A Guatemalan family was left stunned after a 15-year-old girl reportedly sat up inside her coffin during her own wake, hours after her father believed she had died while suffering a medical emergency.
Yuleidy Ixcotoyac was being mourned by relatives and neighbours in El Jocote, a village in the municipality of Sacapulas, Guatemala, when her mother reportedly noticed movement inside the coffin. The extraordinary moment transformed a gathering of grieving loved ones into a scene of shock and confusion.
