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.

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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.

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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.

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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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28 Comments »

Comment by Jerry the race car driver
2007-12-22 11:50:05

Ghost Hunters go to China… Its funny because they are Plumbers too..

 
Comment by Jack
2007-12-22 12:07:39

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
2007-12-22 12:45:05

So they were in the sewer for 10 years??? And never swam anywhere else…

 
Comment by Anotherbrick
2007-12-22 17:46:44

MMMMMMMMM……CATFISH!!

 
Comment by DARKWING DUCK
2007-12-22 18:04:35

who are you going to call Ghostbuster

oh wait a minute they are out of business

You out of luck

Comment by slimer
2007-12-22 19:55:25

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
2007-12-22 20:06:24

Cool….but Mario and Luigi is still a better plumber story….the princess sorta trumps sewer catfish.

 
Comment by sier
2007-12-22 20:55:01

Those look like crappie.

for the win.

 
Comment by Myth Debunker
2007-12-22 21:41:33

Simpsons did it.

 
Comment by GhostHunter1
2007-12-22 22:21:28

Hahaha. Gotta love them ghost catfish! Makes for good eatin’!

 
Comment by Digger
2007-12-22 22:21:45

Haha, a Chinese ghost, thats funny. Its actually impossible. Everyone knows Asian people have no souls.

Comment by sharedu
2007-12-22 22:37:07

We Chinese will surpass you American,”meiguolao”

Comment by Bill
2007-12-23 00:04:44

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.

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Comment by msian
2008-02-12 17:18:52

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 Ruggy
2007-12-22 22:37:56

Bet those fish tasted real good…

 
Comment by sharedu
2007-12-22 22:42:31

My comment can’t be posted ,why?

Comment by drnurse
2007-12-23 11:39:37

looks like it was to me.

 
 
Comment by meh
2007-12-22 23:27:27

Hmmm - sounds FISHY. AHAHAHAHAHA.
sorry

 
Comment by Adam
2007-12-22 23:40:13

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 James Randi
2007-12-23 11:08:53

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
2007-12-23 11:40:15

No doubt.

 
 
Comment by Stoy
2007-12-23 13:04:46

There’s some thing strange in the neighbourhood, who are you going to call?

GHOST BUSTERS!

 
Comment by Made in DNA
2008-01-06 19:52:26

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
2008-01-19 18:24:09

You haven’t seen live catfish.

 
 
Comment by David
2008-01-20 15:00:31

Its good for those two brothers but all those people who sold it cos it was ‘haunted’ must be so pissed.

 
Comment by dabian
2008-01-23 04:50:22

lols! how could th catfish survie?!

 
Comment by jostled
2008-02-28 18:34:12

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
2008-03-26 14:07:54

bet they won’t taste fishy!

 
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