[ARABNEWS] The family of an Egyptian man who they thought had died and been buried have been left stunned after he appeared to come back from the dead."Uncle Moe! We thought you wuz dead!"
"I thought so too."
Mohammed El-Gammal, who is in his 40s, was found wandering out of a cemetery in the village of Kafr al-Hosar in the Sharqiyah region north of Cairo.
"Where am I?"
"This is the cemetery!"
"So I am dead?"
"Maybe you should lie down til it passes?"
"It don't pass."
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
his family thought they had held his funeral four months ago after they incorrectly identified another corpse as being El-Gammal.
"Yep. That's him all right!"
"Sure looks like him!"
"Smells like him!"
"Yup. Sure got a good resemblance."
"I'd know him anywhere."
El-Gammal, who had worked as a teacher and is married with children,
I saw that show once.
had suffered from mental illness and would often disappear for up to a month at a time, a village resident told Youm 7 news website.
"Yessir. I'd look around and he wouldn't be there!"
But in January he went missing and never returned.
"I mean, it's been months, ain't it?"
His family kept searching for him until they received a call from a relative who worked at a local hospital.
"Hey! Guess who I just saw!"
"Ummm... Who're we missing?"
The relative told them that an unidentified dead body had arrived at the hospital and the family went to see if it was El-Gammal.
"He's unidentified."
"Could be Uncle Moe, I guess."
They all believed the corpse was his apart from one of his sisters.
"I don't think it's him."
"Why not, Aunt Fatima?"
"It don't look like him."
The report said a DNA sample was taken from the body but the result was never received by the family and the funeral took place on March 21.
"Well, it was somebody's DNA. You sure it wasn't his?"
Four months later, the real El-Gammal was found alive by youths over the weekend and taken to the nearest cop shoppe.