Teenager Mistakenly Buried Alive!

Being buried alive is the stuff of nightmares - one of those worst fears nobody ever wants to experience. Unfortunately, this very horror happened to a pregnant teen in Honduras.

"Relatives of a pregnant Honduran teenager, who had been buried after being pronounced dead at a hospital, broke down her tomb and pulled out her coffin after apparently hearing banging from the inside," The Guardian reported. "Nelsy Perez, 16, was then rushed to a clinic, still lying in her coffin and dressed in the wedding gown she was going to wear when she married the father of her unborn child, but doctors there found no signs of life."

The attempt to rescue the teen, who was three months pregnant, from the confines of her tomb was even caught on video camera. The footage showed "a crowd gathered around Nelsy's tomb as a young man smashes its sealed concrete entrance with a mallet, allowing the girl's white coffin to be pulled out."

The viewing glass on the girl's coffin was reportedly smashed and the tips of her own fingers were bruised, according to MailOnline. These somehow indicated that a struggle occurred while the deceased was trapped in the tomb.

The whole ordeal began when Perez collapsed in what appeared to be a panic attack after hearing gunfire. However, when she started foaming at the mouth, her parents asked for help from a priest as they thought she was possessed.

"The pastor asked her to repeat the word of god and she refused," the teen's husband, Rody Gonzales, was quoted by The Guardian as saying. "Another voice was coming out of her."

Her condition took a turn for the worse, prompting her family to take her to a hospital, where she was later declared dead. She was then buried in her wedding dress.

However, when Gonzales visited her grave about a day after her funeral, he reportedly heard noises within.

"As I put my hand on her grave, I could hear noises inside," Gonzales said, as noted by The Telegraph. "I heard banging, then I heard her voice. She was screaming for help."

"That afternoon the girl's husband came to me begging me to get her out because she was alive," said Jesus Villanueva, a cemetery worker who also heard noises coming from Perez's tomb. "He was hysterical. The family were soon here and started breaking through the tomb, shouting her name."

She was taken to the nearest hospital while still in her coffin. However, despite attempts by medics to revive the teen, tests showed she was already clinically dead.

"We evaluated and tried everything but the girl was dead. They put her back in the coffin and took her away again, back to the cemetery," said Dr. Claudia Lopez.

Doctors reportedly believe Perez may have had a severe panic attack that stopped her heart for a length of time. There also was suspicion that she may have had a cataplexy attack, which is an "an abrupt temporary loss of voluntary muscle function typically triggered by a strong emotional stimulus such as stress or fear, during which the victim maintains full conscious awareness," MailOnline said.

"She may then have died from lack of oxygen after waking up inside the closed coffin," the publication added.

The girl's mother, Carolina Perez, criticized the medics for declaring her daughter dead right away.

"The doctors declared her dead but everybody else around me kept telling me she wasn't. She didn't look like she had died," she said. "Even after a day in the tomb the colour of her body was normal, her corpse didn't smell, she just looked like she was in a deep sleep."

"There was no rigamortis, her body was still flexible, it was impossible that she had been dead for so many hours," she added.

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