Chapter 258: The Legend of the Cat-Faced Old Lady

The cat-faced old lady incident occurred in Harbin, China, and it was first told to me by a classmate from Northeast China, and later I searched for relevant information on the Internet.

The Harbin cat-faced old lady incident probably occurred between 1995 ~ 1996, when a child who was in the fifth grade of primary school was also one of the victims and witnesses of the Harbin cat-faced old lady incident. There are many versions about the cat-faced old lady, and there are also several versions about the cause of the cat-faced old lady's death. Some say that the cat-faced old lady died suddenly on the way home from grocery shopping.

And another theory is that the cat-faced old lady's family lives in a small village in the north of Heilongjiang, and the family lives a very dull life, but her son and daughter-in-law are not very good to her, but life, bumps and bumps are always inevitable, and then because of a little thing, the old man and his daughter-in-law fought, (Northeast people are more tough), the old man hanged himself at night.

After the old man was angry with his daughter-in-law, the family was going to put it overnight and wait until tomorrow to bury it. At that time, the old man's death was terrifying, his eyes were half-open, his tongue was sticking out of his mouth, he was a little black, and his face was hideous, and people did not dare to come forward at that time.

It's also strange to say, the old man's son came, he cried, knelt in front of the old man, everyone dared to get the old lady down, this is also what the old man in the village asked him to do, the person who died unjustly must let his closest people be by his side, in order to be buried in the coffin, but still failed to stop the old man from cheating the corpse in the middle of the night.

After changing the shroud for the old man at night, the daughter-in-law was also very sad, and went back to her mother's house, the old man's son felt sorry for the old lady, and kept filial piety to the old man at night, and the night was very long in Heilongjiang winter, the old man's son sat with a neighbor, talking, and the neighbor dozed off when he said that the speaker, at this time a flower cat raised by the old man jumped over the old man's body, and did not move after landing. The old man sat up openly, half of his human face and half of his cat face turned into a cat-faced old lady, and the old man's son was stupid on the spot.

After the old man got up the corpse, he arrested his neighbor to death, and her son took advantage of this break to run away, howling while running: "My mother cheated the corpse", the countryside sleeps early, and the night is quiet, it is strange to say, if in normal times, there is a person who barks so loudly in the middle of the night, the dog must also follow the barking, but tonight, I didn't hear the dog barking, I can only hear the dog change that straight hum, the son is also frightened, and rushed along the road to a person's house in the village.

After spending the night in that house, the family was also very scared at night, and they did not dare to sleep, for fear that the old man would come to find his son, and lead the dog into the house, and the dog would look at his son, and he would not bite, but he just hummed.

After dawn, he called a group of people to go back to his son's house, and found that only the neighbor's stomach was scratched open, and the old man was gone, and then the village felt very gloomy, there were always animals missing, and then there were a few children gone, which made people panic, and the adults told their children, don't run around if you have nothing to do, if you really meet that thing, you will run around the bend, anyway, it is just running around a thing, it is said to be stiff

There is another explanation for the disappearance of the child at that time, in addition to the cat-faced old lady, there was a criminal gang pretending to be a fraudulent corpse, catching children and selling human organs, and the rest of the meat was used to raise the eagle.

After the cat-faced old lady incident, the local primary school in Harbin also held a parent-teacher meeting for this incident, and the content of the parent-teacher meeting was very special:

1. Students must go to and from school together.

2. Students must tie a red rope to school (the red rope has always had the function of warding off evil spirits). Because the cannibal old lady has not been found, the children in Heilongjiang are very scared and dare not go to school! The final outcome of the rumors of the old lady with the cat face is that the incident alarmed the political charm, and the old lady with the cat face was also shot and killed by the political charm.

Of course, there is another version, which is also very wicked:

Said one day, a child came out of the corridor at home to go to the toilet, and suddenly found a head poking out of the crack in the corridor door, the child had heard about this before, thinking that Zhang Laosan came to lie on the crack of the door, because the corridor was too dark at that time, and he couldn't see anything, so he turned on the light.

