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i was at a party last night and we got talking about death and one of my mates told me this story about a guy who sat up and said "yes id love a coffee". He done this for 3 days in a row. Apparantly my friend said it was because of him doing this for over 45 years every morning, and another one was of a guy getting up off the table and trying ot sit up. Has anyone heard about this or any stories like it?

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that if someone sat up and asked for coffee.....they probably weren't dead.

Everyone's heard stories like that. It's what is known as "Urban Myth" or "Utter Nonsense", depending on your level of cynicism. The only thing that you can be certain of, is that it never actually happened.

anyone who would believe this needs to ask for coffee and wake up....

i knew it was bullshit when he told me but it was pretty interesting

Actually depending on how long they are dead and condition, bodies will often move. The only cause I personally know of is decomposition gases, and before anyone asks, yes corpses do lay some rather stinky ones. I've heard stories I believe of muscle contraction, but nothing about speaking.

My dad worked in a morgue(as merely happen stance, he was a janitor at that time).
He said that the bodies in the morgue of the recent dead, do a lot of things.
He said they moan, and sometime scream, they often pass gas.
He said he himself was grabbed by a body.
He also said he had seen them sit up.
He explained it to me the same he said it was explained to him, about gases in the body causing the moaning, and muscle changes when rigor mortis releases causing bodies to wriggle or sit up or whatever.
He never mentioned speech though, I dont find a stray muscle twitch hard to believe, but speech is a little more intricate.

:shock:
Farting zombies!

That's kind of scary...

It reminds me of those stories of people that have organ transplant and start acting differently. Like someone that had a liver transplant and all of a sudden got the urge to smoke, people that start eating favorite foods of the former "owner" of the organ...etc.

Farting zombies!


More accurately, farting bacteria. As cells becomed consumed by their own enzymes and break down, the bacteria from the intestines and other digestive organs, which are found there naturally, are released and suddenly find themselves surrounded by a huge supply of food. A feeding frenzy ensues.

Apparently we spend a lifetime feeding a host of bacteria before becoming food ourselves. Sort of a built in demolition crew.

*whistles the "Circle of Life" song*

i was at a party last night and we got talking about death and one of my mates told me this story about a guy who sat up and said "yes id love a coffee". He done this for 3 days in a row. Apparantly my friend said it was because of him doing this for over 45 years every morning, and another one was of a guy getting up off the table and trying ot sit up. Has anyone heard about this or any stories like it?

I bet it was the coffee that killed him--this is a good story to tell people who let themselfs become addicted to things

I heard this story recently, similar vein but not 100% relevent.

A woman was on the Glasgow underground going home after working late one night, she was alone in the carriage apart from two people on the opposite side to her. One, a boy, was laughing hysterically. The other, a girl, was staring at the our protagonist. She thought that we just doing this to scare her and the boy found it hilarious. However after a couple of of stops later she was getting seriously freaked out, the girl had not moved her gaze and the boy was still in hysterics. About a stop after that, a man came into the carriage. He told her to get of at the next stop, she explained that her stop was further on, but he was insistent so agreed. So at the next stop they got of, by this point the woman was completely freaked out. On the platform she asked the man why he was so insistent that she should get off. He explained that the girl who was giving her a fixed stare was in fact dead (through OD'ing) and her boyfriend was too high to notice.


Now, I am almost 100% sure this is urban myth. As I got it from a friend who is not completely accurate, also she is quite trusting and gullible sometimes. Also it has all the hallmarks of a warning story. Be careful of using public transport after dark. Also that drugs are dangerous that you can die at any moment blah blah blah. Anyway I quite 'liked' the story so thought it should be shared

if for some reason there was a pump of blood hitting the brain for what ever reason and the person wasn't too far gone they could theoreticaly come back to life for a couple secconds

so wpould the person realize whats happened to them for that few seconds?

Farting zombies!


More accurately, farting bacteria. As cells becomed consumed by their own enzymes and break down, the bacteria from the intestines and other digestive organs, which are found there naturally, are released and suddenly find themselves surrounded by a huge supply of food. A feeding frenzy ensues.

Apparently we spend a lifetime feeding a host of bacteria before becoming food ourselves. Sort of a built in demolition crew.

*whistles the "Circle of Life" song*

Just a shot in the dark, but I think Collaboration was making a joke.

Actually nerve impulses can cause twitching but no overt movement in a corpse and only for a very short time.

* there are also some very interesting voodoo rites :twisted: But I digress*

Jim (Aidi Waidos friend :lol: )

Try www.snopes.com for lots more urban legends.

That's kind of scary...

It reminds me of those stories of people that have organ transplant and start acting differently. Like someone that had a liver transplant and all of a sudden got the urge to smoke, people that start eating favorite foods of the former "owner" of the organ...etc.The liver transplant is the only one that holds weight as it could infact contain doses of nicotine from a long term smoker that could transfer into the blood stream. Still a little unlikely though.

From a reliable source:

Occasionally, although very rarely, the involuntary muscular spasms will jerk a leg sufficiently to tip (roll?) the corpse over. Which depending where they are would end up with it falling off the slab.

Talk about things that go bump in the night.


(From a different source, although probably equally reliable, there's occasionally other things that happen in a morgue that you really don't want to know about!)

From a reliable source:

Occasionally, although very rarely, the involuntary muscular spasms will jerk a leg sufficiently to tip (roll?) the corpse over. Which depending where they are would end up with it falling off the slab.

Talk about things that go bump in the night.


(From a different source, although probably equally reliable, there's occasionally other things that happen in a morgue that you really don't want to know about!)

No Kidding? What would that be?

:twisted: :lol:

Jim