Random Ridiculously Creepy Places In Asia (16 items)

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  (#1) Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, South Korea

  Gonjiam psychiatric hospital in Gwangju, South Korea, is one of the most haunted places in the country. According to legend, numerous mysterious patient and staff deaths caused the hospital's sudden closure in the 1990s. The families of the deceased demanded explanations, but none were given. It's said the disturbed spirits of the deceased wander the abandoned facility.

  The site is home to all manner of paranormal activity, and visitors to the creepy, disused psychiatric facility have reportedly been seen running screaming from the building. The spirits therein are aggressive; some claim to have been scratched so deeply by unknown, unseen entities that they bled. Disembodied whispers, moans, and screams echo through the halls of Gonjiam. 
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  (#2) Chibichiri Cave, Okinawa, Japan

  Okinawa, a Japanese island in the East China Sea, was the site of a conflict in WWII, during which at least 100,000 people lost their lives (some accounts put the number as high as 200,000). When Americans invaded the island, civilians hid in caves, including Chibichiri, terrified from years of propaganda teaching them American soldiers would rape, torture, and murder any Japanese civilians they found. When Americans arrived at the mouth of the cave, they threw in pamphlets, in Japanese, detailing ways in which Americans would treat them well.

  No one believed them. An 18-year-old girl shouted, "Mommy, kill me! Don't let them rape me!" Her mother obliged, setting off a wave of parents killing children, or people killing themselves. In the end, 83 people died in the cave.  

  The bones of children can still be found in Chibichiri. For a while, the site was open to the public, though now only the entrance is accessible. Locals protested tourists trudging about gawking at the bones of their relatives. In other caves on the island, Japanese soldiers killed themselves, a preferable alternative to being captured. Chibichiri was included on CNN's "10 Scariest Places in Asia," and Okinawa is considered one of the most haunted islands in the world. 
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  (#3) Kurseong, India

  Kurseong is a town near famous hill station Darjeeling in northeast India, nestled between the borders of Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. It's bucolic, a well-known tourist destination, and infamously haunted.

  To quote Indian writer Vargis Khan:

  It seems that this entire hill-station is more or less a ghost town. A haunted building, a haunted road, mysterious forests, sinister treks, a headless corpse, the ghost of a woman running after people, whispers in the wind, red eyes in the dark, screams of women, mysterious deaths, you name it and Kurseong has got it. 

  Some of these ghostly phenomena are connected. A haunted Victorian school, from which moans, voices, and laughter can be heard when the school is closed for vacation, backs onto Dow Hill, a haunted forest in which, supposedly, numerous murders and suicides have taken place.
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  (#4) Ghost Hill, Penang, Malaysia

  Penang War Museum, on Penang Island, Malaysia sits on a site known to locals as Bukit Hantu, or "Ghost Hill." Even before the horrors of World War II, the area was known for its supernatural residents. As the world marched to war in the 1930s, British colonists in Malaysia built a fortress on Ghost Hill, which quickly fell to the Japanese. The fortress became a prison camp where hundreds were tortured and executed by Japanese forces.

  According to eyewitness accounts, the camp was run by sadistic Japanese officer Tadashi Suzuki, known as the "hippy executioner" on account of his unusually long hair. Suzuki beheaded prisoners and ordered their heads paraded around town as a warning. Others were locked in small wooden crates and left to bake in the jungle sun without water. 

  Rooms in the museum have walls pocked with bullet holes, a byproduct of bloody executions. It's said the ghosts of many of those the Japanese murdered still walk the museum grounds.
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  (#5) Wat Phra Si Sanphet Temple, Ayutthaya, Thailand

  According to an account from the 1700s, Ayutthaya, in what is now Thailand, was then one of the largest cities in the world, a booming center of trade and industry with nearly a million inhabitants, centerpiece of the bustling Kingdom of Siam. The Kingdom traded with European powers such as England, Portugal, and the Netherlands, and there were Siamese embassies everywhere from The Hague (Denmark) to the court of Louis XIV. 

