A Honduran woman apparently suffered that most awful and Gothic of deaths, being buried alive.
Her husband Rudy Gonzales was visiting her grave a day after the funeral when he heard banging and screams coming from inside her concrete tomb...
Footage shows the family desperately breaking open the concrete tomb with a sledgehammer, shouting her name.
But once she was removed and medically examined it was clear the rescue was futile, and her body was eventually reinterred.
Or so it seems. There is controversy about what actually occurred:
Whether she was actually alive or not is not quite certain. Family members say that she was still warm, and that rigor mortis had not set in.
'She had scratches on her forehead and bruises on her fingers. It looked like she had tried desperately to get out of the casket and hurt herself," her cousin told Primer Impacto.
Doctors believe she may have suffered a severe panic attack which temporarily stopped her heart.
Another theory is that she suffered a cataplexy attack - a sudden loss of voluntary muscle function in response to a strong emotional stimulus.
Whatever it was, her family firmly believes she was buried alive, and hold the medics responsible for declaring her dead too hastily.
Catalepsy, the old 19th-century agent of live burial stories.
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