The family of a 50-year-old South African man thought that he had died in his sleep so they called a private mortuary to take the body away. Nearly 24 hours later, the mortuary attendants heard screaming from the morgue. From the CapeTimes:

(Eastern Cape Health Department spokesperson Sizwe) Kupelo said the two mortuary attendants who were on duty at the time ran out of the building, thinking the screaming man was a ghost.

They called for help, "put on brave faces" and went back to find that the man was indeed alive.

"We sent an ambulance to the funeral parlour to take the man to Saint Barnabas Hospital because he had been exposed to extreme cold for nearly 24 hours," Kupelo said.

He warned the public not to assume that a sick person had died and then call a mortuary.