And at least online, an otherworldly influence is cited as the cause for the complex’s rock-bottom rent. They’re blamed for the failures of Zhongyin’s businesses, said to have a preternaturally short lifespan. Vengeful, decades-old ghosts roam the hallways of Zhongyin Building, located near the heart of Shenzhen – or so the rumors say. The 'Haunted' Office Building in the Heart of Shenzhen In the months following the murder, images of a shadowy female form, lurking near the Granville Road 31 apartment, were captured on various CCTV cameras from nearby buildings. When the story hit the press, it horrified Hong Kong residents and earned the strange (but appropriate) title ‘The Hello Kitty Murder.’ The victim of this heinous crime was a 23-year-old nightclub hostess named Fan Man-yee, who was abducted after she allegedly failed to repay a HKD20,000 debt. She described to police a 23-year-old woman being tortured mercilessly while she was bound with electrical wire, unable to escape.Īfter some convincing, police searched a third-floor flat on Granville Road 31, which turned up some chilling evidence – namely, a large Hello Kitty doll stuffed with a woman’s head. In May 1999, a 13-year-old girl in Hong Kong went to police to complain that a woman her boyfriend helped murder was haunting her. The Eerie Case of Hong Kong's 'Hello Kitty Murder' We’ve dug up spine-chilling tales of phantom transit commuters, giant sandworms, mass disappearances and haunted plazas, among others, that will hopefully be as entertaining as they are terrifying. With October being the scariest month of the year, it seems as good a time as any to dive into the Middle Kingdom’s eeriest folklore. What we presume fewer foreigners in China are aware of is China’s collection of spooky or coincidental tales and mysterious, undiscovered creatures. Many of our expat readers will be familiar with tales of headless horsemen, missing organs and giant Mexican rats that, for some reason, are mistaken by suburban American families as Chihuahuas. Such tales are generally referred to as urban legends: contemporary folklore that usually involve a fictional – though often believable – story sprinkled with macabre elements, and, in the case of many Western urban legends, pop culture. Sometimes a hitchhiker, Lovers’ Lane or… the list goes on. Other times, the account involves a night of heavy drinking, a cute blonde and a missing kidney. Sometimes the story takes place in the backwoods of civilization and features a hair-covered bipedal ape. “It happened to a friend of a friend of mine…” – a phrase commonly uttered before one dives into a (mostly) fictional story, surrounded by captivated friends sitting around a dying campfire.
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