Dead man turns up at his own funeral to prove he is still alive

Gilberto Araújo, a 41-year-old car-washer from Brazil whose unexpected arrival at his own wake Mourners  fainted in shock after a “dead” man interrupted his own wake and announced he was still alive, it was reported today.
Araújo's family, from the town of Alagoinhas, about 70 miles from Salvador, had mistakenly identified a body in the local morgue as his and were mourning his death on Sunday night when the man they believed was in the coffin beside them showed up at the front door.

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"A friend told me there was a coffin and that I was inside it," he said. "I said, 'Guys, I'm alive – pinch me,'" Araújo he said to the mourners His appearance prompted some people to faint and others to flee in panic.

 His mother, Maria Menezes, a shopkeeper, said: "It was a fright. I'm very happy because what mother has a son that they say is dead then turns up alive?"

The mixup is reported to have stemmed from the fact that another car-washer in the town, who closely resembled Araújo, was murdered at the weekend, and police called Araújo's brother, José Marcos, to tell him they believed his brother was the dead man.

The brother then went to the morgue and wrongly identified the body. "Police called my husband and told him that his brother had been killed and his body was at the morgue," Jose Marcos Araujo's wife, Ana Paula.