I was startled at first glance, it turned out that it was not Zhang Laosan, but an old lady, with scattered pale yellow hair that seemed to be a little reddish, her facial features were crowded together, but there were no wrinkles, and she was holding a piece of yellow noodles in her mouth that she had picked up nowhere.

As soon as the child was scared, he called out to his mother, and the old lady shrank her head and ran away when she heard the sound, and then his parents came out, and they couldn't find it again, thinking it was an old lady who took flowers, and mobilized the whole block to look for it, but no one was found.

In fact, just an old lady lying on the crack of the door, or maybe she is a begging for food, nothing remarkable. Everyone didn't lose anything, and they didn't cause any harm, it was originally an anecdote that quickly subsided, but somehow, the old lady's affairs became more and more evil.

Later, one of the most terrifying versions that everyone generally believes is that at that time, Zhang Laosan was sick and hospitalized, and everyone went crazy to say that one day Zhang Laosan went to steal things, and was looking in the corridor door, and suddenly felt that something was wrong behind him, so he looked back, and he was almost scared to death.

He saw an old lady, who seemed to follow his example, picking at the crack in the door of the corridor door of the house behind him, but unlike him, he was facing forward and stuffing his head into the corridor of the house, and the old lady was leaning forward into the house with the back of her head, as if a person was forced into the crack of the door and stuck in the neck.

As a result, he fell seriously ill and was admitted to the hospital. Later, someone said that when she came home one evening and carried her bicycle up the stairs, she always felt that someone was dragging her in the back seat of the car.

After a while, his father and his brother came out, and they went around looking for hooligans, but when they passed by a garbage heap, they saw an old lady, wearing a torn cotton jacket wrapped in a sack, without a head, still moving.

They were frightened at first, but then they ran over to see that the old lady was just a cat with her head in the collar of her big clothes, and she picked it up and ate it when she saw it, and everyone saw that it was a stinky person who wanted to eat, and they didn't pay attention to her, so they walked back, and the old man suddenly felt that something was wrong, because there was a state-run store near the garbage heap, and where did he always dump broken glass ballast all day, so what did the old lady eat there? But he didn't dare to turn back, and walked away quickly.

In the early days of the Republic of China, it is not clear what year it is, there is a family in the Northeast with four generations, the old lady is more than seventy, the wrinkles on her face are the same as orange peels, in addition to eating and drinking, she lives in a courtyard house and is accompanied by a civet cat.

I don't know what year this civet cat came to this house, anyway, the family hasn't seen the face of the mouse since it was there. However, this raccoon cat has lived at home for so long and still recognizes life, except for shrinking the old lady's house, and other idlers can't see it.

Finally arrived on the day when the old lady was going to Quanxia to see the old man who left early, the family changed the old lady into a shroud and longevity clothes, please on the bamboo couch in the lobby, for two days in a row, the old lady was angry, and the rice did not enter, but she just couldn't swallow the last breath, the children and grandchildren panicked, and hurriedly invited the well-informed old uncle, the old uncle looked at the old lady, and asked tentatively: Sister, isn't there anyone else who wants to see?

The old lady's throat was groping, her eyes looked at the cottage where she used to live, tears flowed out, and the old lady stood up and asked: Is there anything in the house where my sister lives that she can't put down?

The filial sons and grandchildren looked at each other and didn't dare to speak, and the eldest son of the old lady pulled the old uncle aside: Uncle, there is something in the house, that is, the big civet cat you have seen, you say, my mother is like this now, can I let it out?

The old uncle was shocked: Mother, my nephew is right, people who are dying can't see cats, dogs, and these things, not to mention cats and dogs, and rats can't see them. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that animals cut off their qi, that is, when people live with one breath, their anger is gone, and their lives are gone.

This qi can't be seen or touched, but a living person of one hundred and eighty catties is supported by this breath in the body, and the person is going to die, and the qi will run away. In case it happens that cats and dogs pass by and intercept this breath, then you can become a sperm, and you can eat people and lose.

