. However, her grieving sister was late for the service and asked for the coffin to be dug back up so she could see her sibling one last time.
What happened next beggars belief. After prizing open the lid, Essie was very much alive and smiling back at the world. The ministers conducting the service panicked and they all fell into the grave, with one of them breaking some ribs, according to ‘Buried Alive’, published in 2002.
Even Essie’s own family fled in terror, believing they were witnessing something supernatural as the undead woman climbed out of the coffin and tried to follow them. Remarkably, after her horrifying ordeal, Essie returned to her quiet life. Reports from decades later describe her working in the fields, picking cotton and living independently.
More recently, a woman who was declared dead at a hospital horrifyingly ‘came back to life’ en route to her own funeral last year. After taking a turn for the worse, she was found to have died and was moved from the mortuary to the funeral parlour in preparation for her burial.
But staff were reportedly horrified when they discovered that the elderly woman actually had a pulse. Compounding their panic, she is said to have moved her fingers.
Paramedics at the funeral home in Son Valenti funeral parlour in Palma, Majorca confirmed she was alive and rushed her back to the city’s Juan March de Bunyola Hospital.