A woman woke up at her own funeral — in a coffin. What really happened 👇
Declared dead and placed in a coffin, a woman shocked everyone when she woke up at her own funeral. Here’s the unbelievable story of what really happened.
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7/22/20251 min read


In 2020, in Ecuador, a woman named Bella Montoya was declared dead by doctors after suffering a stroke.
Hours later, during her wake — inside the coffin — she started knocking from the inside.
Shocked family members rushed to open the casket, and Bella was found alive and breathing, though weak. She had been pronounced dead too early — a rare and terrifying case of catalepsy, where the body becomes rigid and the heart rate slows to near undetectable levels.
She was rushed back to the hospital and treated — surviving what could’ve been her actual burial.
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