The Story of Soul Tower in Dandong Town, Liaoning Province

The story of the Soul Tower in Dandong Town, Liaoning Province, involving more than 1000 lives, has been circulating for 85 years.

This site was the largest theater in Liaoning before liberation. 1937 A fire on the third day of the first month swallowed up more than 300 lives at the scene/kloc-0. Every night after the fire, ghosts are wailing everywhere in the city. In the end, they had to send a large number of wizards to practice for 7749 days and set up a soul tower to calm the anger of ghosts. From then on, this soul tower became a taboo, and those who tried to desecrate it paid the price of their lives.

In a blink of an eye, decades have passed. With the advancement of housing system reform, people have slowly moved from dilapidated houses to bright buildings. Under the constant waving of excavators, only the Soul Tower stands alone in this area. The driver turned around and the cold shovel slowly advanced to the Soul Tower. But at this moment, the excavator seemed to lose power, and then smoke came out. The smoke spread quickly and people could not see anything.

Story details

That year, the stage master specially invited the Fengtian team to sing three plays in a row, namely "Three Talents", "The Power to Kill Four Sides" and the last one "Pansi Cave". It was the third day of the first lunar month, that is, the first day of the New Year. But if the economy is not particularly difficult, they will use big cities to find teams and spend some money on theaters. It is normal to see lively and festive scenes. So I sold nearly a thousand tickets at a time, but some people still shouted high-priced scalper tickets. As a result, the number of theaters that could have accommodated 800 people exceeded the total number.

It is reported that the audience reached 1200 that night. There was a good play on the stage at that time, and people were very happy to see it. At this time, because the stove is too hot, the backstage is burning red, and the backstage Hu Sendai has been lit. But at this time, the audience in front knew nothing about it, and the actors were performing by themselves until the backstage teacher shouted fire. At this time, the audience wants to run. However, because there are many people, everyone wants to go out first. As a result, the entrance to the theater was blocked and almost no one could go out.

At this time, the guards at the entrance of the theater heard what happened inside. He thought someone wanted to escape the ticket, but locked the door and no one could get out. When the security guard found that there was a fire inside, it was already late. The fire killed almost everyone.