No, we’re not talking Harry Potter and the Resurrection Stone here… This actually happened in the 1930s by the hand of Robert E. Cornish, a researcher at the Berkeley campus. He believed he had found a way to restore life to the dead - at least in cases where major organ damage was not involved.

His technique involved seesawing corpses up and down to circulate the blood while injecting a mixture of adrenalin and anticoagulants.

The poor guinea pigs for this experiment were Fox Terriers all named Lazarus after the biblical character brought back to life by Jesus. (If you’re an animal lover, you should probably stop reading right about now…)

Cornish asphyxiated the dogs and let them be dead for 10 minutes. Then he attempted to revive them. He failed on the first two trials, but number 3 and 4 were a success, stirring with a whine and a feeble bark back to life.

They were blind and brain damaged though. After their ordeal they also inspired terror in other dogs for the rest of their canine lives. Freaky…

Source: New Scientist