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The Haunted Traveler: Haunted Hong Kong

Published

7 years ago

May 1, 2017

Everyone loves to travel. We love to experience new places, new cultures and beautiful buildings. But there is another side of travel that some people, me included, appreciate. Out of the norm, out of the box and out of this world; I’m talking about being a haunted traveler. And today we’re taking a look at haunted Hong Kong.

A haunted traveler is someone who visits certain cities strictly for the paranormal places that exist there. It’s like visiting New Jersey for the Jersey Devil. Every month I will bring you a new city and the haunts and cryptids that live there.

This month and for the first city in our travels, we’re delving deep into haunted Hong Kong. I was lucky enough to sit down with some life-long Hong Kong natives to go over the scariest places on the island and the experiences people have there.

Tat Tak School, Yuen Long

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Widely considered one of the most haunted places in Hong Kong, this abandoned school is located right next to a cemetery. Although it hasn’t been in use for decades, those that travel near the school still have encounters. The most commonly seen is the “Red Lady,” a woman who hung herself in the girls’ bathroom while wearing all red.

Chinese superstition states that if you die wearing all red, you will return as a powerful and vengeful spirit. A story goes that while the school was still functioning, a young girl seeming possessed, attacked her fellow students and tried to bite them and then attempted to hang herself.

The Dragon Lodge (Lung Lo) 32 Lugard Rd, The Peak

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Whether it be the owner dying in the home, possible Japanese occupation during WWII, or nun decapitation, this place is known for its creepiness. Past restoration of the lodge has long since been abandoned and it sits vacant. The view from the grounds is gorgeous but inside it’s a different story. Many claim to hear the sounds of children crying on the premises.

Murray House, Stanley

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This colonial style mansion is one of the oldest and one of the many remnants of British occupation in Hong Kong. Originally located in Central District, it was moved brick by brick to Stanley after being named an historic building. While being used as a government building in the 60’s and 70’s, past employees used to hear the sounds of typing late into the night, even when they were the only ones there.

They felt so uncomfortable and has so many experiences that the building has been subjected to two separate exorcisms, one in 1963 and the other in 1974 and was the first televised exorcism. The government even gave permission for this to occur in its building. Like many of the other haunted locations throughout Hong Kong, this building was used during Japanese occupation in WWII as a command post and a place of executions for Chinese citizens.

Granville Rd 31, Tsim Sha Tsui

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This particular apartment is known throughout Hong Kong due to a grisly discovery in 1999. Called the Hello Kitty Murder, a young nightclub hostess named Fan Man-Yee was kept and tortured for a month in the home before being dismembered and her head found inside of a mermaid Hello Kitty doll. Many of the shops nearby find images on their CCTV of a young woman wondering in the shops long after close. After tenants refused to live in the building, the apartment building was demolished and a hotel built over it.

High Street Community Center, Sai Ying Pun District

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This community center was a mental hospital in its former life, leading those who have had experience to not only believe there are ghosts of the insane. During the Japanese occupation, the building was used as an interrogation center for Chinese citizens who were then taken to the King George V park across the street for execution.

After being abandoned in the 70’s and making it through two fires, most of the building was torn down and rebuilt as a community center, but pieces of the original building remain.

Many claim to hear women screaming in the community center and see balls of fire. Interesting fact: High Street is actually 4^th street but due to the fact that four (say in Cantonese) sounds like the word death with the slightest tonal change. Therefore, the street was renamed.

Ghost Bridge (Mang Gui Kiu/Hung Sui Kiu), Tsung Tsai Yuen

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On August 28th1955, a teacher and her students from the nearby St. James Primary School were having a picnic when a storm came. Seeking protection under the bridge from the storm, the teacher and students didn’t know where they were standing was used a drainage ditch during heavy rain. A flash flood occured and killed 28 people.

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A few survived the flooding under the bridge but most on the picnic perished. Bus drivers say that they often pick up phantom passengers or find that when their last ride is nearby that a passenger will just appear in the bus.

Don’t go away yet. There’s more haunted Hong Kong on the next page.

