Amazing story In Ekaterinburg. A man whom his relatives saw off last way, having arranged a magnificent funeral and commemoration, returned
They buried the whole yard. Someone was taking pictures. He turned out to be alive. Now he looks and listens to the story of his life.
“We arrived, we remembered. And here you are! Some time passes. We even managed to remember 9 days. But it didn’t get to 40. And this comrade appears,” says neighbor Angelina Kochetova.
At the end of April, Alexey disappeared. Two days later, a badly burned body was found near the village. And his relatives identified him as Alexei. He talks about everything with a smile. Apparently, due to his cheerful disposition. There was a case there - I received 150 hours of forced labor, but did not work. Administrative arrest.
“Open the door,” he says, otherwise we’ll break the door down. Well, I opened it. He comes in, get ready, he says, let’s go. I say: “What happened, why did they take me, where?” Let’s go, he says, you’ll find out there.” , - says Alexey Semyonov.
Alexey found out. They were taken to a temporary detention center. But no one warned the relatives. And they first lost him and then buried him. “They took me to the isolation ward. I said there: “I need to call.” They didn’t let me call,” says Alexey Semyonov.
IN telephone conversation employees of the Penitentiary Service assured that Alexey could call on the very first day. But either he forgot, or was not afraid that he would upset his relatives. Citizen Semyonov nevertheless exercised his right to one call. Unofficially, already from the cell, in a week.
“I called my wife. I called, and she said that they were buried. I sat down a little. She hung up: “I don’t believe it’s you calling,” recalls Alexey Semyonov.
Alexey was released from the isolation ward on the 16th day. I rushed home. I met my wife and mother-in-law on the street. “My wife’s legs gave way. I said: “Calm down, it’s me, everything’s fine.” I’m alive, everything is fine.” We went home, she was running and running, that it wasn’t me. Then she went to bed in the evening - she seemed to believe it,” says Alexey Semyonov.
Now he will have to convince him that he is alive government bodies. Restore your passport and other documents. Now Alexey only has his death certificate in his hands. It will have to be annulled through the court. And the relatives want to return the money - 30 thousand for someone else's funeral.
“I have concerns that no one will compensate for the funeral costs, because the person’s guilt must be established. But it turns out that there is no guilty person as such. No one forced the relatives to identify this person as their own,” said lawyer Alexey Selivanov.
By the way, now it is up to the police to find out who was buried instead of Alexei Semyonov. He himself went to someone else’s grave. He stood there, paused, and unscrewed his photograph.
), Where main character comes to his senses and finds that he is buried alive in a wooden box, where oxygen is gradually running out. You can hardly imagine a worse situation. And those who watched this film to the end will agree with this.
Still from the film “Buried Alive,” directed by Rodrigo Cortes.
So let's look at a few simple rules that would help you survive if you found yourself in a similar situation. I would like to hope that this will never happen to any of us, but it is worth remembering a few rules and relying only on yourself.
- Don't waste air. In a classic coffin, the air supply is for an hour, maximum two. Inhale deeply, exhale slowly. After inhaling, do not swallow, this causes hyperventilation. Do not light matches or a lighter, this takes away oxygen, but it is not forbidden to use a flashlight. Don’t scream: screaming increases panic, increases your heart rate and breathing, and therefore increases your air consumption.
- Loosen the lid with your hands; in the cheapest fiberboard coffins you can even make a hole ( wedding ring, belt buckle...)
- Cross your arms over your chest, grabbing your shoulders with your palms and pull your shirt up and tie it in a knot above your head; Hanging like a bag on your head, it will protect you from suffocation when you hit the face with earth.
- Knock the lid down with your feet. Cheap coffins tend to break under the weight of the earth immediately after they are buried!
- As soon as the lid breaks, direct the earth from your head to your feet; when there is little space, try to press the earth in different directions with your feet.
- By all means try to sit down, the earth will fill the empty space and shift in your favor, do not stop and continue to breathe calmly.
- Get up!
