Man Wakes Up After 21 Hours In Morgue Fridge

A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge nearly a day after his family thought he had died. Officials said the unidentified man woke up Sunday afternoon, 21 hours after his family called an undertaker to pick him up and take him to the morgue after an asthma attack. The morgue’s owner, Ayanda Maqolo, said he sent his driver to collect the “body” shortly after the family reported the apparent death. “When he got there, the driver examined the body, checked his pulse, looked for a heartbeat, but there was nothing,” Maqolo said, adding that he thought the man was about 80. But a day after the man was put in the locked refrigerated compartment, morgue workers heard someone yelling for help. They thought it was a ghost, Magolo said. The man was freed only after the police were called. The terrified man was taken to a nearby hospital and later discharged after doctors deemed him a little chilly but stable. His family was informed that he was alive during a family meeting to make funeral arrangements.