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    Danielle LamBy Danielle Lam2021-09-29Updated:2021-10-07No Comments8 Mins Read
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    Halloween season is almost upon us. In honour of the month of retelling spooky stories about spirits and dark histories (as well as paying respects to the spirits of our ancestors on Double Ninth Festival), here are ten buildings and houses in Hong Kong that have creepy tales and ghost sightings associated with them.

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    Bela Vista Villa
    High Street Ghost House
    Dragon Lodge
    31 Granville Road
    Bridges Street YMCA
    Tat Tak School
    Cheung Sha Wan Abattoir
    Victoria Road Detention Centre
    Nam Koo Terrace
    Murray House

    Many of these places are accessible to the public, but adventurers beware… enter mindfully and leave before darkness falls to avoid accumulating negative juju.

    Bela Vista Villa

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    Bela Vista Villa condos (© Mk2010 via Wikimedia Commons)

    Bela Vista Villa is a complex of vacation condos on Cheung Chau island. Nicknamed the ‘Resort of Charcoal Suicide’, a rumour goes that a woman dressed in traditional red Chinese clothing killed her son and then committed suicide in one of the villas in 1989. It’s said that wearing this clothing when one dies makes one into a vengeful ghost.

    Since 1989, the beachfront villas have been the site of tens more suicides. Another local legend says that a girl committed suicide in one of the villas by burning charcoal and then overdosing on pills, after her suicide threats were ignored by her boyfriend. The area is said to be shrouded in yin energy, and residents report seeing a ghostly female figure in the buildings and on Tung Wan beach.

    Cheung Chau Beach Rd N, Cheung Chau

    High Street Ghost House

    Sai Ying Pun Community Complex sits on the location of Hong Kong’s first mental hospital (© Ystsoi via Flickr)

    Located on No. 2 High Street is Sai Ying Pun Community Complex. The building was previously the site of the old Mental Hospital, the granite facade and verandah of which have been preserved. Beginning operations in 1947, it was the first and largest psychiatric facility of its kind. The hospital was overcrowded and undermanned as Hong Kong’s population had quickly grown to 1.5 million. With little understanding about and stigma still surrounding mental illness, common psychiatric treatments included the use of drugs causing depressive symptoms or even deaths, electroconvulsive therapy, and in ‘severe’ cases, lobotomies. 

    During WWII, Japanese soldiers commandeered the hospital and it was rumoured to be used as a mass execution hall. Bodies were supposedly buried in King George’s Park across the street. The hospital permanently closed down when Castle Peak Hospital opened in 1961. Tales of ghost sightings and associations with war deaths and mental illness are cast over the building.

    2 High St, Sai Wan

    Dragon Lodge

    Dragon Lodge on The Peak (© Hiddenhk.com)

    What could be a highly desired property on the Peak is considered Hong Kong’s ‘most haunted’ house. The original owner of the mansion, estimated to have been built in the 1920s, went bankrupt, turning it over to a new owner who died inside the house; the third occupants were the Japanese army, some of whom reportedly decapitated Catholic nuns in the front yard. 

    At one point, the property was to be redeveloped by Hudson Group. However, the project was abandoned because the workers were convinced the site was haunted. Pictures taken by HKURBEX, an anonymous urban exploration group, show gruesome scratches all over the wallpaper, mouldy mattresses, and an exterior taken over by vines and overgrown grass.

    32 Lugard Rd, The Peak

    31 Granville Road

    The original 31 Granville Road building in Tsim Sha Tsui (© Szetoyanlun via Wikimedia Commons)

    31 Granville Road is the site of the horrific 1993 ‘Hello Kitty’ murder. Twenty-three year old club hostess Fan Man-Yee (樊敏儀) was taken captive by four people over a matter of a stolen wallet. She was tortured in the Tsim Sha Tsui flat on Granville Road for a month before being killed or succumbing to her injuries. 

    Her captors then dismembered her, most gruesomely leaving her head inside a Hello Kitty doll in the apartment. Fan’s heinous murder was reported to the police by one of the four perpetrators, a 14-year-old female who was in a relationship with another captor.

    The residential building was demolished and a hotel built over the site in 2016.

    31 Granville Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui

    Bridges Street YMCA

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    YMCA on Bridges Street (© CX257 via Wikimedia Commons)

    The YMCA on Bridges Street is known to most as housing the city’s first indoor pool, but it has a darker origin story going back to the mid-20th century.

    Japanese forces occupying the territory at the time used buildings on Bridges Street as barracks. When the Japanese army surrendered at the end of the Second World War, it’s said that a number of soldiers committed suicide in the barracks to avoid being tried for war crimes. Passersby have reported hearing sounds of military marching and crying coming from the YMCA building.

