Haunted Places in China (27)

Explore 27 haunted places in China — castles, hotels, churches, ruins and more. Every location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• ⚔️ Caishikou Execution Ground (菜市口) Beijing At the Qing dynasty's execution ground, night callers knocked at the Heniantang pharmacy – customers paying in grave money, asking for blade-wound salve.
• 👻 The Jinsong Ghost Building (劲松鬼楼) Beijing In the new Jinsong housing estate in 1984, quarrels and furniture-moving sounded outside the doors at night – but every opened door found the stairwell empty.
• 🚇 The Wanggongchang Explosion (王恭厂大爆炸) Beijing On 30 May 1626 an unexplained blast erased a whole district of Beijing – 20,000 died, and every victim was found stripped bare.
• 🛣️ Longbozi Road Nanjing, Jiangsu On the dark Dragon's Neck stretch beneath Nanjing's city wall, fallen soldiers are said to walk the night still.
• 🚇 Luosi Jieding Alley Yangzhou, Jiangsu In Yangzhou's lampless alley, every light that is lit is said to be blown out by those who never got a grave.
• 👻 The Zhongyin Building, Shenzhen Shenzhen, Guangdong Shenzhen's blood-red tower is said to be painted to keep the spirits of an old execution ground in — or out.
• 👻 No. 33 Xiaoshihu Hutong Beijing In this old princely courtyard near Xidan, restless voices are said to chant poetry and play strings in the night.
• 🚇 The Locked-Dragon Well of Beixinqiao Beijing Beneath the Beixinqiao crossroads, an ancient dragon is said to lie chained in a bottomless well.
• 🏛️ Beiding Niangniang Temple (北顶娘娘庙) Beijing When the diggers began tearing down the temple gate in 2004, a black whirlwind wrecked the Olympic site – the temple stood untouched, and the aquatics stadium was moved a hundred metres.
• 🏛️ Dongyue Temple (东岳庙) Beijing In Beijing's temple of the underworld, 76 infernal bureaus with 716 life-size clay officials sit in judgement – and iron abacuses tally your deeds 'without erring by a hair'.
• 🌲 Jingshan and the Emperor's Tree (景山) Beijing On the hill behind the Forbidden City, the last Ming emperor hanged himself in 1644 – the tree itself was put in chains as 'the guilty scholar tree'.
• 👻 Prince Li's Mansion (礼王府) Beijing One of Beijing's four great haunted houses: at night Princess Lanxin is said to weep in the palace courtyards, mourning the opera singer her father had killed. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 The Longfu Building (隆福大厦) Beijing The department store rose on a demolished Ming temple – workers found bottomless holes, chased fox-like shapes at night, and in 1993 fire devoured it all.
• 🚇 The Ghost Train of Yonghegong (雍和宫站) Beijing After eleven at night, Beijing's metro is said to run one empty extra train – for passengers no longer living. The night staff at Yonghegong know why.
• 🏚️ Yuanmingyuan – Ruins of the Old Summer Palace (圆明园) Beijing When the 'Garden of Gardens' was burned in 1860, hundreds of palace servants died in the flames of the Anyou Hall – in the marble ruins the wind is still said to carry weeping.
• 🗼 The Bell Tower and the Bell-Casting Goddess (钟楼) Beijing When the great bell tolls in stormy weather, Beijingers hear a girl crying for her embroidered shoe – the girl who threw herself into the molten bronze.
• 🚇 Qixinggang and the Tongyuan Gate Chongqing "Qixinggang is haunted," runs old Chongqing's rhyme — and a pagoda was raised solely to becalm the dead.
• ⛪ Xikai Cathedral Tianjin Around Tianjin's great cathedral, the crying of infants is said to echo in the dark long after the doors are locked.
• 🚇 The Dragon Pillar of the Yan'an Elevated Road Shanghai The motorway pillar at Shanghai's heart is said to pierce a dragon vein — and the monk who appeased it died soon after.
• 🏛️ The Traitor-Striking Cypress at the Confucius Temple (触奸柏) Beijing The 700-year-old cypress knocked the hat off the empire's greatest traitor – a tree said to know wicked men and punish them with its branches.
• 👻 Foxiangge – Tower of Buddhist Incense (佛香阁) Beijing When Qianlong's workmen opened an old tomb on Longevity Hill, eight characters stood carved inside: 'Touch me not, and I shall not touch you.' 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Gongzhufen – The Princess Tombs (公主坟) Beijing A young night worker saw people in ancient dress carrying a sedan chair along the platform — at the Princess Tomb the lost are said to still ride Line 1.
• 🌲 Guijianchou – Incense Burner Peak (鬼见愁) Beijing The highest peak of the Fragrant Hills bears the name 'Even Ghosts Despair' – too steep for the living, and by legend barred even to the dead.
• 🚇 Panjiayuan Ghost Market (潘家园鬼市) Beijing In the dark before dawn, lanterns drift like ghost-fires between the stalls – at Beijing's 'ghost market' you never know who is selling, or whether the seller will still exist at sunrise.
• ⚰️ The Fragrant Tomb of Taoranting (香冢) Beijing In the middle of the paupers' mass burial ground stood one tended, nameless grave — only a poem about a remnant of fragrance, and three centuries of guessing who she was.
• 🚇 The Bell Tower of Xi'an Shaanxi Xi'an's Bell Tower is said to have been moved once and for all — to cap the dragon that shook the city.
• 🗡️ Zhonghua Gate Nanjing, Jiangsu Beneath Nanjing's colossal city gate a magic treasure bowl is said to lie buried — and the builders' sighs to linger in the vaults. 🛏 Book a night here

FAQ

How many haunted places are there in China?

Haunted Places lists 27 haunted locations in China, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most haunted places in China?

Among the most notable in China: Caishikou Execution Ground (菜市口), The Jinsong Ghost Building (劲松鬼楼) and The Wanggongchang Explosion (王恭厂大爆炸).

Can you stay overnight at haunted places in China?

Yes — 3 of the haunted places in China are hotels or inns you can book for an overnight stay. The rest are public sites you can visit.

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