Thailand

Thai ghost stories are woven into daily life in a way outsiders rarely expect: spirit houses stand outside office towers, and taxi drivers still refuse certain fares near Mae Nak’s shrine in Bangkok. Mae Nak Phra Khanong, the devoted wife who died in childbirth and waited for her husband anyway, is the most famous of Thailand’s phi (spirits), but she has plenty of company — Krasue, the floating female head trailing entrails, and Phi Pop, the possessing spirit blamed for unexplained village deaths. This archive gathers Thailand’s urban legends and folklore: haunted hotels and hospitals, cursed amulets, roadside spirits, and the true events behind the country’s most enduring hauntings.