WARNING - GRAPHIC VIDEO | Woman Visiting Cemetery Petrified As a Buried Body Suddenly Came Alive Waving its Arms Around

Call it a miracle, bizarre, unfathomable, well any of these words are just right caption for this story. A woman was at a cemetery in the suburb of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, Brazil visiting a family tomb when something petrifying that she wont forget in a hurry happened. A body emerged alive from a grave, waving its arms around. She heard faint noises then noticed the earth moving in a grave close by.

"I was terrified to see a man, who I thought was dead, trying to get out of the grave," said the petrified woman, who asked for anonymity...

"He had his head and hands out and was moving his arms around, trying to get out."

Initially the woman ran away screaming, but returned and called the emergency services, who found the man half buried in a plot of earth.

She claimed that when she called police they did not believe her, and accused her of wasting their time and playing a joke.

"They kept questioning me asking: 'Are you serious. This is a joke isn’t it,'" she said.

Eventually, unable to convince the authorities, she went to the cemetery office to plead with them to confirm with police that her discovery was real.

A hospital source said he is "coming back to life". The man is now recovering in the local hospital in Ferraz de Vasconcelos. He will also be subjected to psychological tests.

Police believe the man, said to be a former city hall worker, was involved in a fight in another part of the city, where he was badly beaten by his attackers until he passed out and was taken to the cemetery by his assailants.

It is believed they then threw him into a empty grave which was partly filled with earth.

When the victim regained consciousness, he began making groaning noises which alerted the woman who found him.

Officers said they are convinced more than one person was involved in the assault, adding it was a 'despicable vendetta' that could have ended in tragedy if the woman had not chosen to visit her family's grave.