  This came to a tragic end in 1767, when an old conflict with Burma burst in an explosion of vengeance. Burmese troops stormed Ayutthaya, killing everyone they could find and stealing everything they could get their hands on. The city's main temple (and former royal palace), Wat Phra Si Sanphet, stands now in ruins. It's said that ghosts of the slaughtered citizens of Ayutthaya still wander the city, haunting its ruins. 
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  (#6) Fengdu Ghost City, China

  Fengdu Ghost City is a 2,000-year-old cluster of religious buildings on the banks of the Yangtze River in Southwest China. The town has a fascinating history, having earned its moniker during the Eastern Han Dynasty, (25 CE - 220 CE), when two Chinese officials visited to practice Taoism and became possessed by immortal spirits. 

  Eventually, Fengdu Ghost City turned into a testament to the afterlife. Numerous buildings, including Buddhist temples, Taoist shrines, and monuments to Chinese folk beliefs about death and the passage from the corporeal world to the spirit realm were built in the area. A tourist destination in the 21st century, Fengdu Ghost City is a dense network of tributes to death and spirits, all built to aid spirits in their passage from our world to the next. As such, it's said to be filled with ghosts, some happy and eagerly moving along, others confused, conflicted, or trapped. 
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  (#7) Tower Of Silence, Mumbai, India

  Zoroastrianism is an ancient Persian religion practiced by the Parsi people, who were once common in parts of the Middle East and India, though are a vanishing minority in the 21st century. Among the unique aspects of Zoroastrianism are its Towers of Silence, large, cylindrical buildings on the flat tops of which corpses are laid out to be eaten by birds (usually vultures). This 3,000-year-old tradition, known as dokhmenashini, is both ecologically sound and believed to help souls ascend to the afterlife.

  In the '90s and early 2000s, a now-banned livestock drug killed 95% of the vultures in Mumbai, India. They were feasting on cow corpses, and the drug, which had permeated the flesh of cows to which it was administered, was highly poisonous to the raptors. This presented major problems for Zoroastrians, whose corpses were no longer diligently consumed by vultures. Disused Towers of Silence became a point of contention; they sat in areas with skyrocketing real estate prices and weren't being used, but who wants to live on a site where countless corpses had been consumed by giant carnivorous birds?  

  The roads and areas in which the Towers of Silence sit have been the site of many reported "spectral forces" in Mumbai, and locals recommend you don't visit the place after dark, as it projects a strong air of creepiness. Perhaps the spirits of those deceased Zoroastrians whose culture collapsed have returned to haunt their sacred areas. Or maybe the ghosts of those Zoroastrians who cannot ascend, because there are no vultures left to eat them, are wreaking havoc. 
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  (#8) Green Island, Taiwan

  Off the southern coast of Taiwan sits Green Island, home to a penal colony for political prisoners during the White Terror, a 43-year period of martial law, during which numerous political dissidents were disappeared. Families were torn apart; some parents never even met their children. 

  During the White Terror, Taiwanese people of all ages and classes died by firing squad for alleged anti-government intentions. The official policy of the era was, it was “better to kill one by mistake than to let one go in error.” It's said that those who died during this time still haunt the island, where their ghosts can be heard and seen. 
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  (#9) The Forbidden City, China

  China's Forbidden City sits in the heart of Beijing, and was the center of government during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties. The massive complex contains almost 1,000 buildings. Its size, history, and importance make it a perfect place for ghosts and other supernatural phenomena. 

  According to travel site China Highlights, over the structure's 600 year long history, countless people have been murdered in the walls of the compound - from concubines to guards to members of the imperial court. China News Service offers the following story, from a guard working overnight at the Forbidden City, whose companions caught a woman roaming the palace after hours:

  The soldiers yelled at the woman, but when she ran away they realized that she was not an employee at the Forbidden City. Maybe she's a thief, they thought. They started to chase the woman, who managed to keep a distance of about 30 meters from them. When the two men finally cornered the woman at a locked door, they ordered her to turn around. As she turned to face them, they were shocked and dropped their flashlights. The woman had no face, only hair.

   
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  (#10) Tat Tak School, Hong Kong

  This abandoned school, said to be one of the most haunted places in Hong Kong, was the site of a teacher's suicide; she hung herself in the women's bathroom, wearing a red dress. Her ghost haunts the school, having been seen in a graveyard nearby and on the school grounds.

