The Shaanxi Village that Disappeared
As Smithsonian’s Air and Space Magazine reported in 2013, “The village that used to border the launch center has disappeared, as if it never existed. In the end, the story is perhaps best filed under China Unsolved’s “unproven” folder, alongside the Cat Woman of Harbin and the 1995 Chengdu Zombie Outbreak. On the other hand, the idea of a hyper-paranoid Chinese government vanishing an entire village under cover of darkness isn’t logistically impossible. Humans, cats, dogs, livestock — all disappeared from a Shaanxi village, seemingly overnight. One of the story’s sources is an obscure novel called Chinese Archives, the contents of which may have permeated into urban myth, like Hanging Rock. source: https://supchina.com/2018/07/11/china-unsolved-the-village-that-vanished/