Uncover stories of battles and defenses that shaped Hong Kong’s past at the Museum of Coastal Defense. According to the legends, there are also tales of ghosts of the fallen soldiers, and also the ghost of a dismembered woman wearing white.
Step back in time and explore the enthralling world of coastal defense at the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defense (香港海防博物館). Discover fascinating stories of powerful battles, ancient defenses, and history’s impact on this remarkable region as you explore this former coastal defense fort. And if we are to believe the legends, a haunted one at that.
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Overlooking the Lei Yue Mun channel near Shau Kei wan on Hong Kong island’s beautiful coastline, the museum is home to picturesque artifacts and historical treasures from across Hong Kong’s long and varied past.
Centuries of Defense over the Hong Kong Island
The Museum of Coastal Defense was built around an original fort that the British constructed in 1887. During the Second World War, this fort and others like it helped to protect Hong Kong from potential invasion.
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defense
The area has been used as a fortress of defense for much longer though, as far back as the Ming Dynasty and they have an exhibition titled “600 years of coastal defense”.
The same goes for the opium wars when Hong Kong became a British Colony as a result of the First and Second Opium wars.
Perhaps the place is best known from the battle on December 8. in 1941 when Japan attacked Hong Kong Island during the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Kowloon, the British fortified their defense to keep the Japanese forces coming over the Devil’s Peak and crossing over the Lei Yue Mun Channel, although they were eventually overrun and ended up under Japanese occupation throughout the war years.
Haunted Rumors at Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defense
So who is haunting this place? First and foremost people believe it is haunted by soldiers that died in the battles that were fought there over the years.
The ghost of the soldiers is not the only thing that are said to be haunting the place. There have also been reports about a woman in white that are supposedly haunting the halls of the museum.
Late at night when the security guards are patrolling the museum they have heard distant screams in the corridors. There is also talk about a woman with long hair, but only half a body around in Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defense.
Visitors are also said to have spotted this ghostly woman wearing all white.
After a terrible flooding accident on the Mang Gui Kiu Bridge in Hong Kong, there have been several reports about drivers and passerby seeing ashen faced ghost children waving at them, hoping that someone will finally get them out from the place
In Tsung Tsai Yuen (松仔園) in the Tai Po district in Hong Kong there is a bridge that drivers claim to be haunted. Ever since the 1950s have the Mang Gui Kiu Bridge (猛鬼橋) Nearby there is a monument that can perhaps shed some light at just who it can be haunting this bridge.
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Tsung Tsai Yuen is still a popular place to have an outdoor picnic because of the beautiful scenery and the long river below. The Mang Gui Kiu Bridge was originally called the Hung Shui Kiu, meaning Bridge of Flooding because of being flooded because of rain frequently. This is what led to the tragedy on that day 1955 when 28 children died.
The Flooding Accident in 1955
On 28th of August in 1955 there was a group of teachers from the St. James’ Settlement that were driving through with children from the Tai Po Rural Orphanage. The teachers and students were on a week-long trip and were having a final picnic before returning home.
At 13:30 in the afternoon they got caught in heavy rain and they all ran to take shelter under the Mang Gui Kiu Bridge. But it rained too hard and the bridge was flooded and a sudden landslide washed them away. There were only a few survivors, but it is said that many of them remained as ghosts, haunting the bridge to this day.
The Ashen Faced Children Ghost by Mang Gui Kiu Bridge
They claim to have seen ashen-faced children waving in the dark at passing cars at night, running over the nearby roads.
There are even some locals that have claimed to have seen their children both holding hands and playing with just air at times, almost like there are some ghostly children there with them.
Taxi and bus drivers have also said that they have experienced passengers that get into their vehicles only to vanish into thin air as soon as they turn on the engine and lights.
The Ghost Passenger
One of these stories was aout one of the bus drivers that drove the route passed Mang Gui Kiu Bridge with an empty bus when he saw a woman. She got onboard, but the driver noticed that there was only a crumpled piece of chinese ghost money in the cashbox, not real money for the living.
