The family of a Clarendon man is still traumatised and tight-lipped after an incident last year when their beloved relative was reportedly pronounced dead but came back to life after being taken to the morgue.

Unofficial reports reaching THE STAR are that sometime last year the family member went to a hospital to be treated for a form of poisoning from radioactive chemicals. He, however, was unfortunately pronounced dead by doctors at the facility and his body taken to the morgue.

THE STAR was told that sometime after, a morgue worker entered the room where the man's body was placed, but was blown away when he saw the 'dead' man getting up from under the sheet. The source said the worker immediately bolted out of the morgue echoing a string of curse words.

When THE STAR called the 'resurrected man' yesterday, he was still extremely reluctant to give full details as to what happened on the miraculous day.

"My family and I want to leave the situation as it is because it brings back pain," he said. "You probably have to give us two to three years before we would want to talk about it openly but not right now." He refused to reveal the exact date of the incident or where it took place.

Checks with some of the island's major hospitals in the Corporate Area were not fruitful up to press time. Officials at some, however, promised to make checks of records while others said that they had no knowledge of that "miraculous" event.

Asked to respond to whether the information THE STAR received was accurate, the resurrected man chuckled and said that he would neither confirm nor deny the reports. However, when asked if he was shocked when he woke up in the morgue, the man responded "no".

He also told THE STAR that he did not see the stereotypical bright light or tunnel, usually associated with near-death experiences. He also said he does not recall his soul hovering above his body as is often depicted in movies.