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Haunted Houses & Spooky Spots In Hong Kong For Halloween

Go Check Out The City's Most Haunted Spots For A Spooky Halloween!

Updated: October 10, 2026

Halloween is creeping closer! To get you ready for the spookiest night of the year, Little Steps has put together the ultimate guide to haunted houses and haunted places in Hong Kong. Whether your family loves a good scream or prefers gentler frights, there’s something here for every level of bravery.

Inside, you’ll find real-life spooky mansions, all-out haunted attractions, mysterious museums and old buildings with ghost stories passed down for generations. We’ve also included a few spots you may not have known are haunted. You might even walk past some of them every day!

So grab your bravest little ghouls and start planning your Halloween adventures. Click here to enter… if you dare!

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Are there real haunted houses kids can visit in Hong Kong?

Most of the famous ones are stories, not ticketed scare houses. Nam Koo Terrace on Ship Street, Tat Tak School in Ping Shan and the old Central Hospital on Lower Albert Road are private or abandoned. Look from the public path in daylight, then leave. Do not climb gates. Ticketed frights are listed in our Halloween events guide.

Which spooky spots work for a family walk?

Murray House in Stanley is shops and restaurants now, so you can go in and tell the old officers’-mess story on the promenade. The High Street façade in Sai Ying Pun is a one-minute walk from the MTR, beside a school. Dragon Lodge is visible from the stroller-friendly Lugard Road loop. Bride’s Pool is a marked waterfall path from Tai Mei Tuk, in daylight only.

Can we go inside Nam Koo Terrace?

No. The Red House at 55 Ship Street has sat in disrepair for years, and students who broke in during the early 2000s were taken to hospital. The same rule applies at Tat Tak School, empty since 1998: path view only. Star Street Shrine is a few minutes away if you want a second Wan Chai stop. Do not move offerings.

What is a gentle spooky outing for younger kids?

The Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence in Shau Kei Wan is a real 1880s fort with ramparts and a harbour view, usually 10am to 6pm and closed Tuesdays. Leave at closing. The Lady in White is an after-hours staff story, not the visit. The CUHK lotus pond is an easy daytime point-and-tell, not a night walk.

Which spots are only for older kids?

So Lo Pun in Plover Cove is a long hike to an empty Hakka village. Club Captain Bear in Sai Kung needs a trail or boat, and the empty pool is not for swimming. Burma Lines temple in Fanling is a daylight path behind Shan Lai Court. Skip all of them after dusk, and keep to the path. More stops are in our haunted spots guide.

SO LO PUN: Abandoned Hakka Village + Plover Cove

A Ghost Village You Only See On A Proper Hike

So Lo Pun is one of the oldest villages in the New Territories, inside Plover Cove Country Park, and it has been abandoned since the 1980s. Nobody agrees why it emptied so fast. Some locals say a health scare swept the houses. Others say many villagers died on the way to a wedding, in a boat accident, and the rest of the village was abandoned overnight. Hikers add a locked-compass tale: needles spin, phones act up, and the name is read as “locked compass.” What you see now is crumbling Hakka houses, an ancestral hall and banyan roots. It is a long daylight hike, not a pram stop, and not a place to sleep. If you finish near the water, kite spots are in the kite guide.

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Why It Made The List
- A real empty village
- Two folk stories, and neither is tidy
- Best with older children, in a group, before dusk
So Lo Pun, Plover Cove Country Park, Shuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, https://cco.gov.hk/en/project-sites/so-lo-pun, daylight hike only.
LUI SENG CHUN: Tong Lau With A Stopped Renovation + Lai Chi Kok

The Corner Block Workers Would Not Finish

Lui Seng Chun stood vacant for years, and that empty stretch is where the stories grew. Locals reported strange occurrences and ghost sightings while it sat dark. In the 1980s a revamp was planned, then construction workers and cleaning staff fell ill one by one, and fatal accidents were reported on the job. The rebuild stopped. People who only walk past still say the verandahs feel wrong. It finally reopened in 2012 as a Chinese medicine clinic for Hong Kong Baptist University, at 119 Lai Chi Kok Road. Look from the pavement. A clinic is not a ghost tour.

Why Little Steps Loves It?
- The illness-and-accident story is the spooky bit
- Easy MTR stop, no hike
- Restored, so the visit stays outside Lui Seng Chun, 119 Lai Chi Kok Road, Prince Edward, Kowloon, Hong Kong, https://scm.hkbu.edu.hk/, clinic hours on weekdays.
NAM KOO TERRACE: The Red House + Wan Chai

Wails, Lights And A Gate You Do Not Cross

Nam Koo Terrace has the heaviest ghost file in Hong Kong, and it has sat in disrepair behind Ship Street for years. It was a Shanghai family’s house, then, in the occupation, a military brothel. The women who died there are the haunting people name: eerie lights, wails, cries, and figures at the windows. In the early 2000s, students who broke in were taken to hospital after what reports called possession. That is the warning, not a challenge. Look from the public path in daylight.

