Do you know that Wan Tau Tong Estate (運頭塘邨) is rumored to be one of the burial grounds in the past in Hong
Kong?
…Actually lots of places in Hong Kong are rumored to be burial
grounds in the past. People who spread the rumor probably just wanted to scare the
others, or simply to look for fun, though.
Anyway, Wan Tau Tong Estate is the latest public housing estate in
Tai Po, completed in 1991. This place holds so many residents and is so lively
that you will think it has nothing to do with ghost stories…but it does. I
mean, the name of the estate itself is spooky enough (運頭
literally means “transport head”)…
There were two versions of the story: one has it that in early
1900s, lots of natural disasters happened and killed many people. In order to
prevent the spread of disease, the corpses had to be burnt, leaving the bones
behind. Undertakers therefore had to transport the bones and skulls to the
burial ground in Tai Po (which is supposed to be the Wan Tau Tong Estate today,
hence the name) and had them buried.
The other version is that many civilians were killed and had their
heads chopped off during Japanese occupation in 1940s. For some reason this
yet-to-be estate became an excellent choice for the Japanese soldiers to ditch
the heads.
Whatever the reason was, many people died and have to be buried in
this place. Then there started to be rumors about how people would see headless
figures pushing a wheelbarrow carrying many heads at night. There was also a
spookily hilarious story about a construction worker finding out the headless
ghosts using white glue to glue their loose heads on their necks…
If you really are interested in this spooky-name estate, you can
give it a visit, preferably at night.
But you would definitely be disappointed. You would only find a modern
yet peaceful residential area there. No burial grounds, no headless ghosts, no
wheelbarrow carrying heads either.
…We already have them glued up, after all.
What? No, I didn’t say anything.
Don’t mind me…
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