He shouted back at the pale woman that had just stepped onto his ride, but when he turned there was no one there. He thought to himself that it had to be a ghost and kept on driving to not offend the spirit and perhaps even help her.
When approaching the next stop he saw that the signal light was on and he pulled into the stop and opened the door, even though no passengers stepping on or off was in sight.
Then he suddenly hears a voice saying Thank You.
The Ghosts of Marching Soldiers
This is not the only haunted tale from this area though. It is said that the nearby village, the Dan Kwai Village was an alleged execution place during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937-1945, primarily a conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
It is said that the blood of the executed were washed into the water under the Mang Gui Kiu Bridge, coloring it red.
Years later it was reported about the sound of soldiers marching from the locals and seeing their ghosts at midnight.
When they tried to remodel the historical Lui Seng Chun building in Hong Kong everything went wrong and it was believed the whole process was cursed. After it was abandoned, people passing by kept seeing ghosts haunting the place.
In the 1980s, construction workers were planning to remodel the historical Liu Seng Chun building (雷生春). The building is a striking one amidst all the high risers, and they were planning to demolish it and rebuilt it into something more modern. But according to legend, as they were working, one after one of the construction workers as well as the cleaning staff fell mysteriously ill.
In addition to the workers feeling something was wrong with their health, there were also things disappearing from the construction site without a trace and fatal accidents happened that people thought something paranormal were behind.
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All of this caused a sudden halt in the project and the Lui Seng Chun building was abandoned for decades. Was there really something paranormal going on in the historical Lui Seng Chun building?
Lui Seng Chun: The building of how it looked in 2012: Source
Angry Ancestors Because of Demolition Plans
For decades Lui Seng Chun on 119 Lai Chi Kok Road in the Mong Kok area in Hong Kong stood abandoned because people didn’t dare to touch the four storey tong-lau (term for a shop style building in Hong kong) that was built in 1931. No one wanted to repeat the same mistake that happened when they tried it in the 80s.
The legend goes that it was believed that the ancestors of Lei Liang, the original owner of Lui Seng Chun, were angry at the demolition plans and instead kept it as it had always been and preserved it.
Only Ghosts in the Lui Seng Chun Building
But it wasn’t the ghost of Lei Liang that people kept claiming to have seen. When people would start reporting ghostly sightings inside and around Lui Seng Chun it was about ghostly children.
They reportedly saw children playing something that looked like football and at first it looked innocent and normal. But when they looked closer, they saw the ball they were playing with was actually a decapitated head.
There were also people that claimed that the lights in the upper floors kept turning on in the middle of the night in the abandoned building and that numerous shadows were seen as they passed by the windows.
Today the Lui Seng Chun building is a Chinese medicine and healthcare center for the Baptist University that opened in 2012 after finally being restored. It is uncertain if the people around the building are still experiencing the same strange and haunted things that used to be reported about. Perhaps finally,the ancestors of the original owners were pleased with how they restored his building to its former glory?
After a mass murder at Telford Gardens, cleaners at the apartment blocks have claimed that something supernatural is going on, and the whole apartment complex has been called cursed because of the tragic incidents that keep piling up.
On July 22nd in Hong Kong in 1998, the police were making their way into an apartment in Telford Gardens (德福花園) in Kowloon Bay. The place is a private housing estate located above the MTR Kowloon Bay Depot and alongside Kowloon Bay station in Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The place would later be known as a cursed place as bad things like mysterious deaths and murders kept happening there.
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When the police entered the apartment in the Block C apartment that summer day in 98’ they found five dead women, all in different rooms. They had all died from cyanide poisoning.
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The estate comprises a total of 41 residential blocks completed between 1980 and 1982, organised by alphabetical order (from A to U), with only Block L not sharing its lobby with a twin block. A round mirror tied to a pair of scissors with a red string is hanging outside the window and was the only sign from the outside that something was apparently amiss.
The murder victims was Becky Lam Chun-lai, the 49-year-old executive director of a publicly traded company, who lived with her husband and three children in Repulse Bay; Choi Sau-chun, 44, a mother of one and resident of Telford Gardens; Tsui Shun-kam, 40, who lived in the fifth-floor flat, also in Telford Gardens, in which the bodies were found; and Tsui’s daughters, Lee Ying-fai, 17, and Lee Ying-hei, 13.
