Bolivian Man who Passed Out After Drinking, Woke Up in Coffin Says He was Offered as Sacrifice to Earth

• A 30-year-old man from Bolivia is trending online after claiming that he was nearly used as a human sacrifice
• Víctor Hugo Mica Álvarez had gone to a native party when he passed out after drinking too much, only to wake up in a coffin 80 kilometers away
• Police officers, however, refused to buy his story and insisted that he was still drunk thereby ordering him to go home and sober up.

On August 1, Bolivian Víctor Hugo Mica Álvarez was invited as a guest at the Mother Earth festival in El Alto, a ceremony where indigenous groups gather to offer sacrifices to goddess Pachamama.

Given that there was alcohol at the event, the 30-year-old got down to drinking heavily after which he passed out, New York Post reports.

Read also

Meghan Markle opens up about horrifying fire outbreak in son's nursery during South African Tour

Álvarez woke up inside glass coffin

Hours later, he was woken up by a strong urge to urinate, only to discover he was lying inside a glass coffin covered with dirt.

“The only thing I remember is that I thought I was in my bed and I got up to go pee, and I couldn’t move. When I pushed the coffin I barely broke the glass and, through the glass, dirt began to enter,” he recounted.

The traumatized added that he managed to get out, after which it dawn on him that he had been buried.

Álvarez believes that he had been offered as a human sacrifice against his will because he found himself in Achacachi, which is about 50 miles from where he the festival had happened.

Read also

Isaac Antwi: Ghanaian Man who sells mangoes to cater for sick wife appeals for support in video

They wanted to use me as a sullu, Álvarez

Police officers, however, doubted the man's story and insisted that he was still drunk thereby ordering him to go home and sober up.

Photos of Álvarez talking to the media show him looking bruised and with blood spatters all over his face.

He maintains that his story is not a hoax and that he actually missed death by a whisker as the natives wanted to use him as a "sullu."

According to the Latin Times, a “sullu” is an item offered as a sacrifice to the goddess by the people of Bolivia, which is often accompanied with sweets, medicinal plants, eggs and minerals.

Source: TUKO.co.ke