Buried alive
It is no coincidence that in almost all nations it is customary to hold a burial ceremony not immediately, but after a certain number of days after death. There were many cases when “dead people” came to life at funerals, and there were also cases when they woke up inside the coffin. Since ancient times, man has been afraid of being buried alive. Taphophobia - the fear of being buried alive is observed in many people. It is believed that this is one of the basic phobias of the human psyche. According to the laws of the Russian Federation, the deliberate burial of a person alive is considered murder committed with extreme cruelty and is punished accordingly.Imaginary death
Lethargy is an unexplored painful condition that is similar to a normal dream. Even in ancient times, signs of death were considered to be the absence of breathing and the cessation of heartbeat. However, in the absence modern equipment it was difficult to determine where the imaginary death was and where the real one was. Nowadays there are practically no cases of funerals of living people, but a couple of centuries ago this was a fairly common occurrence. Lethargic sleep usually lasts from several hours to several weeks. But there are cases when lethargy lasted for months. Lethargic sleep differs from coma in that the human body maintains the vital functions of organs and is not under threat of death. There are many examples of lethargic sleep and related issues in the literature, but they do not always have a scientific basis and are often fictional. Thus, H.G. Wells’s science fiction novel “When the Sleeper Awake” tells about a man who “slept” for 200 years. This is certainly impossible.Scary awakening
There are quite a lot of stories when people plunged into a state of lethargic sleep; we will focus on the most interesting ones. In 1773, a terrible incident occurred in Germany: after the burial of a pregnant girl, strange sounds began to be heard from her grave. It was decided to dig up the grave and everyone who was there was shocked by what they saw. As it turned out, the girl began to give birth and as a result came out of a state of lethargic sleep. She was able to give birth in such cramped conditions, but due to lack of oxygen, neither the baby nor his mother managed to survive.
Premature burial, Antoine Wirtz (1806-1865).
Another story, but not so terrible, happened in England in 1838. One official was always afraid of being buried alive and, as luck would have it, his fear materialized. A respected man woke up in a coffin and started screaming. At that moment, a young man was passing through the cemetery, who, hearing the man’s voice, ran for help. When the coffin was dug and opened, people saw the dead man with a frozen, eerie grimace. The victim died a few minutes before being rescued. Doctors diagnosed him with cardiac arrest; the man could not withstand such a terrible awakening to reality.
There were people who perfectly understood what lethargic sleep was and what to do if such a misfortune overtook them. For example, the English playwright Wilkie Collins was afraid that he would be buried while he was still alive. There was always a note near his bed, which spoke of the measures that should be taken before his burial.
Method of execution
As a way death penalty Live burial was used by the ancient Romans. For example, if a girl broke her vow of virginity, she was buried alive. A similar method of execution was used for many Christian martyrs. In the 10th century, Princess Olga gave the order to bury the Drevlyan ambassadors alive. During the Middle Ages in Italy, unrepentant murderers faced the fate of people buried alive. The Zaporozhye Cossacks buried the murderer alive in a coffin with the person whom he took life. In addition, the Germans used methods of execution through burial alive during the Great Patriotic War. Patriotic War 1941-1945. The Nazis executed Jews using this terrible method.Ritual burials
It is worth noting that there are cases when people, of their own free will, find themselves buried alive. So, among certain nationalities South America, Africa and Siberia there is a ritual in which people bury the shaman of their village alive. It is believed that during the “pseudo-funeral” ritual, the healer receives the gift of communication with the souls of deceased ancestors.Recently at the cemetery in the municipality of Riachon das Nevis, in northeastern Brazil, a terrible incident occurred. For several days, people living nearby complained about muffled screams coming from the churchyard. Only later did it become clear: all this time, a living person was fighting death in one of the graves!
Only 11 days after the funeral, relatives came to the aid of the unfortunate woman. Rosangel Almeida dos Santos. However, by that time the woman could no longer be saved...
The people who tore up the grave said: Rosangela’s body was still warm, and the forehead, hands and feet of the deceased were completely covered with abrasions and bruises. The fingernails were torn off, the nails in the upper part of the coffin were partially pulled out, and on the lid itself the relatives saw stains of recently dried blood.
According to the unfortunate mother, at the age of seven, Rosangela began to lose consciousness frequently. Since then, the woman has been taking antiepileptic drugs. Attacks of sudden weakness did not leave the poor fellow until last days her life.
And a week before the funeral, relatives rushed 37-year-old Rosangela to the hospital. The patient, who complained of extreme fatigue, experienced two cardiac arrests but died of septic shock. At least, that’s what was stated in the document issued to the deceased’s mother by the doctors.
Isamara, the sister of the woman buried alive, examined the opened coffin and was sure: at the time of the funeral, Rosangela was still alive. Alas, the unfortunate woman who woke up in the grave could not get out of the concrete tomb on her own, and help arrived too late.
