In the past century, several instances of hundreds of people disappearing from Chinese villages overnight have been recorded, none were ever found, but villagers who were left believe something supernatural was to blame

Throughout the 20th century, numerous instances of hundreds of people in the same villages in China disappearing overnight, never to be found again, have been recorded. With all investigations failing to explain their disappearances, could there by truth to the claims of locals, that talk of the people being taken in the dead of night by strange figures?

⚠️ Based on the following sources: 《浙江民报》(Zhejiang Minbao), 5 December 1924, p. 7., 《广东省公安厅档案》(Guangdong Public Security Archives), 1950., 《雷州半岛民间故事集》(Leizhou Peninsula Folk Tales), 1989, p. 71., 《云南省民政厅档案》(Yunnan Civil Affairs Archives), 1937., 云南省档案馆 (Yunnan Provincial Archives), Kunming., 《西南边疆》(Southwest Frontier), May 1938, p. 22., 《中国民间故事集成·云南卷》(Compendium of Chinese Folktales: Yunnan), 2003, p. 417., 《四川省警政档案》(Sichuan Police Archives), 1947., 《中国民间故事集成·四川卷》(2001), p. 533.