The man lived in the well for three days because people thought he was a ghost

Residents have reported strange screams coming from a remote forest at night that grew louder and more intense.

A Chinese man fell into an abandoned well in Thailand and remained trapped for three days – his cries for help were mistaken by the villagers for the sounds of ghosts.

SCMP writes about it.

On November 24, local police in Mae Sot, Tak province, near the Thai-Myanmar border, received a report from villagers who heard strange screams coming from the nearby dense forest.

As police and rescuers headed into the woods to investigate, they suddenly heard a voice echoing back. Following the source of the sound, they found a Chinese man trapped at the bottom of a dry well 12 meters deep in the forest.

The rescue operation lasted 30 minutes, and the man was found in a weakened state with a fractured left wrist,…