Police get a 911 call from an apartment resident in a small suburban community outside of Boston. The neighbor who makes the call tells officers he heard a woman crying in the apartment across the hall and he suspects foul play.

The cops knock on the door to the woman’s apartment but get no response. Based on the neighbor’s information, officers force open the door.

They find the 39-year-old woman resident in her bathtub which is filled with cold water. There’s an empty pill bottle on the floor right under her hand. Police call for paramedics. The woman isn’t breathing, and has no pulse. She’s cold, turning blue, and she’s stiff. There are absolutely no signs of life.

Too much time has passed for there to be any chance for resuscitation. Cops and paramedics alike presume this is a case of suicide. Reports are filled out while waiting for the funeral home to come pick up the body. Case closed.

Several hours later, an on-duty mortician begins making his rounds at the funeral home. Suddenly he hears a "gurgling" sound. Now he’s trying to zero in on the location of that sound. It’s coming from the body bag.

Quickly, the mortician unzips the plastic body bag. Good grief! It’s that woman! The one from the bathtub!

The mortician holds her mouth open to keep her airway clear while waiting for an ambulance. By the time paramedics arrive, the woman is breathing again-on her own. After several days in the hospital under treatment for a drug overdose and hypothermia, the woman is released.

The Associated Press, who reported this story in the first place, quoted a hypothermia expert as saying, "People have to understand that cold, stiff, blue people aren’t necessarily dead - sometimes they can be resuscitated."