Mass Suicide as a Cult Pact
This was a feng shui ornament and three of the women were believers of Shintoism. This led the initial investigation in the direction that this was a mass suicide in connection to some sort of cult activity.
“A mother, her two teenage daughters, and two women friends were found dead in a suspected suicide pact in a flat in Kowloon Bay last night,” was the story in the South China Morning Post on July 24, 1998.
Then they found out that one of the women was a CEO and had withdrawn 700 000 dollars on the day they died. They had all withdrawn huge sums of money and it turned out the story was far from a mass suicide.
The Feng Shui Murderer
The Telford Garden Murder: “The women, who had only known Li a month, were given ‘holy water’ – later confirmed to have been cyanide – to drink and told that every $10,000 could buy another year of life” as part of a longevity rite in the Telford Gardens murders. Tsui was told to give each daughter a cup of “holy water” to drink. Once all five were dead, Li took the HK$1.3 million and returned to the mainland.
The truth was that they were all superstitious and had been scammed by a fake feng shui master from mainland China. Feng Shui master Li Yuhui took an enormous amount of money from them and spent them all on a longevity ritual. At least that is what he said when he was standing trial.
He was executed by a firing squad in 1998 after he was convicted for manslaughter after killing the five women in Telford Gardens.
One of the things he gave was a drinkable talisman, a so-called holy water. that one of the women even shared with her daughter. This was poisonous though and killed them all. Once all five were dead, Li took the HK$1.3 million and returned to the mainland.
Li’s trial began on March 4, 1999, in Shantou, Guangdong province. The accused denied the charges levelled against him, claiming a Zen Buddhist was the mastermind behind the crime. “I’m not the real murderer,” he reportedly told the court.
Although he tried to appeal the case of the Telford Gardens murders, he was sentenced to death and killed by a firing squad executed on April 20, his plea was rejected and he was executed by firing squad.
The Ghost of Telford Gardens
After this, there have been reports of haunting around the block, and especially cleaners in Telford Gardens have gotten the dark end of it. Many have quit their jobs after experiencing paranormal things. For example there was a cleaner that claimed she saw and heard something when she was taking out the trash from the floor the apartment was on.
She heard footsteps coming down the corridor and the sound of a woman calling out for her.
“Wait for me, I haven’t taken out the trash yet!”
But there would be no one there.
After she was done though she turned back to the stairwell and found a trash bag that she had no explanation how it got there.
What really happened to the missing hikers that mysteriously disappeared at Sai Kung? Did they simply get lost and die in the dense jungle? Or could it be that there really is something of a mystic realm that leads to another dimension there?
Sai Kung is a popular place for hikers to enjoy nature away from the bustling urban life. There is however a dark side to this as many hikers are said to have disappeared from what has been called, this mystic realm or the Sai Kung Barrier 西貢結界.
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This mysterious realm is also located at a popular hiking area at the Sai Kung Peninsula 西貢半島, on the outskirts of Hong Kong.
People speculate as to what this is caused by, and some claim that the place is an entrance to a parallel timeline or something of another dimension.
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The Missing Police Officer
One of the more popular stories that are connected to this urban legend is the story about a missing police officer. The story got so famous they even made a movie based on it.
One day in 2005, a police officer was out hiking on his day off close to Pak Tam Chung and got lost. He called 999 for help as he knew precisely how it was done, working in the police force himself.
He gave his coordinates to the dispatchers, but they were unable to locate them. The conversation was strange and somewhat halted. They did send out rescuers, but to this day, he has never been found.
The Dead Boy Scout Leader
Just a month later there was another strange case that would happen in the area. Four hikers set out from Cheung Shand and went through Shek Uk Shan, Nam Shan Yung and Pak Sha O.
They stopped to rest close to where the missing police officer had disappeared just a month before. One of the hikers was a 23 year old experienced Boy Scout leader. He felt sick and asked the three women he was hiking with to go on without him.
