{"id":3042,"date":"2014-03-01T07:51:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T07:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2014-03-01T07:51:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T07:51:52","slug":"mississippi-man-found-alive-in-body-bag-at-funeral-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=3042","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi man found alive in body bag at funeral home"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Walter<\/a>
Walter Williams awoke inside Porter and Sons Funeral Home in Lexington, Mississippi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Mississippi man has been found literally alive and kicking in a body bag at a funeral home after being declared dead.<\/p>\n

Workers at Porter and Sons Funeral Home were preparing to embalm Walter Williams on Thursday when he moved.<\/p>\n

A coroner pronounced the 78-year-old dead after finding no pulse when he was called to Mr Williams’ home in the city of Lexington on the previous evening.<\/p>\n

It is thought that his pacemaker may have temporarily stopped working.<\/p>\n

Holmes County coroner Dexter Howard told the BBC he was called to Mr Williams’ home by a hospice nurse, who said the man had passed away.<\/p>\n

Mr Howard said he went through the “normal procedure” of checking for Mr Williams’ vital signs, but found none.<\/p>\n

‘A miracle’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Williams was taken to Porter and Sons Funeral Home and was being prepared for embalming when “we noticed there was some kicking and moving going on”, Mr Howard said.<\/p>\n

“He began to breathe,” he added. “It was a miracle.”<\/p>\n

The farmer and school board employee was taken to a hospital for treatment, where Mr Howard visited him.<\/p>\n

“He’s still holding on,” he said.<\/p>\n

The coroner said Mr Williams’ family were rejoicing and “just in a state of shock” after learning of his recovery.<\/p>\n

Mr Howard said he had never seen anything like this in more than two decades as a coroner.<\/p>\n

“It’s an unusual case,” he said. “I hope he keeps on keeping on.”<\/p>\n

Williams’ nephew, Eddie Hester, told ABC affiliate WAPT: “I don’t know how long he’s going to be here.<\/p>\n

“But I know he’s back right now. That’s all that matters.”<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Mississippi man has been found literally alive and kicking in a body bag at a funeral home after being declared dead. Workers at Porter and Sons Funeral Home were preparing to embalm Walter Williams on Thursday when he moved. A coroner pronounced the 78-year-old dead after finding no pulse when he was called to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}