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Mississippi Man Declared Dead Wakes Up in Body Bag

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GETTY 22814 HeartPulse?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1393599800909peterscode/Thinkstock(JACKSON, Miss.) — A Mississippi man woke up in a body bag as funeral home workers prepared to embalm him, ABC News affiliate WAPT reported.

Walter Williams, 78, of Lexington, Miss., was declared dead at his home Wednesday night. The coroner came to the house and pronounced him dead at 9 p.m.

“I stood there and watched them put him in a body bag and zipped it up,” Williams’ nephew, Eddie Hester, told WAPT.

Williams was taken to Porter and Sons Funeral Home. They were getting ready to embalm him, and that’s when he started kicking inside the body bag.

“He was not dead, long story short,” funeral home manager Byron Porter told WAPT. He said this was the first time he’d ever seen anything like it.

“My cousin called me and said, ‘Not yet,’ and I said, ‘What you mean not yet?’ He said, ‘Daddy still here,’” Hester said.

Williams was rushed to a nearby hospital. The coroner said Williams’ pacemaker may have shut down and then started up again, WAPT reported.

“I don’t know how long he’s going to be here, but I know he’s back right now,” Hester told WAPT. ”That’s all that matters.”

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