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Movies

‘Abigail’ Dances Her Way To Digital This Week

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12 mins ago

May 6, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Abigail is sinking her teeth into digital rental this week. Starting on May 7, you can own this, the latest movie from Radio Silence. Directors Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillet elevate the vampire genre challenging expectations at every blood-stained corner.

The film stars Melissa Barrera (Scream VI, In The Heights), Kathryn Newton (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Freaky, Lisa Frankenstein), and Alisha Weir as the titular character.

The film currently sits at number nine at the domestic box office and has an audience score of 85%. Many have compared the film thematically to Radio Silence’s 2019 home invasion movie Ready or Not: A heist team is hired by a mysterious fixer to kidnap the daughter of a powerful underworld figure. They must guard the 12-year-old ballerina for one night to net a $50 million ransom. As the captors start to dwindle one by one, they discover to their mounting terror that they’re locked inside an isolated mansion with no ordinary little girl.”

Radio Silence is said to be switching gears from horror to comedy in their next project. Deadline reports that the team will be helming an Andy Samberg comedy about robots.

Abigail will be available to rent or own on digital starting May 7.

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Editorial

Yay or Nay: What’s Good and Bad in Horror This Week

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2 days ago

May 4, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Welcome to Yay or Nay a weekly mini post about what I think is good and bad news in the horror community written in bite-sized chunks.

Yay:

Mike Flanagan talking about directing the next chapter in the Exorcist trilogy. That might mean he saw the last one and realized there were two left and if he does anything well it’s draw out a story.

Yay:

To the announcement of a new IP-based film Mickey Vs Winnie. It’s fun to read comical hot takes from people who haven’t even seen the movie yet.

Nay:

The new Faces of Death reboot gets an R rating. It’s not really fair — Gen-Z should get an unrated version like past generations so they can question their mortality the same as the rest of us did.

Yay:

Russell Crowe is doing another possession movie. He’s quickly becoming another Nic Cage by saying yes to every script, bringing the magic back to B-movies, and more money into VOD.

Nay:

Putting The Crow back in theaters for its 30th anniversary. Re-releasing classic movies at the cinema to celebrate a milestone is perfectly fine, but doing so when the lead actor in that film was killed on set due to neglect is a cash grab of the worst kind.

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Lists

The Top-Searched Free Horror/Action Movies on Tubi This Week

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3 days ago

May 3, 2024

Timothy Rawles

The free streaming service Tubi is a great place to scroll when you’re unsure what to watch. They are not sponsored or affiliated with iHorror. Still, we really appreciate their library because it’s so robust and has many obscure horror movies so rare you can’t find them anywhere in the wild except, if you’re lucky, in a moist cardboard box at a yard sale. Other than Tubi, where else are you going to find Nightwish (1990), Spookies (1986), or The Power (1984)?

We take a look at the most searched horror titles on the platform this week, hopefully, to save you some time in your endeavor to find something free to watch on Tubi.

Interestingly at the top of the list is one of the most polarizing sequels ever made, the female-led Ghostbusters reboot from 2016. Perhaps viewers have seen the latest sequel Frozen Empire and are curious about this franchise anomaly. They will be happy to know it’s not as bad as some think and is genuinely funny in spots.

So take a look at the list below and tell us if you are interested in any of them this weekend.

1. Ghostbusters (2016)

Ghostbusters (2016)

An otherworldly invasion of New York City assembles a pair of proton-packed paranormal enthusiasts, a nuclear engineer and a subway worker for battle.An otherworldly invasion of New York City assembles a pair of proton-packed paranormal enthusiasts, a nuclear engineer and a subway worker for battle.

2. Rampage

When a group of animals becomes vicious after a genetic experiment goes awry, a primatologist must find an antidote to avert a global catastrophe.

3. The Conjuring The Devil Made Me Do It

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren uncover an occult conspiracy as they help a defendant argue that a demon forced him to commit murder.

4. Terrifier 2

After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County, where his next victims, a teenage girl and her brother, await.

5. Don’t Breathe

A group of teens breaks into a blind man’s home, thinking they’ll get away with the perfect crime but get more than they bargained for once inside.

6. The Conjuring 2

In one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, Lorraine and Ed Warren help a single mother of four in a house plagued by sinister spirits.