Why Little Steps Loves It?
- The city’s best-known ghost house
- Lights and voices are the story people repeat
- A two-minute look, then leave
Nam Koo Terrace, 55 Ship Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, https://www.amo.gov.hk/, exterior view in daylight only
HONG KONG CENTRAL HOSPITAL: Abandoned Hospital Haunted By Female Apparitions

Haunted Hospital In Central, Hong Kong

This hospital was seen as one of the most affordable providers of cheap private care but has been abandoned since 2012. This hospital was also a leading provider in offering abortions. At its peak, it was said that this hospital provided over 6,000 abortions per year. Now the hospital has been left to rot, and you can still find many deserted medical items inside. The people who have ventured inside have claimed to feel uncomfortable and felt as if they were being watched.

Hong Kong Central Hospital, 1 B Lower Albert Road, Central, Hong Kong
DRAGON LODGE: Abandoned Peak Mansion + The Peak

A Crying Child, Stopped Works, And A Lugard Road Fence

Dragon Lodge, 32 Lugard Road, is the Peak mansion that never quite got finished again. It passed through several owners. One died in the house. In the occupation, the grounds were used by Japanese forces, and the darkest version of the story says Catholic nuns were killed there and still walk the garden. A 2004 renovation stalled after workers reported a crying child who passed through walls, plus noises that did not match the crew. The Lugard Road loop is public. The house is private. Walk past in daylight. The family path is in the easy hikes guide.

Why It Made The List
- The crying-child story is the one people repeat
- Visible from a stroller-friendly loop
- No need to leave the public road
Dragon Lodge, 32 Lugard Road, The Peak, Hong Kong, https://www.thepeak.com.hk/,
TAT TAK SCHOOL: The Most Haunted School In Hong Kong

Haunted School In Yuen Long, Hong Kong

Locals call Tat Tak School the most haunted school in Hong Kong. It has been empty since 1998. Occupation stories say a massacre happened here, and that the principal took his own life in the building. Visitors claim children’s voices in the classrooms and the principal’s shriek in the hall. A woman in red turns up in the later tellings. In 2011 a group of students ran into trouble on a night visit. In July 2025 a man’s body was found on the site. See the outline from the path if you are already in Ping Shan, then leave.

Why It Made The List
- The school story children already know
- Voices and a red figure, told from outside
- A hard stop on going in
Tat Tak School, Ping Shan Nam Pak Road, Yuen Long, Hong Kong, do not enter; path view only
MURRAY HOUSE: Hong Kong's Most Haunted House

Haunted House In Stanley, Hong Kong

Murray House has the oddest official ghost note on this list. Staff in the old Central officers’ mess reported marks on drawings, machines that failed, and soft noises nobody could place. The government allowed rites more than once. Occupation stories say the building was used to torture and execute civilians, and the reputation stuck. The granite block was later taken down and rebuilt at 96 Stanley Main Street, where it now holds restaurants, not a haunted house. Walk the promenade, eat, and tell the exorcism story outside.

Why It Made The List
- The exorcism is the spooky detail
- You can go in, because it is shops now
- Stanley Promenade works with a buggy
Murray House, 96 Stanley Main Street, Stanley, Hong Kong, https://www.discoverhongkong.com/, mall hours roughly 10am–10pm.
SAI YING PUN COMMUNITY COMPLEX: High Street Façade + Sai Ying Pun

The Old Psych Ward Behind A Granite Ghost Front

The granite front at 2 High Street is all that remains of the 1892 nurses’ quarters. After the war it became a psychiatric unit. It was abandoned in the early 1970s, scarred by two fires, and left alone because of ghost talk and the wartime association. Locals still call it the High Street haunted house: shutters that move, figures in upper windows, a cold patch on the stairs. In the 1990s, the interior came down and a community complex went up behind the façade. It is a minute from Sai Ying Pun Station Exit C, beside a school. Look, do not loom.

Why It Made The List
- The psych-ward years are the uneasy bit
- One-minute walk from the MTR
- Façade only, in daylight
Sai Ying Pun Community Complex, 2 High Street, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, https://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/place-to-go/travel.guide-sai-ying-pun-community-complex.html, exterior any daytime.
STAR STREET SHRINE: Untouched Altar Above The Old Shelters + Wan Chai

Ghostly Heads On A Street Built Over Wartime Tunnels

Star Street sits on Wan Chai’s old air-raid ground. Shelters, bunkers and tunnels run under the slope, and a 1941 bomb is said to have fallen into one shelter before it detonated. When workers tried to move the Star Street Shrine for the redevelopment, local legend has it that ghostly heads roamed the street at night, scaring anyone who disturbed their peace. The shrine was left. It is still a small, untouched link to that past, easy to miss between the cafes. Look, do not shift offerings, and do not treat a night wander as the plan with children.

