Case file · Haunting
The last bus to Fragrant Hills
A famous Beijing urban legend says that on a November night in 1995 the last bus from the Old Summer Palace to Fragrant Hills carried ghost passengers and later vanished.
1995 CE · 40.01, 116.30 · status: legend
The account
Versions differ on the route number, often 375, and on the ending. The story spread on forums in the 2000s and appears in Chinese books of 'mysterious cases'.
The sceptical view
No newspaper or official record confirms a missing bus or the passengers; it has all the hallmarks of a modern urban legend.