Family breaks open pregnant teenager’s coffin in fear she was buried alive. Relatives in Honduras say noises were heard coming from the tomb of Nelsy Perez and her coffin showed signs of damage inside when unearthed. Relatives of the pregnant teenager were sure she was alive when they broke down her tomb and pulled out her coffin.
It all began, the family said, when Nelsy, who was three months pregnant, became suddenly ill in a way that made them suspect she had been possessed, and sent them running to a pastor.
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“The pastor asked her to repeat the word of God and she refused, ” Nelsy’s boyfriend Rody Gonzales told Univision. “Another voice was coming out of her.”
When her condition worsened, the family took her to a hospital. She was pronounced dead a few hours later.
Soon after she was buried, Gonzales visited the tomb and thought he heard banging from within. He said he thought it might be his nerves playing tricks until a cemetery worker also heard the strange noises.
Nelsy Perez, 16, was then rushed to a clinic, still lying in her coffin and dressed in the wedding gown she was going to wear when she married the father of her unborn child, but doctors there found no signs of life. Videos of the traumatic events that took place in early July, near the western city of Copan, have now emerged in a report on Univision TV.
The family became even more convinced Nelsy had been buried alive once they had recovered the coffin.
Claudia Lopez, the doctor who attended the family at the clinic, said Perez was dead when she was tested. “They almost broke down the door to get in, ” she said. “We evaluated her fully but there was no result.”