Relatives of the deceased are sure that the cause of the monstrous tragedy was the criminal negligence of doctors. However, they have not yet brought charges against the doctors - they are waiting for the final verdict of the police.
First, Rosangela's body must be examined by law enforcement officers. Well, you can see how they opened the grave of the unfortunate woman in the video below.
It’s scary to even imagine what the buried woman experienced when she realized where she ended up. I wouldn't even wish for such a fate. worst enemy! But some, they say, of their own free will go to their graves alive... After such incidents, it is difficult to understand such people!
It is not customary for many peoples of the world to bury the dead immediately after death - funeral rituals last several days. And this is no coincidence. There are many cases where the dead regained consciousness before burial.
Imaginary death
“Lethargy” is translated from Greek as “oblivion” or “inaction.” Science has studied this state of the human body very superficially. The external signs of the disease are simultaneously similar to sleep and death. When lethargy sets in, the normal processes of life stop in the human body.
With the development of technology and the advent of modern equipment, cases of burial alive are almost impossible. However, even a century ago, during excavations of ancient graves, cemetery workers found bodies in rotten coffins that lay in an unnatural position. From the remains it was possible to determine that the person was trying to get out of the coffin.
Unexpected awakening
The religious philosopher and spiritualist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky described unique cases of deep “oblivion.” So, on Sunday morning in 1816, a Brussels resident fell into a lethargic sleep. The next day, the grief-stricken relatives had already prepared everything for the burial. However, the man suddenly woke up, sat up, rubbed his eyes and asked for a book and a cup of coffee.
And the wife of one Moscow businessman remained in lethargy for 17 whole days. The city authorities made several attempts to bury the body, but there were no noticeable signs of decomposition. For this reason, relatives postponed the ceremony. Soon the deceased regained consciousness.
In 1842, in Bergerac, France, a patient took sleeping pills and was unable to wake up. The patient was prescribed a blood transfusion. After some time, doctors declared death. After the funeral they remembered their reception medicines, the grave was opened. The body was turned upside down.
bad morning
In 1838, an amazing case was recorded in one of the cities of England. One boy, walking along the graves in one of the cemeteries, heard sounds uncharacteristic for this quiet place - someone’s voice was coming from underground. The child brought his parents to the scene. One of the graves was opened. When the coffin was opened, it became clear that there was an unusual grin on the face of the corpse. Fresh wounds were also found on the corpse, and the burial shroud was torn. It turned out that the supposedly deceased was alive when he was buried, and his heart stopped before opening the coffin.
A more impressive incident occurred in Germany in 1773. A pregnant girl was buried in one of the cemeteries. Passers-by heard groans coming from her grave. Not only did the woman wake up after a lethargic sleep in a coffin, she also gave birth there, after which she died along with the newborn.
Some people were very afraid of such a fate and tried to foresee the details of their death in advance. So, English writer Wilkie Collins was afraid of being buried alive, so when he went to bed, there was always a note next to his bed. It mentioned point by point measures that must be taken before considering him dead.
Lethargy in Gogol
The great Russian writer Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol also suffered from lethargy. To protect himself from an untimely funeral, he recorded on paper possible incidents that happened to him. “Being in the full presence of memory and common sense, I express my last will. I bequeath my body not to be buried until obvious signs of decomposition appear. I mention this because even during the illness itself, moments of vital numbness came over me, my heart and pulse stopped beating,” wrote Gogol.
However, after the death of the writer, they forgot about what he had written, and the burial ceremony was performed, as expected, on the third day. Gogol’s warnings were remembered only in 1931 during his reburial at Novodevichy Cemetery. Eyewitnesses said that on inside There were noticeable scratches on the coffin lid, the corpse lay in an unusual position, and it also had no head. According to one version, the writer’s skull was stolen by order of the famous collector and theater figure Alexei Bakhrushin by the monks of the St. Danilov Monastery during the restoration of Gogol’s grave in 1909.
Revived Corpse
In 1964, an autopsy was performed in a New York morgue on a man who died on the street. The pathologist, having carried out all the necessary preparations for the procedure, had only just managed to bring the scalpel to the patient when he woke up. The doctor died of fright.
And in the famous newspaper “Beysky Rabochiy” in 1959, a unique incident was described that occurred at the funeral of an engineer. At the moment of utterance funeral speech the man woke up, sneezed loudly, opened his eyes slightly and almost died a second time when he saw the situation around him.
