Most Haunted Places in Hong Kong goes from dark metro stations, historic buildings as well as victims of war crimes, murders and stuff og legends.
In the cityscape of Hong Kong lies a realm of ghostly tales and supernatural encounters that stretch back for generations. Many of these stories came from actual cases that today are the stuff of urban legends and whispered ghost stories.
For a more complete list of haunted places, head over to the China archives on Moonmausoleum. For this article, let’s have a look at some of the most haunted places in Hong Kong.
MTR’s Island Line | 港鐵 | Hong Kong — The haunted metro stations throughout the city
The metro system in Hong Kong harbors more than just commuters within its tunnels if we are to believe the stories. Amidst the modernity and hustle of daily life, eerie tales of supernatural encounters lurk in the shadows, weaving a tapestry of mystery and intrigue.
Rumsey Station is said to be haunted by the construction workers that died while building it, as well as being haunted by a woman that is reportedly leaping off the platform.
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.
At Choi Hung Station, the legend of a vanished train, rumored to have traversed a track leading straight to hell, sends shivers down the spine.
Meanwhile, the ghostly apparition at Yau Ma Tei Station defies rational explanation, leaving witnesses questioning reality itself. A mass haunting a couple of decades ago seen and heard by many left people to think that someone had jumped that day, but no one was found, leading people to believe it had to be a ghost reliving her final moments over and over again.
Read the whole story here: The Haunted Metro Stations on Hong Kong MTR’s Island Line
Nam Koo Terrace | 南固臺 | Wan Chai — The ghosts of headless comfort women
Back in the day under the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong the Japanese soldiers used Nam Koo Terrace on Ship Street, also today known as Wan Chai Haunted House, as a military brothel as well as a place of torture during the Second World War. When you know the story that went on behind these walls, there is no wonder why it is considered one of the most haunted places in Hong Kong
Comfort women or comfort girls were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with most historians settling somewhere in the range of 50,000–200,000.
It is said it is the ghosts of the women that had to stay in this place, so called Comfort Women haunt the building, roaming headless in the night. Some even go as far as claiming insanity after staying in the house and once, papers like the Oriental Daily covered one of these cases.
Read the whole story here: Nam Koo Terrace — The Wan Chai Haunted House
The Hello Kitty Murder Case | Kowloon — The ghost from the harrowing murder case
The gruesome discovery of a woman’s skull concealed within the innocent facade of a Hello Kitty doll sent shockwaves rippling through the community, revealing the depths of human depravity in 1999. A young woman named Ah Fong, had fallen victim to a brutal and sadistic torture session orchestrated by a group of individuals involved in the criminal underworld.
Ah Fong had been held imprisoned in the apartment, tortured in the most barbaric and vicious ways as well as raped over and over for over a month before she died. But as the perpetrators faced justice for their heinous crime, whispers began to circulate of a darker force at play.
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 with the light flickering when the culprits tried to defend themselves.
The building where the murder happened had strange things going on as well and has made the list of more than one list of Most Haunted Places in Hong Kong. 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. There have also been reports about seeing the ghost of a young woman wandering in the building.
In the end the building itself was torn down. No one wanted anything to do with it as it was tainted and haunted in their eyes. But even when a new building was built there, a memorial was put in place just in case it could help stop with the haunting.
Read the whole story here: The Ghost of the Hello Kitty Murder
The Braided Girl on the Train Tracks | Chinese University of Hong Kong | New Territories — The ghost of a disfigured girl approaching male students
The story of The Braided Girl is set around the train station close to Chinese University of Hong Kong and where the old train tracks used to run. In the 1960’s, or according to some, even before that, a girl was trying to smuggle herself into Hong Kong from mainland China to elope and be with her lover. Back then there were a number of people from mainland China who tried to hide in the trains carrying cattles and jumped off the train when reaching the destination.
The Braided Girl was wearing two plaited braids and had no ticket for the train she was on. She was caught when the conductor asked for her ticket and she knew she had to get away.
To escape she jumped from the train, but one of her long braids was caught in the train door or even the tracks as she hit the ground and she tore the braids from her scalp and destroyed her face and died a horrible death.
People have seen the braided girl weeping with her backs to them around the path where the story allegedly happened where the tracks used to run. The place is now known as Braid Road (辮子路 or 一條辮路).
When the students, mostly male students, are looking closer she turns toward them and shows her torn face.
Read the whole story here: The Braided Girl on the Train Tracks
Jumbo Kingdom | 珍寶王國 | Aberdeen Harbour — The mysterious rowing women in the water
In 2022, the whole floating restaurant capsized after years of misfortune. It closed down during the pandemic, and never got to reopen after. But before it closed down, it had a haunted rumor about it attracting ghosts from the bay area and was in addition to a tourist attraction one of the most haunted places in Hong Kong.
