Wilfred Doricent led a quiet life in a small village in Haiti. It was just a young teenager in the small Caribbean island. I fell sick suddenly. He began to have seizures and eyes yellowed. A week later, he showed no vital signs. The doctors gave him up for dead and was buried Doricent hours later.
Until there would be a normal story - that is, an unexpected death of the kind that happens from time to time, but no great mysteries. But Doricent reappeared. A while after the burial, there was the young man wandering around the small town, full of bruises and scars and no memory. I could not talk or understand anything. Startled, the family held with chains. The blame fell on the boy's uncle, accused of being a known and feared wizard in the region.
But there was no any magic. Years before, in 1982, the ethnobotanical Wade Davis had discovered a substance called tetrodotoxin, 10 000 times more lethal than cyanide. It makes the body look dead even without being. The mixture of this toxin found in puffer fish with hallucinogenic herbs leaves victims paralyzed in 25 minutes. The brain shuts down. If you do not die within 24 hours of cardiac arrest or choking, patients return to life as if nothing had happened. It happened with Doricent after drinking or eating something baptized by his uncle with the poison.
He survived the toxin, but returned injured. When Roger Mallory, neuropsychiatrist Medical Society Haitian, scanned the brains of the young man he understood the reason: there were no signs of damage from lack of oxygen. Buried in a coffin, the boy was almost breathless. Doricent awoke from coma and a survival instinct, escaped from the grave (in general, the pits are shallow in Haiti). But the consequences of inadequate oxygen never left.
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