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The Haunted Traveler: Haunted Hong Kong

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7 years ago

May 1, 2017

Everyone loves to travel. We love to experience new places, new cultures and beautiful buildings. But there is another side of travel that some people, me included, appreciate. Out of the norm, out of the box and out of this world; I’m talking about being a haunted traveler. And today we’re taking a look at haunted Hong Kong.

A haunted traveler is someone who visits certain cities strictly for the paranormal places that exist there. It’s like visiting New Jersey for the Jersey Devil. Every month I will bring you a new city and the haunts and cryptids that live there.

This month and for the first city in our travels, we’re delving deep into haunted Hong Kong. I was lucky enough to sit down with some life-long Hong Kong natives to go over the scariest places on the island and the experiences people have there.

Tat Tak School, Yuen Long

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Widely considered one of the most haunted places in Hong Kong, this abandoned school is located right next to a cemetery. Although it hasn’t been in use for decades, those that travel near the school still have encounters. The most commonly seen is the “Red Lady,” a woman who hung herself in the girls’ bathroom while wearing all red.

Chinese superstition states that if you die wearing all red, you will return as a powerful and vengeful spirit. A story goes that while the school was still functioning, a young girl seeming possessed, attacked her fellow students and tried to bite them and then attempted to hang herself.

The Dragon Lodge (Lung Lo) 32 Lugard Rd, The Peak

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Whether it be the owner dying in the home, possible Japanese occupation during WWII, or nun decapitation, this place is known for its creepiness. Past restoration of the lodge has long since been abandoned and it sits vacant. The view from the grounds is gorgeous but inside it’s a different story. Many claim to hear the sounds of children crying on the premises.

Murray House, Stanley

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This colonial style mansion is one of the oldest and one of the many remnants of British occupation in Hong Kong. Originally located in Central District, it was moved brick by brick to Stanley after being named an historic building. While being used as a government building in the 60’s and 70’s, past employees used to hear the sounds of typing late into the night, even when they were the only ones there.

They felt so uncomfortable and has so many experiences that the building has been subjected to two separate exorcisms, one in 1963 and the other in 1974 and was the first televised exorcism. The government even gave permission for this to occur in its building. Like many of the other haunted locations throughout Hong Kong, this building was used during Japanese occupation in WWII as a command post and a place of executions for Chinese citizens.

Granville Rd 31, Tsim Sha Tsui

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This particular apartment is known throughout Hong Kong due to a grisly discovery in 1999. Called the Hello Kitty Murder, a young nightclub hostess named Fan Man-Yee was kept and tortured for a month in the home before being dismembered and her head found inside of a mermaid Hello Kitty doll. Many of the shops nearby find images on their CCTV of a young woman wondering in the shops long after close. After tenants refused to live in the building, the apartment building was demolished and a hotel built over it.

High Street Community Center, Sai Ying Pun District

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This community center was a mental hospital in its former life, leading those who have had experience to not only believe there are ghosts of the insane. During the Japanese occupation, the building was used as an interrogation center for Chinese citizens who were then taken to the King George V park across the street for execution.

After being abandoned in the 70’s and making it through two fires, most of the building was torn down and rebuilt as a community center, but pieces of the original building remain.

Many claim to hear women screaming in the community center and see balls of fire. Interesting fact: High Street is actually 4^th street but due to the fact that four (say in Cantonese) sounds like the word death with the slightest tonal change. Therefore, the street was renamed.

Ghost Bridge (Mang Gui Kiu/Hung Sui Kiu), Tsung Tsai Yuen

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On August 28th1955, a teacher and her students from the nearby St. James Primary School were having a picnic when a storm came. Seeking protection under the bridge from the storm, the teacher and students didn’t know where they were standing was used a drainage ditch during heavy rain. A flash flood occured and killed 28 people.

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A few survived the flooding under the bridge but most on the picnic perished. Bus drivers say that they often pick up phantom passengers or find that when their last ride is nearby that a passenger will just appear in the bus.

Don’t go away yet. There’s more haunted Hong Kong on the next page.

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Original Blair Witch Cast Ask Lionsgate for Retroactive Residuals in Light of New Film

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Jason Blum is planning to reboot The Blair Witch Project for the second time. That’s a fairly large task considering none of the reboots or sequels have managed to capture the magic of the 1999 film that brought found footage into the mainstream.

This idea has not been lost on the original Blair Witch cast, who has recently reached out to Lionsgate to ask for what they feel is fair compensation for their role in the pivotal film. Lionsgate gained access to The Blair Witch Project in 2003 when they purchased Artisan Entertainment.

However, Artisan Entertainment was an independent studio before its purchase, meaning the actors were not part of SAG-AFTRA. As a result, the cast are not entitled to the same residuals from the project as actors in other major films. The cast doesn’t feel that the studio should be able to continue to profit off of their hard work and likenesses without fair compensation.

Their most recent request asks for “meaningful consultation on any future ‘Blair Witch’ reboot, sequel, prequel, toy, game, ride, escape room, etc., in which one could reasonably assume that Heather, Michael & Josh’s names and/or likenesses will be associated for promotional purposes in the public sphere.”

At this time, Lionsgate has not offered any comment about this issue.

The full statement made by the cast can be found below.

OUR ASKS OF LIONSGATE (From Heather, Michael & Josh, stars of “The Blair Witch Project”):

1. Retroactive + future residual payments to Heather, Michael and Josh for acting services rendered in the original BWP, equivalent to the sum that would’ve been allotted through SAG-AFTRA, had we had proper union or legal representation when the film was made.

2. Meaningful consultation on any future Blair Witch reboot, sequel, prequel, toy, game, ride, escape room, etc…, in which one could reasonably assume that Heather, Michael & Josh’s names and/or likenesses will be associated for promotional purposes in the public sphere.

Note: Our film has now been rebooted twice, both times were a disappointment from a fan/box office/critical perspective. Neither of these films were made with significant creative input from the original team. As the insiders who created the Blair Witch and have been listening to what fans love & want for 25 years, we’re your single greatest, yet thus-far un-utilized secret-weapon!

3. “The Blair Witch Grant”: A 60k grant (the budget of our original movie), paid out yearly by Lionsgate, to an unknown/aspiring genre filmmaker to assist in making theirfirst feature film. This is a GRANT, not a development fund, hence Lionsgate will not own any of the underlying rights to the project.

A PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE DIRECTORS & PRODUCERS OF “THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT”:

As we near the 25th anniversary of The Blair Witch Project, our pride in the storyworld we created and the film we produced is reaffirmed by the recent announcement of a reboot by horror icons Jason Blum and James Wan.

While we, the original filmmakers, respect Lionsgate’s right to monetize the intellectual property as it sees fit, we must highlight the significant contributions of the original cast — Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Mike Williams. As the literal faces of what has become a franchise, their likenesses, voices, and real names are inseparably tied to The Blair Witch Project. Their unique contributions not only defined the film’s authenticity but continue to resonate with audiences around the world.

We celebrate our film’s legacy, and equally, we believe the actors deserve to be celebrated for their enduring association with the franchise.

Sincerely, Eduardo Sanchez, Dan Myrick, Gregg Hale, Robin Cowie, and Michael Monello