Hong Kong University was founded in 1911, and is the oldest institution in Hong Kong. Hong Kong University is rated amongst the top universities in Asia and consists of a few different campuses in Hong Kong but the most reports of paranormal activity is the main campus located on the hillsides of Bonham Road and Pok Fu Lam Road.
Having been around since 1911, the university possesses great history where many people from all nationalities have graduated but some who unfortunately died during their studies. Reports of ghost sighting have been in a few different buildings of the university such as the main building, main library, K.K Leung building and the east wing gate. The following real life stories are from the paranormal ghost experience from the Main Building.
The HKU main building is said to be haunted by 2 ghosts.
The main building was the first to be built of the many historic European design buildings on the University. It has been said during the construction phase, 2 Chinese workers were killed when they were laying the roof tiles. Students who would attend class in the main building said they could hear footsteps on the rooftop at any time of the day, but mostly during the late afternoon, which was the time the 2 workers fell to their death. While students and teachers walk past the place where the workers died, they would hear thumping noises behind as if some heavy item was thrown from the roof.
A student in 1982 called Shelly Yuen recalled, “I remember one night when a friend and I were studying till 9:30pm decided to go home, so we walked past the main campus and heard strange sounds coming from the rooftop. I remembered so clearly because I saw something like a tile suddenly dropped around 3 meters in front of us. We were so shocked and looked up but saw nothing accept we heard footsteps walking on the roof. We were scared because we thought it was someone who wanted to kill us. We then quickly walked against the stair barrier furthest to the building. As we walked down the stairs from the right corner of my eyes I saw a black thing drop on the ground and heard a thumping sound. At that instance I thought someone tried to kill themselves so I turned back to have a look. This all happened within a seconds. I saw a black transparent shadow like object on the ground. I couldn’t see clearly what it was, but it looked like it was wearing a blue shirt. What was strange is I couldn’t see the bottom part of the object; it didn’t have any legs at all. I was shaking, but within a blink of an eye the object disappeared. I thought I was dreaming but my friend also saw it.
Another story happened in 1991, when a teacher believed he had an encounter with the 2 spirits. The teacher said, “It was a late afternoon when I just finished class. I stayed back for around 30 minutes as I decided to correct some work from the students. I was on the 2nd floor and I happen to drop some notes. This let me towards the hand rail overlooking the inner yard. As I looked in between the spacing of the rail I was able to look at the inner yard, I saw two shadow figures lying on the grass yard seemly like they were relaxing. Although I couldn’t see what it was I had I just knew these two things were looking at me. After I collected my notes I quickly rushed down the stairs but I heard footsteps walking behind me, so close I could hear their breath. I turned around and saw nothing. I thought, there should be no one hear at this time as class should have finished a while a go. As I was still in my thoughts I turned my head back facing the front but I felt a powerful force pushing me from my waist area. This led me to fall down the stairs. Before I lost my consciousness I could see two objects wearing blue standing at the top of the stairs. Although I couldn’t see clearly, they seem like they were wearing clothing from the early 1900’s. I couldn’t keep my eyes opened anymore, but I heard their laughter, and their conversation about needing to get back to work fixing the roof tiles.
It seemed like they didn’t even know they have died. They thought they still hadn’t finished their job of laying the roof tiles. Many ghost and spirits still haunt the place they died.
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