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Man Shows Up at His Own Funeral

11:37 AM PDT, October 29, 2012

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ALAGOINHAS,  Brazil -- People at a funeral in northeastern Brazil started screaming and some fainted when the man they thought was dead showed up at his own wake.

41-year-old Gilberto Araujo found out through a friend that everyone thought he was dead, so he decided to show up and say “hello.” 

The mix-up apparently happened when a family member mistakenly identified a body at the city morgue as Araujo.

Police said the body in the morgue was actually that of a man named Genivaldo Santos Gama.

No further information on Gama was immediately available.