This story is part of The Dweller Within series. If you haven't read Part 2, please read it from the link below.
I've written up to this point in the previous thread. With that as a preface, I remembered a little story I heard from a female friend's ex-boyfriend (let's call him E) and decided to share.
E once took B, his girlfriend at the time, to his parents' house. However, E's sister, who had always been kind and polite to all his previous girlfriends, was extremely rude to B. She picked unreasonable fights, poured tea over B's head, cursed at her with foul language—it was more like bullying than mere rudeness. E was infuriated by his sister's atrocious behavior, eventually calling her to the kitchen for a scolding, leaving B in the room, joined by their mother to reprimand the sister.
E's sister's excuse was, "The Buddhas in the cemetery behind our house are all freaking out and scared because of her! I hate having such a woman in our house!" E and his mother were dumbfounded by her reasoning and, despite her insistence, planned to take her to a psychiatrist soon, dismissing the conversation to return to B. Surprisingly, they found B asleep on a cushion, unresponsive to any attempts to wake her up. E's mother was shocked, and with E's sister incessantly nagging to kick B out, they decided to send B home with E.
This could have been dismissed as mere bullying between women, but what happened later was more concerning. As E's sister mentioned, there is a fairly large cemetery behind their house (with a temple beyond it), and the day after E drove B away, a commotion occurred in that cemetery. Overnight, dozens of gravestones were toppled, some split in half, others cracked, and some even had their inscriptions erased as if scraped off, causing significant damage.
Later, E heard rumors from his mother about the local area where several families had their graves repeatedly knocked down despite attempts to repair them. One family sought a spiritual medium, who advised, "It's no use. No matter how many times you fix the graves, your ancestors can no longer be called back to rest peacefully. It might be better to look for a different place for future burials."
It makes me wonder if B had a conflict with the spirits of the cemetery. And was E's sister able to see things others couldn't? Where did the disturbed spirits go? When I asked A about this after hearing the story, they said, "I don't want to think about it. But it's really sad, isn't it? It's like having a nuclear power plant move in next door when you're just trying to relax at home. It must have been a terrible situation for those people." Indeed, it's a situation I'd rather not contemplate.