Approximately 24 hours after being transported to a morgue in South Africa, a 50-year-old man gave two staff members the fright of their lives after he woke up and requested to be taken out of the “cold place”.
Sizwe Kupelo, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape Health Department said that the two mortuary attendants who were on duty fled the building, thinking they had seen a ghost.
“The man’s family called a private undertaker who took what they thought was a dead body to the morgue, but the man woke up inside the morgue and screamed, demanding to be taken out of the cold place,” Kupelo said.
The man was taken to a hospital where he was treated for exposure as he had been subjected to extreme cold for nearly 24 hours.
