No one knows if Fengmen Village is in deed haunted as of today...
The Fengmen Village (封门村) is located in Henan
Province (河南省). This village is abandoned since 2007 but somehow
rumours of the village to be haunted started to spread in intranet starting
2008. Gradually, the Fengmen Village became a ‘ghost village’ somehow… but
after some investigations performed by Henan TV, the village is indeed not
haunted.
A Chinese friend of mine now in his 70s has visited the
Fengmen Village in 1963 with two of his friends did encounter some ghostly apparitions.
In fact, the Fengmen Village was only vacated after 1981
after a government enforced mass transfer.
Back to the story proper, in 1963, my friend Lee and his two
friends came to Fengmen Village to do sketching and oil painting. The reason
they visited the village is because of its special building structures and scenery.
The day the three pals entered the
village, coincidentally speaking; a household of three suddenly died of high
fever and they were just in time for the funeral ceremony of the unfortunate
family. It was a custom of the village to throw the pillows of the deceased
villagers onto the middle of the front road. Unfortunately speaking, Lee and
his pals thought the pillows were blocking their way; so they kicked the
pillows aside… Little had they know that this was the beginning of their
nightmare during their stay in the village.
After the three companions has entered the Fengmen Village,
they visited the headman so as to find a dwelling place as there were no hotels
in the village. Since there was just an empty house left over by the deceased
family, the headman asked the 3 fellows to stay in the vacated house. Even
though the 3 of them were afraid and somehow reluctant to stay in a house of
the recently deceased, no one dares to open his mouth for the fear of giving
trouble to the headman; and they didn’t want to insist.
Having said so, the three of them did have their fair shares
of ghostly incidents after they had moved into the house…
First, the three of them always hear children shouting for mother…
when they ventured out, they could not find anyone in the house vicinity.
Other than that, the tree pals coincidentally had the same
bad dream about ghosts jumped into their beds. One sunny morning, one of Lee’s
friends opened up a wardrobe to get his clothing; he suddenly shrieked and
fainted. Lee quickly rushed to the friend’s room and found him fainted on the
floor. When the pal was revived, he claimed to have seen a ghostly face hiding
behind his clothing. Incidentally, the ghostly face resembled the one that he
saw in his nightmare. However, Lee and the other friend went back to search
their wardrobes but found nothing. The unfortunate friend started to fever on
that night itself…
Two days later, another Lee’s pal dreamed of a ghostly face
and he awoke in horror. Then he heard of the noises of water splashing in the
garden. Out of curiosity, he opened his room window and saw the naked woman
bathing beside a well; she scooped up some well water and splashed the water
onto her body. The young man was baffled by the scene he saw and suddenly the
woman turned her head… she gave the young man an evil smile and then the lady
jumped into the well! The young man’s first reaction was not to rush to the
well to save the lady but he was frozen solid and stood beside the window
dumbfounded! Because he knew that what he saw was not human but a ghost…
Anyway, after the young man bewildered for a while, he
decided to wake up Lee and the other pal to approach the said well with
torchlights to perform investigation. When the three of them was at the well,
they found the surface of the well water was as calm as a mirror, the sides of
the well were quite dry as well; the scoop and the pales were just as dry. There
were no traces of water anywhere! Of course, everyone dismissed the young man’s
vision was due to his craze for a woman… after all, all of them were in their
early 20s then. Having said so, the young man who thought he saw the woman
jumped into the well experienced high fever in the very morning…
Lee was a little panic seeing two of his pals had high fever
but little had he known that on that night he too dreamed of a ghostly face.
Not only that, Lee also felt that he was hack ridden and he couldn’t breathe.
As soon as Lee opened his eyes, he found the one riding on him was none other
than one of his best friends. This pal used both of his hands to squeeze onto
Lee’s neck while yelling: “I want to strangle you!”
Luckily speaking, the other friend heard the commotion and
managed to knock the person out cold. After the incident, the three pals
finally came to consenses that there were some evil entities in the house. So,
they quickly visited the village headman and after listening to their ordeals,
the headman brought them to the graves of the house owner to perform prayer.
Soon after the prayer, three of them had recovered from their fever and they
had not had any bad dreams for the duration of their stay.
After returning from their trip, Lee concluded that although
the family of three had died, their bodies were buried nearby their house.
Perhaps it was that the restless souls of the deceased wanted to return home as
it was the village custom that even the dead are buried within the compound of
the village; thus making the livings live amongst the spirits possible. It was
perhaps that the roads within the Fengmen Village was so entangled that the
spirits of the dead were trapped within the maze like village for ever.
Further, there was no Buddha statue or Taoist statue in the village to
overpower those wandering spirits.
Whatever case that might be, Fengmen Village may become the
thing of the past as I heard that the government planned to build a dam nearby
soon.
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