From Beyond Vol. III

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Today's podcast will feature three spooky stories about messages from beyond. The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode. The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description. The first story you'll hear is called Into the Coffin, and it's about a brother who comes up with a genius plan to catch his sister's killer. The second story you'll hear is called Another Nightmare, and it's about a woman who insists that her house is haunted. And then a seance reveals a secret hidden in her basement. And the third and final story you'll hear is called The Grey Man, and it's about a couple who encounters a mysterious man in grey while walking the beach. But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark & Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right place because that's all we do, and we upload two, three, even four times every week. So if that's of interest to you, the next time you're at the beach with the Follow button, wait until they take their sun hat off so they can go run in the water, and while they're gone, fill their hat up with sunscreen. Okay, let's get into our first story called Into the Coffin.

At 8 a.m. on August 22nd, 1974, a young man named Leo Fung sat on a long bench inside of a public mortuary in Hong Kong. He was sitting with about a dozen of his closest family members, and they were all facing the front of the room, looking at an open wooden coffin. Inside of the coffin was the body of Fung's older sister, 34-year-old Liu Fumin. Today was her funeral, and it was supposed to be a time for Fung and his family to come together and privately mourn their loss. But they couldn't do that, because they were literally outnumbered by the amount of newspaper reporters who were also in the room. And the reporters were milling around, taking notes, and even taking pictures of the body in the coffin. And this really upset Fung, because in his mind, the reporters were not treating his sister like a person, they were treating her like the salacious headline she'd become ever since her death.

So one week earlier, Fung's sister Fumin had been found strangled to death in a hotel room in Hong Kong. She had clearly been murdered. But that was not what had made her case such big news. What had made it news was the fact that Fumin had been found without her face. Her killer had cut off her eyebrows, her eyelids, her nose, and her lips. And so now, as she lay in her open coffin, she looked grotesque. Since she didn't have eyelids, it looked like she was staring straight up at the ceiling with these huge, glassy eyes, and without lips, it looked like she was bearing her teeth in this horrible morbid smile.

But for Fung and probably the rest of his family, the worst part of all of this was not even the media attention. It was the police response. They hadn't arrested anyone for the crime yet. His sister's murder was still unsolved. And so as Fung is watching these reporters mill about, treating his sister like she's just some freak show, and he's thinking about how disrespectful her killer was to her body and how the police seemed so incompetent, it made him just so mad.

But there was one thing that did bring him comfort, and that was the fact that he had actually come up with a plan that he believed would help him solve his sister's murder. And today, he was going to put that plan into action.

Fung sat quietly with his family throughout the funeral service and tried his best to ignore the reporters. And then finally, when it was time for everybody to say their final goodbyes to his sister, Fung walked up to the front of the room, he reached into the pocket of his jacket, and he pulled out a giant knife.

The next evening, on August 23rd, a police officer was doing her regular nighttime patrol through a neighborhood in Hong Kong that was not very far from where Liu Fumin's funeral had been held the day before. And as this policewoman was walking along, she glanced down an alleyway, and she saw something that made her immediately stop in her tracks. There was a guy who was just laying on the ground, basically laying in this limp heap, and when she walked up to him, she could see there was blood all over him, and some of his limbs were twisted and contorted and obviously broken. I mean, he looked like he had fallen from a great height. The policewoman immediately called an ambulance and then ran to the man's side, and sort of unbelievably, she found he was still alive. And so she asked him what happened, and the guy who was obviously in pain, he just kind of looked up towards, like, the building right next to them. And as he's looking up, he said a woman had pushed him.