WINDSOR, Ont. ? A community of migrant workers from Thailand fear supernatural forces are haunting a house where two of their comrades have mysteriously died in the past month.
?They will not go back to that house. And I can?t blame them,? said Derry McKeever, a spokesman for the social advocacy group Friends of Farmworkers.
?The translator has told me that the workers feel that that house is haunted, and they are not going back there.?
McKeever said he?s made contact through an interpreter with the six remaining Thai nationals who used to live in the boarding house near Blenheim, Ont.
On March 27, the workers discovered the corpse of their countryman 37-year-old Phunsak Phathong lying on his mattress inside a room in the house.
About four weeks later, on April 24, 39-year-old Ulai Buapatcha was also found dead ? in the same room where Phathong died, according to McKeever.
?It was the first night that anybody had slept in the room where the previous individual had died,? McKeever said. ?They had all slept in the living room until that night.?
Buapatcha?s remains have yet to be released by Chatham-Kent police, who seized the house under the direction of the coroner.
An autopsy was conducted on the body last week, but the only details released thus far have been that further toxicology tests were necessary.
A postmortem done on Phathong?s body determined his death was due to natural causes.
McKeever said the surviving Thai workers returned to their jobs on Monday, and they are staying at the homes of friends.
?There may be some cultural significance around some of the issues that are going on here, with some misunderstanding and some superstitions or whatever else there is,? McKeever said. ?I come from an Irish background, and we wouldn?t go near that place.?
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