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Cyreel Zarate

Guatemala teen declared dead and placed in a coffin. But then she wakes up at her own funeral: ‘suddenly she sat up’

A viral video captures the moment a 15-year-old girl, who was believed to be dead, suddenly wakes up inside a coffin at her funeral in Guatemala. Yuleidy Ixcotoyac was being driven to a hospital by her evangelical pastor father, Abraham Ixcotoyac, when she passed out. According to local media, he immediately pulled over and checked her breathing and pulse.

He claimed he found neither and, despite being on the way to their local hospital, he decided not to finish the trip and declared her dead on the spot. “She had simply ceased to exist; she died on the way,” Ixcotoyac told local media, according to The Sun. “I saw that she was no longer breathing, and I couldn’t feel her pulse on her wrists. It was a very difficult situation for me. She did not go to hospital,” he said.

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