The GP Block in Meerut has been abandoned for decades now. Ever since then, people passing by have claimed to have seen something they think must be ghosts. Who are the women in the red sari lingering on the roof?
In Meerut lies a street that has become infamous for its paranormal activity. GP Block, as it is known, is the site of numerous ghostly encounters, unexplainable sightings, and spine-chilling experiences. Many locals claim that the area is haunted by the spirits of those who met a tragic end, and that their restless souls still linger in the dark corners of the block.
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Although Meerut is one of the fastest developing cities in India, it seems like the GP Block is the exception. There are especially three buildings that have been abandoned for decades now in the very old city of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. The place used to be a nice area in the city, but now people are frightened of going there. They are owned by the Indian defense forces, but left it to decay in the late 1950s or even as far back as the 1930s.
The Haunted GP Block: Today the GP Block in Meerut, India has been left to decay for decades. During this time it has developed a haunted reputation. // Source
Even though there were hired caretakers in 2014, they misuse their position and rented the rooms out for seedy activity like to gamblers and couples for a few hours. When the caretakers were fired after they found out what went on in the buildings, they installed a big iron gate at the entrance. Is it this that people have seen when claiming to have met a ghost? Or could this be something else, perhaps something paranormal?
Haunted Stories of GP Block
There are many stories about who is haunting the buildings and the locals think that the buildings are haunted by evil spirits where they sit in isolated places that are now covered with wild plants. These are some of the more told ones.
One of the most popular stories is that of a ghostly woman who is seen sitting on the roof of the building. People claim different things. Some say she is a woman wearing a red sari combing her hair on the roof. Some say they have seen her drift in and out of the building.
Another ghost frequently reported on is different women wearing red clothes around the building. Could this be the same thing that people have seen on the roof? Perhaps it is just a rumor that turned out to be something more kind of thing?
There are also those that claim to have seen four men drinking beer either inside of the abandoned building or on top of the roof with a single lit candle on the table.
Is GP Block Really Haunted?
Although there aren’t many details to the hauntings, they are plentiful and the stories of ghosts and hauntings have spread far and wide, attracting curious visitors from all over the country to try and have a look for themselves, although most of them are turned away at the gate.
However, despite the many stories and investigations, there has been no concrete evidence of paranormal activity in GP Block. While some people believe that the area is haunted, others believe that it’s nothing more than a legend and remains of the illegal stuff that went on for a period under the caretaker’s reign.
Regardless of whether GP Block is really haunted or not, one thing is for sure – the legend of the Haunting of GP Block will continue to fascinate and terrify those who dare to venture into its eerie depths.
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.
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.
Sai Ying Pun Community Complex
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.
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.
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.
Telford Gardens in Hong Kong: Three close friends and the two teenage daughters of one of the women were poisoned by Chinese feng shui practitioner Li Yuhui during a ‘longevity rite’
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.
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.
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 legend about the Fox Demon often occurs in Asian legends, and at Windsor House it was said it was deadly. Children were said to have been killed because of it and today the house is considered haunted.
In Causeway Bay in what is now known as the Windsor House (皇室堡) we find one of the most told urban legends from the 1980s in Hong Kong.
Today it is both a shopping mall as well as an office tower, but back in the day it was used to hold banquets in the big room with the marbled walls. The problem was that it was haunted by a spirit fox.
Fox Spirits in Chinese Folklore
Huli jing (狐狸精) are Chinese mythological creatures usually capable of shapeshifting, who may either be benevolent or malevolent spirits. In Chinese mythology and folklore, the fox spirit takes variant forms with different meanings, powers, characteristics, and shapes.
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They can be both good and bad omens, and the fox spirits could be malevolent spirits. And in the case of the Windsor House it is said it turned deadly.
