11 Hours in a Morgue… Then She Sat Up | The Shocking Truth About Lazarus Syndrome
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Declared dead. Hours later, she opened her eyes—very much alive. From waking up in a chilly morgue to defying every known law of medicine, this episode dives into the spine-tingling reality of Lazarus Syndrome—when someone pronounced clinically dead shocks everyone by suddenly coming back to life. We trace eerie accounts of premature burial fears, ancient “safety coffins,” and real-life cases that baffle even seasoned professionals. Tune in as the boys dissect the science, folklore, and mind-bending implications of a phenomenon that leaves us wondering: When are we truly gone for good? Strap in… things are about to get weird.
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| 0:27.8 | including YouTube. This is a CBC podcast. Imagine your 91-year-old grandmother found unresponsive, and then you shake her, and she's stiff as a |
| 0:43.0 | bored, and she's cold, and she's not breathing. Paramedics show up. They walk into the room. |
| 0:47.2 | They check her pulse. Right then and there, they confirm it. Nana is dead. They take the body away, |
| 0:51.1 | bring it to the morgue. Eleven hours later, grandma's chilling at the mortuary. She's zipped up in a cold |
| 0:56.0 | storage body bag. Somebody at the morgue |
| 0:58.1 | started here rustling around. They |
| 0:59.9 | open up the fucking refrigerator, unzip |
| 1:02.0 | the bag. Nana's in there. She |
| 1:04.1 | sits up like the Undertaker. |
| 1:06.1 | That's what we're going to dive into today. The bizarre |
| 1:08.1 | world of Lazarus Syndrome. |
| 1:09.9 | Music to dive into today, the bizarre world of Lazarus Syndrome. |
| 1:28.4 | I saw a guy, I saw a guy on Instagram do a, do a world record free dive the other day on Instagram. It was fucking crazy. Yeah. Now, I got a guy on Instagram do a do a world record free dive the other day on Instagram. |
| 1:30.4 | It was fucking crazy. |
| 1:30.7 | Yeah. |
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