A ‘dead man’ showed up at his own funeral and told stunned mourners, “I’m alive!”
After the 22-year-old man disrupted his own farewell, everyone began to wonder whose body was actually in the coffin.
The confusion started when a young man was run over by a sugarcane truck last Thursday (18 Sept).
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Although suicide was suspected, prosecutors classified the case as negligent homicide and ordered an autopsy on the body.
The next day, a woman showed up at the police station claiming to be the deceased’s mother.
She recognised the body by the clothing and some physical features, and the authorities released the remains to the family, who organised a wake over the weekend.
During the ceremony, the woman’s son – who hasn’t been named – showed up exclaiming he wasn’t dead.
His unexpected return caused shock among the already emotional mourners in attendance.
The son confessed that he had been on a bender for several days in Alderetes, north of Cordoba, Argentina, and knew nothing of what was happening at home.
The man was taken to the police station to be interviewed, while the body was returned to the morgue to establish the true identity, as reported by Need To Know.
He was later named as Maximiliano Enrique Acosta, 28, from the nearby town of Delfín Gallo.
The body was returned to the real family, and a funeral was held in his hometown on Tuesday (23 Sep).
But not before another error by the authorities.
When family members were first informed that the victim was Maximiliano, they were allegedly shown a different body first.
His brother Hernán fumed: “Everything was wrong from the beginning.
“First, they handed over the body without proper identification.
“Then they made me go to the morgue twice.
“We shouldn’t have to go through this after everything we suffered.”
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an internal investigation to determine how the errors occurred.
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