The body of Mr. Dinh Cong Hao, who died in 1968, doesn’t disintegrate. His family put the body into a coffin with a glass cover and placed the coffin in their house for 43 years.

Mr. Hao was born in 1951. He died in 1968, at the age of 17. After he died, his body got dry and did not disintegrate. His family therefore; put the body into a coffin with a glass cover and placed the coffin in their house since then.

The body is now maintained in an ancient house of over 100 years old of Mr. Dinh Huu Tri, Hao’s younger brother, in Phu Loc hamlet, Phu Thanh commune, Phu Tan district in the southern province of An Giang.

According to An Giang Online Newspaper, Hao was handsome and could write poems. At the age of 10, he caught a mysterious disease, which made him to be unable to sleep or eat. Since then, he got skinny. His family invited many doctors but all of them refused to cure.

Hao died in December 1968. He was buried in his family’s field. However, four days after his death, a doctor came to his house. He regretted not quickly visit Hao’s home to save the boy. He confirmed that Hao’s body was not “dead” and urged the family to dig up the tomb to see.

Hao’s father did not sleep for one night, to think about the doctor’s advice and he decided to dig up the tomb. It was true that Hao looked fresh like a sleeping boy. The family took the body home.

Mr. Dinh Huu Tri, Hao’s younger brother, said: “At that time, I was 13. When my father took brother Hao’s body home, many people came to see. The local authorities also sent five doctors to my house, including a foreign expert, to see the body. They only said that my brother was dead, but they did not know why his body did not disintegrate and smell.”

“It was very strange that after three weeks, his body was still soft. My father dripped several drops of coffee into his mouth and the coffee went into his stomach. My cousin even poured nearly 3 liters of water into his mouth and the water also went to his stomach, and it did not run out of his body”.

Tri said that the family did not do anything with the body and it has been kept untouched for 43 years.

This is a special case that needs scientific research.

Thu Hoa