Huli Jing: The Fox Spirit, known as Huli Jing in Chinese, is a mythological creature capable of shapeshifting and can be either benevolent or malevolent. These spirits appear frequently in Chinese folklore and come in various forms, such as huxian (fox immortal), hushen (fox god), husheng (fox saint), huwang (fox king), huyao (fox demon), and the famous jiuweihu (nine-tailed fox). In Chinese mythology, the presence of a fox spirit can signify good or bad omens, and this motif of nine-tailed foxes has also influenced Japanese and Korean cultures. Throughout history, fox spirits have been linked to transformations and other mystical abilities. They were believed to transform into humans and even celestial beings with age. In various stories, they could become humans by wearing skulls and worshiping constellations.
Forgetting to Toast to the Fox
Back then Windsor House was known as the Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, a place of parties and social gatherings and they used to hold banquets there. Chinese parents usually hold a huge party for their child when it gets 30 days old.
A couple was in the building of Windsor House to celebrate their child’s becoming one-month old when they toasted to the child for good health and a long life.
After the celebration the parents dreamt of a red-eyed fox that lived in the building that threatened to kill their child because they didn’t toast to her during the celebration.
They woke from the nightmare and rushed to their baby and found it dead, the blood drained from the body.
The Fox in the Marble
After the death of the baby, a pattern of the marble walls of the Windsor started to form that resembled a fox. The strange incident attracted a huge crowd and the company had to close for a day. The security put a piece of cloth to cover the marble wall and the whole thing was removed at midnight.
The Fox In the Marble
According to legend, this was not the only baby that was brought to the Windsor House to be celebrated that ended up dead.
On the rooftop of the building there is said to be a secret children’s playground that has never been open to the public and there are no children that have played on it. Or is it? It is said that the playground was built for the children who were killed by the fox demon.
The legend of the Fox Demon and the haunted Windsor House continues to intrigue and captivate the imaginations of those who hear it. Although the building has transformed into a shopping mall and office tower, the ghostly presence of the spirit fox still lingers within its walls.
The Fox Demon Haunting Windsor House
Over the years, more stories have emerged about the tragic fate of innocent children who met their untimely demise at the hands of the vengeful fox demon. Whispers of a secret children’s playground on the rooftop persist, a haunting reminder of the lives lost.
Whether you believe in the supernatural or not, the legend of the Fox Demon of Windsor House serves as a reminder of the deep-rooted folklore and rich cultural traditions that shape our understanding of the world. It is a testament to the power of storytelling, captivating generations with its blend of mystery, tragedy, and the timeless allure of the unknown.
As the Windsor House stands tall, its haunted reputation serves as a chilling reminder that sometimes, the spirits of the past refuse to rest, forever lingering in the shadows, waiting to be discovered by those brave enough to seek the truth.
In one of the old communist high rises in Beijing, it is said that the ghost on the eighth floor is still haunting the Fusuijing Building after being wrongly accused.
As a product of the Great Leap Forward period in China, they built the Fusuijing Building in 1958. The leap was an economic and social campaign by the Chinese Communist Party to reconstruct the country to a communist society with the commune life as the goal.
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Through the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962, the country saw an economic and agricultural disaster leading to the one of the largest famines in human history that ended with the death of millions of people.
The Home for Communism in the Fusuijing Building
It was not only the agricultural and farming aspects of the country that was turned into a commune based and not privately owned thing, but also the cities were affected. One of the things they decided was to build high rise buildings designed for commune living, also in the big cities. This was the idea when they built the huge Z shaped Fusuijing Building (福綏境公寓) in Beijing.
“The building is equipped with gas, heating and elevators; residents don’t have to cook at all – they can go to the canteen and eat whatever they want; there will be a club where people can play board games or do sports, a movie room where they can watch movies any time, and a library, public bathroom, a medical center and a grocery store… The building is like society itself, a miniature version of an ideal society, where people live like a big family. It will basically be communism,”
This was written by the celebrated Chinese writer Shi Tiesheng who had his teacher talking about the building that rose high above the traditional hutong area surrounding it.
The building is on No. 1 Santiao in Xicheng District, eight storey high and was the first residential building to install elevators in the city. But even if the dream of the building was designed for the perfect communist life with a collective dining hall, activity rooms and kindergartens, the commune living boom came to an end pretty quickly.
