It sounds like a Tim Burton film, but the reality is much creepier: Chinese police have arrested 11 people in the country's east who are accused of playing a role in a "ghost marriage."
In the ancient custom, a man who dies single is laid to rest with a dead "spouse" to ensure he isn't a bachelor in the afterlife.
Though stealing corpses is now a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison, the tradition persists in rural areas, with families even turning to matchmakers to find the right dead body to marry.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/11-arrested-after-corpse-_n_6077022.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird+News
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