So whoever wants to die, you have to take care of the livestock, and you can't get close to the dying person, but this old lady's feelings are too deep with the tanuki, and she can't let go of this breath if she doesn't see the big tanuki, so it's her own sister, can she be so reluctant to go?

The old uncle was in trouble and asked his nephew: What about the tanuki?

How did you deal with it? The old lady's son replied: What else can I do, a few people blocked it in the house, tied it up, hung it on the roof beam with an iron chain, and waited for my mother to leave, scalded it and skinned it to warm the old uncle's knees. If you want to say that this tanuki is fierce, look at your nephew's face, this paw print, and the one who was caught, look at it.

The old uncle was angry, and went up to the nephew's big face is a big ear scraper, and scolded: My sister is not dead, you will trample on her heart, if it weren't for you unfilial things who ignore the old man on weekdays, my sister will nest in the house all day long and be a companion with the tanuki? You do this, you sincerely don't want my sister to close her eyes? Be careful that she won't let you go!

The old lady's filial sons and grandchildren all said aggrievedly: Uncle look at what you said, when the old man was here, we didn't have her food and clothing, how can we say that we are not filial?

The old uncle often sighed: You, the old man wants to warm his heart, not to warm his body, he wants someone to accompany him to talk, not to eat three meals a day and wait for death, this will be known when you are old, and now you don't understand, quickly take me to release the tanuki.

The descendants did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly took the old uncle to the hut, and saw that the tanuki hair was pulled off piece by piece, and the four hooves were tied with hemp rope like tying piglets, and a hemp core was stuffed in the mouth, and a dog chain was tied around the waist and hung in the air of the girder.

The old uncle stomped his feet angrily, you brutes, the tanuki has helped your family for so many years, and the rats have no credit and hard work, so spoil it, quick, quick, put it down.

The descendants hurriedly hung the dog chain tied to the raccoon cat to the ground, and the old uncle took out the hemp core from the cat's mouth, and the tanuki immediately screamed lifelessly, like crying, the cat's head twisted desperately to the old lady's hall arranged in the spirit house. The meaning of the tanuki is obvious, but the old uncle is difficult again: the person who wants to die can't see the cat or dog, but he can't close his eyes when he doesn't see his sister die, what can I do?

In the end, I thought of a compromise solution: loosen the hemp rope of the tanuki's limbs, tie the dog chain to the cat's neck, and lead the cat to meet the old lady from a distance outside the mourning hall. The idea was right, but in the end, something went wrong.

It is said that the old lady's son is holding the cat, and the old uncle is trembling with a cane, and just outside the threshold of the mourning hall, the second son of the old lady who stayed in the mourning hall shouted in the mourning hall: Brother, uncle, my mother has just left!

The tanuki turned his head, somehow got out of the dog chain, pulled into the house, and pounced on the old lady's face, the second son was so frightened that he picked up the mourning stick and smashed it on the tanuki's head, and rolled the tanuki fan out of the distance, and was about to go up to make up for another guy, suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not right, everyone looked at their backs dumbfounded, turned their heads and looked, and was so frightened that they ran out of the way. The old lady's corpse sat up with a hula, her two eyes staring straight at herself, and everyone shouted in fright: Fake the corpse, cheat the corpse......

The person who is going to die is pounced on by a cat or dog, and the person who is already dead is pounced on by a cat or dog is not called a cuff, which is called a corpse, and to put it bluntly, it is a zombie resurrection.

Everyone knows that zombies are going to eat human flesh and drink human blood, and the mourning hall immediately jumped up and down, making a mess, if you want to say that you are bold or an old uncle, you can stand on crutches and shout: Sister, sister, if there is anything that you can't let go, don't scare the family. After shouting for a while, I saw that the old lady was lying down again, and I had the courage to go up and touch the old lady's nose, and said angrily: Who is blind and says that my sister is dead, isn't this still angry?

