There was group of young hmong guys on a fishing trip. They arrive at their campsite and had finished set-up. Night came and they told fishing stories and scary stories. One guy, Fhong, was a timid and extra cautious kind of guy. He and asked if anyone had watched the news for the weather. All answered no. Joe told Fhong to relax, it’s the summer in the back country states, they won’t be expecting storms. Fhong checked his phone for weather news but no reception.
Early next day after some time, they had nothing but snags. One guy, Doua, had enough and was cursing, getting ready to jump in the water to retrieve some hooks. The guys stopped him and told him not to be crazy. Not long after, another guy Joe, was getting pissed, and he started cursing, “duck, all damn day got nothin’ man! What a haha, duck, I’d rather be ducking an ugly witch!” The other guys told him to calm down, he’s being too loud. Another guy, Kong, responded to Joe, “Hey dude, after you said witch, and after last night ghost stories, I wonder if this place muaj dab?” The others were saying, “man, that killed it now. Yea man. Yea… “. One of the guys, Meng, was saying how quiet the place has been so far – there had been no other campers on site yet, but seen only a few boats from the distance, which was strange. It went on like that for a while, the sun had already descended, soon to be sunset, the spot they were on had the sun at their backs and some cloudy patches above, so the water was dark. They were getting ready to pack up and relocate. They had all reeled in their lines except one guy. Right when he got his lure 8ft. from the shore. He caught something. The guys asked you got a big one? He said yea. They asked did he get to see what kind of fish it could be. He said no. It was putting a good fight. 20 minutes into the fight, he was getting tired, so he swapped. It went on for awhile, and they all had taken turns. Finally, back to the first guy, he was getting it closer to shore and saw ripples. He told the guys the fish was getting worn out. When they looked they can see some white and a black patch of dark vegetations. One guy was getting the net, the other guys said to forget it, two guys were going to drag it out. The guy reeling it in said, “shit, it’s stuck. I can’t reel it in anymore.” The other guys asked if he was serious because it’s now only about 4-5 ft. away from shore in at least 3-4 ft. of water, last they checked there weren’t any rocks or weeds there. They were all in disbelief and shaken-up by now. They figured to wait it out.
Moments later it finally came loose, looked as if it surfaced. They saw the patchy dark vegetation. They thought it was dead cos it had no tension to the line anymore, it was being slowly washed up shore by the currents. About 3 ft. away, they started seeing something with limbs and joints, crawling slowly out of the water to them. It was a poj dab, and it was in a raggedy dirty white dress, and looked very happy to see them. They were so scared, they barely had any ounce of strength left to run away. Then the poj dab kept crawling to them, as they kept crawling away and on all fours crawling for their lives, and it was talking to them in hmong, it pointed at Doua and said, “How come you did not jump in the water to get me, I was right there.” The poj dab also had many of their snagged lines and hooks all over its body. Then the poj dab pointed at Joe and said in hmong, “Your ugly witch is here. Let’s go to the tent, you and me.” Then it pointed at the others and mimicked what they said earlier “man, that killed it now. Yea man. Yea… “ then it added in hmong, “who killed me? Who? Who killed… me?” they all say they didn’t mean it that way, and they never killed anyone and they weren’t the ones who killed her. At the same time the poj dab was copying them. Fhong was thinking this poj dab is probably one of those copycat ghost – he also remembered they were saying “man” in what was repeated, so Fhong said back to it, “it was a man… a man that looked older than us.” the poj dab stopped and looked at them then started weeping horrifically. They were able to get strength back and ran away. They got to their car, locked all the doors, started it up, and looked back to the place and it was gone, but they can see puddles of water and a wet trail. They all were squirming in the cars as if scrubbing maggots off their bodies, when they realize none of them were wet. At that point they knew it followed them. They looked around but didn’t see it. To their surprise, it came out from the vegetation area. The body was all mutilated and decomposed. All the bones crushed, and the joints it had were dislocated, the head was dangling with a broken neck, it looked like a puppet on strings approaching them. It would fall on all fours like an insect with its face facing up and backward limbs, then it would get up again with its back running toward them but its face is looking at them with its mouth widely open the whole time. Then the guys would tell the driver to drive off and forget about all their belongings. They hit the road and was going top speed limit but they couldn’t shake it off. It looked like it was moving slow, but the faster they drove, the faster it came after them. The whole time the poj dab is still contorted with its back facing them but its face looking at them and its limbs flopping uncontrollably . The driver did a U-turn and was going to hit and run it over, the others said not to cos they would get sick and die cos they heard stories of these things, also the car would be damage. So, he backed up in reverse. When they looked at it, it was falling behind, so they kept driving in reverse and got away. They never went back...
They told about it to the elders. The elders did their stuff, they received protection and blessings. And they were told they were very lucky. The poj dab was very powerful. It can copy, manipulate, make illusions, and twist time and space and can control mind and matter. So when they were driving to get away, the thing was chasing them with its control of space and time and made it an illusion that it was going fast and so their minds were already controlled, but all one have to do, which they did by accident, is do as the trick and run/drive backward (just like if the opposite, then go with the opposite; if it was facing them normally and forward, then run forward normally) to get away because it was actually very slow. Most of the dead in that form (the “undead”) use those illusions or tricks. But if it was a ghost/spirit form it can travel with the air and disappear in the air and are faster travelers but most of the time, this form cannot physically contact a person but can possess. If it was a monster/demon form then it can do almost anything, and most in this form does not work alone – there would be more than one, but to one only does one thing until it all can come to gather on its victim -- but because these are more powerful, and rely on the other forms (“undead” and ghosts) to make a path for it in the human world, then it only become powerful, but there are more other methods to get rid of monster/demons as much as there to get rid of poj nxtooj. The guys know now, if they should ever meet another paranormal again.