A tourist got a shock from beyond the grave when he learned that there was a dead body under the bed of the hotel room he had rented in Tibet, the autonomous province of western China.
The traveler, a Chinese national identified only as Zhang, said he had requested a room change after noticing a lingering unpleasant odor, which he initially believed came from a bakery downstairs or even from his own feet, according to media reports. Chinese state.
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However, authorities contacted him two days later because they needed his help solving a homicide.
"I asked what had happened and they told me that someone had died," the man said, as reported by CNN.
"So I asked where and they told me under my bed."
The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, on April 25, 2023. China News Service / China News Service via Getty Ima
The authorities clarified that he was not a suspect in the alleged murder because they believed that the corpse had been there days before his arrival at the hotel.
A suspect in the murder was detained shortly after while traveling on a train bound for the city of Lanzhou, some 2,000 miles from Tibet.
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Zhang complained in an interview with Shangyou News that he left Tibet immediately and has suffered from insomnia since the incident.
"I stay up until 2:00 am or 3:00 am every night and the slightest noise wakes me up. [The incident] has left me in a bad state of mind," he said.
