The story of the cursed house in Nanjing, which dismembered the man, and that brings troubles to its owners

On the outskirts of Nanjing is a three-story house with a dark past and low price. It has seen better days: the branches of the vine crawling on a rusty wrought-iron gates, the yard is covered with lichens, and the door came into complete disrepair.

Seven years ago there was a brutal murder with the subsequent dismemberment of the corpse. Writes the Sixth Tone, according to Chinese superstition, the house where there was a violent murder, haunted, hungry for revenge.

Most Chinese investors avoid these houses, believing they would bring bad luck in career, health and business. As a result, prices for these homes are usually extremely low. But since real estate prices in major Chinese cities went up, even for a "haunted house" now have to compete, because they found a lot wanting.

When the house in Nanjing was put up for auction in June 2018, its initial price was set at 4.35 million yuan ($ 676.000) is about 10,000 yuan per square meter. For Villa of 420 square meters, with nine bedrooms, seven bathrooms, two living rooms, a pool and a garden, it was like a gift. For comparison, other objects in the same area usually cost about 40,000 yuan per square meter — a significant price in Nanjing, where the average annual disposable income last year amounted to 48,104 yuan.

The same Villa is estimated at 20 million yuan, according to information from real estate agents in this area. Low price of this house was largely due to his criminal past.

In February 2011, a 49-year-old Tian Mingcheng was killed and dismembered in the garage of the Villa of his wife. Two days later, hikers found the bag with his body parts thrown halfway up the mountain behind the Villa. Murder of Tiana immediately became very confusing. When the police found his body, they were surprised because there was already a message about his death in a car accident in 2006.

After further investigation police found that the crash killed actually the younger brother of Tiana, but after his death, Tian and his wife Xue Liping decided to hide the identity of the real victim from the police so they could claim 10 million yuan of insurance. Within five years, Tian lived in the underground. In the end he was tired of hiding and he came back to the Villa to pick up your passport and leave the country. When he returned, his father-in-law Jinghong and Xue Liping killed him with an ax, fearing that his appearance will disclose their insurance fraud. In December 2013, Nanjing people's court found them both guilty of murder, and sentenced 70-year-old Jinghong to death by hanging. Liping received a life sentence for complicity.

In 2014, the businessman surnamed Zhang gained criminal a Villa, but then he started business and he pawned it. When Zhang went bankrupt (then went to many rumors, that the curse of the Villa worked), the ill-fated Villa foreclosure in June of this year, the house was again put up for auction. More than 400 thousand people have signed up in June to view the auction on the e-Commerce platform Alibaba Taobao. After 138 rounds of trading between users 22, damned Villa was sold for of 7.86 million yuan, the buyer named Liu Jianhong. Given the low starting price for such a home that seems a good price, however typically, these villas are no less than 13 million yuan.

The new owner seems still afraid to live in it. By September, the Villa is still empty and no one lives. But other potential buyers seem to not fear the curses of the house.

"It's not scary at all," says one of the to bid woman, "of Course, I was not afraid to live inside the Villa. There are very few large houses which would not die people, and this is also such a good price".

Another user said that he is much more afraid of poverty than of ghosts.

What do you think, the Feng Shui about houses? Surprisingly, they have a pretty positive opinion.

"Accidents that occur inside homes, caused by the collision of human destiny with the [metaphysical] the attributes of ownership. Someone could have died here, but that doesn't mean you can't lead a good life here," says master Feng Shui Qiu Hongsan However, he immediately added that there are houses with this set of "memories" that they will need Taoist purification rituals.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»