A woman visiting a family tomb in Brazil had the shock of her life when a body emerged alive from a grave, waving its arms around.
The woman was at a cemetery in the suburb of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, Sao Paulo, when she heard faint noises then noticed the earth moving in a grave close by.
‘I was terrified to see a man, who I thought was dead, trying to get out of the grave,’ said the petrified woman, who asked not to be named.

‘He had his head and hands out and was moving his arms around, trying to get out.’
The woman first ran away screaming, but returned and called the emergency services, who found the man half buried in a plot of earth.
She claimed that when she called police they did not believe her, and accused her of wasting their time and playing a joke.
‘They…