2 Year Old Kelvin Santos
This is from the annals of the strange and macabre.
It seems during a funeral in Brazil, 2 year old Kelvin Santos who was pronounced dead on Friday, June 1, sat up in his coffin. We all would call this a miracle but that’s not the end of the story. Apparently Kelvin asked for a glass of water, he then lay back down and was pronounced dead, again!
Imagine the sudden shock melting into overwhelming joy only to realize that the child is not going to join you in a happy ending.
Read on for more on this heart wrenching story:
‘Dead’ Brazilian boy ‘sits up in coffin at his own funeral and asks for WATER before lying back down lifeless’
A two-year-old boy sat up in his coffin and asked for water before laying back down again lifeless, according to a Brazilian news website.
In a case that seems almost too incredible to be true, ORM claimed that Kelvin Santos stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia at a hospital in Belem, northern Brazil.
He was declared dead at 7.40pm on Friday and his body was handed over to his family in a plastic bag.
The child’s devastated family took him home where grieving relatives held a wake throughout the night, with the boy’s body laid in an open coffin.
But an hour before his funeral was due to take place on Saturday the boy apparently sat up in his coffin and said: ‘Daddy, can I have some water?’.
The boy’s father, Antonio Santos, said: ‘Everybody started to scream, we couldn’t believe our eyes. Then we thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life.
Kelvin's Grief-Stricken Father, Antonio Santos
‘Then Kelvin just laid back down, the way he was. We couldn’t wake him. He was dead again.
Mr Santos rushed his son back to the Aberlardo Santos hospital in Belem,where the doctors reexamined the boy and confirmed that he had no signs of life.
He said: ‘They assured me that he really was dead and gave me no explanation for what we had just seen and heard.’
The boy’s family decided to delay the funeral for an hour in the hope that he would wake up again, but ended up burying him at 5pm that day in a local cemetery.
Convinced that his son was victim of medical malpractice, Mr Santos has now registered a complaint with the police who have launched an investigation
He said: ‘Fifteen minutes after rushing him away for resuscitation, they came and told me he was dead and handed me his body. Perhaps they didn’t examine him properly. Dead people don’t just wake up and talk. I’m determined to find out the truth.’
The local state department today confirmed the boy had been admitted to hospital in a critical condition and was declared dead after suffering cardiac-respiratory failure.
Wow! Can you imagine going through this ordeal?
Now the question many of us are wondering: Did young Kelvin really sit up and ask for water? Or, could this be a case of mass hysteria? It’s hard to imagine, especially since the boy’s father was convinced enough to rush him back to the hospital.
On the other hand, this does come to us from the Daily Mail. However, as I’ve said in the past, this is one of the few tabloids that tries to give a straight story. It is much more reliable than the typical tabloid and I am inclined to believe it.
The bottom line is, if this did indeed happen, it can be qualified as truly heartbreaking as well as truly bizarre.
Has anyone ever heard of this happening? I’ve seen the back to life stories, but never one where the person re-dies within seconds, especially after such pronounced animation.
Maybe one of our more resourceful readers has time to do a little research on the veracity of this story?
Thanks to the Daily Mail for this hair raisingly sad tale.
Associated Content:
GT: Video: Zombies – A Living History
GT: Back From The Dead: Man Wakes Up In A Morgue
GT: Japanese Man Accidently Hibernated For 24 Days In The Cold
