Neysi Perez Buried Alive: Family Smash Into Tomb After ‘Dead’ Pregnant Teen Bangs Coffin, Screams For Help [Video]

Neysi Perez, a three-month pregnant and married 16-year-old girl from Honduras, was pronounced dead by doctors at the hospital after collapsing at her home in La Entrada, western Honduras.

Her family buried her in her wedding dress, but she woke up in the grave a day after she was buried and began banging on her coffin and screaming for help from inside the coffin.

Footage has emerged online showing the desperate moment that Perez’s family members rushed to rescue her from the grave by smashing through the concrete tomb and opening the wooden casket in which she was buried.

Her husband, Rudy Gonzales, was visiting her grave at the La Entrada General Cemetery, a day after the funeral, when he heard banging and screaming from inside the tomb.

He told local TV station Primer Impacto that when he heard screaming and banging from inside the concrete tomb, he “couldn’t believe it, I was ecstatic, full of hope.”

“I was heartbroken because my sweetheart had been taken so suddenly from me. I wanted to be near to her. As I put my hand on her grave I could hear noises inside. I heard banging, and then I heard her voice. She was screaming for help.

It had already been a day since we buried her. I couldn’t believe it. I was ecstatic, full of hope.”

Gonzales ran to cemetery worker Jesus Villanueva and begged him to help get his wife out of the grave.

Villanueva said he heard screaming earlier but did not believe that it came from inside the grave.

“I convinced myself that the screams were coming from somewhere else. I never imagined that there was someone alive in there.

That afternoon the girl’s husband came to me begging me to get her out because she was alive. He was hysterical. The family were soon here and started breaking through the tomb, shouting her name.”

Family members rushed to the cemetery to get Perez out of the tomb and coffin. Footage shows a young man smashing through the concrete tomb with a sledgehammer. When relatives opened up the coffin, they found Perez lifeless, but noticed that the glass on her coffin had been smashed and that the tips of her fingers were bruised.

This indicated she had been banging on the coffin and crying for help for a while before she went silent.

Neysi’s cousin, Carolina Perez, said, “Once we had taken her out of the tomb I put my hand on her body. She was still warm, and I felt a faint heart beat.

“She had scratches on her forehead and bruises on her fingers. It looked like she had tried desperately to get out of the casket and hurt herself.”

When efforts to revive her failed, they rushed her in the coffin to a hospital in San Pedro Sula. But doctors found no signs of life and efforts to revive her failed.

Doctors once again declared her clinically dead, and concluded that she lost consciousness and died a second time due to suffocation in the airless coffin.

Claudia Lopez, a doctor at the hospital in San Pedor Sula, recalled the moment the family rushed into the hospital with Perez inside the coffin.

“The whole family rushed in, almost breaking the door down, carrying the girl in her casket. I told them to take her out and put her on the bed. Everybody was claiming she was alive so I went through all the necessary procedures.

“We evaluated and tried everything but the girl was dead. They put her back in the coffin and took her away again, back to the cemetery.”

The family had to return the 16-year-old to the cemetery and rebury her.

The young bride reportedly fell unconscious after waking up in the night to use the toilet outside her home in La Entrada, western Honduras. Doctors believe that she collapsed and fell unconscious after a panic attack when she heard the sound of gunshots in the night.

The panic attack led to a cardiac arrest, according to doctors.

Others suggested that she might have lost voluntary control of her muscles temporarily. Medical scientists say that the condition called cataplexy could be caused by sudden overwhelming fear or panic.

Family members found her foaming in the mouth after she collapsed. But instead of taking her to the hospital, they took her to a local priest who performed a rite of exorcism because everyone thought she was demon-possessed.

They took her to the hospital only after she fell unconscious. But doctors pronounced her clinically dead a few hours after she arrived at the hospital.

Perez’s mother Maria Gutierrez blames the doctors for the tragic error, saying that members of the family had doubted when doctors declared that her daughter was dead.

“The doctors declared her dead but everybody else around me kept telling me she wasn’t. She didn’t look like she had died.

Even after a day in the tomb the color of her body was normal, her corpse didn’t smell, she just looked like she was in a deep sleep.

There was no rigor mortis, her body was still flexible, it was impossible that she had been dead for so many hours.”

[Images: YouTube / Primer Impacto]