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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: China's Corpse Walkers

15 Oct 2025

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If you died away from home but wanted to be buried there, don’t worry – Taoist priests had you covered. They’d just have your animated corpse walk itself back home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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40.396 - 59.338 Josh Clark

Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck. It's just us, but Jerry and Dave are here in spirit. And speaking of spirits, we've got a pretty spooky real life Halloween adjacent episode, even though it's a real deal custom over in China.

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That's right, because spooky month continues. It's stuff you should know.

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64.105 - 71.341 Josh Clark

Yeah. So we're going to go, Chuck, today to the Zhangji region. There's no way you can't say region like that.

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71.582 - 71.902 Unknown

I know.

72.664 - 74.388 Josh Clark

Of Hunan province.

75.831 - 76.352 Chuck Bryant

You're doing great.

76.392 - 99.426 Josh Clark

That's in south central China. And if you go there, local custom will tell you that if somebody dies, if someone dies away from their home, especially their birthplace, they have to return back to it to be buried. Because if they don't, they will have a restless spirit that vexes the living, maybe even possessing them.

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Uh-huh.

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