Young Woman Dug Up For Ghost Wedding

corpsebrideFive people have been arrested in Xianyang, China for digging up the body of a young woman to use in a ghost wedding for a young man who died in a car crash.

The boy’s father is listed amongst four other suspects, whom he is alleged to have paid close to $4500 to find his son a wife for the afterlife.

The practice is seeing a strong resurgence in rural China to the point that a criminal gang resorted to murdering young women in Southern China to make up for a shortage of corpses that had died of natural causes.

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C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
2 Comments on this post.
  • Shaun Zeil
    13 March 2010 at 3:13 pm
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    OMG!!!!
    digging up a dead body… scarry!!

    jesus..what is happenning ro this world!

  • Shaun Zeil
    13 March 2010 at 8:13 pm
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    OMG!!!!
    digging up a dead body… scarry!!

    jesus..what is happenning ro this world!

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