Two days later his body was found by the police.
The Missing Bus Driver
Fast forward to 2009 there was another strange thing that happened in the mountain. A bus driver went missing in Sai Kung, but his belongings were found. His family called his cellphone and a fisherman answered it and said he had found it while he was fishing in the deep blue sea.
The bus driver became one of those who were never found again.
The Missing Hiker
In 2011 999 received a phone call near Pak Tam from someone asking for help, but the phone call was mysteriously strange, just as the police officers had been years before.
They couldn’t find the missing man this time either.
Found hikers that ended up dead were also discovered in 2019 and 2020 and 2021. It is after all a popular hiking area.
What Really Happened at Sai Kung
These mysterious disappearances have caused major speculations over the years. People disappearing out in the wild is perhaps not as uncommon as we want it to be, especially not in a jungle as dense as it is here with many places to go off parth, but so many over the years? What is it about this place?
A common denominator about these cases is that they were in the far northeast of Sai Kung, and whether it is a portal to another dimension or a huge python snake that got to the disappeared hikers, or even bad Feng Shui in the area that makes it haunted, you should always thread carefully and never off the path.
It is said that more than one station on the MTR’s Island line in Hong Kong are haunted. One of the most well known urban legends are the ghost suicide at the metro in Hong Kong at the Yau Ma Tei Station. It is also one of those rare cases where the urban legend came from a very true story.
Today the metro in Hong Kong is a convenient transportation method that can take you from Hong Kong Island, Kowloon as well as to the New Territories.
There are more than one story from the dimly lit underground of Hong Kong that have a more supernatural take. Disappearing train, women in white leaping in front og the trains and construction workers still roaming in the tunnels.
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And one of the stories in this article has yet to be completely debunked. Here is a look at some of the allegedly haunted metro stations on the Hong Kong underground.
The Ghosts of the Construction Workers at Rumsey Station
Rumsey Station: MTR Sheung Wan Station passageway (Rumsey Station reserved platform)
There are more than one stop on the metro that are said to be haunted since the construction on the tracks started in the late 1960s. Like Rumsey Station, an abandoned platform by Sheung Wan station. The Rumsey Stations platforms are located near Exit E, forming part of the passageways between the concourse and the open platforms, and they run perpendicular to the Island line platforms below.
They said that during construction there were so many fatal accidents that they had to abandon the project. Allegedly the ghosts of the construction workers can be seen and their screams can be heard around the East Lobby in the night.
Another story is that a worker there had seen a woman in white falling off the platform. Even after Sheung Wan station opened in 1986, there were stories of passengers who faced the same fate in the unopened station.
The Mental Patient at Whitty Station
MTR had planned to build Whitty Station as part of the Island Line, but the project was also abandoned. Some say that it was because of all the paranormal things happening during construction. Where Whitty Street Station would have been is now the HKU Station (formerly named Shek Tong Tsui Station).
There have also been claims that construction workers hear the screams inside of the Whitty Station tunnels. When they investigated the claims, they allegedly found a woman dressed in white on the platform that leapt onto the tracks when they approached her.
People have since speculated that it could be a patient from the nearby mental hospital, who have also a couple of haunted rumors. It used to be called High Street Mental Hospital, but today it is called Sai Ying Pun Community Complex. For more on this haunted story, check out High Street Ghost House, The Sai Ying Pun, in Hong Kong.
The Train that Disappeared at the Choi Hung Station
At the Choi Hung Station there are three, not two railway tracks like the other stations have and if we are to believe the legends, it is because of something dark. According to one urban legend, when they used the middle railway track, they found out the hard way that apparently this was a track leading directly to hell.
The story goes that when they constructed it the engineer decided it was time for a test run and brought some people along. They were supposed to drive toward Kowloon Bay Station, but after a good 30 minutes, they still hadn’t arrived and they had lost contact with the train.
The missing train did arrive at last though, but there was something wrong with the passengers. The people onboard seemed disoriented, some even passed away after they were being sent away to the hospital. It wasn’t clear what was wrong with them other than pure shock and fear.
