A 14-year-old boy was so frightened to get a call from a number that belonged to a deceased neighbor that he began sharpening his martial arts moves at home to protect himself.

Alone at home last Wednesday night in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, the boy saw the caller ID on his parent's phone and went berserk. The neighbor died two weeks earlier.

He turned up the television volume as loud as it could go, switched on all the lights and called his parents using another phone.

After his parents rushed back home, they saw him doing kungfu. He learned that the dead man gave the phone to his housemaid who was calling to say goodbye before she returned to her hometown.