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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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