Explore the supernatural side of ancient China — ghosts, demons, fox spirits, and haunted folklore translated for English readers.
Six years after his grandfather passed, a man starts hearing the familiar tap of a cane in the darkness—and finds comfort instead of fear.
A business traveler takes a cheap corporate rate hotel room outside Atlanta. The room faces another room that shouldn't exist on the floor plan. Then he starts hearing things — a couple fighting outside his door, a delivery person knocking at midnight. When he checks out, the front desk has no record of anyone in that room at all. Not for three days.
I was fourteen when the government asked my father's construction family to help excavate a submerged island in a Pacific Northwest reservoir. Local fishermen had whispered for decades about voices rising from the water at night — the wailing of wronged souls. We thought it was superstition. We were wrong.
A chance encounter on a cold street—a conversation, a necklace, a goodbye. But some reunions don't happen in the waking world. Some happen in the spaces between heartbeats, where the dead still walk among us.
A dream of ancient catacombs, a duke's forbidden sacrifice, and a creature that dissolves in sunlight. Years later, the echoes of that nightmare resurface in the most unexpected way.
My brother saw something he wasn't supposed to see at our grandfather's funeral. Three nights of nightmares followed. The dreams stopped only after our mother made a desperate plea to the dead.
We translate and curate the most bone-chilling stories from Chinese folklore, ghost legend, and supernatural tradition. From ancient Pu Songling tales to modern urban legends — if it's creepy and Chinese, you'll find it here.
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