Snarfd.com reports that "a ten-year haunting mystery in Guangxi City, China, has been solved by two ghost-busting brothers and a crowbar."
Apparently a five story building in the Chinese city was dogged by tales of things that went bump in the night. The persistent spooks had driven the value of the building down to a bargain $6,500, a price the brothers couldn't resist. After taking possession the brothers set about investigating the nocturnal noises, which were loudest in a first story bathroom. When they pounded on the floor the ghostly noises ceased, so they took a crowbar to it to see what lay underneath.
They discovered an ancient septic tank, and as they held their breath something in the dark, pungent murk moved. The mystery ghouls turned out to be a pair of 10 Lb catfish, and their eight offspring. The elder fish had jumped down the toilet several years ago, making a break for freedom, when the building previous building owner brought them into the bathroom in a bucket to clean them.
Seems the catfish were most active during the wee hours, and their thrashing was amplified throughout the building via its network of plumbing pipes. With the "ghosts" gone, the brothers' building is now worth a cool $135,000.00. Not a bad return for an evening's ghostbusting!
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