When they investigated it they brought along a medium to help them shed light to the strange case. The medium claimed that the track led straight to hell and that the passengers had all seen something they would never recover from.
Because of this, they abandoned the track and built new ones that would lead to the meant destination and not pass through hell. Although the hellway track has been seen to be used to transport trains to the depot in Kowloon Bay at the end of the day.
The Ghost Suicide at Yau Ma Tei Station
Most of the hauntings in the underground stations can somehow be explained with a more rational and factual origin. But the ghost story from Yau Ma Tei Station is something a little more strange and difficult to explain. In November 1981 things were going fine at the MTR and the Yau Ma Tei Station. Passengers were coming and going as the trains stopped to pick up their passengers and take them away to their destination.
On this day though, something happened that no one has really been able to explain and even made the news. Passengers on the train reported seeing a young woman falling into the tracks at the station as one of the trains was rapidly approaching and running over her.
The passengers on the platform as well as the staff claim to have heard her screams as she was hit by the train and the driver of the train remembers the horrible bump as she ended up under the train.
They called for medical aid and sounded the alarm that a horrible accident had just happened. When the medics arrived to help, they didn’t find anyone. There was no young woman on the train tracks, not even a drop of blood could be spotted.
A Collective Hallucination in the Dark Tunnels
What was this strange incident about? The investigation couldn’t find anything and the whole thing was called a collective hallucination as more than one present at the station had witnessed it all.
There is also speculation of it being a ghost of a woman that maybe didn’t die that day, but had so in the past and now relieved her dying moments as a ghost.
When the story came back in 2012 in internet forums, a writer decided to dig into the story. The writer claims that someone contacted him and said that the person on the tracks back then was really a living 22 year old woman wearing white that fell into the tracks. In this version though she survived it all and is allegedly alive to this day as well.
Haunted by the executed prisoners from the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, the Murray House was the site for not only one, but two big exorcisms to put the restless souls at rest.
Today the Murray House is a wonderful retail shopping place with a restaurant where people can marvel at the sea view from the historic building on south Hong Kong Island.
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The place used to be officers’ barracks for the British forces and used to stand at the corner of the Queensway and Garden Road.
The 4000 Executed People Haunting the Building
During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese forces took the Murray House and used it as a command center by the Japanese military police. It was also a place of execution during the war.
More than 4000 citizens of Hong Kong were tortured until they were murdered inside of these walls.
These are the unfortunate souls said to haunt the Murray House.
The Two Exorcisms of Murray House
After the war the Murray House became a hot spot for paranormal activity, and the haunting of the place got so bad that the Hong Kong government ordered not only one exorcism, but two. One time in 1963 and the last one being in 1974.
The first time it was apparently an unsuccessful one as workers kept complaining about being harassed and plagued by ghosts. They found their work vandalized and blueprints they put out smeared and modified.
Another employer claimed to have encountered a ghost in the bathroom that tugged on his sleeve, but when he turned there was nothing there.
The Non-Buddhist that ordered a Buddhist Ceremony
In the 1974 exorcism, 70 Buddhists monks wandered the Murray House for two hours while chanting and burning offerings and the event was televised with a huge crowd gathered to see it all.
The haunting had kept on and in the 70s the building was used as an office for the Transport Department for the government and people wanted to quit because of feeling uneasy because of the ghosts haunting the building.
Interestingly the exorcism was commissioned by Brian Wilso, Commissioner for Transport in the colonial Hong Kong Government. Not a Buddhist himself, but a manager that saw he needed to do something that would keep the workflow in the building ghost free.
He later said this about the whole exorcism ceremony:
“I was required to give three TV interviews and five radio interviews, all with the same question: as you are not a Buddhist, why did you take part in a Buddhist ceremony? The answer was simple. If the Transport Department offices should be infested with rats, I would call in the rat-catchers and, if necessary, lend a hand. In the same manner, if the problem was ghosts, as in this case, I would call in the ghost-catchers, and if this meant my taking part in a Buddhist ceremony, I was happy to do so. But this did not mean that I was a Buddhist. The overriding point was to take steps to ensure that staff of the Transport Department could get back to work without being frightened to death by ghosts.” source
The Old Murray House at a New Location
Whether it worked or not is up to debate, but in 1982, they decided to dismantle the Victorian building and put it in storage.
