Popular Nigerian physician Aproko Doctor has speculated on the likely causes of the discovery of "fresh blood" in the late musician Mohbad's grave following its exhumation yesterday, September 22. Following the exhumation of his body, a few Nigerians claimed to have seen new blood in the tomb.
They questioned if it was still feasible to find fresh blood inside a grave eight days after a person was buried. They made videos and uploaded them online.Aproko Doctor has an explanation for why fresh blood might be discovered within a grave. He wrote
‘’Your blood has a red colour because of a compound called haemoglobin. That's what carries oxygen through your body.
When blood is exposed to air, the cells that carry these haemoglobin die, and the haemoglobin becomes exposed to air abs starts to change colour to a darker one.
This dark colour is because the haemoglobin is being changed to another compound called methemoglobin.
Normally, when people die, they die with all the blood in their system, but it doesn't move because circulation has stopped, but it's still there. Let's not forget.
Now, during embalming, this blood is usually replaced with another fluid. The question is, "Was he embalmed?"
Even at that, you can't get all the blood out! Some will still be left.
We all want to know why it's still red, right? There is one possible reason, in a closed compartment, there is very little air underground, so it's possible that the haemoglobin is not exposed enough to change colour to the darker one.
As to why it's that much, we don't have access to the body so we don't know what other injuries we're inflicted on his body, we remember his neck was in an unnatural position to fit in the coffin, it is possible that must have broken his vessels to cause some blood still in the system to leak out.
We're limited to speculating. We will not be more knowledgeable than people with the body physically and examining it.''
Watch the video of his grave with the alleged fresh blood below