The man who sleeps with the dead: Brazilian man found to have spent 13 years sleeping in a tomb alongside a dead friend

A homeless Brazilian man has slept alongside
the corpse of his dead friend for 13 years.
Fábio Beraldo Rigol, 47, was discovered
sharing space with a dead body after locals
noticed he kept disappearing into the Brotas
cemetery in Santa Isabel, Sao Paulo.
Mr Rigol, a former office worker, said drug
abuse drove him out of his family home and
with nowhere to live he found refuge in a
tomb.
Mr Rigol said he sleeps in the cemetery
after being kicked out of his home because
of his drug abuse
He said he chose a large crypt to sleep in with
six burial chambers.
Only one of the shelves is being used by his
dead friend who has been buried there for
over ten years.

Mr Rigol, who has the nickname 'Popo', told
G1: 'I want to come out of here alive.
'I want to have a house and I would like to go
back to work if I get the chance. It would be
awful to die and be dead with the dead.'
During the day, ‘Popo’ spends his time
wandering the streets in the town as he says it
is pretty lonely in the grave yard because there
is no one to talk to.
He claims he has not seen any spirits and is
not scared about sleeping in the dark with a
dead body.
'I'm not afraid of the dead. I’m more afraid of
the living,' he said.
The former office worker said he hopes to
get his own home one day and find a job
Mr Rigol said he knows the cemetery like the
palm of his hand and often wanders through
the burial site trying to see if he recognises
any of the names interred there.
He has seen many funerals which he admits
leaves him depressed.
'I do not like to see them. I prefer to
remember the people as they were, bright and
happy,' he said.
Mr Rigol said he used to be a dispatch rider
for a business but he lost his job when the
company went bankrupt.
He said: 'I started using drugs and was kicked
out of the house. After that I started roaming
the streets and ended up here at the
cemetery,' he said.
'It was night and raining heavily. I remember
very little about how I got here but when I
woke up, I was in a tomb.
'I do remember that I asked permission to
enter the place, after all, it’s wrong for anyone
to break into a house.'