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‘Dead’ woman wakes in coffin @ her own funeral in Ecuador

June 13th, 2023 | Tags: dead wakes Coffin vigil wake Ecuador Bella Montoya
Mourners at an Ecuadorian wake were left stunned after their 'dead' relative began banging on the inside of her coffin. Photo: PHILIPPE LISSAC/GODONG
Incredible video shows medics tending to Bella Montoya after her loved ones realised she was still alive. Photo: Jam Press Vid
Incredible video shows medics tending to Bella Montoya after her loved ones realised she was still alive. Photo: Jam Press Vid
BABAHOYO, Ecuador- Mourners at an Ecuadorian wake were left stunned after their “dead” relative began banging on the inside of her coffin.

According to New York Post, Bella Montoya, 76, regained consciousness during the vigil, which was held in the city of Babahoyo on Friday, June 9, 2023.

Incredible video shows medics tending to Montoya after her loved ones realised she was still alive.

She can be seen clearly breathing as she is removed from the casket and placed onto a stretcher.

“Her left hand was hitting the side of the coffin, and it was shaking,” Montoya’s son, Gilbert Balberán, told local media, according to Jam Press.

Balberán claims the wake was held just four hours after Montoya was declared dead, with a medical examiner even providing him with a death certificate.

Her son also told Ecuadorean media that she was in intensive care, but was responsive.

"My mum is on oxygen, her heart is stable. The doctor pinched her hand and she reacted, they tell me that's good because it means she is reacting little by little," newspaper El Universo quoted him as saying.

Bella Montoya is not the only person to "come alive" after being officially declared dead.

In February, an 82-year-old woman was found to be breathing while lying in a funeral home in New York State. She had been pronounced dead three hours earlier at a nursing home.

Ecuador's health ministry has set up a committee to investigate the incident.

31 Responses to “‘Dead’ woman wakes in coffin @ her own funeral in Ecuador”

  • Hmm (13/06/2023, 14:14) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply
    Miraculous and chilling at the same time
  • Mrs. Wong (13/06/2023, 14:19) Like (7) Dislike (6) Reply
    Dem betta don't think of waking up down here!
    • THE ANSWER (14/06/2023, 16:32) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      @Mrs. Wong - What does a car sales place have to do with this story?
  • Chimes (13/06/2023, 14:22) Like (3) Dislike (22) Reply
    Wow thats sum good obeah! The Miami trio ought to have invested in this obeah person instead of whatever Haitian mongrol that has yet to deliver meaningful results!
  • asking for a friend (13/06/2023, 14:23) Like (5) Dislike (5) Reply
    Can this happen in the bvi?
    • hope not (13/06/2023, 16:44) Like (1) Dislike (9) Reply
      What a calamity if that was to happen here. No sir, there is a religious worker who is employed at à certain funeral home, actually there are two. One is pretty decent the other well!!!!. He will hit on anything that wears a skirt. Can you imagine that old gezert just flinch in the parlor she would have been abused. Please use wisdom when trusting your decease relatives to a funeral parlor.
      • KW (13/06/2023, 17:07) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        OK then
      • @hope not (13/06/2023, 18:28) Like (0) Dislike (4) Reply
        Hold on….can you be more specific? Are you saying there is a necrophiliac working at a local funeral home knowingly? My god have mercy.
      • huh (14/06/2023, 06:02) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        Say what now?
      • look good (14/06/2023, 12:45) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
        that religious worker dont thief people like the non religious one.....and up and down with calling people for corpse...
        your so right know who to trust...i for sure no body aint gonna use my money to wash the d....gs money from the bvi.......
    • smh (13/06/2023, 17:56) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      We don't bury our deads immediately after they are pronounced as such. But, it could happen if for religious circumstances and no autopsy is required and family request for immediate burial(all on timing) no embalming required.
    • Wa does go wrong wid you ???? (13/06/2023, 19:02) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      ????????????
  • end times (13/06/2023, 14:25) Like (8) Dislike (3) Reply
    End times wonders. We have not seen anything as yet.
  • ONE HAS TO WONDER ???? (13/06/2023, 14:54) Like (4) Dislike (8) Reply
    HOW MANY HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED AS DEAD BY SOME FAKE DOCTOR HERE , AND AND AFTER BEING BURIED .ALIVE , THEY REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS AFTER THEY ARE ALREADY BURIED ???? / THAT JOKER NEEDS TO BE BURIED IN THAT SAME COFFIN ( NO JOKE )
    • @ONE HAS TO WONDER (13/06/2023, 19:27) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
      I can guarantee you 100% nobody ever wake up after being buried. All their organs are removed and they are embalmed prior to being buried.
    • Peebles Snitch (14/06/2023, 10:01) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
      @ONE HAS TO WONDER ????

      The only fake doctor is Scarface DO Gun everyone knows that he has another income
    • @one has ro wonder. (14/06/2023, 10:30) Like (1) Dislike (2) Reply
      The same fake doctor and nurses who are knowingly killing patients so that his sister and the ex police officer can get business for their funeral home, to which he has shares .
      • Mas E Cot (14/06/2023, 11:54) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
        @one has ro wonder. I have heard you say this before Please stop as this has got to be the dumbest thing ever posted on these blogs
  • Yes (13/06/2023, 15:24) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
    Miracles do happen!
  • @asking for a friend (13/06/2023, 15:47) Like (3) Dislike (5) Reply
    If it's an expat who wake up in their coffin, then the grey hair funeral moomoo who on the radio chatting p¡$$ , will look to bury them ASAP!
    • action (13/06/2023, 16:23) Like (5) Dislike (3) Reply
      @asking, you better believe it. Hence the reason I am advocating as the person honestly don't like expats don't take your love ones there. SERIOUS.
      • Majestic Life Watch (14/06/2023, 10:13) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
        @action To the ex police and the dealing doctors sister please come up with something better these fake blogs will not help you build a business thats founded on lies
        • look good (14/06/2023, 12:51) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
          your so right ...business built on lies that the correct term....ex police ..scar face sister ..scar face ...obeah mother ...but it not gonna last...stop tell lies..truth prevail all the time
  • good (13/06/2023, 16:51) Like (15) Dislike (0) Reply
    They caught this one. I am sure lots of people awoke in their Coffin but no one hear them knocking or screaming and the actually died in the Coffin..
  • @hope not (13/06/2023, 17:11) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Well sah, call names so we know who to lookout for. Set a nasty people
  • asura (13/06/2023, 18:07) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    if this happen here them family will run for cover
  • HAHA (13/06/2023, 19:03) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    well she wasnt dead inno she was just playing wid ayo ????
  • @Action (13/06/2023, 19:16) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    She hated expats, but love their money. Wicked piece of s!@%
  • bvi (13/06/2023, 19:50) Like (8) Dislike (1) Reply
    These are bunch of stupid comments. These countries bury their dead hours after they die. BVI have their dead on ice for 2 to 3 weeks. This could never happen unless you hear them pounding in the morgue shortly after you put them thers
  • @ BVI (14/06/2023, 07:18) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    IT DON'T HAVE YO HAPPEN AS THE BLOGGERS COMMENTED , BUT IF THE PERSON IS NOT DEAD , SNG GIVEN A DEATH CERTIFICATE , THAT IS MUDER YOU PLAYING WITH A HUMAN BEING LIFE / REGARDLESS OF WHERE OR WHEN THEY ARE DISCOVERED / IF DISCOVERED AT ALL , COFFIN OR MORGE , PUT YOURSELF IN THAT PERSON'S POSITION ( AM SURE YOU WON'T WANT TO SWITCH PMSCES


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