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Man Comes Back From The Dead At Milwaukee Hospital

By Selena Fragassi in News on May 23, 2015 7:00PM


The Living Dead is actually happening people. Get out your zombie apocalypse survival guide and queue up repeats of “The Walking Dead” for some tips because we now have a report—a legit news report—as proof. “Milwaukee man pronounced dead, then moves limbs,” reads the headline from Tribune. Have chills yet?

It all started when 46-year-old Thomas Sancomb’s girlfriend called police for a well-being check after she grew concerned that she had not heard from him in a few days. When police arrived, they found him unresponsive at the foot of his bed, “cold to the touch and in rigor,” according to the official report and deduced the man had collapsed. Sancomb was not able to be resuscitated and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Now here’s where things get interesting. On the way to the morgue, Sancomb got some kind of recharge and started shallowly breathing and moving his limbs. He had “spontaneous respirations and began moving his left arm and right leg, but no pulse was evident,” noted the forensic investigator. The paramedics immediately rushed him to Columbia St. Mary's Hospital where his pulse returned and he now appears to be getting stable. His brother John told media, “He's "doing better every day." No one from the hospital or police district have given any official comment on the story yet probably because, like us, they are speechless.