Chinese woman climbs out of her coffin six days later

A Chinese woman has clambered out of her coffin six days after being buried. Before you ask, no - she is not a zombie. At least we don't think so...

After being found motionless a fortnight after suffering a head injury from a fall, it was safely assumed that 95-year-old Liu Xiufeng had actually passed away in her sleep. With that, funeral arrangements were underway.

"She didn't get up, so I came up to wake her up," recalls Li's neighbour Chen Qingwang. "No matter how hard I pushed her and called her name, she had no reactions. I felt something was wrong, so I tried her breath, and she has gone, but her body is still not cold.”

The specific plans for the funeral, however, required that the 95-year-old be kept in a coffin inside her home for several days, as relatives came from all over China to pay their respects. Rather unusually, it was decided not to nail the coffin shut ahed of its burial.

Qingwang's decision not to nail the coffin shut led to a startling discovery a day before the funeral - Xiufeng's body wasn't in the coffin. Instead, she was sitting upright in the kitchen.

“I slept for a long time," the non-zombified Xiufeng told her neighbours. "After waking up, I felt so hungry, and wanted to cook something to eat. I pushed the lid for a long time to climb out.” Well at least she decided to grab some toast in the kitchen rather than feast on human brains, eh?