A RUSSIAN man who dropped dead during a boozy session with his mates woke up in the morgue and headed to his wake to continue drinking.
The shocking story emerged in local Russian paper Khasanskiye Vesti last Tuesday.
According to eye witnesses the man, whose name and age is unknown, suddenly keeled over in front of his companions after knocking back several glasses of vodka.
Police and paramedics were called to the scene where the man was declared dead and taken to a mortuary.
But while lying in the freezing room, the man suddenly 'rose from the dead' and rushed to the exit.
Alexey Stoev, security officer of the criminal investigation, explained: "That night, the local morgue was filled to capacity.
"The bodies were not only on the shelves, but also on the floor of the freezer, where our dead hero lay.
"At some point, the man woke up and did not understand where he was.
"It was very dark and cold.
"Plus his brain was fogged by the alcohol.
"In the darkness, he felt the cold extremities of someone and in fear rushed to the door.
"But it was locked."
Stoev told how a female employee at the morgue was terrified when the man banged on the door "with all his might" in an attempt to free himself.
She eventually convinced skeptical police officers to come in to release the "corpse" and the man promptly made his way to his wake to join his friends.
According to reports, the pal who greeted him fainted with shock at seeing his dead comrade, but before long the men were back to their boozy ways.
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