A man who had been declared dead and even buried by his family has shocked everyone by suddenly reappearing
The man simply identified as Waluyo, has become the subject of wide debate in s small Indonesian village.
Waluyo aroused attention after suddnly reappearing a year after he was declared dead.
Waluyo’s Indonesian family got the shock
of their life after their husband and father just showed up at their
doorstep one year after they had buried him.
The 62-year-old man was pronounced dead on May 15, 2015, after supposedly being involved in a car accident.
According to Oddity Central, this
bizarre story started last year, when Waluyo, from Suryoputran
Panembahan village in Jogyakarta, left his home to work as a street
cleaner in the city of Semarang, in order to support his family.
It wasn’t long after his departure that
his wife, Alim Eskatinah, got a call from the police who told her that
Waluyo had been the victim of a serious car accident and was in critical
condition at the emergency room.
Waluyo with family members after his mysterious reappearance
The whole family and even some of their
neighbors rushed to the hospital to be by his side, but the injured man
died after a few days.
“In
the hospital he was in a coma. Relatives and neighbors all visited him.
He then died on May 7, 2015. Many came to his funeral, all the
neighbors came,” Waluyo’s daughter, Anti Ristanti told Indonesian newspaper Detik.
Then, a few weeks ago, Waluyo returned
home, where he was greeted with a unique mix of happiness and horror by
his distraught family.
“Is this real or not? I have to step back [to see him], how can a dead person come back to life? I’m shocked,” his wife, Alim Eskatinah, told local reporters.
Waluyo’s grave
She was so shocked to see the man they
had buried a year ago standing in front of her that she didn’t even
believe it was him until she checked some distinctive physical traits. “He had a scar on his back because of a skin condition,” Alim said. “He also had a missing tooth.”
They all checked out, but just to be sure, the family asked him to name a few of relatives.
Waluyo holds up his own death certificate
After passing these strange tests and
hearing their story, the confused man told them that he had been in
Semarang, another city, all this time, but since he didn’t have a mobile
phone he never got in touch with them. He had no idea his family had
buried him back home.
Waluyo’s “return from the dead”
obviously made his family very happy, but it also raised some very
interesting questions, like who lies buried in his grave, how did none
of his family and friends notice that the person in the hospital wasn’t
really Waluyo, and why did the police think he was the victim of that
car accident in the first place.
The first one remains unanswered for
now, as for the other two, one plausible explanation would be that the
person who died simply looked a lot like Waluyo, although he claims he
doesn’t have a twin brother.
This must have been one hell of a
resemblance, since his own family confirmed it was Waluyo, and didn’t
even bother to check for those distinctive physical traits.
Waluyo and police officers
Flabbergasted police have visited Waluyo
since his return to maybe find some answers to this mystery, and
annulled his death certificate, but not before he could have a morbid
picture taken with it.
Unfortunately, having been pronounced
dead, Waluyo will now have to go through several lengthy procedures to
legally return among the living. He will have to be re-introduced into
the country’s population database and apply for a new identity card and
family card, among other things. Taking into consideration the
peculiarity of his case, local authorties have accepted not to charge
him the usual fees, though.
– Oddity Central
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