The reputation of a Chinese city has never recovered after a series of horrifying events.
Nehe is a county-level city in Northeast China that's been shaped by an incident involving a young woman named Xu Lixia in the late 80s.
It's said that Xu had just walked out on her husband and was sitting at Nehe’s railway station trying to work out the next stage of her life.
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That's when a well-dressed man approached her to ask if she was OK.
At this time, Nehe was beginning to develop a dark reputation as women, mainly sex workers, started to go missing in droves.
Because of this, Xu reportedly decided to decline the man's invite to his home.
But as he walked away, the young woman thought that perhaps this man, called Jia Wenge, simply had good intentions.
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“Even though Xu had really appreciated everything this guy had done to this point, the second he asked her to come back to his house, red flags started going up in Xu’s mind,” YouTuber Mr Ballen explained on his channel.
On deciding to visit his home for a cup of tea, it's reported that she soon felt dizzy and delirious.
What happened next was truly terrifying, as the podcaster added: “She was immediately hit by a horrible smell - but it was totally pitch black and she can't see anything. She began feeling around her, and she felt stone everywhere she touched.
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“Eventually she realised she was in what seemed to be the bottom of a well. But it wasn't water she was standing in - she was standing in something that almost felt like jelly.
“It was people. Dead people and potentially even some half-alive people that were just stuffed into this big pit.”
Two weeks on, the parents of a young Nehe businessman reportedly filed a missing person's report and police were hesitant to use their resources on the case.
However, everything changed when an eagle-eyed police officer spotted the same mysteriously well-dressed man at the railway station, who kept avoiding him.
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The man, known as Jia, reportedly broke out into a run with two others.
Police nearby managed to catch up to the men before quickly rounding them up.
Jia Wenge and another man, Li Xiuhua, refused to talk, but the third eventually cracked under questioning
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After visiting the killers home, police concluded that these men were responsible for up to 40 murders across the city.
But wait - it gets worse.
It turns out that Xu had been convinced to become Jia's accomplice and helped him carry out a number of the murders.
All four were executed on 24 January, 1992, and Nehe's reputation has remained somewhat tarnished ever since.
Anish Vij