    51 Bridges St, Sheung Wan

    Tat Tak School

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    The entrance to Tat Tak School (© Hkchan123 via Wikimedia Commons)

    Tat Tak School was opened to provide schooling to Ping Shan villagers in Yuen Long district from 1974 to 1998. When the villagers resisted British eviction efforts, they were overcome and later buried on the site. Villagers fighting back against Japanese occupational forces were also killed and buried around the school. Further, shortly before the school closed, a headmistress wearing a red dress also supposedly committed suicide by hanging in one of the bathrooms.

    Rumours of an ominous energy and sightings of the headmistress’ ghost were already rampant when a group of students explored the school in 2001, one of them turning hysterical and biting her fellow classmate inside the building. Since then, Tat Tak has sat in ramshackle ruin of abandoned furniture and debris.

    Ping Shan

    Cheung Sha Wan Abattoir

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    Cheung Sha Wan Abattoir exterior (© Citobun via Wikimedia Commons)

    The Cheung Sha Wan Abattoir was one of three main slaughterhouses in Hong Kong that slaughtered tens of thousands of pigs, cows, and sheep. After the abattoir’s closure in 1999, the building was commissioned to be an arts compound. However, the plan was abandoned when artists pushed back, saying it had a haunted atmosphere. Today the building sits derelict, protected by barbed wire and guards.

    The abattoir is also well-known for the story of the ‘Spirit Buffalo’. In 1983, a buffalo about to be slaughtered cried out intensely and seemed to be begging for its life. The shocked workers released the animal to live out its life peacefully near a Tsz Wan Shan temple. After the buffalo’s death, a temple worker was visited in a dream by its spirit, proclaiming it was an animal deity. A statue was erected in front of the temple to honour the Spirit Buffalo.

    757 Lai Chi Kok Rd, Cheung Sha Wan

    Victoria Road Detention Centre

    Hong Kong’s ‘White House’ (© Government Property Agency)

    Also known as the Mount Davis Concentration Camp, a Special Branch of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force held political prisoners and suspected spies here during the 1967 Leftist riots. Nicknamed the ‘White House’, the building is also said to have been used to hold Taiwanese spies caught smuggling explosives to mainland China.

    Dissidents who were imprisoned there have revealed the poor conditions, describing ‘tin can’ single person cells lit 24/7 by blinding overhead lights that confused prisoners’ sense of time. Inmates were harshly interrogated and tortured and could be held for unlimited amounts of time, with little accountability on the special police branch. The White House sat without signpost and unmarked on maps, a living monument of painful memory, until it started housing the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in 2018.

    Junction of Victoria Rd and Mount Davis Rd, Pok Fu Lam

    Nam Koo Terrace

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    Nam Koo Terrace (© Tksteven via Wikimedia Commons)

    Called ‘Wan Chai Haunted House’, Nam Koo Terrace was built by a wealthy Shanghai family circa 1915. It was then seized during the Japanese occupation and used as a military brothel, with women forced to provide ‘comfort’ to Japanese soldiers. Rumours of haunting began when an owner, To Chak-man, died of unknown causes inside the mansion during WWII.

    Hopewell Holdings announced plans to demolish the Grade I historic building to make way for a hotel in 1993. Yet, no developments have occurred. Urban explorers and passersby tell tales of hearing people screaming from inside the house or seeing strange shadows in its dark windows.

    55 Ship St, Wan Chai

    Murray House

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    Murray House in Stanley (© Hankt via Wikimedia Commons)

    Today, Murray House overlooks Stanley Bay and houses day-tripping attractions. However, it first served as a British officers’ mess as part of the military complex erected in Central in 1844 after Hong Kong was ceded by China. During the 1941 Battle of Hong Kong, the Japanese army seized it for use as a military police headquarters. It housed torture chambers and jail cells, and up to 4,000 people are said to have been executed inside its walls.

    After Japanese occupation, the building housed government workers. In 1963 and 1974, exorcisms were conducted to ease workers’ fears about strange supernatural activity. Few ghost sightings was reported after the exorcisms. When the land under Murray House was sold for a Bank of China branch in the 1980s, the structure was dismantled and later rebuilt where it stands today.

    96 Stanley Main St, Stanley

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    Born in Canada, Danielle is deep diving into the things that make Hong Kong a city of intermingling identities, and bridging the information gap as someone trying to navigate the city herself as a cultural inbetweener. Sometimes this means examining culture and local people’s stories, and other times it means drinking all the milk tea and doing walking explorations of peripheral districts.

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