Ghost stories
Bridge on the River Kwai · Those Who Cross the ...
The bridge on the River Kwai is a stretch of the Death Railway that Allied prisoners of war were forced to build during the Second World War. Deaths during the...
Bridge on the River Kwai · Those Who Cross the ...
The bridge on the River Kwai is a stretch of the Death Railway that Allied prisoners of war were forced to build during the Second World War. Deaths during the...
Ayutthaya Historical Park · The City That Burne...
Ayutthaya was once the most prosperous capital in Southeast Asia. When the Burmese army broke into it in 1767 the city burned for seven days and nights, and the heads...
Ayutthaya Historical Park · The City That Burne...
Ayutthaya was once the most prosperous capital in Southeast Asia. When the Burmese army broke into it in 1767 the city burned for seven days and nights, and the heads...
Erawan Shrine, Bangkok · The Morning It Was Sma...
The Erawan Shrine stands at a corner of a shopping complex in central Bangkok. Worshippers come without pause, and dancers perform under the shelter beside it to repay their vows....
Erawan Shrine, Bangkok · The Morning It Was Sma...
The Erawan Shrine stands at a corner of a shopping complex in central Bangkok. Worshippers come without pause, and dancers perform under the shelter beside it to repay their vows....
Sathorn Unique Tower · The Tower That Stopped i...
The Sathorn Unique Tower in Bangkok was halted during the 1997 financial crash. For more than forty floors only the frame went up, and there it has stood since. Nobody...
Sathorn Unique Tower · The Tower That Stopped i...
The Sathorn Unique Tower in Bangkok was halted during the 1997 financial crash. For more than forty floors only the frame went up, and there it has stood since. Nobody...
Mae Nak Shrine · The Woman Who Waited for Her H...
The Mae Nak Shrine in Bangkok honours Mae Nak, a woman who died in childbirth, and who after death waited every night for her husband to come back from the...
Mae Nak Shrine · The Woman Who Waited for Her H...
The Mae Nak Shrine in Bangkok honours Mae Nak, a woman who died in childbirth, and who after death waited every night for her husband to come back from the...
Hahoe Village, Andong · The Name Behind the Mask
Hahoe Village in Andong is ringed by water on three sides, and the villagers still perform the Hahoe byeolsin masked dance. There are around a dozen masks; the best known...
Hahoe Village, Andong · The Name Behind the Mask
Hahoe Village in Andong is ringed by water on three sides, and the villagers still perform the Hahoe byeolsin masked dance. There are around a dozen masks; the best known...
Manjanggul, Jeju · The Stone Pillars Are Still ...
Manjanggul on Jeju is a lava tunnel about seven kilometres long, at a steady temperature all year round, with stone pillars and lava bridges running from the floor to the...
Manjanggul, Jeju · The Stone Pillars Are Still ...
Manjanggul on Jeju is a lava tunnel about seven kilometres long, at a steady temperature all year round, with stone pillars and lava bridges running from the floor to the...
The Jindo Sea Road · The Road That Opens Once a...
Off Jindo, once a year, the sea opens in what is called the Moses Miracle: the water draws back and leaves a path about three kilometres long that people can...
The Jindo Sea Road · The Road That Opens Once a...
Off Jindo, once a year, the sea opens in what is called the Moses Miracle: the water draws back and leaves a path about three kilometres long that people can...
Hwaseong Fortress, Suwon · The Night Watch on t...
Hwaseong in Suwon was built by King Jeongjo when he moved his father’s tomb. The brick and stone were laid by new methods, and it was the last great fortress...
Hwaseong Fortress, Suwon · The Night Watch on t...
Hwaseong in Suwon was built by King Jeongjo when he moved his father’s tomb. The brick and stone were laid by new methods, and it was the last great fortress...
Ulsanbawi, Seoraksan · The Stretches You Cannot...
Ulsanbawi on Seoraksan is made of six great rocks stacked one on another, and the last stretch is a near-vertical iron stair through a cleft in the stone. People who...
Ulsanbawi, Seoraksan · The Stretches You Cannot...
Ulsanbawi on Seoraksan is made of six great rocks stacked one on another, and the last stretch is a near-vertical iron stair through a cleft in the stone. People who...
Jirisan · The Nine-Tailed Fox in the Mountains
Jirisan is the deepest mountain in South Korea; when the fog comes down you cannot see ten metres. The belief that a nine-tailed fox lives on it has come down...
Jirisan · The Nine-Tailed Fox in the Mountains
Jirisan is the deepest mountain in South Korea; when the fog comes down you cannot see ten metres. The belief that a nine-tailed fox lives on it has come down...
Daereungwon, Gyeongju · The Silla Kings Beneath...
In the middle of Gyeongju lies a field of grass mounds: the tombs of the Silla royal house. The Cheonmachong tomb yielded a gold crown and a gold belt, and...
Daereungwon, Gyeongju · The Silla Kings Beneath...
In the middle of Gyeongju lies a field of grass mounds: the tombs of the Silla royal house. The Cheonmachong tomb yielded a gold crown and a gold belt, and...
Gyeongbokgung · The Court That Never Disperses ...
