The Haunted Lui Seng Chun Building

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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?