Coming from the Philippines, there is a movie "Ghost Bride" in 2017 that is based from this. In the movie, the female lead started experiencing bad luck (apparently everyone around her dying for weird reasons) when she did things that the matchmaker told her not to do as a wife of a dead person. The movie was so creepy that made me think negatively of this subculture from China.

@koreanworldwithnika

Ай бұрын

I started watching but couldn't finish tbh it scared me 😢

You'd be surprised to know just how common it was, even up until just a few centuries ago and in multiple parts of the world, to make the living wife accompany the dead husband to the afterlife lol.

1:04:51 not on the 4th cuz 4 is pronounced "si" in mandarin which also means "die" so 4 is actually an unlucky number!!

When women can't even have peace in death...it's crazy.

I think this is extremely sad on both ends ( more for the women who were murdered). It’s horrible that not even in death these women can rest. And also the for families who think that they are doing a good thing for their passed loved one, having no idea they just participated in cutting someone else’s life short ☹️

4 is pronounced the same as death in Chinese so usually they avoid the number even on elevators there won’t e a 4th floor button it’s just 1,2,3,5…

There’s actually a comedy movie called “marry my dead body” and it’s also like this but without all the you know bad parts of ghost marriages but it’s funny, I recommend!

@asmrjournals6600

3 ай бұрын

The first thing I thought about! I loved that movie!

@YoongisAurora

3 ай бұрын

I watched it on Netflix yesterday. It was actually entertaining and sad but then it made me curious if this was a common practice, so wanted to research and saw Stephanie had a video on it. Now I'm going down the rabbit hole of others reacting to it.

When he sneezed, I jumped up and was so scared!!! man you have a loud sneeze

sebastine: did any of you watch flowers in the attic? me: OH MY GOD, THE TRAUMA OF THIS SERIES. you gotta watch the prelude where they tell the story of the grandparents because jesus christ it's even more fucked that the other movies... it all started with malcolm, corrine's father. anyway, there was a 2022 comedy taiwanese bl movie called "marry my dead body" where the male lead, a cop, gets a red envelope CHASING his ass and because of it he's forced to marry the ghost of the other male lead, otherwise he's gonna be jinxed for the rest of his life; he doesn't have to die to marry him tho... so yeah, ghost marriages are/were a thing.

@maliii266

4 ай бұрын

I also watched Marry My Dead Body, it was actually a great movie!

@kpopmulti_17

4 ай бұрын

oh i haven't watched it yet i didn't know there's a movie for flowers in the attic ???? i'm an avid v.c. andrews reader

@commercialgirl24

4 ай бұрын

The books are SOOO much better than the movies. The movies are still good, but they are honestly low key trash compared to the books.

@c0zycherry

4 ай бұрын

@@commercialgirl24 i haven't read the books yet (have them on my tbr, but i'm still traumatized by the movies and need a break honestly 😆) but the movies were so good - and every single actor did a wonderful job in each movie like good god it was a traumatic experience.

I’m not sure if you got my prior message but since you’ve been doing some pretty heavy content I would like to make a suggestion - you can take it or leave it. Stephanie Soo has a video called Cringy Text Messages a Taco & Burger King Mukbang. The first half is about a Chinese billionaire trying to throw game at a well-known lesbian. The second half is about Kris Wu “trying” to flirt. It’s pretty funny but also scary in hindsight.

There was a Episode on Hotel Delluna regarding ghost weddings aswell.

That sneeze gave me half a heartattacke but bless you!

Sorry this is completely unrelated but the odds of Seb posting this and I was just watching “Marry My Dead Body” a few hours ago 😭

For the live streamer; I can't even imagine the mental desperation she went through; as for the internet whoremongers? people need lives.The other stories were just unbelievable. I have never heard of ghost marriages, it's crazy to me. Humans though, evil money hungry assholes are just ridiculous. Greed! ugh

Jesus… They did a Bones episode about this.. it’s always the weirdest episodes on these shows that are actually based on reality 😧

wait that part she explained in 49:42 reminds me of marry my dead body

57:33 yeah that movie franchise is A LOT so is the books 😭😭😭

57:00 And Sun Wukong was born from a stone left by Nuwa when she repaired the sky.

i hate people like Z, lee and people who do cyber bully, like whats wrong with you?! and words can be a "deadly weapon". thats why we have to watch our mouth/words. I'm really curious, do the people who bullied Little Kitty feel guilty? And her ex who slandered her feel guilty?

