Locals reportedly believe that the deaths of 10 men in a community in the western province Tak, bordering Myanmar, were related… to a ghost of a widow. Some local men have even moved away for the time being until the “ghost” problem is solved. At one house, locals hung up a red shirt with a sign that read in Thai “No men inside the house” in an effort to prevent the spirit from entering and taking another soul.
Some Thais, mostly in northeastern provinces, believe that a ghost of a widow will take men’s souls to her husbands in the afterlife. Those men are said to die unexpectedly, some healthy with no confirmed cause of death. When a number of men in a community die around the same time, like in Tak, some will say a widow spirit is haunting the area, looking for a husband.
A 60 year old woman living in Tak told Thai media that more than 10 men recently died. Some of…