Not until 2000 the Murray House was put up again and restored at the waterfront. With or without the ghosts that used to linger, remains to be seen. But not everyone is so happy about the way the restoration was done though:
“It’s like making a Frankenstein’s monster using an assemblage of body parts from different dead people. It’s not heritage, just a monstrous facsimile of it. The monster may look like a grown human, but it doesn’t have past memory and a soul,” says Lee Ho-yin, director of the University of Hong Kong’s Architectural Conservation Programme.
A long time ago, there were seven sisters that made a pact to die together in Tsat Tsz Mui, Hong Kong. And according to legend, there were also reports of them haunting swimmers from the depth of the sea.
In North Point there is a road called Tsat Tsz Mui Road (七姊妹道) that means Seven Sisters Road. Today the road is a place of office and residential buildings as well as shopping malls and restaurants. But there used to be beaches there.
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The road on Tsat Tsz Mui is built on reclaimed land, and underneath it all, there hides a tragic tale of seven sisters that are haunting the place because they never got a chance to live on their own terms.
The Seven Sisters Pact of Life and Death
According to legend, there was once a group of Hakka women, a group of Han Chinese people that fled from the north from social unrest in the Qing Dynasty and sought refuge in the Cantonese provinces.
The seven women who had been playmates all their life decided to become blood sisters and would die on the same day. The sisterhood lived in the same area and all swore a vow of celibacy and would never get married.
One day, the third sister’s family decided it was time to marry her off. She didn’t want to, but didn’t dare to oppose her parents.
The sisters were desperate, but saw no way to live their life as they had swore on. All of the seven sisters drowned themselves in the ocean the night before her wedding.
Tsat Tsz Mui Rocks on the Beach
Their bodies were never recovered, but when the tide receded they found seven boulders in a row. These were named the Tsat Tsz Mui Shek (七姊妹石), Seven Sister Rocks, and the village Tsat Tsz Mui Tsuen (七姊妹村), Seven Sister Village.
The Ghost of the Seven Sisters
Later the Chinese Recreation Club built the Seven Sisters Swimming Club in 1911 and hosted large bathing platforms that were destroyed during the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941.
Problem was the male swimmers though. Many went for an evening swim but there were so many cases of the male swimmers drowning, even though they were known to be strong swimmers.
Ever since then, there have been legends that it is the spirits of the seven sisters in the water, taking their revenge on the men that wouldn’t leave them alone.
In 1934 the rocks were buried under the reclamation for urban development and the seven sisters with it.
The Hello Kitty Murder Case shocked Hong Kong and the world to the core when the skull of a woman was found sewn inside of a Hello Kitty Doll. One of the participant in the torture of the victim claimed that she was haunted by her and for years after the murder, the place itself was said to be haunted.
In 1999, a young girl walks into a Hong Kong police station alone, riddled with nightmares and guilt. The 14 year old teenager claims to be haunted by this dead woman for the last couple of weeks, and she truly believes she won’t be at peace until the girl confesses to what happened to the ghost that is haunting her.
At first the police disregards her statements, thinking she is delusional and making stuff up, but when she tells them about the horrible torture and murder she witness and even took part in, the police couldn’t ignore it.
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When the police started investigating the address the girl gave, they came to find something truly shocking and horrible. The apartment had been the sight of a crime were a woman had been held imprisoned, tortured and raped for over a month before she died. The body had been mostly disposed of, but stuffed inside of a huge Hello Kitty plush doll, they found the woman’s head. Therefore the murder case was called The Hello Kitty Murder Case.
Granville Road in 2016 in the Tsim Sha Tsui area were the gruesome Hello Kitty Murder took place.