Why It Made The List
- The moving-the-shrine story is the spooky bit
- Daytime street, no fence to climb
- Pairs with a Nam Koo Terrace look nearby
Star Street Shrine, 7 Star Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
MUSEUM OF COASTAL DEFENCE: Old Lei Yue Mun Fort + Shau Kei Wan

A Lady In White After The Guns Go Quiet

Built by the British in the 1880s, this Lei Yue Mun fort is now the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence. The torpedo station, batteries and guns are still there. Some say the soldiers who died on the headland never left. Staff lore, passed around more than printed, names a Lady in White and other figures once the galleries are empty. Do not stay past closing. The daytime visit is the one for families: ramparts, harbour view, a proper exit.

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Why It Made The List
- Real fort, real closing time
- The Lady in White is the after-hours story
Hong Kong Museum Of Coastal Defence, 175 Tung Hei Road, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong, https://hk.history.museum/, typically 10am–6pm, closed Tuesdays.
THE LOTUS POND AT CUHK: Heartbroken Ghost + Sha Tin

A Girl With Braids Who Still Waits By The Water

The Lotus Pond at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, built in the late 1960s, carries the campus heartbreak story. A girl with braided hair waited one night for a lover who had promised to elope. He never came. She stepped into the pond. Students still say that after midnight she takes a man’s hand and walks him into the water, and that the safe reply is no reply at all: do not answer, do not look back. By day it is a campus landmark beside the pavilions.

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Why It Made The List
- The braids-and-elopement story is specific
- A real pond, easy to point at
- Campus paths, not a ruin crawl
The Lotus Pond, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/, campus grounds in daylight
BURMA LINES HINDU TEMPLE: Abandoned Gurkha Shrine + Fanling

A Quiet Temple Behind Shan Lai Court

Burma Lines was Queen’s Hill Camp, home to Gurkha soldiers. Their Hindu temple, used from the 1960s for Shiva and the camp’s deities, was left when the battalion moved on. It now sits in the green behind Shan Lai Court, at the edge of Queen’s Hill Estate. The spooky part is the emptiness: offerings gone, paint peeling, a shrine with nobody keeping it. Take the 78A from Fanling Station to Shan Lai Court and walk toward Lei Shan House, then the fence line. Daylight only. Do not climb unstable walls.

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Why It Made The List
- A real abandoned shrine, not a set
- Short walk from a housing-estate bus stop
- Quiet enough to feel the story
Burma Lines Hindu Temple, behind Shan Lai Court, Queen’s Hill Estate, 88 Lung Ma Road, Fanling, Hong Kong, daylight path only.

Photo credit: Hong Kong Hike
CLUB CAPTAIN BEAR: Failed Resort + Tai She Wan, Sai Kung

Fibreglass Animals Left Behind In An Empty Bay

Club Captain Bear was a 2006 attempt to revive Tai She Wan, under High Island Reservoir. A bar owner refitted two old houses, added a pool and shipped in animatronic animals from the old Rainforest Cafe. No road reached it. Boats were the plan. The resort failed within about a year, and the animals, glass and empty pool were left. It now reads like a horror-film theme park someone switched off. Reach it by speedboat from Sai Kung, or a long walk from Pak Tam Chung and the MacLehose Trail. Not a buggy day. Do not swim in the pool. Tell the story from the path.

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Why It Made The List
- The leftover animals are the uncanny bit
- A real failed resort, dated to 2006
- Only for older children who can hike
Club Captain Bear, Tai She Wan, Sai Kung, Hong Kong, daylight approach by trail or boat.

Photo credit: Hidden HK
BRIDE’S POOL: The Wedding Ghost + Plover Cove

A Sedan Chair, A Slip, And A Pool That Kept The Name

Bride’s Pool, above Tai Mei Tuk, is named for the bride who never arrived. The usual telling has her sedan chair slip on the wet stone on the way to the wedding. She drowned. The pool kept her. Hikers still talk about a figure in red near the falls after rain, and about not answering if someone calls from the water. The cascades and the old village path are a proper family walk in daylight, with a bus to the Tai Mei Tuk end. Skip dusk.

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Why It Made The List
- The bride story is the one children remember
- Waterfalls on a marked country-park path
- Easy to combine with Tai Mei Tuk
Bride’s Pool, Bride’s Pool Road, Plover Cove Country Park, Tai Po, Hong Kong, https://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/place-to-go/travel.guide-bride-s-pool.html, daylight; bus toward Tai Mei Tuk, then the falls path.