This hub covers mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Mongolia. For Japan, use the existing Japanese yokai and haunted tunnels guides. Some entries are places you can find on a map. Fengmen Village is a real, physically abandoned hamlet in Henan, with about 39 empty Ming- and Qing-style buildings. Xinhai Tunnel in Taipei opened in 1972 and sits beside a funeral parlor and cemeteries. The Hong Kong Granny Ghost is dated differently: it swept South Korean elementary schools in 1989. Beijing Bus 330 is a legend about a bus that supposedly vanished in November 1995, and the article notes that no police report or news item backs it. The yeren, the almas and the Mongolian death worm are wild-man and cryptid reports, and each page says what has and has not been documented. Read the record section first, then the told section.
Articles
- The Pigtail Girl of CUHK: Hong Kong’s Most Famous Campus Ghost With No Wikipedia Page: The braided girl first-year Chinese University of Hong Kong students hear about before nearly anything else. (Label: Oral tradition.)
- Hong Kong Granny Ghost: The True Story Behind Korea’s Half-Cat Legend: The 1989 urban legend that swept South Korean elementary schools, about a grandmother and a cat on a doomed flight. (Label: Partially documented.)
- Shanghai’s Dragon Pillar: The Monk Who Paid for It: The support column wrapped in nine gilded dragons on Shanghai's Yan'an Road interchange. (Label: Partially documented.)
- Beijing Bus 330: The Ghost Bus Legend Explained: A supposed last bus that vanished in November 1995; the article notes no police report or news item backs it. (Label: Internet origin.)
- Fengmen Village: The Truth About China’s Ghost Village: A real abandoned hamlet near Qinyang, Henan, with about 39 empty Ming- and Qing-style buildings. (Label: Partially documented.)
- Jiangshi: China’s Hopping Undead: A stiff corpse in Qing-era official's robes that moves by hopping. (Label: Disputed.)
- Yeren: China’s Wildman Cryptid of Shennongjia, Hubei: The reddish-brown figure that six officials reported in May 1976 in Hubei. (Label: Oral tradition.)
- The Little Girl in Red: Taiwan’s 1998 Hiking Tape: A family's weekend-hike home movie that became national news, then folklore, then a horror franchise. (Label: Partially documented.)
- Xinhai Tunnel: Taipei’s Most Haunted Road: A Taipei road tunnel opened in 1972, beside a funeral parlor and cemeteries. (Label: Partially documented.)
- Tek-ko-kui: The Bamboo Ghost of Taiwan’s Forests: A bamboo-grove warning about stepping over a fallen stalk after dark. (Label: Oral tradition.)
- Gwishin: The Korean Ghosts Behind K-Horror’s Scariest Films: The general Korean term for a ghost, explained for readers who know it from film. (Label: Unverified.)
- Gwisin: The True Story Behind Korea’s Restless Spirits: The restless dead behind the white-hanbok figure of Korean horror films. (Label: Oral tradition.)
- Dokkaebi: The True Story Behind Korea’s Trickster Goblins: The trickster goblin said to come from a long-used broom. (Label: Oral tradition.)
- The Elevator Game: Korea’s Ritual to Reach Another World: A ritual that needs a building of at least ten floors and a set of button presses. (Label: Internet origin.)
- Khara-Khoto: The Black City’s Ghost Soldiers and Cursed Well: The abandoned Tangut trading city in the Gobi, with a six-century-old warning about its wells. (Label: Partially documented.)
- Almas: Mongolia’s Wild Man of the Gobi and Pamirs: A hairy, man-shaped creature of the Altai, Tian Shan and Pamirs; the Soviet Academy of Sciences set up a commission in 1958. (Label: Disputed.)
- Mongolian Death Worm: The Gobi’s Olgoi-Khorkhoi Legend: The Gobi creature Mongolia's prime minister asked Roy Chapman Andrews to bring back in 1922. (Label: Unverified.)