In Victorian times, people were terrified of being buried alive. Elaborate devices were designed (and sold) to help alert people if a soul was unfortunate enough to wake up buried in their coffin. Fortunately, medical technology has advanced so that we we have a number of ways to detect life. The days of someone being accidentally buried alive are behind us… or are they?
In Eastern Cape, South Africa, a man woke up to find himself on the cold, steel of an examining table. His family took him to the private mortuary when they could not wake him on a Saturday and presumed him dead. He had been there for 24 hours when he frightened the attendants, asking to be let out of the chilly room.
The gentleman was taken to hospital and did not need further treatment. The South African medical community urges families to consult with a doctor before presuming that someone is dead.
Students Timur Hilall, 18, and Kirill Vlasov, 19, have admitted their 'find' of an alien in the Siberian woods was just a stunt
Seriously? They made this thing out of chicken skin and breadcrumbs??? Someone, please… get these kids a job at Industrial Light and Magic, already!
We said it was too good to be true and, sadly, it was.
The students behind the discovery of an alien’s body at a UFO ‘crash site’ have admitted that it was a ‘crummy’ hoax made out of stale bread.
Friends Timur Hilall, 18, and Kirill Vlasov, 19, shot the video that showed the alien’s mangled remains frozen in snow in Irkutsk, Siberia.
The pair were questioned by police over their ‘extraterrestrial discovery’ but admitted to their stunt.
But not before their creation became an internet sensation, drawing almost 700,000 hits on YouTube.
Their find was deemed serious enough for the Kremlin to get involved and a spokesman from the Russian interior ministry confirmed the hoax.
‘We found the alien in one of the student’s homes,’ he said.
‘It was lying under his bed and an examination of it revealed it had been made of bread crumbs which were covered in chicken skin.’
Prosecutors are now considering whether or not the pair have committed any crimes.
The pair of pranksters used bread crumbs wrapped in chicken skin to create the realistic-looking alien in the snow
Sergei Zvedzin, a police spokesman, said: ‘What are we going to do with them? We have not yet decided.
‘We will be looking to see if a crime has been committed in connection with the use of animal skin. If they have committed an offence they will have to pay for it.’
Their bogus claims appeared after locals reported seeing an alien spaceship crash in the area last month.
Local UFO expert, Alex Komanov, from the Russion UFO Research Centre, dismissed the find saying: ‘The body is interesting. The texture is similar to a real biological entity.
‘However, the creature has no clothes and I am sure that intelligent beings would be dressed in something like a space suit or coveralls.’
However, conspiracy theorists have already started accusing the government of a cover up. One said: ‘We know what we saw. Powerful people in the military just don’t want us to see this.’
Does this still frame of a recently shot video show the corpse of an alien?
This video recently showed up on YouTube, and appears to show the corpse of an alien. Uploaded by YouTube user “SashafromBaikal” on April 14th, the description in Russian says:
Россия, республика Бурятия, Кабанский район, посёлок городского типа Каменск! Ребята в лесу, за посёлком, обнаружели НЛО!!!
Which roughly translates as:
Russia, the republic of Buryatia, Kabanskiy district, an urban type Kamensk! The guys in the woods behind the village, obnaruzheli UFO!
Which would put the site roughly in this area of Russia, north of Mongolia:
Alleged location of Russian alien corpse video
What do you think? Real or hoax? Watch the video and share your thoughts.
