School Souls

Are Ghost real?...

I Love stories like this, Ghost stories... And I know ghost hunter, the fear, the superstitions always hides a bigger story... A true story...

It all began in Hong Kong...

Ricky , school teacher by day and war gamer by night. here is the story of Ricky...

"We usually look for abandoned buildings to play. And that's why I organized on the Tak Tak School. We are divided into two teams. When the enemy saw me, he shot me so I went into the dead zone. My friend pointed into a room and ask "do you see a man squatting there?" I look closer and seemed as if he was squatting down to pick something up. he was wearing white and when I reached the room, I found nothing..."

Tak Tak school in Ping Shan Village, rated as one of the Hong Kong's most haunted places...

Madam Ling Tze is a believer, a ghost whisperer. Madam Ling Tze explained that belief in after life is common place in Hong Kong. and madam Ling said: Spirits are everywhere and there are plenty of ghost there in Tak Tak school.

Why is the School abandoned? 

Robert Joe, A blogger and also an Urban explorer looking for some answers why the school is abandoned. He then went to uncle Fat. Uncle Fat is the brother of the last principal of Tak Tak school. He mentioned that the school didn't shut down because of mysterious or tragic circumstances. 

There is another story in the web that Robert saw... This is all about the group of 12 kids who actually heard the stories of Tak Tak School. and they decided to sneak in bravely in night time. suddenly, they saw a lady in red through the windows. On the way out, one of the girls just started to freak out, acting strange,  Choking herself, and attacking her friends. later on, she told that she had a vision of people killing themselves, committing suicide. and turns out that there are rumors of a teacher at this school would kill herself in one of the bathrooms. 

And believe it or not, there is a cemetery behind the school. and I wonder if the lady in red had something to do with the people buried here in the cemetery...

If a school teacher did commit suicide was this her grave?

Could real tragedy been the inspiration with this lady on red?

Robert Joe, looking for answers in Hong Kong police. and then he discovered that there is no record of a suicide at Tak Tak school.

That suggested the lady in red, wasn't based on a real person. and maybe she was just a product of the teen age girls imagination. 

Joseph Bosco, A professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, explains the lady in red. He mentioned that woman in red really represents women who are violent ghost. they died violently, and they are those hungry ghost. 

Tammie, a local, told Robert that "The school, the village, and their history were connected by one name."

Who were this "Tang"?

The entire village was part of a clan system. Robert saw uncle Fat again. cause he is also a Tang. Robert ask about these cannons...

Uncle Fat said that, they were last used when they are fighting against the British. The British wants to claim these lands so the villagers took up arms to stop them. 

On March 13, the Tangs spend 3,695 us dollars buying cannons during Shunzhi era.

                                     

Robert Joe is looking for any documentation/any proof regarding the conflict between the British Empire but sadly, he didn't find any proof in the museum. And now he had this question of does this British war exist? why is it that it didn't appear in the news' front page?.

Robert went to Hong Kong public records building and read about the British government Hong Kong Archives. and then he found the phrase: "We hate english barbarians that would enter our boundaries and take our land. and will cause endless evil. 

The British won in the first Opium war in 1839-1842. and the first treaty didn't affect the villagers in the new territories. 50 years later the British demanded more and because of this the Chinese signed a controversial 99 year lease giving the British more land and it was called the British expansion. 

  

This is the torpedo that the Tang were facing with their 300 year old cannons. and with this I believe military tactics were imbalanced. Their could be casualties...

Robert meet another Tang to have more information about the history. when he talked with grandpa Tang he ask for more details about the book that grandpa Tang made.

Grandpa Tang said: "On March 11 1899 the Qing dynasty and the British, signed the new territory border agreement. 

Grandpa Tang called the war "The six days war..." and more than 2500 from many nearby villagers took part. and based on the records of Grandpa Tang, It had more than 170 people from Ping Shan village that the British killed. And the official records stated that there is no reported casualties in the war. were there any cover-ups?...

Robert went again to see Tang Shing Sze and ask if where did they buried the dead. and Tang Shing Sze said that they are buried at Kam Tin. 

Robert Joe talked to the British historian Dr. Patrick Hase. and according to Dr. Hase, both sides agreed to forget. that's the reason why the info that grandpa Tang and the official records didn't match. 

According to the Chinese, not caring for the soul of the ancestors, would lead to consequences... and Robert Joe mentioned to his blog that Ping Shang story, had many elements: mystery, political cover-ups, and ancient beliefs. The abandoned school had long tales of ghosts, but the real story, the real mystery was the century old war that were in the records...  

source: National Geographic... http://iwgit.com/