There are legends about a mysterious woman rowing a small boat at night by the restaurant that people are saying is a ghost. This alludes to the practice prostitutes used in Hong Kong back in the day when they rowed out to ship waiting in the bay to earn money from the sailors waiting in their ships in the harbor. People think that the floating life full of life and lights in the bay reminded the spirits of the prostitute ghost at sea about their life and attracts them.
The question is, was it only to this particular restaurant the ghosts were attracted to, or is it something in the Hong Kong harbor that has the same allure to the people from the afterlife?
The Ghost of Jumbo Kingdom, the Floating Restaurant
The Takeout Ordering Ghost |鬼叫餐 | Leighton Road — An urban legend that is still haunting the streets
In the bustling streets of Hong Kong, whispers of a ghostly phenomenon have long haunted the city’s residents. The tale of the Takeout Ordering Ghost, a spectral entity that summons food deliveries from beyond the grave, has become a chilling legend passed down through generations. Some believe that the origins of this eerie story can be traced back to a real incident, shrouded in mystery and superstition.
The story goes that after a restaurant receives an order by phone, the delivery boy heads to a nearby condo on Leighton Road, where he encounters a hand emerging from the door gap to pay him. Upon returning to the restaurant, however, he discovers that the money has transformed into ghostly joss paper, unsettling the owner and casting suspicion on the employee.
As the eerie incidents repeat themselves, with the money consistently morphing into ghost currency, the restaurant owner grows increasingly alarmed. Determined to uncover the truth, he decides to personally deliver the next order to the condo. What he discovers inside shocks him to the core: four decomposing bodies seated around a Mahjong table, with remnants of the restaurant’s food containers nearby.
Police investigations reveal that the deceased succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning, indicating that they had been dead for some time, although the neighbors had all heard them playing and partying.
Read the whole story here: The Takeout Ordering Ghost in Hong Kong
Bela Vista Villa | 東堤小築 | Cheung Chau island — The haunted vacation home on the beach
It is said that the building is the place for over 20 murders and suicide cases over the last 30 years and the Bela Vista Villa has been dubbed The Resort of Charcoal Suicide. People have come to this place from the rest of Hong Kong to end their life there for all sorts of reasons. What happened over the years was that it started to be rumored to be one of the most haunted places in Hong Kong.
The people that have stayed in the vacation home claim to have heard wailing screams in the night coming from the ghosts of the victims and seeing ghost apparitions of them, and it is said that the haunted ghost stories all started with a singular case.
It is said that it all started the summer of 1989 when a woman together with her son vacated in one of the units. According to the stories, the woman was said to be the estranged wife of a Hong Kong pharmaceutical tycoon. He was cheating on her and the infidelity drove her mad.
She killed her son before herself. The mother dressed up in an all red outfit before hanging herself. After this incident, it is said that the residents on the island have seen the mother and son wandering around. There have even been those who claim that they have been possessed by their ghosts as well.
Read the whole story here: The Haunted Bela Vista Villa
Murray House | 美利樓 | Stanley/Chek Chue — The house that went through two exorcisms
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, making it one of the most haunted places in Hong Kong.
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.
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 building was actually dismantled and put in storage for a long time. 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.
Read the whole story here: The Exorcisms at the Haunted Murray House
Ping Shan Tat Tak School | 達德學校 | New Territories — The ghost in red haunting the former school
In the New Territories in Hong Kong there is a haunted school called Ping Shan Tat Tak School (達德學校) that was established in 1931 in the centuries old Yu Kiu ancestral hall in Ping Shan, Yuen Long. Today it is abandoned and seen as one of the most haunted places in Hong Kong.
A legend goes that one of the schoolmistresses or the principal committed suicide and hang herself in the school toilets, wearing a red dress. She is now said to haunt the school. A woman haunting the bathroom in schools are widely told across Asia, and also the fact that she is wearing red.
On September 10th in 2011, 12 students from a middle school visited Ping Shan Tat Tak School and came back with haunted tales. They claimed to have heard footsteps in the abandoned building as well as hearing an ominous scraping noise from the walls.
Three of the girls kept fainting and one completely lost control of himself, pinching his own neck and biting so he needed the friends to help stop him and they called the police for help.
Read the whole story here: The Ghost in Red at Ping Shan Tat Tak School
Lui Seng Chun Building | 雷生春 | Mong Kok — The building that didn’t want to be demolished
No list of the most haunted places in Hong Kong is complete without the Lui Seng Chun building. In the 1980s, construction workers were planning to remodel the historical building. One by one the construction workers, as well as the cleaning staff, fell mysteriously ill.
Things were disappearing from the construction site without a trace and fatal accidents happened that people thought something paranormal were behind. The legend goes that it was believed that the ancestors of the 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.
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.
Read the whole story here: The Haunted Lui Seng Chun Building
Most Haunted Places in Hong Kong
This was a list of some of the most haunted places in Hong Kong, but it is far from the whole list. For more like this, head over to the China archive, for more ghost stories, urban legends and haunted places.
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