A man who had been presumed dead after a serious fall woke up in a morgue.

And as if that’s not unbelievable enough – he apparently proceeded to go drink vodka with pals who were mourning at his wake.

A Russian press agency NewsRU piece, spotted and translated by Mashable’s Christopher Miller, claims that a guy had a serious fall while out drinking with friends.


The story: Man gets drunk w/ friends, falls hard, doc thinks he's dead. At morgue, he's put in freezer. Later, worker hears a knock. Alive! — Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) December 30, 2015

Medics then presumed he was dead, so his (apparently still alive) body was taken to a morgue in Primorye, a coastal region in east Russia.

The man wakes up and alerts morgue workers who let him out.



And then, naturally, leaves the morgue to go neck some vodka.

There have been plenty of cases of ‘dead bodies’ waking up and actually being alive.

Including this guy from Mumbai, who woke up just before his autopsy was about to start in October.

Although he did die shortly after.

Another case in Germany over the summer saw a doctor charged with neglect after a 92-year-old ‘corpse’ woke up in a morgue. Again, she died two days later.

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