High Street Ghost House / Sai Ying Pun Community Complex haunting tradition

Record summary

The former Victoria Road Detention Centre and later psychiatric-hospital complex at High Street became associated with stories of apparitions, mysterious lights, ritual activity and unexplained sounds. These accounts circulated in Hong Kong popular culture before and during the 1980s, when the site was commonly called the High Street Ghost House. The lead matters because it links institutional architecture, psychiatric stigma and local folklore. The exact origin, dates and wording of individual reports are uncertain, and later redevelopment and media retellings may have consolidated separate traditions.