Hanging Coffins of Bo

     

            It sounds other-worldly, right? “The hanging coffins“- like a macabre chandelier on a moon of Saturn. But go no further than Southwest China where a few hundred ancient coffins dangle precariously on the side of a cliff. The coffins were placed there by the Bo people- an extinct ethnicity of China who apparently preferred their dead as auspiciously displayed as possible. Not content to simply place their deceased in the ground like sane people, the Bo hammered wooden stakes onto the sides of mountains and lowered the single-piece coffins down on ropes. No one’s sure why on Earth anyone would want to visit mom from a thousand feet below, but our guess is that the Bo had a running pool as to who’s father-in-law got to first smash onto a rock floor at 60 miles per hour.