The unusual story of the family who exhumed a dead man because he dreamed that he was alive

An unusual event occurred in the corregimiento de Llorente, in the border municipality of Tumaco, in the Colombian department of Nariño. The 50-year-old Fidel Pantoja's family unearthed him after being buried nine days ago because they dreamed that he was alive. But the doctors confirmed that he was still dead.

Pantoja died on April 7 at three o'clock in the afternoon at the hospital of Ipiales, where he was transferred from Llorente for a lung condition, although the death was caused by the loss of large amounts of blood. So he told the newspaper The weather his son Ivan, 26 years old.

After the wake and burial, one of his 10 children dreamed that his father was alive, said a neighbor of the family of indigenous ancestry, Camilo Perdomo. Since then, his wife, Maria Gladys Marin, has fallen into a nervous breakdown thinking that Pantoja was still alive and that it was even necessary to be hospitalized for a few days in a health center.

The unusual situation was presented in the corregimiento of Llorente, in Tumaco, Nariño.

The situation was quickly known in the city and the community said that He started hearing sounds from the safe where Fidel Pantoja had been buried. Since then, the rumor of a supposed miracle that had allowed the dead to survive. "I'll wait until it happens, because it will happen," said Maria Gladys in the meantime, The weather.

The townspeople gathered in the tomb to listen to the the so-called Pantoja screams to ask to be taken out of the coffin. So the family decided to dig and get out of doubt. The vault's lid was already open when they arrived, according to reports that the Tumaco police reported to the national media.

Pantoja's body was almost in perfect condition, with no signs of decomposition, but with the burnt face that, due to the humidity of the municipality of Nariño, it is common to occur, said The weatheror The body was transported by ambulance to the hospital San Andrés de Chilví, and the medical staff confirmed that he was without vital signs.

The family and the community can not explain the sounds heard, while the authorities conduct a necropsy on Pantoja to clarify the causes of his death and to try to understand the sounds.