In order to avoid the burial of living people in many countries, morgues are provided with a bell with a rope. A person thought to be dead can wake up, stand up and ring the bell.
Ritual burial alive
Many peoples of South America, Siberia and the Far North resort to ritual burials of living people. Some peoples perform live burials to cure deadly diseases.
In some tribes, shamans themselves strive to go to the grave in order to have the gift of communication with the spirits of the dead. According to ethnographer E. S. Bogdanovsky, the burial ritual was practiced by Kamchatka aborigines. The scientist managed to observe such a terrifying sight. After a three-day fast, the shaman was rubbed with incense, a hole was drilled in his head, which was sealed with wax. After that, he was wrapped in a bear skin and buried. To make it easier for the shaman to survive imprisonment, a special tube was inserted into his mouth, with which he could breathe. A few days later, the shaman was “released” from the grave, fumigated with incense and washed in water. It was believed that after this he was born again.
Over the past three years, about 60 cases of lethargy have been recorded in the world. People sleep for years and no one can explain why. Observations of patients show that the processes of physical development in this state are greatly slowed down. Outwardly, people do not change, but then they make up for their age by rapidly aging. In England alone, at the beginning of the 20th century, up to 2.5 thousand people were buried alive every year. In 1960, the first device was invented here that detects even minor heart activity. During the first test in the morgue, among the corpses there was a living sleeping girl. Since then, in England, in the refrigerated chambers of morgues there is a bell with a rope so that the revived dead person can call for help.
If now burial alive is already a fantasy, then even 100-200 years ago there were cases of burial of living people 
not that uncommon. Very often, gravediggers, digging a fresh grave in ancient churchyards, discovered twisted bodies in half-decayed coffins, from which it was clear that they were trying to get out to freedom. Surprisingly, medieval doctors suspected that not all dead people could be considered dead. And then they began to prohibit burying people until signs of corpses appeared.
According to experts, approximately every third grave in medieval cemeteries represents the burial of people who had fallen into a lethargic sleep. From such tragic accidents at that time no one was insured. By 
It was a mistake that ordinary people, rich townspeople, and even great poets were buried alive. The famous Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, who lived in the 14th century, became seriously ill at the age of 40. One day he lost consciousness. They considered him dead and planned to bury him. But fortunately, the law of that time prohibited burying a deceased person earlier than one day after death.
Having woken up almost at his grave, Petrarch said that he felt excellent. After that he lived another 30 years. Interestingly, in the 14th and 15th centuries, European chemists perfected the art of poisoning. At that time, it was possible to order death for every taste - quick, painful, on a certain day and hour, and for special cases, poison that made the victim fall asleep death sleep. These are precisely the substances that African sorcerers and soothsayers take in order to travel between worlds. Outwardly, their state resembles a lethargic sleep, but at this moment the soul somehow finds itself in another dimension.
Nazira Rustemova is 47 years old. She loves to play with dolls, loves to draw and everything free time spends time with his daughter on the playground. She hid from her daughter for a long time that in her childhood she had never seen dolls or swings. When Nazira was 4 years old, she was buried alive. Nazira was born in a mountain village near the city 
Turkestan, South Kazakhstan region. From birth, the girl suffered from severe headaches. During one of the attacks she lost consciousness. Doctors at the regional hospital pronounced him dead. The girl was buried according to local customs - the body was wrapped in a shroud and placed in a crypt.
That same evening, grandfather had a dream that they had made a mistake by burying Nazira alive. When she and Nazira’s father went down to the grave, the shroud was torn, and the girl was sleeping, leaning against the wall. Her parents were sure that she was alive. Nazira was again taken to the hospital, then to a research institute in Tashkent. There, under the supervision of doctors, she lay for 14 years without regaining consciousness. She herself says that all this time she did not sleep, but lived a full life, only in another world, where complete harmony reigns, where there is no envy and anger, no need for money, no hatred. Nazira woke up suddenly from a phone call.
The doctors were completely confused, because in fact no one believed that this story could have a happy ending. At the age of 20, Nazira had to learn everything that her peers had long studied at school. But for some time she still retained the abilities that she possessed in another dimension. Scientists couldn't 
to believe in what was happening, there was a superman in front of them. According to her, she could pass through walls, could levitate, and be in different places at the same time. Amazingly, many actually return from the other world as completely different people. Doctors who constantly encounter the condition in their work speak about this. clinical death. A soul that has been beyond death somehow gains a phenomenal experience.