Case file · Haunting
Lin Tou-jie, the ghost of the pandanus tree
A Tainan widow cheated of her fortune by a merchant who fled to the mainland hanged herself on a pandanus tree; her ghost was said to follow him across the strait to take revenge.
1936 CE · 23.00, 120.20 · status: legend
The account
The tale is set in the 19th century and appears in Li Hsien-chang's 1936 collection of Taiwanese folk literature; it became a 1956 Taiwanese-language film.