Ghost press ('Guei-Ya-Chuang' in Chinese)

Someone asked me to tell 'em some superstitions that I know. So this is what I wrote on the forum of this week. Most Chinese must have heard this term - 'Guei-Ya-Chuang'. This is a phonemenon that a people can't get up from the bed; even though their minds are clear, somehow they can't move their bodies by themselves. Some believe that it is because the ghost is pressing their body down. By the way, Chinese sometimes just call ghost 'that'. When I was still being trained in the military, a commander of mine told us that 'Guei-Ya-Chuang' once happened to a soldier in our barracks. ####################################### # Story by the commander ####################################### The soldier said he sometimes can see the ghost. Surely none of the captains believe him. One day he told the captains nervously, "captain! captain! I saw 'that'just now!" "Where?" "In the room!" The captain looked at the room, and there was nothing. "Fxxx!! (<= Well, the language in the military is quite rude, you know) Are you sure you saw 'that'!!" Then the captain went away. Several minutes later, the soldier told the captain more nervously that the ghost showed up again. The captain went to the room and ...still nothing. Surely crash course again. And something strange happened that night. In the military everyone have to go patrol for 3 hours by turn. It was the soldier's turn at 2 o'clock. The previous patrolling soldier came to his bed and was going to wake him up. When he came to the soldier's bed, he found the soldier was very strange: his body was shaking and (freezingly) cold. He opened his eyes largely and was gnashing his teeth. No matter how the previous soldier called him, he never get up. The captains called by the previous soldier came the bedroom and were surprised by what they saw. "Maybe this is the so-called 'Guei-Ya-Chuang'!" They tried everything came to their mind to wake him up, including: called him, shouted at him, patted him, poured cold water, shook him violently, pull his hairs, beat and kick him (yes, literally beat and kick...), and put captains' "leading belt" (Well, another superstition. In the military, leading belt is said to have the function of expelling evils). And all fail. ####################################### # End of the story ####################################### That was the first time that I heard 'Guei-Ya-Chuang' in the barracks. At last the soldier was awaken up with some method. Unfortunately I can't remind how they awoke him at the moment...I'll update this story as soon as it comes to my mind.