The Harsh Life of the Kidnapped Hostess
The place of the Hello Kitty Murder was in a third-floor flat in the downtown area on No. 31 Granville Road (加連威老道) in Tsim Sha Tsui area in the Kowloon district. The inside of the apartment was filled with Hello Kitty memorabilia, including the big Hello Kitty Mermaid Plush Doll.
Fan Man-yee: The victim of the Hello Kitty Murder Case.
The victim was the 23 year old nightclub hostess and young mother, Fan Man-yee (樊敏儀)who had been missing for a month.
Her life had never been easy, and it ended in the most gruesome way imaginable. She had been abandoned as a child and grew up in an all girls orphanage in Hong Kong. When she got kicked out at 15 because she was too old to be there, she supported herself through sex work.
Over the years she turned into a drug addict and barely got by. She ended up marrying one of her clients who also were a drug addict, and lived with him despite their abusive relationship.
Then she got pregnant and had a child and decided to turn her life around. She got clean, left her husband and quit being a prostitute. Instead she started working as a nightclub hostess at the Romance Villa and hoped for a better future together with her son.
The Murderous Pimp and Drug Dealer
Her hopes got crushed fairly quickly however as bills were piling up and her nightclub was frequented by criminals, drug dealers and addicts as well as the Chinese crime syndicate, The Triads.
One of these seedy types she met was the 34-year old Chan Man-lok. He was both a drug dealer and a pimp and had a sexual relationship with Fan-Man. She once stole his wallet that had around $HK4,000 (roughly $500 USD) inside of it, but even if she gave it back at once Chan Man-lok realized she was the thief, he demanded more money from her that she was unable to pay. And because of this, he decided to kidnap her, thinking he would make money out of her by pimping her out.
A Month of Sadistic Torture
Instead he ended up rounding up his other accomplices, and ended up just torturing her in what seemed to be for no other reason than perverse and sadistic enjoyment.
The teenage girl given the cover name Ah Fong because of her young age testified that three men Chan Man-lok, Leung Shing-cho and Leung Wai-lun, all in their 30s and 20s abducted Fan Man-yee and tortured her until she died over the course of a month. She was the quote on quote: “girlfriend” of Chan Man-lok who also worked as a sex worker for him and she admitted that she even joined in on the beating on occasion.
Over the course of that month the men got high on drugs while they beating her with iron bars, raped her, burning her by dripping melting plastic on her, pouring chili oil on her wounds, stringing her up hanging from the ceiling for hours and other sadistic acts they came up with. She was even forced to smile and say she enjoyed the torture. If she didn’t it would only get worse.
The Horror of the Hello Kitty Murder
Hello Kitty: The Hello Kitty Murder got its nickname after where they placed some parts of the body.//Source
After she died they dismembered her body, boiled them and disposed of it as household trash or feeding it to stray dogs. Some of her internal organs were found in the refrigerator. The head they sew in the head of the Hello Kitty doll, although their motive for this is still unclear.
The exact cause of death is not known because of how little of her remains they found, and therefore there was also too little evidence to sentence the men for murder with intent, although it was clear she had died because of their abuse.
“Never in Hong Kong in recent years has a court heard of such cruelty, depravity, callousness, brutality, violence and viciousness,” said Hong Kong Justice Peter Nguyen after the trial, who sentenced the defendants to life imprisonment Wednesday after they were convicted of manslaughter. “The public is entitled to protection from people such as you.”
The three men were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole for 20 years. Hong Kong does not have the death penalty, but if it had happened on mainland China, they would have likely been executed.
The Ghost of Fan Man-yee at Court
Who really knew what would have happened to the case if the teenage girl known as Ah Fong hadn’t been convinced she was haunted by Fan Man-yee, and because of her torment and remorse, she ended up walking into the police station and at least helping to find the victim. Because of her young age and corporation she never received any punishment for her involvement in the Hello Kitty Murder case.
Many unusual events have occurred that are regarded as supernatural by the public. And rumors about something paranormal and strange going on started already during trial.
