Man Buried Alive In Brazil Found By Cemetery Visitor; Why Was He Buried? [VIDEO]

When visiting a cemetery, a common fear (no matter how irrational) is coming across a zombie. For one woman in Brazil, that fear was tested out in real life. While visiting her family tomb in a cemetery in the suburb of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, Sao Paulo, a woman heard noises and then spotted a body rising from a grave with its arms waving around. "I was terrified to see a man, who I thought was dead, trying to get out of the grave," said the woman to DailyMail UK, asking to be kept anonymous. "He had his head and hands out and was moving his arms around, trying to get out."

The anonymous woman's reaction was, as one would expect: she ran off screaming in fear. But once she calmed down, she returned and called the emergency services. But the local authorities did not believe her and thought she was playing a joke. "They kept questioning me asking: "Are you serious. This is a joke isn’t it,"' she reveals. After unsuccessfully being able to call the police, the woman went to the cemetery office to get them to validate her story with the police. Emergency services arrived to the scene to discover the man half buried in the ground, seemingly lifeless. Thanks to the woman, the man is currently recovering in a local hospital in Ferraz de Vasconcelos, where he is reportedly "coming back to life."

Authorities believe that the man, a former city hall worker, got involved in a fight in a different part of the city where he got beaten up by his attackers. They believe the man buried alive passed out and his assailants took him to the cemetery and threw him in what they thought was an empty grave. Upon regaining consciousness, the man made noises which caught the attention of the woman. The police have revealed that they believe there was more than one attacker and that the man would have died had the woman not been at the right place at the right time.

While no calculations can determine exactly how long the man buried alive could have survived if the woman hadn't discovered him, there have been estimates on how long you can survive if you're buried alive in a coffin. According to University of Chicago professor emeritus Alan R. Leff, the average coffin has a 5.5-hour supply of oxygen and trying to break out of a coffin would only mean you would be exhausting your air supply faster. But there is one silver lining to being buried alive: The death would be painless as the individual would fall into a carbon dioxide coma which entails falling asleep.