  A cemetery sits next to the school, which was reportedly built after the British massacred locals during a failed eviction. The spirits of those slaughtered add to the creepy energy and spectral pall cast over the school. 
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  (#11) Bhangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India

  Bhangarh Fort is a 17th century military installation about 120 miles southwest of New Delhi, near Jaipur, in northern India. The fort is rumored to be one of the most haunted places in India, hence its nickname, The Den of Ghosts.

  Tales of malevolent spirits are so deeply entrenched in local lore, the Archaeological Survey of India forbids anyone from entering the structure or its grounds between sunset and sunrise. It's said that anyone who ventures in at night is never seen again.
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  (#12) Old Changi Hospital, Singapore

  City-state Singapore is a global financial center in the 21st century, but its violent past has led to a haunted present. The Old Changi Hospital, for instance, is haunted by the victims of Japanese war crimes. Built by the British as the Royal Air Force Hospital, the compound was used as a prison camp for the Japanese secret police (Kempeitai) during WWII. Some rooms were converted into torture chambers.

  One Australian prisoner recalls his treatment at the hands of the Kempeitai:

  The interviewer produced a small piece of wood like a meat skewer, pushed that into my left ear, and tapped it with a small hammer. I think I fainted some time after it went through the drum. I remember the last excruciating sort of pain, and I must have gone out for some time because I was revived with a bucket of water. 

  The hospital was shut down in 1997 and has remained vacant since. At one point, there were plans to turn it into a resort, but financing supposedly fell through. Numerous people who have wandered the grounds have reported ghostly phenomena, including disembodied screams, spectral shadows, lights turning off, and phantom scents. Some even claim to have been been touched by ghostly hands. 
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  (#13) GP Block, Meerut, India

  Meerut is an ancient city in the north of India with origins stretching back to the Indus River civilizations (3300-1300 BCE). Meerut is home to the GP Block, a compound of three disused military buildings that appeared on a list of the most haunted places in India in 2011.

  Since the publication of the list, many in the area have come forward with stories about the place, a number of them claiming to have seen a mysterious woman in a red dress. A group of four ghostly men was reportedly seen drinking in one of the buildings, and various ghosts have been seen on the roof.

   
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  (#14) Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong

  Tuen Mun Road is a massive expressway, one of Hong Kong's busiest roads, and part of a network of freeways encircling the territory. According to supernatural site Seeks Ghosts, the 12-mile stretch of road is notorious for deadly car accidents. Some blame the high casualty rate on poor design, treacherous lanes, lack of maintenance, and bad weather, though many locals say ghosts appear on the highway to cause crashes, with the aim of making more ghosts to join in the vehicular mayhem. 

  Drivers on the road have reported suddenly finding their car out of their control and claim to have seen glowing eyes in the dark surrounding the highway. The worst crash in the history of Tuen Mun Road took 21 lives in the summer of 2003. A truck lost control and swerved into a passenger bus, causing both vehicles to careen off of a 115-foot cliff. 
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  (#15) Sai Ying Pun Community Complex, Hong Kong

  Sai Ying Pun Community Complex, also known as High Street haunted house, screams haunted. This eerie abandoned building was erected in 1892 as quarters for nurses. According to urban myth, the complex was overtaken by the Japanese during WWII and used as an execution hall. Following the war, it was an insane asylum until being abandoned in the 1970s. Since its abandonment, the complex has been badly damaged by two mysterious fires.

  It's said visitors to the complex have seen devilish ghosts, which appear to be on fire, and headless poltergeists. 
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  (#16) Oiran Buchi, Yamanashi, Japan

  Translated literally from Japanese, Oiran Buchi means "prostitute gorge." During the Edo period (1603-1868 CE), a gold mine existed in the woods near the gorge. The Takeda family, which ran the mine, also had a brothel for miners. When its fortune collapsed, the family decided to kill all 55 sex workers. 

  So, the Takeda family erected a wooden platform over the gorge and hosted a part for all the oiran. When the women were appropriately inebriated, family members sneaked off the platform and cut its ropes, sending the women plunging to their deaths. It's said the screams of the women can be heard from the bridge that now spans the gorge, and their spirits haunt the surrounding woods. 

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