China Body snatching

in china there reports in 2006 of resurgence in ancient practice of ghost marriages in northern coal-mining regions of shanxi, hebei , shandong. although practice has long been abandoned in modern china, superstitious families in isolated rural areas still pay high prices procurement of female corpses deceased unmarried male relatives. speculated high death toll among young male miners in these areas has led more , more entrepreneurial body snatchers steal female cadavers graves , resell them through black market families of deceased. in 2007, convicted grave robber, song tiantang, arrested chinese authorities murdering 6 women , selling bodies ghost brides .