The Raffles Hotel ghost tradition in Singapore as a Pacific-region comparator

Record summary

Raffles Hotel’s ghost stories, including accounts of apparitions and unexplained experiences linked to its colonial history, circulated widely in travel writing and media during the 1990s and 2000s. Singapore is geographically adjacent to, but not strictly part of, Oceania or the Pacific; this lead should only be retained if the project’s regional definition includes wider Pacific-facing comparison. It is analytically useful because hotel restoration and luxury branding can transform folklore into heritage product. The claims require separation from documented wartime history and from generic “haunted hotel” listicles.