On the eleventh ground of a suburban Hong Kong tower, an 86-year-old girl lived alone in a tiny, decrepit condo. Her household not often visited. Her daughter had married a person in Macau and now lived there with him and their two kids. Her son had handed away years earlier, and his solely youngster now attended college in England.
One September night, the previous girl fell and broke her hip whereas attempting to alter a lightbulb. She couldn’t transfer, and nobody heard her crying for assist. Over the following two days, she slowly died from dehydration. It took an extra three days for the neighbours to name the authorities – three days for the stench to change into actually insufferable. The police eliminated the physique and notified the household. A small funeral was held.
When a college scholar in Hong Kong first despatched me this story, which I’ve translated from Chinese language and barely modified, I knew it wasn’t true. Many related fictional tales of ghosts, hauntings and unnatural deaths could be discovered on-line. Although these tales will not be factual stories, I’ve discovered they replicate the experiences and anxieties of many who reside in city China: aged mother and father left with out household on the finish of their lives; ghosts harming strangers (even main them to take their very own life); a pervasive worry of loss of life; and a strengthening relationship between a worry of ghosts and the real-estate market.
