Like something out of that Wes Craven zombie movie, “The Serpent and the Rainbow,” a 16-year-old Honduran girl who was presumed dead reportedly started crying from inside her coffin and banging to get out a day after she was laid to rest.

Neysi Perez had collapsed after waking up one night to use the bathroom in her home. When her family saw that she was unconscious and foaming at the mouth, they thought this was a sign of possession and took her to a priest to have her exorcised.

The unresponsive girl was soon declared dead by doctors. Recently wed and three months pregnant, Perez was laid to rest in her wedding dress.

After that the story became spooky rather than merely tragic.

Her husband, Rudy Gonzales, spoke to Univision's Primer Impacto news show about hearing his supposedly dead wife struggling to escape from her coffin.

"As I put my hand on her grave I could hear noises inside. I heard banging, then I heard her voice. She was screaming for help," said Gonzales as quoted by the New York Daily News.

In the video shown on Primer Impacto the urgency and terror of the people using a sledgehammer to break the concrete tomb holding the coffin is obvious.

"I couldn't believe it. I was ecstatic, full of hope," said Gonzales.

All hope was soon lost as Perez was once again pronounced clinically dead.

Her mother believes that her daughter was buried alive.

"After being declared dead for such a long time, everybody was saying that she had come back to life," the distraught woman said. "We were all so happy. I thought I was going to get my daughter back."

"I convinced myself that the screams were coming from somewhere else," said Jesus Villanueva, a cemetery worker who claims to have also heard Perez crying for help."I never imagined that there was someone alive in there."

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