Gyeongbokgung was the main palace of the Joseon dynasty. Over several centuries it was burned, dismantled, and rebuilt. The story told on the steps of the Geunjeongjeon throne hall is...
Gyeongbokgung · The Court That Never Disperses ...
Gyeongbokgung was the main palace of the Joseon dynasty. Over several centuries it was burned, dismantled, and rebuilt. The story told on the steps of the Geunjeongjeon throne hall is...
Jangseungbaegi Hospital · The Ward Where Nobody...
After the Jangseungbaegi Hospital in Seoul’s Dongdaemun district stopped operating, it became one of the best-known abandoned buildings in South Korea. In the telling it had been a sanatorium, abandoned...
Jangseungbaegi Hospital · The Ward Where Nobody...
After the Jangseungbaegi Hospital in Seoul’s Dongdaemun district stopped operating, it became one of the best-known abandoned buildings in South Korea. In the telling it had been a sanatorium, abandoned...
Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital · The Iron Gate Th...
Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital was built, used briefly, and closed. From the 1990s it stood empty with the furniture still inside — beds, files, wheelchairs, left where they were. Three versions...
Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital · The Iron Gate Th...
Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital was built, used briefly, and closed. From the 1990s it stood empty with the furniture still inside — beds, files, wheelchairs, left where they were. Three versions...
Sunshine City, Ikebukuro · The Prison That Was ...
When Sunshine City in Ikebukuro was finished it was the tallest building in Asia. A prison once stood on the site, and that is usually how the story opens. In...
Sunshine City, Ikebukuro · The Prison That Was ...
When Sunshine City in Ikebukuro was finished it was the tallest building in Asia. A prison once stood on the site, and that is usually how the story opens. In...
Odaigahara · The Extra One in the Fog
Odaigahara is the wettest plateau in Japan. A white fog sits on the cedar forest all year round, and one wrong step on the trail puts you at the edge...
Odaigahara · The Extra One in the Fog
Odaigahara is the wettest plateau in Japan. A white fog sits on the cedar forest all year round, and one wrong step on the trail puts you at the edge...
Okunoin (Mount Koya) · Among Two Hundred Thousa...
Okunoin, on Mount Koya, is where Kukai entered his eternal meditation, and the largest cemetery in Japan: two hundred thousand tombstones among the cedars, with little direct sunlight even at...
Okunoin (Mount Koya) · Among Two Hundred Thousa...
Okunoin, on Mount Koya, is where Kukai entered his eternal meditation, and the largest cemetery in Japan: two hundred thousand tombstones among the cedars, with little direct sunlight even at...
Himeji Castle · The Sound of Plates at the Bott...
Himeji Castle, all white walls, is known as the White Heron Castle; what it is really known for is the tale of Banshu Sarayashiki. A servant in the castle, Okiku,...
Himeji Castle · The Sound of Plates at the Bott...
Himeji Castle, all white walls, is known as the White Heron Castle; what it is really known for is the tale of Banshu Sarayashiki. A servant in the castle, Okiku,...
Jomon Tunnel · The Mark on the Tunnel Roof
The Jomon Tunnel links Kitami and Abashiri. Workers were killed and injured in numbers while it was being cut, and the tool marks on its walls are still uneven. It...
Jomon Tunnel · The Mark on the Tunnel Roof
The Jomon Tunnel links Kitami and Abashiri. Workers were killed and injured in numbers while it was being cut, and the tool marks on its walls are still uneven. It...
Sendagaya Tunnel · The Second Shadow in the Tunnel
The Sendagaya Tunnel runs under Meiji-dori in Tokyo, a short passage cut for the road works of the 1964 Olympics. There are many versions of what happens inside. Some say...
Sendagaya Tunnel · The Second Shadow in the Tunnel
The Sendagaya Tunnel runs under Meiji-dori in Tokyo, a short passage cut for the road works of the 1964 Olympics. There are many versions of what happens inside. Some say...
Mount Osore · The Gathering of the Dead by the ...
Mount Osore is one of the three great sacred sites of Japan. The lake pooled in the crater stays white all year, the shore is thick with pinwheels and stone...
Mount Osore · The Gathering of the Dead by the ...
Mount Osore is one of the three great sacred sites of Japan. The lake pooled in the crater stays white all year, the shore is thick with pinwheels and stone...
Yotsuya Kaidan · The Face of the Woman He Cast Off
Yotsuya is the oldest haunted ground in the city of Edo. The story goes that after a low-ranking samurai divorced his sick wife, she died under the eaves of his...
Yotsuya Kaidan · The Face of the Woman He Cast Off
Yotsuya is the oldest haunted ground in the city of Edo. The story goes that after a low-ranking samurai divorced his sick wife, she died under the eaves of his...
Santa Catalina Monastery · Another City Inside ...
Santa Catalina Monastery in Arequipa occupies a whole block and is built of white volcanic stone, sillar: its own streets, kitchens, courtyards and small squares, where nuns could live a...
Santa Catalina Monastery · Another City Inside ...
Santa Catalina Monastery in Arequipa occupies a whole block and is built of white volcanic stone, sillar: its own streets, kitchens, courtyards and small squares, where nuns could live a...