The Ghost Festival Ride
A late night cab ride home on the Ghost Festival turns terrifying when a man realizes the wife he called down to bring money never actually came down at all.
Explore the supernatural side of ancient China — ghosts, demons, fox spirits, and haunted folklore translated for English readers.
A late night cab ride home on the Ghost Festival turns terrifying when a man realizes the wife he called down to bring money never actually came down at all.
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.
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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