A Nicaraguan woman’s family dug up her body and assumed she was still alive, so she had to be buried a second time.
According to local outlet SNC, María López, 24, passed away on February 11 at New Dawn Hospital in the Caribbean coast town of Waspam and was buried on February 12.
Last Thursday, February 15, her parents had her casket removed from the cemetery where she was buried after receiving a call on their daughter’s phone saying López “was still alive.”
After being taken out of the coffin and brought to the family home, López’s body was laid to rest on a bed while a vigil was held by loved ones. She was given a wash with salt, vinegar, and lemons.
After several family members suggested that López was pregnant, a doctor from New Dawn Hospital came to the house to examine her, but the test results showed that she was dead.
The family chose to have her “be examined by a traditional doctor and rule out that she is dead because they claim that the girl (had) tears and sweat to her forehead,” according to Waspam’s city risk management director Kenny Mayorga, who stated that the family was not persuaded by the doctor’s diagnosis.
For five days, the family prayed in the hopes that Lopez would somehow come back to life. When Lopez’s body began to show signs of decomposition, her parents and other close family members took it to a fasting and prayer center for a ceremony and laid her to rest for the second time on Monday.
Eight months have passed since a 76-year-old Ecuadorian woman startled her family by beating on her coffin during her wake.
On June 9, 2023, Bella Montoya spent five hours inside her coffin at a funeral parlor in the municipality of Babahoyo. After that, she supposedly woke up and began pounding.
After a week in critical care, Montoya passed away at Martín Icaza Hospital on June 16 following a stroke.
