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Girl comes back to life in coffin after 8 hours
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News18•13-10-2026, 13:16
Girl comes back to life in coffin after 8 hours
- •A 15-year-old girl named Yuleidy Ixcotoyac from Guatemala suddenly fell ill with severe chest pain and fainted.
- •Her father assumed she had died because she stopped breathing and had no pulse on the way to the hospital, so he brought her back home in a coffin.
- •Eight hours later, during funeral preparations, her mother noticed movement inside the coffin and found her alive and conscious.
- •Yuleidy regained consciousness and asked for water, leaving her family and relatives astonished.
- •No solid medical explanation has been provided yet for why she lost consciousness and appeared dead for eight hours.
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Fifteen-year-old Yuleidy Ixcotoyac from Guatemala suddenly fell ill with chest pain, fainted, and was mistakenly presumed dead by her father before regaining consciousness inside her coffin eight hours later.
Yuleidy's father assumed she had died because her condition deteriorated on the way to the hospital, and by the time they reached the San Pedro Jocopilas area, she was not breathing and her pulse could no longer be felt.
While funeral preparations were underway and mourners were weeping, Yuleidy's mother Lesvia noticed movement inside the coffin, opened it, and found her daughter alive and asking for water.
