Residents near in a housing compound in Hangzhou were rightfully spooked recently when a number of people reported hearing baby crying sounds each night at 3am coming from a nearby public toilet.

Residents reported the strange incident to local Changqing police officer Shen Hong. Rather than dismissing the reports as silly, Shen Hong freaked the residents out further by claiming that the toilet was built directly on a small pit that claimed the life of a toddler thirty years ago.

On September 2, Shen Hong was on night duty when he received another call at 3am to say that the baby sounds had started again. He immediately headed to the toilet and low and behold, also heard the sounds! Despite being scared out of his wits, Shen Hong stayed on to listen to the sound more carefully. It was then that he realized the sound wasn’t coming from the toilet at all, but from the janitor’s room next door.   

Upon further inspection, Shen Hong finally lifted the lid on the strange phenomenon: the baby sounds was the ring tone of the janitor’s wife’s phone. She worked as a cleaner and set an alarm clock each night at 3am so she wouldn’t miss her shift. With the kind help of Shen Hong, the woman changed her ringtone and local residents can now sleep in peace.

Source: stnn.cc

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