A 23 year old Indian man simply identified as Sandeep, who was presumed
dead after being bitten by a snake rose up from the dead at his
own funeral, just as his body was about to be cremated.
Sandeep, was bitten by a snake while collecting wood from the forest far
from his village. When he got back to his village in the Raisen
district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, he told his family that
he had been bitten by a snake.
Rather than take him to a hospital for treatment, his family took him
to a traditional tantric practitioner in a nearby village, hoping that
traditional medicine would cure him but the traditional cure didn’t seem
to have healed Sandeep, so they assumed he had died.
The family took his body to a local cemetery, where a funeral pyre was
prepared. They placed his body and lit the fire, but by the time the
fire almost reached his body, the young man started screaming, that was
when people realised that he was still alive.
After he regained consciousness, his family took him to that same
tantric practitioner who had previously declared him dead, instead of
taking him to the hospital.
Again. the tantric couldn’t save him and declared Sandeep dead for the second time.
He was then taken to the district hospital where he was confirmed dead and a post-mortem examination was done.
