Old Wan Chai Market (OVOMARKET)
Wan Chai MarketHistory Background:The Old Wanchai Market, whose real name is Wanchai Market (English: Wanchai Market), is a partially demolished market building in Hong Kong. It is located at 262-264 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong Island, at the junction of Wanchai Road and facing Stone Nullah Street. The market began operation on April 1, 1937, and ended in 2008. It was classified as a Grade III historic building in 1990 and was subsequently acquired and transformed into shops and private residences.Ghost Story: Wan Chai Old Market was built as early as the 1930s. Due to the Japanese occupation at that time, there was an air-raid shelter under the market. It is said that during World War II, a large number of civilians were killed by air bombs outside the air-raid shelter, and there were corpses everywhere. Unfortunately, the market was later used as a morgue. It is said that there was a shortage of food during the war, and some people even cut the dead flesh in the market to sell and use it as food. Therefore, it has always been said that there are extremely ferocious ghosts in the market. In the early years, shooting in the market was not even allowed. Otherwise, the camera and film would be scrapped.
Nam Koo Terrace
Nam Koo TerraceHistory Background:Nam Koo Terrace is now an abandoned mansion. The architectural style combines Chinese and Western elements, and the outer wall is built with red bricks. The mansion was built by the wealthy Hong Kong businessman To Zhongwen in 1917, and was resold in 1921 to his younger brother To Zewen, who was then the deputy manager of Wing On Department Store. However, during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1943, To Zewen died in the mansion, and Nam Koo Terrace also fell into the hands of the Japanese and became a “Comfort House”. Until 1988, the To family resold Nam Koo Terrace to Hopewell for about 16 million Hong Kong Dollars.Ghosts Story:In the early years, a girl and her classmates broke into Nam Koo Terrace, and there was an incident of suspected ghosts. The girl suddenly screamed and ran around. She became a male voice and became extremely powerful. In the end, several police officers took action to subdue her while she was saying “follow me”.People living nearby say that at midnight, there will be green strange lights and strange fires floating in the house. If you listen carefully, you will hear bursts of women's shouts and screams, which are very sad. Someone once saw a woman in a red dress waving to him with a weird smile on her face.
St. Luke of Co-educational College
History background:St. Luke's Co-educational College was founded in the 1950s. Its principal, Li Fu-chu, was a member of one of Hong Kong's four great families. In the 1980s, due to difficulties in recruiting students, the quality of students declined, and the school closed in 1989.The British government ran schools in the colonies, usually only a small number of government secondary schools, and then encouraged local schools to open various types of schools, with government subsidies. When there is a shortage of places, it is necessary to buy places from private institutions to meet short-term teaching needs. St. Luke's Co-educational College has a sports field on the roof, which is one of the better facilities. In addition, St. Luke's Co-educational College also reflects the Westernization of the name of the school, which is more attractive to students if it has a religious background. In 1988, St. Lucie's College was merged and acquired together with Nam Koo Terrace as part of a comprehensive development area.Ghost Story:A long time ago, in the Japanese occupation period, the school was used as a prison for comfort women, and many women were miserably killed, so often rumors in more neighborhoods claimed that there was a headless ghost walking around the school. There were also many people outside in the evening who heard the campus throng, and there appeared to be a large number of people who were convivial.The academy has been empty since the late 1980s, and rumors of a ghost emerged after the school suddenly banned teachers and students from the playground for one year without explaining why. More than 10 years ago, after a woman hanged herself by the neck nearby, rumors spread that a ghost had appeared. From time to time, unknown voices were heard, and some people pointed out that the lights in the schoolhouse were suddenly dark and bright, and they had witnessed a headless female ghost.
Wan Chai Star Street (Air-raid Shelter)
Wan Chai Star Street contains lots of ghost tales and supernatural incidents – especially the mysterious air-raid shelter. The shelter was built during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong for citizens to evade bomb attacks. However, the Japanese decided to bombard the shelter, and many citizens died in this attack. Ghost Story: The ghost tale started when citizens reported that they saw a bunch of people with suffering faces standing in front of the door. Others also said that they saw the gate open when it should have been closed. So, citizens decided to place a shrine and a large red cloth to evict those ghosts or souls. However, a citizen said that he had been in the shelter to avoid the attacks and had never seen the Japanese army come inside to kill people. Instead, he described the shelter as “cold and dark.” So, it is hard to justify whether those ghost tales happened. Believe it or not!
East Town Building (East Town Theatre)
Historical Background:East Town Theatre Building. It is a defunct cinema in Wan Chai, and it was rebuilt as East Town, located at the junction of Lockhart Road and Fenwick Street. It was formerly known as International Funeral Parlour. Since International Funeral Parlour was relocated to Quarry Bay in 1962, the original site was later converted into a cinema and opened in 1964. It cost HK$10 million to build. The theater was decorated with Italian marble and equipped with colorful artistic lighting. It set a 70-millimeter projector and had a total of 1,300 seats, including 454 super seats and 617 rear seats. It was difficult to run that theater after it was haunted. So, it was closed soon.Ghost Story:The most famous ghost story in staff would use a seating chart and a pen to mark the seat to indicate that the seat is ‘Full House.' In the past, the cinema was sold. However, the staff of East Town Theatre often observed that the seats were not full of people at the beginning of the show, but at half-time, the entire theater was fully seated. There was a Hong Kong artist who shared his experience of a ghost story. When the lights of the theater turned on after the show, he found that the front seat originally had only a few audiences. The crowd all disappeared at once. He thought he was dazzled and ignored it. Later, when he went to the toilet, he saw an old woman covering the lower half of her face with a fan in front of the men's toilet. He was curious and asked her why she was sitting there. After she answered, she suddenly took off the fan, revealing a face without a chin. The flesh on the face only reached the upper lip, and there was a row of yellow teeth below it. Then he rushed back to the theater and found that the whole theater was full again, and they all had no chins. In the end, he was so scared that he had to crawl out of the theater.
Pacific Place
Pacific PlaceHistory BackgroundThe predecessor of Pacific Place was the Victoria Barracks, which became the target of Japanese attacks during the Japanese occupation. On December 8, 1941, the Japanese air raid on Hong Kong dropped the first bomb on the Victoria Barracks. British soldiers and citizens were killed, and various Japanese fighter planes fell nearby. The brutality of Dolly's barracks caused painful history rumors to spread after the prosperous Pacific Place.Ghost StoryIn 1989, Seibu Department Store held the opening ceremony. Company employees and citizens saw a group of Japanese soldiers marching through the wall. Afterward, they performed rituals for three days. The long elevator in the basement was the most ferocious. Two security guards saw the Japanese army appear through CCTV in the middle of the night. When Seibu Department Store opened, the anti-theft system used infrared to detect the movement of objects, but it was often mistaken. When the security guards arrived, they did not find anyone.
