A very mysterious incident has unfolded in Douala, Cameroon, as a 17-year-old boy reportedly walked out of a mortuary seven days after his death.
The boy, Poupog Kevin, reportedly died by drowning at Bellavie Hotel in Douala on January 28, 2024, and his corpse was deposited in a morgue.
While one would think Kevin’s chapter has closed completely, a puzzling event happened on Monday, February 5, that has left Cameroonians in shock.
The head Mortician of the Mortuary section of the Cebec hospital in Bonaberie Douala, Louis Maries Mbella, revealed that he was alerted by a security guard that someone had left the morgue and sat outside at night.
His words,
“It was around 3 AM (Monday) when the security guard, knocked at my door to inform me that someone had taken a chair to sit outside. I approached the young man and asked him, Why did you take this chair outside, and when they asked you refused to react,’ he said nothing. I asked again and received no response.
I now put on my phone’s touch light and pointed at him, that is when I discovered that it was the young man who died last Sunday. I went inside to check if truly he was the one, and I discovered that he was not where we embalmed him. All those inside were naked but he was outside, eyes closed, but he was smiling.”
Videos of the boy sitting outside an uncompleted building not too far from the mortuary are currently circulating on social media and have stirred a huge controversy.
It was gathered that the clothes and socks worn by the deceased were burnt, and his body was returned to the mortuary after traditional rituals were performed in the presence of his family.
Speaking on the mysterious event, the Chief Mortician explained that this is the first time this has happened to corpses under his care. He said sometimes dead bodies may move from their normal positions, arms up, etc., but this is the first time a corpse has left the mortuary to sit outside.
Watch an eyewitness testimony below followed by a video of the corpse.
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