On High Street in Hong Kong there is a haunted house with a long history of housing nurses as well as patients that are now haunting the building known as the Sai Ying Pun Community Complex
High Street, Hong Kong, is a one way street filled with stories and culture that connects to the Bonham Road and Pok Fu Lam Road in the Sai Ying Pun district, that referred to the military camps as it used to be a place where the British stayed.
The area above High Street was assigned to Europeans only and the Chinese were excluded from living there once upon a time. The street itself used to be called Fourth Street, but since the connotation with bad luck and death in China, the street changed its name to High Street.
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And the reputation of the street is like the reputation of its former name, haunted and cursed. So take a tour down High Street with us to experience all that this iconic destination has to offer.
As you stroll along High Street, you’ll encounter many sites and monuments of note, such as parks, schools, markets and mansions. One of the buildings is the Sai Ying Pun Complex (西營盤社區綜合大樓).
The High Street Haunted House
There are some dark mysteries surrounding the streets of High Street in Hong Kong. The Sai Ying Pun Community complex dates back to 1892 when it was built for hosting European nurses working at the Civil Hospital until World War II.
There was a lot to do, as even the bubonic plague ravaged the district in 1894 that wiped out entire streets and some of the ghost stories you hear about it today is from the unfortunate patients that didn’t make it.
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The Sai Ying Pun Community Complex was also where they reportedly executed people when the Japanese occupied China during World War II.
After the war the Sai Ying Pun Community Complex was turned into an asylum where the building was for female patients and what most locals know the building for. It was one of its kind back then and known as the mental asylum. This closed its doors in 1961 after the opening of Castle Peak Mental Hospital, but served as a day treatment center until 1971.
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Since then the Sai Ying Pun Community Complex has been known for being one of the most haunted places in Hong Kong and often the building was simply called High Street Ghost House.
High Street Ghost House
In the 70s, the Sai Ying Pun Community Complex was largely abandoned except for drug addicts from the nearby methadone clinic and teenagers coming to spray graffiti and talk about the ghosts they claimed to see there. There is not really one specific story about the building, but most dates back to its time as the mental hospital.
The ghost stories from the High Street Ghost House also bled through into the urban legends and ghost stories from the metro stations that were built underneath the area as well were stories about the ghost of the mental hospital wandered down to the underground stations.
Today the Sai Ying Pun Community Complex is a protected 9 storey building on the site with the arched verandas. There have been reports about headless ghosts roaming the corridors of the community complex and it is said it’s the spirits of the murdered victims and patients that died there.
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References:
Sai Ying Pun Community Complex – Wikipedia
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