Regarding the story which happened at the slaughter house in Lathrop, I don't believe it's true. OG's have always said that if a poj ntxoog is caught especially by hands, one must hold on to it without replacing hands. Once you replaced hands, that's when the poj ntxoog is likely to escape and put something in its place. Also, if it was real and higher authorities were called, I'm sure it would've been on the news in a way of the sort.
I remember back in refugee camp Nam Yao in thailand, my dad and his cousins were trying to catch a poj ntxoog that had been possessing one of my uncle's wife. It would make her act crazy and start yelling at nothing. Whenever this happens and it usually happens during the night around the wee early mornings...the time when the OG's call it...Ntuj Sib Faib Sia. It's when night fading away and dawn is approaching.
This happens pretty much almost every night, and they did everything they could to hopefully help with her. Nothing seems to work, until one of the uncles realized that whenever this happens, there was always a cat inside the house. When they would do shaman and run around my aunt, the cat would leave the house through a hole in the wall and not longer afterwards, she would return to normal. So after realizing this, they came up with a plan to chase the cat out and capture it with nets. The houses then were built with a moat around the side of the house where rainwater would be drained away. They knew where the hole in teh wall was and they've created a path using nets to guide the cat to a location where they can capture it. My dad was one of the ones at the end location where the cat was suppose to be net and caught.
When the time approached for my aunt to be possessed again, the cat would all of the sudden just appeared in the house. They did their stuff and the cat ran out the hole in the wall. They started yelling that IT was coming and my dad and a couple of other cousin of his were ready to pound this cat with big ol branch-like bats. My dad tells us that while they were waiting at the end location, they would hear this loud noice rushing their way. It seemed like a huge animal (beast) of the sort was running at them hard. They got ready and as the cat came around the corner, all they saw was a cat, but the eyes were slanted upright and they knew it was the one. It ran straight into the net they've set up, but one side of the net came loose as the cat was struggling in there. They beat on the cat but it managed to get out throught the loose side. It headed straight torwards the bamboo forest and down to the woods. They said it sounded like an elephant running in the woods.
I am not sure what happened after that, since not long after, we've moved to the US. My aunt is still living and she and my uncle are in MN....
