The Cursed Village

There have been many mysteries that have originated in China, and I am about to tell you one of them. There are plenty of villages in China. Some are strange, and some are normal. However, is there no village, town, city, state, or country that doesn’t have its odd people, strange tales, and suspicious whisperings?

The village of Yangsi, China, maybe a town you have never heard of, but it is a village that you’ll soon remember. Yangsi is located in the Sichuan Province. There are only eighty villagers, but that’s not the reason they are famous. The Chinese government has banned visitors to Yangsi because of the mystery surrounding it.

What the region around the area looks like.

Yangsi was claimed to be cursed. There are a couple of different stories of how they were cursed. One story is that the village felt dark forces descend upon the village because the citizens believed they were cursed because of their ancestors’ anger over improper burials. Another story is that a turtle cursed the village. Villagers cooked and ate a black turtle, and soon after, that’s when the curse hit. However, no one knows the real reason for the strange curse.

Over 60 years ago, a curse befell the villagers. A curse that caused a disease to plague the town. The disease affected the younger children, ages five to seven the most. The disease caused them to stop growing. Most people know this medical condition as Dwarfism. However, the condition only appears in 1 of 20,000 people. Around half of the villagers have Dwarfism. This is a medical anomaly that so many people in one village would have the same rare condition. It is said that several hundred dwarfs were residing in the Sichuan region at one point.

Some of the children who got it also appeared to suffer from other disabilities. They had children who only grew up to be around 3 feet tall.

It seems like, after all of these years, the villagers are growing out of the disease. The youngest generation has seen a decline in the medical condition.

Who knows what caused it in the first place? Was It a curse? Was it just human nature? We may never really know. All and all, I’d say that if the villagers are happy and they feel normal, that’s all that matters.

Sites I got my information from: https://listverse.com/2015/02/25/10-strange-mysteries-from-around-the-world-that-are-still-unsolved/ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/06/the-mysterious-chinese-village-of-dwarfs/