The forensic doctor in charge of the case revealed that when the evidence including the skull of the deceased, the Hello Kitty doll, and the clay pot used to cook the body were presented to the court, the entire court was filled with the smell of the corpse. No matter where the Hello Kitty doll was presented, nearby lights would flicker. The same light disturbance happened when the defense lawyer argued that the only illegal thing happened when they were disposing of the body. An observer of the trial refused this rumor though and said it only happened when the police played the defendant’s confession.
The Haunted Building
The building where the murder happened had strange things going on. A woman rented a unit on the fourth floor without knowing about the murder. Her friend often heard women crying at night, and at that time, there were no people living downstairs. It’s worth noting that this woman had suffered from sleep paralysis while sleeping.
Granville Road: The building were the horror of the Hello Kitty Murders took place in 2010. The murder occurred in Block B on the third floor, which was demolished in 2012 and rebuilt into the Soravit on Granville in 2016.
The hair salons on the first and second floors of the building had discovered Hello Kitty dolls of unknown origin when they came to work in the morning. When looking at the CCTV footage, they even saw that after the salon closed at night, there were figures walking around in the salon. The manager of the hair salon denied that unusual incidents had occurred in the store.
The wife of Hong Kong metaphysician Chen Dingbang said that in 2013, when she was relaxing in a bar on Granville Road, she saw a woman’s head staring at her from the opposite building. Later she learned that the unit was where the case took place.
The apartment building where Fan was tortured has since been demolished as no one wanted to buy or rent the infamous apartment that everyone in Hong Kong knew the backstory behind. It was empty for years and eventually, no one wanted to live in the other apartments in the building either.
Some claimed that after the Hello Kitty Murder the building itself was haunted by Fan and there were many who claimed to have seen her haunting the area.
In the end someone bought the empty building and demolished it in 2012. Instead they built a hotel there in 2016 named Soravit. As a memorial to what happened there, they placed three Buddha portraits in the hotel.
The theme song from a horror movie turned out to be scarier than the movie itself, after the so-called forbidden song called Nights of Entanglementshaunted the radio stations that played it.
Nights of the Night, perhaps also known as Nights of Entanglements (夜夜痴纏) was the theme song for one of Hong Kong’s horror films, and although the movie won’t scare you, the theme song of it will.
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The movie soundtrack was said to conjure up strange paranormal things when the radio DJ’s were playing it on their late night broadcasts and it was in effect banned and listed as a forbidden song after it because they didn’t want to take the risk.
The Occupant the Movie
The movie The Occupant (靈氣逼人), also known as The Tenant from 1984, was a Cantonese horror-comedy about Angie who goes to Hong Kong from Canada to work on a Master’s thesis focusing on Chinese superstitions. She rents a spacious apartment, without knowing it’s haunted by the ghost of a singer.
The song was sung by the cantopop singer, Connie Mak Kit-man (麦洁文) and the sound would play in the movie in scenes at night where the old cassette player is mysteriously turned on and plays the song.
Haunting Late Night Radio
From its release the song was called The Forbidden Song by radio DJ’s that reported about supernatural things that happened every time they played it on late-night radio.
They heard strange voices on top of the track and the lights in the studio switched on and off as shadows danced on the broadcasting room. Record players were also moving on their own.
DJ Cai Kangnian played this song on one of his late night shows and heard a female voice humming along with the melody in a crying voice, a part of the track that usually wasn’t there.
One DJ also claimed that he mysteriously wrote ‘I Quit’ on a notepad after listening to the song.
The singer herself has refuted the claim of her song being haunted several times in interviews and continues to perform it in concerts. She has also played along with the urban legend behind her song and sort of accepted the legend it turned out to have.
Even to this day though, there is no radio DJ that plays this allegedly cursed song on the late night radio.
Here is the Unofficial English Translation of the Cantonese lyrics of the song:
Misty night sky with rain and fog In the middle of the night, lying between the window screens obsessed with night and night long nights in your arms have my smile I pray you can stay let me love a thousand times But I know in the morning mist I will be alone and you will disappear like this night I just ask you to know that this moment is too short Please spread this body with kisses I only ask you to know that love is hard to break Across a lifetime of tears If I can be reborn in this world, may I never have to be alone again If I meet you again in another life Can you spend every night with me
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