▲Catalepsy is a rare condition that causes sufferers to become totally immobilized appearing to be unconscious.

▲A person going through an attack looks like a wax figure.

▲A catalepsy attack can last a few minutes or extend for days.

▲The victim however does not completely loose consciousness.

▲It's as if the victim could perceive everything around them, without being able to react.

▲There are reports of people who, during an outbreak, were mistaken for being dead and were consequently buried alive.

▲According to the news platform Grandes Medios, one of the cases happened in the Dominican Republic in 2011.

▲According to the website, a young ballerina named Niurka Reyes was found unconscious in her bedroom.

▲The 23-year-old woman was pronounced dead, victim of a heart attack, and buried.

▲According to the article, days later, a friend had had a feeling that Niurka was alive. The dancer's mother managed to get an authorization to exhume her daughter's body.

▲Only to find out that the dancer was dead, but not from an heart attack. She died of suffocation inside the coffin, suggesting that the young woman might have been buried alive.

▲The Grandes Medios portal also highlights a second case that allegedly happened in Pikeville, United States.

▲A strange disease plagued the region in 1891.

▲The victims fell into a deep coma that was later associated with a disease transmitted by the tsetse fly.

▲According to the website, Octavia Smith Hatcher was the first victim of the strange outbreak. Some time later, she was pronounced dead and buried.

▲When the husband asked for the exhumation of the body he discovered an unsettling scene.

▲Octavia's hands were badly bruised. She supposedly woken up from the catalepsy attack and scratched the coffin in an attempt to escape.

▲Another case highlighted by Grandes Medios, occurred in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

▲In 1902, a 19-year-old girl was found theoretically dead in her bedroom and consequently buried.

▲Reports of the time mention that sounds were heard coming from Rufina Cambaceres' tomb the night after her burial.

▲According to the article, the young woman allegedly awakened from the outbreak and managed to escape from the grave.

▲But completely frightened, Rufina died of a heart attack a few minutes later, while still in the cemetery.

▲Some people dismiss these stories as nothing but legends. And how about you, do you believe these people were actually buried alive?

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Between myths and truths, one thing is certain: catalepsy is a real medical condition. Experts are dedicated to unveil the causes of this bizarre disease.

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Catalepsy gave origin to very dark stories, which got extensive media coverage.

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Catalepsy is a condition that causes people to fall asleep to the point of appearing to be dead. According to several accounts, alleged victims of this disease have been buried alive by mistake.

Click on the gallery and get to know some of these creepy cases.

Catalepsy: the real living dead

Sufferers of this rare creepy disease have been buried alive

07/11/24 por StarsInsider

LIFESTYLE Catalepsy

Catalepsy is a condition that causes people to fall asleep to the point of appearing to be dead. According to several accounts, alleged victims of this disease have been buried alive by mistake.

Click on the gallery and get to know some of these creepy cases.