The cafeteria was only open for a few days as there was food shortage and people started cooking in the hallways and the walls of the building were blackened with soot after a few years. After decades of decline in people living there, the building itself started to deteriorate and the place has in many places become a hazardous place to be.
The Ghost on the Eighth Floor
This has now become one of the four major ghost houses in Beijing and is well known among Beijingers. The famous legend about the Ghost on the Eighth Floor started circulating as the residents of the building moved out and now the building mostly attracts those interested in ghost hunting.
According to one version of the legends there was a woman who was framed by her husbands’ lover as a rightist and enemy of the state. She was then imprisoned on the eighth floor in the building where she died. For how long and from what is not often mentioned.
Every year on her death anniversary, although not really specified when, the whole building seems to darken almost and the lights are difficult to keep on and only gives off a dim light. You can also hear the sound of a woman crying.
The Mysterious Fusuijing Building
There have been more than one movie about this particular legend, which according to the stories, scared people to death in the theaters. There have also been several horror movie adaptations that tanked in the box office, but nevertheless draws people to the building from time to time to explore these haunted rumors.
The fame of the Ghost on the Eighth Floor has attracted many curious individuals and thrill-seekers over the years. Urban legends and tales of paranormal encounters continue to circulate, adding to the mystique surrounding the haunted Fusuijing Building.
Visitors who dare to venture into the building often claim to feel an eerie presence as they ascend to the eighth floor. The atmosphere becomes palpably colder, and whispers echo throughout the dimly lit hallways. Some have reported seeing a shadowy figure lurking in the corners, while others have experienced inexplicable phenomena, such as doors slamming shut or objects moving on their own.
Fusuijing Building: The facade of the Fusuijing Building were it it said that the 8th floor is haunted by a woman that were held captured there. //Source: Wikimedia
Whether one believes in the paranormal or dismisses it as mere folklore, the Ghost on the Eighth Floor of the Fusuijing Building continues to captivate the imaginations of those intrigued by tales of the supernatural. The building stands as a testament to an era defined by lofty ideals and the tumultuous consequences of societal experiments.
As the legend endures and each passing year marks the anniversary of the ghostly apparition’s existence, the Fusuijing Building remains a destination for those who seek an encounter with the inexplicable. Although the truth behind the legend may forever remain a mystery, the ghost on the eighth floor continues to haunt both the building and the collective imagination of those drawn to its haunted history.
The metal bar called the Banshee Labyrinth is located in parts of the haunted underground vaults of Edinburgh. And today the place has some haunted stories to tell as well. Everything from ghost children, accused witches, irish folklore creatures and an annoying ghost in the ladies toilet, this pub houses them all.
What can be a more haunted place than a rock and metal bar located in the haunted old town of Edinburgh? Today it is a family run pub that promises a good drink and music all week.
The Banshee Labyrinth bar is located on Niddry Street it is close to the Royal Mile as well as the haunted underground of Edinburgh.
They are also catering to the more macabre with movie nights mostly showing horror movies. But are we to believe legends about this pub you can also expect a couple of ghostly guests as well.
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The Haunted Underground Vaults
It is located near The South Bridge Vaults where several businesses, workplace and taverns were located. However, it was built on a low budget and never waterproofed. The place eventually flooded and only the poorest people stayed there, making cheap brothels and pubs flourish instead and crime and murders were not uncommon.
It was allegedly also here the infamous serial killers Burke and Hare haunted victims to sell to the medical schools. The underground vaults have become notorious as a haunted place.
The Wailing Banshee
Part of The Banshee Labyrinth is in one of these vaults and the name the pub has comes from the legend of a banshee haunting the place. Banshee are female spirits and creatures that are an omen of death with their terrifying screams.
The Banshee: It is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member
Once when the pub was having some restoration work done, the workmen experienced something strange. The story is that a group of workmen heard this wailing scream of death and right after. According to some sources he also saw a woman in a gray dress who cried into her hands before lifting her head to show off her pale face with rotted teeth and no eyes.