It’s interesting as much as it is devastating. As a woman who grew up in America, you face certain situations almost daily just because of your gender. You’d think death would be the ultimate peace, but not even in death are you able to escape. I respect the culture fully, it’s just some things I can’t wrap my head around, but at the same time I can fully believe it. As wild as it is, there is no border when it comes to certain things, even things like what was discussed in Steph’s video. The world is a strange place, a beautiful grotesque place.

@ash-qu33n

2 ай бұрын

I'm a bit late, but it's not just this culture. America is a very very new country, meaning it naturally has little history or culture. If you go to other continents (which existed for thousands of years) you will experience A LOT of cultural differences.

' Marry My Dead Body' is a good movie with a ghost marrige in it

No this is insane

If you've seen the K-Drama "Hotel Del Luna" then this wasn't too much of a shock to your system because there was a whole episode on it. There are parts of Africa that do this too but it's usually, in my experience, where a couple have a child and then one of them passes before they are married. Apparently, the child's paternal ancestors will not recognize the child if the parents are not married so the parent that is left will marry the "ghost" of the deceased for the sake of ancestral rites and what not.

Some traditions should be abandoned. Just because it's traditional, does not make it a good idea. Slavery is a good example. This is true for all cultures

I'm 😂😂😂😂so hard at your expressions

If Adam and Eve kept everything familial we’d all be deformed.

because 4 is pronounced or the word is similar to the word death

i watched the Bollywood movie called "Mangal Pandey" a few years ago and blow my mind when in some part of the movie they showed a scene like that, the widow should be die burned, but the movie is a musical based on an iconic independence hero of India. I like it the movie and music.

Maybe it's just my western thinking but I can't even fathom this to be honest

"What happens on the 4th?" the number 4 is considered bad luck in a couple of Asian countries.

(52:38 has to?) 55:37 oh i read a short thing on it in my Chinese lit course 1:00:33 oh lol maybe you hadnt heard about the pyre thing yet?

58:00 There were many more people created. ,,Adam and Eve" is a symbol as ,,parents of humanity". The Bible has a lot of metaphors. When you read something from there you have to analize a little.

Yes

aAA I FORGOT ABOUT THIS ONE Absolutely not-- just variables, room for error, surveillance, fingerprints, toxicology, witnesses Giving a story but not knowing what witnesses are corrobborating or not Maybe I'd be good at planning Dang the title-- it was a multi thing

I actually have a friend who was adopted in china because her mother abandoned her because of that one child rule but thank goodness her adoptive mother took her out of there

Seb a question, have u watched any anime at all? Im curious coz it'd be fun to watch some with you on this channel. I really like your reactions.

@Sebastine

4 ай бұрын

I’m open to watching anime but for some reason I get overwhelmed by all the episodes, one day I have to get over that though, I’d love to get into it

@roses_are_rosies-g4h

4 ай бұрын

​​@@SebastineThanks for responding. I understand, take your time bro, it's sometimes overwhelming especially if they have like multiple seasons. But that makes sense.

@Sebastine

4 ай бұрын

@@Uchiha.Itachii I might have to get into that, I think the last one I tried to watch was jojo

@stopkook

4 ай бұрын

@@Sebastinei recommend jujustu kaisen!! it’s such a good and popular anime

@ttothek5367

4 ай бұрын

@@Sebastine jojo is a bit much for a beginner, i suggest onepunchman for a light introduction

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@treubaking

4 ай бұрын

NOT THE FREAKING TIME???

Oh how I love being a woman.. sike no i don't, well, sometimes i do

I've actually heard of this before. Its odd to me, but yes it is a thing. 🙀 I think i first read it in a Piers Anthony book decades ago❤ Ive read all the Flowers in the Attic books The bible was very incestuous.

😂😂😂😂 not Walmart tho

yippee !!

Wet corpse because they are decomposing, your fluids leak out.

Yeah... Who doesn't know that feeling? You discover that the body, which was buried is alive and instead of freaking out that this person was alive, you get annoyed that you did buy a dead body and now it's the other way around. The audacity! 🙄🙄🙄 Wtf are people insane? To answer your question at the beginning: I couldn't. I have no pokerface xD I literally would feel so bad about lying or faking everything that I would instantly tell someone that I ended someone's life 😅

How did the story just go from that streamer to just just Chinese tradition and ghost marriages with other people😭..

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I LOVE the movie Flowers in The Attic. The book is even more disturbing.