4 Haunted Places in Beijing
Every case file on record in Beijing — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file.
Chaonei No. 81 — The House That Never Dies
A · Beijing, China — Beijing's most famous haunted house: a three-storey French Baroque mansion minutes from the CBD, emptied for decades while the city grew around it, wearing a Republican-era legend of a woman hanged be…
Caishikou — The Vegetable Market Execution Grounds
B · Xicheng, Beijing, China — The Qing dynasty's chief execution ground — where the 1898 reformers died — now a busy crossroads whose ghost stories older Beijingers still trade.…
Beixinqiao — The Locked Dragon Well
B · Beijing, China — Under a crossroads in inner-north Beijing, old Beijing placed a dragon. When the city was planned, the telling goes, a flood dragon churned in a sea-eye spring here; the master builder trapped it in t…
The 330 Bus — The Last Run from Yuanmingyuan
C · Beijing, China — On the night of November 14, 1995, a last bus left Yuanmingyuan for Fragrant Hills with a driver, a conductor and a handful of passengers — and, says the most widely circulated modern Chinese urban le…