Famous ghost hunter, 24, dies in horror car crash after smashing religious statue with hammer to see if she’d be cursed

A GHOST hunting influencer had died in a horror car crash months after destroying a religious statue in a viral video. Jiang Xiaorou, 24, filmed a video of her destroying a statue of Guanyin, a Chinese Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, for her 1.3 million online fans. Xiaorou holding the religious statue, Guanyin, the Chinese Buddhist Goddess of Mercy Credit: Jam Press A broken religious statue depicting the Chinese Buddhist Goddess of Mercy Credit: Jam Press The shocking video shows Xiaorou, whose real surname is Li, swinging a pair of pliers hard onto the porcelain-like figure as an “anti-superstition” challenge where influencers claim to be provoking God in order to get them cursed. A few months after the viral video, Xiaourou was involved in a fatal car crash that claimed her life. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! On the day of the car accident, she was reportedly travelling back to Guangzhou from Guangxi in the early hours of July 15. She was a passenger in a ride-share car when the vehicle was involved in a disastrous crash. She had suffered severe brain injuries, organ damage and hemorrhagic shock. Medics immediately rushed her to Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital where she fell into a deep coma in the intensive care unit. Doctors put her on a ventilator unit and fought for a month to save her life. Her mother made an online plea to help her daughter, saying that the medical costs were overwhelming and the family could not afford to pay for her surgery. Most read in The Sun Xiaorou, whose real surname is Li, became an internet celebrity for making content exploring abandoned houses and testing taboo Credit: Jam Press Critics have said her stunts are disrespectful and that the car crash was karma Credit: Jam Press But earlier this week an official from her home village confirmed she had died on August 10. An investigation into the fatal car crash is still ongoing. Xiaorou, originally from the Hunan Province, amassed an online following of 1.3 million viewers Credit: Jam Press Xiaorou’s family has asked the public to let her rest in peace and to stop ‘wildly guessing’ about her online supernatural content Credit: Jam Press Xiaorou amassed a huge online following for her videos exploring abandoned ruins, ghost hunts, and pushing taboo to the limits. Critics of her stunt have lambasted the video, calling it deeply disrespectful. Some users have gone on to say that the car accident was karma for smashing the Goddess of Mercy statue. Her family are asking the public to stop “wildly guessing” about her online content and to allow her to rest peacefully. Comment now