10-Year Chinese Haunting Finally Debunked
This 5 story “haunted” building in the GuangXi province of China has scared most of it’s owners away.
Anyone who ever lived in the house, heard horribly spooky sounds coming from somewhere in the house.
In ten years, the house has been sold to four different owners, and soon after each moved in, they moved out because of the haunting.
The building is actually very nice and used to be valued at about $34,000, but with the haunting no one wanted to buy it until two brothers paid $6,500 and bought it.
The small town Chan brothers did not believe in haunted houses and could not pass on the great price for such a large building.
Each night, the brothers would hold their breath and try to find where in the house the noise was coming from.
After numerous nights of searching, they figured out the noise sounded like something flapping in the water and it came from the bathroom pipe on the first floor.
The decided to break the pipe open and immediately found what was haunting the house.
About 10 catfish were found swimming in the sewer. Two were about 10 pounds and the rest were about 5 pounds each.
So it turns out the haunting was nothing more than some catfish in the sewer system, but… how did they get their in the first place?
In 1995, the first owner of the house was a catfish lover.
One day, he bought a bucket full of cat fish for dinner and left them in the bathroom waiting to be gutted. Apparently, two of them escaped through the toilet bowl and made a happy family of 10 living in the sewage pond.
Now that the ghost is gone, the price tag of the house soon rocketed to over $133,000. Not too bad for a little myth busting…
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By Mui Mui on 22-12-2007
Comment by Jerry the race car driver
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:50 am
Ghost Hunters go to China… Its funny because they are Plumbers too..
Comment by Jack
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
I’m just wondering if those catfish are edible … they’ve been in the sewer after all. Maybe a little bit of cleaning would do the job?
Comment by Pinkee
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
So they were in the sewer for 10 years??? And never swam anywhere else…
Comment by Anotherbrick
December 22nd, 2007 at 5:46 pm
MMMMMMMMM……CATFISH!!
Comment by DARKWING DUCK
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:04 pm
who are you going to call Ghostbuster
oh wait a minute they are out of business
You out of luck
Comment by slimer
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:55 pm
ghost busters out of business
they are coming back, ghostbusters 3 style
to a video game system in your near future.
what loser doesnt know the ghostbusters are back
Comment by Samit Kapoor
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Cool….but Mario and Luigi is still a better plumber story….the princess sorta trumps sewer catfish.
Comment by sier
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Those look like crappie.
for the win.
Comment by Myth Debunker
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Simpsons did it.
Comment by GhostHunter1
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Hahaha. Gotta love them ghost catfish! Makes for good eatin’!
Comment by Digger
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Haha, a Chinese ghost, thats funny. Its actually impossible. Everyone knows Asian people have no souls.
Comment by sharedu
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:37 pm
We Chinese will surpass you American,”meiguolao”
Comment by Ruggy
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Bet those fish tasted real good…
Comment by sharedu
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
My comment can’t be posted ,why?
Comment by meh
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Hmmm – sounds FISHY. AHAHAHAHAHA.
sorry
Comment by Adam
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:40 pm
It’s genius! 1) Take a house that’s supposedly haunted 2) buy 5 catfish 3) “Find Them” to explain away the ghost (they just happen to be plumbers) 4) Price of house goes through the roof 5) Sell house for instant profit – I’d do it for a $127,000 profit.
Comment by Bill
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:04 am
His comment pretty much sums up how diggers view Chinese. Believe me, visit any story about China on Digg, all of them contain at least some racist joke and they always get dugged up. It’s normal.
Comment by James Randi
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:08 am
Readers should not get the idea that the Chinese are any more superstitious than other ethnic groups. Similar events have occured in Europe and in the U.S.A. – and will continue to do so, showing that woo-woo thinking is unfortunately universal. Ignorance is an equal-opportunity illness…
Comment by drnurse
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:39 am
looks like it was to me.
Comment by drnurse
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:40 am
No doubt.
Comment by Stoy
December 23rd, 2007 at 1:04 pm
There’s some thing strange in the neighbourhood, who are you going to call?
GHOST BUSTERS!
Comment by Made in DNA
January 6th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
My question is… the catfish were kept in the bathroom… so how the heck did they get in the toilet!? Jump? Or was the first owner keeping them IN the toilet until he ate them? Now while it obviously doesn’t sound probable, one has to ask. Catfish don’t walk around on their own after all.
Nice story. Loved it. Love the site!
Comment by StrayDog
January 19th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
You haven’t seen live catfish.
Comment by David
January 20th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Its good for those two brothers but all those people who sold it cos it was ‘haunted’ must be so pissed.
Comment by dabian
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:50 am
lols! how could th catfish survie?!
Comment by msian
February 12th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
hi there,how can u said asian ppl have no soul..?i am asian n know inside out abt my cntry,those who know nothing,,juz keep shut up..n watch out ur mouth..
Comment by jostled
February 28th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
now if they had found a catdog, THAT would be awesome.
hehe. i dont eat catfish, i cant eat something that looks as if it has a face(and facial expressions too!)
Comment by Brett
March 26th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
bet they won’t taste fishy!
Comment by dbla
July 17th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I definitely do not believe they would survive in the pipes! ………not enough water!!!
Comment by Iconoclast
July 19th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Second.
but I have to wonder if someone would eat a fish that’s been living in and eating shit it’s entire life.
Then again, they alway have lived in their own…
Comment by Mighty
October 25th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
why the hell do Chinese people still believe in ghosts
Comment by ally
April 15th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
you spelt lots of things wrong.
but it was very interesting
Comment by Sabrina
June 10th, 2009 at 7:20 am
I love catfish they don't taste fishy. Really good eattin'. I can't figure how they they got to stay high up there in that level and sewer water only goes one way.
Comment by hank
August 13th, 2009 at 1:43 am
Who you gonna carr?
Comment by james
August 15th, 2009 at 4:33 am
those catfish were living off of shit.
Comment by shen nong
October 20th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
that made me laugh. and that is only as racist as you guys want it to be..