Case file · Haunting
The High Street ghost house, Sai Ying Pun
Hong Kong's Old Mental Hospital on High Street was left empty after 1971 and became the city's most notorious 'ghost house', with tales of the dead patients and of headless figures.
1971 CE · 22.28, 114.14 · status: legend
The account
Built in 1892 as nurses' quarters, it was used as a mental hospital after the war. Two fires gutted it. In 2001 only its granite façade and verandah were kept for the Sai Ying Pun Community Complex.
The sceptical view
The stories rose while the shell stood derelict, used by trespassers and drug users; the fires were most likely accidental.