Random Ridiculously Creepy Places In Asia (16 items)

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  (#12) Old Changi Hospital, Singapore

  City-state Singapore is a global financial center in the 21st century, but its violent past has led to a haunted present. The Old Changi Hospital, for instance, is haunted by the victims of Japanese war crimes. Built by the British as the Royal Air Force Hospital, the compound was used as a prison camp for the Japanese secret police (Kempeitai) during WWII. Some rooms were converted into torture chambers.

  One Australian prisoner recalls his treatment at the hands of the Kempeitai:

  The interviewer produced a small piece of wood like a meat skewer, pushed that into my left ear, and tapped it with a small hammer. I think I fainted some time after it went through the drum. I remember the last excruciating sort of pain, and I must have gone out for some time because I was revived with a bucket of water. 

  The hospital was shut down in 1997 and has remained vacant since. At one point, there were plans to turn it into a resort, but financing supposedly fell through. Numerous people who have wandered the grounds have reported ghostly phenomena, including disembodied screams, spectral shadows, lights turning off, and phantom scents. Some even claim to have been been touched by ghostly hands. 
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  (#14) Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong

  Tuen Mun Road is a massive expressway, one of Hong Kong's busiest roads, and part of a network of freeways encircling the territory. According to supernatural site Seeks Ghosts, the 12-mile stretch of road is notorious for deadly car accidents. Some blame the high casualty rate on poor design, treacherous lanes, lack of maintenance, and bad weather, though many locals say ghosts appear on the highway to cause crashes, with the aim of making more ghosts to join in the vehicular mayhem. 

  Drivers on the road have reported suddenly finding their car out of their control and claim to have seen glowing eyes in the dark surrounding the highway. The worst crash in the history of Tuen Mun Road took 21 lives in the summer of 2003. A truck lost control and swerved into a passenger bus, causing both vehicles to careen off of a 115-foot cliff. 
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  (#4) Ghost Hill, Penang, Malaysia

  Penang War Museum, on Penang Island, Malaysia sits on a site known to locals as Bukit Hantu, or "Ghost Hill." Even before the horrors of World War II, the area was known for its supernatural residents. As the world marched to war in the 1930s, British colonists in Malaysia built a fortress on Ghost Hill, which quickly fell to the Japanese. The fortress became a prison camp where hundreds were tortured and executed by Japanese forces.

  According to eyewitness accounts, the camp was run by sadistic Japanese officer Tadashi Suzuki, known as the "hippy executioner" on account of his unusually long hair. Suzuki beheaded prisoners and ordered their heads paraded around town as a warning. Others were locked in small wooden crates and left to bake in the jungle sun without water. 

  Rooms in the museum have walls pocked with bullet holes, a byproduct of bloody executions. It's said the ghosts of many of those the Japanese murdered still walk the museum grounds.
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  (#6) Fengdu Ghost City, China

  Fengdu Ghost City is a 2,000-year-old cluster of religious buildings on the banks of the Yangtze River in Southwest China. The town has a fascinating history, having earned its moniker during the Eastern Han Dynasty, (25 CE - 220 CE), when two Chinese officials visited to practice Taoism and became possessed by immortal spirits. 

  Eventually, Fengdu Ghost City turned into a testament to the afterlife. Numerous buildings, including Buddhist temples, Taoist shrines, and monuments to Chinese folk beliefs about death and the passage from the corporeal world to the spirit realm were built in the area. A tourist destination in the 21st century, Fengdu Ghost City is a dense network of tributes to death and spirits, all built to aid spirits in their passage from our world to the next. As such, it's said to be filled with ghosts, some happy and eagerly moving along, others confused, conflicted, or trapped. 
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  (#3) Kurseong, India

  Kurseong is a town near famous hill station Darjeeling in northeast India, nestled between the borders of Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. It's bucolic, a well-known tourist destination, and infamously haunted.

  To quote Indian writer Vargis Khan:

  It seems that this entire hill-station is more or less a ghost town. A haunted building, a haunted road, mysterious forests, sinister treks, a headless corpse, the ghost of a woman running after people, whispers in the wind, red eyes in the dark, screams of women, mysterious deaths, you name it and Kurseong has got it. 

  Some of these ghostly phenomena are connected. A haunted Victorian school, from which moans, voices, and laughter can be heard when the school is closed for vacation, backs onto Dow Hill, a haunted forest in which, supposedly, numerous murders and suicides have taken place.
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  (#2) Chibichiri Cave, Okinawa, Japan

  Okinawa, a Japanese island in the East China Sea, was the site of a conflict in WWII, during which at least 100,000 people lost their lives (some accounts put the number as high as 200,000). When Americans invaded the island, civilians hid in caves, including Chibichiri, terrified from years of propaganda teaching them American soldiers would rape, torture, and murder any Japanese civilians they found. When Americans arrived at the mouth of the cave, they threw in pamphlets, in Japanese, detailing ways in which Americans would treat them well.

  No one believed them. An 18-year-old girl shouted, "Mommy, kill me! Don't let them rape me!" Her mother obliged, setting off a wave of parents killing children, or people killing themselves. In the end, 83 people died in the cave.  

  The bones of children can still be found in Chibichiri. For a while, the site was open to the public, though now only the entrance is accessible. Locals protested tourists trudging about gawking at the bones of their relatives. In other caves on the island, Japanese soldiers killed themselves, a preferable alternative to being captured. Chibichiri was included on CNN's "10 Scariest Places in Asia," and Okinawa is considered one of the most haunted islands in the world. 

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