After this they were terrified, but it didn’t stop there. Right after the incident, one of the workers got a call about the death of one of their family members just moments later.
There is also Molly, a six year old girl that are said to haunt the place. She is named Molly after they found a child shoe with the name written on it in one of the old bricked-up chimneys. She apparently disappeared in 1814 according to some sources.
People also report on the ghost they have named Ole Jock, who is said to haunt the ladies toilet. He keeps slamming the doors and is even said to be the one turning the hand driers on and off.
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The Witch Hunter
Since its heyday as a part of the criminal hotspot of the city, the people who once walked the vaults are said to have been of the more unsavory characters, and perhaps the ghosts can be seen as the same.
Witches: More than 3000 Scottish people who were accused of witchcraft between the 16th and 17th century. Many of them were burned at the stake in Edinburgh.
One of the neighbors of the building of The Banshee Labyrinth for instance once upon the time belonged to a man named Lord Nicol Edwards. He was a lord Provost and known to be a cruel man, especially to his wife. He is also said to have had a personal dungeon under his house he used to torture accused witches before their trial.
Many pub goers to The Banshee Labyrinth have claimed to have spotted one of these tortured women, and the story of the banshee is often linked together with these women.
There are also stories about inside the pub with some strange things happening. Classical haunted pub things like drinks flying off the tables and crashing in the walls. So bottoms up, The Banshee Labyrinth have spirits for all, both the drinkable and haunted type.
The Idanha Hotel has a long story of being haunted. And even after it was renovated to apartment buildings, the stories about the misty apparition, the elevator with a will of its own, and whispering voices in the halls still happens in the building.
The old hotel in downtown Boise, Idaho is a historic hotel that was built in 1901 with a long and supposedly bloody history that is still being told in the corridors and whispered about inside the apartments.
Today the old French-chateau style building has been converted to apartments, but until its renovation it was used as a hotel and restaurant that caters to wealthy people from all over the country as it was considered to be the hotel in Boise as a stop on the Oregon trail or just to have some fun downtown.
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During the renovation to make it from a hotel to an apartment complex, the workers reported on strange things happening around them as they worked. Lights turn on and off without someone there as moaning sounds from certain places in the building can be heard without no one there. There is also a strange gray misty apparition that has been spotted without a good explanation.
There are numerous reported sightings about the building and residents in the apartment building have connected their strange experiences to certain stories, where some of the stories they experienced supposedly made them so scared they moved out.
Haunting on the Upper Levels
Not all hauntings stay as just a misty apparition in the corner of the eye or a sound that you may or may not hear. There have also been reports about something sinister going on in the upper floors. People have said that a certain something pulls them out of their beds. But for whatever reason or what it can be is still to be found out.
One of the ghosts that are supposedly haunting the building is a bellboy that worked there in the 1970s. He was shot dead by a guest at work and has been to blame for the elevator malfunctioning. He is known to move the elevator up and down without any people going, especially to the fourth floor where he was reportedly killed.
Some residents have also claimed to have seen his ghost peeking around the corners of the building. Hard evidence that this ever happened has not surfaced though and the story usually ends in its own rumor.
Hauntings at the Lower Levels
On the second floor there is a story of a woman that was murdered by her husband in the 1920s. She was reportedly murdered with a pair of scissors and now is said to roam the halls. There are many stories of residents hearing, talking and walking outside their doors, but when they open, there is no one there.
In the basement there is also a legend that is told again and again. It is said a woman was killed and buried there. She still lingers there as her body is buried underneath the building as well according to the legend. There have never been found a body under the basement floor however that has been revealed to the public, and the story is just that for the moment – a story.
The Future for the Old Idanha Hotel
The building is considered to be one of the landmarks of downtown Boise and is beloved because of the fine architecture and local stories. The apartments have residents that stay for decades and it is a very difficult place to get into apparently.
But there are also stories that tell something else. Although a much sought after place to stay, some of the strange encounters the residents have experienced have supposedly made them so scared that they decided to move out, unable to stay in the haunted space for long.
The Idanha: Guests and Ghosts of an Historic Idaho Inn
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