So Lo Pun: A Village Emptied Overnight, Dinner Still Warm, a Hiker Dead on His Knees

Unclosed | True Crime · Oct 17, 2026 · 19m

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The food on the table was still warm, everything was neatly in its place, and a whole village emptied in a single night. This is a Hakka village in the northeast of Hong Kong's New Territories, often called the most famous haunted village in Hong Kong. In the 1950s it had seventy households and more than three hundred people. Take each strange story apart and check it, and every one of them turns out to have an answer.

This episode is about So Lo Pun. A compass that spins wildly as soon as you walk in, a whole village on a boat that capsized on the way to a wedding banquet…