Things are so weird, the old lady's second son is indistinguishable, scolded by everyone like a shrugged, had to clean up the smashed head on the ground and hide out, after this toss, the old lady actually has more air in and out every day, filial sons and grandchildren are dumbfounded, dare to love this spirit hall ready, but as long as people are angry, they can't bury the old lady alive, right? So I had to carry the old lady back to the hut where she had lived before.

The first strange thing is that I always see the old lady lying on the bed during the day, and the rice and porridge sent to me are not moved, but I also do not see the old lady hungry. But in the middle of the night, the old lady's family always felt that someone was walking gently in the yard.

The second strange thing is that the surrounding radius of a few miles, suddenly the rats are gone, someone saw the rats in the granary move during the day, in groups, panicked and fled, but everyone is not rich in the years, to say that the rat moved that is a good thing, but before he had time to be happy, the third thing happened.

The third thing is: the child is missing. At first, it was a baby who was less than a year old, and when the baby was gone, the 3 or 4-year-old children began to be unable to keep it, and people were panicked for a while, saying that the flower party was coming, and everyone squeezed the children in the middle to sleep at night, but when it came to dawn, the originally locked door was wide open, and the child on the bed was gone. How did this flower party sneak into the locked door without knowing it?

Finally, careful parents found that after the child disappeared, when cleaning under the bed or in the dust on the beam found shoe prints wrapped around small feet, in the early years of the Republic of China, the women who wrapped small feet are a little old, everyone then remembered the old lady who was resurrected by the raccoon cat, some people suspected that the old lady who came back to life was the raccoon cat wearing the skin of a dead man.

Suspicion is suspicion, no one dares to be so sure, but the rumors reached the ears of the old lady's son, and he couldn't sleep, and he was tossing and turning in bed that night, and suddenly heard a child crying softly in the yard, and suddenly stopped. The eldest son hurriedly got up and licked a small hole in the window, and saw the old lady in the courtyard under the moonlight as if she was holding something, and gently flashed into the room, and the eldest son got up and muttered: Isn't my mother unable to get out of bed?

Why did you suddenly go out for a walk at night, could it be...... The eldest son didn't dare to think about it, so he quietly pushed the door open, secretly walked to the door of the house, and slammed the door.

Under the moonlight, the old lady kneeling on the bed and facing the wall hurriedly lay down, looking at her son with half of her face and eyes, the eldest son walked to the bed and asked softly: Mom, can you get up and walk around?

What's that behind you? As soon as the old lady looked up, she revealed the other half of her face buried in the pillow, half of her hairy cat face, and blood was dripping down the cat's mouth, and she smiled gloomily at her eldest son......

The eldest son screamed, stumbled out of the threshold, turned over and pulled up the door and shouted: Come on, come on, help, my mother is possessed by flower skin.

The lights were lit up in various rooms in the courtyard, and after a while, everyone ran out with their clothes on, and roughly listened to what the son said, all of them stood on end, and they didn't care about the ugliness of the family, so they opened the courtyard door and called the neighbors to help.

Seeing so many people around him who were fighting sticks, he plucked up the courage to open the door and see: there was no old lady in the house, only on the kang there was a body of a boy who had been bitten and flesh blurred, and lifted the kang, and I didn't know when a big hole was dug up under the kang, and I didn't know how long it was, and there was a short and bold neighbor who led the rope and climbed in until the end, and found that the place where it came out was already on the mass grave.

Since then, there are often buried coffins that are not deep in the mass graves are cut out indiscriminately, and the corpses inside are gnawed to pieces, and later develop to the night when the living people passing by the mass graves are also disemboweled, and the intestines are dragged to the ground, and later the people in the town pooled money to invite a few hunters to collapse the old lady with the cat face who has not been able to tell whether it is a person or a cat, it is said that when cremated, the human skin is twisted in the fire, and no matter how you look at it, you feel that there is a tanuki-like thing under the human skin to be drilled out......