In a bizarre and horrific incident that happened two weeks ago, a pig attacked three men who received serious injuries needing hospitalisation and terrorised a village on the outskirts of Apia.

The incident has left many in the village claiming that the pig was possessed and rumours of superstition have become rife within the village.

The incident is the talk of the village of Laulii. Coincidentally all the men who were attacked by the pig are from one family.

Some of the villagers who witnessed the incident say the pig was so big that it chased after village men and quickly shrunk when it was put down after midnight. 

Since the bizarre incident, the people of Laulii said most people have avoided being outdoors late at night, especially the youth. 

Filipo Sosaiete, 32-year-old of Laulii was the first person attacked by the pig, he spoke of how he thought he would not live to see the next day. 

His cousin was also attacked shortly after him and sustained injuries to his chest. 

Sosaiete’s uncle was the third person who was attacked not far from his house and got injured on his shoulders and thigh. 

"I was lying in the hospital and next to me was my cousin and further down was my uncle all from the same incident," he said. 

The uncle was admitted again to the national hospital at Moto’otua on Thursday when he started feeling acute pain from the injuries.   

But Sosaiete was the one who has been hospitalised since the incident with serious injuries to his lower body particularly his genitals and legs. 

“I touched the pig’s ears and it jumped towards me and started bulldozing me,” Sosaiete told the Samoa Observer of what he faintly remembers. 

“I didn’t move I just lay there while the pig continued to attack me. When I gathered some strength I got up and rushed to my uncle’s house and got taken to the hospital.” 

Sosaiete said that was all he could remember and the rest faded into darkness. 

He said he was under the influence of alcohol on that night and was heading to someone’s home when he was attacked. 

Asked why he touched the pig, the single man said it was in front of him while he was making his way to where he was going and thought it belonged to someone from the village. 

But when he touched the pig’s ear it provoked the animal. 

Because of the seriousness of the injuries he needs someone on his side most of the time to care for him and help him get out of bed. 

“I can only sit for a little while then I have to lie down because of injuries to my buttock,” he said. 

The 32-year-old now has to get used to a new norm of using a tube when he urinates. 

Several villagers of Laulii said this was the first time they had seen and heard of a pig terrorising the village. 

Sisifo Siose recalled seeing village men being armed and getting chased by the pig. 

Her father is 61-year-old and was the last person that was attacked by the pig before it was put down. 

She remembered her father walking out of the house with a spear to kill the pig when he saw villagers roaming and chasing after the pig. 

“My dad went out with his spear but he didn’t expect it to jump at him and that’s how he got hurt,” said Mrs. Siose. 

“It was really strange that even when the armed men attacked the pig with the machete and threw rocks at it, it didn’t injure it or slow it down. 

“But one of the men threw a rock at the pig’s head and that’s when it fell and got put down.”      

The villager said the pig lay in front of their home for two days before they took it out to burn. 

Asked why they didn’t remove it straight after, she said, the hospital didn’t believe it when they were told that her injured relatives were attacked by a pig. 

“So we kept it here in case they needed evidence to prove that it wasn’t from a fight it was the pig that did it,” she said. 

One other villager said the pig belonged to one of the neighbours but had been on the loose for more than two years and hadn’t been seen until the incident last month.