👉 Support this show 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 with almost no one surviving, villagers who vanished overnight, a hiker found dead on his knees inside the village: four stories in circulation, taken apart one by one, and not one of the answers has anything to do with ghosts. The village chief describes the village today as having no water, no electricity, and no road. Back then, the village school only went up to third grade, and beyond that there was no more schooling. What is really still unresolved is not the legends. It is bringing the village back. What drove the villagers out was no road, farming that could not feed them, and no school for the children. Of those three, the road was still stuck on its last section when the chief gave his interview. 【Timeline】 1932 The village opens Kai Ming School, which only goes up to third grade 1950s Seventy households, more than three hundred people 1960s The peak of emigration; many go to the United Kingdom, and some to the Netherlands, Belgium, and France 1965 A boat from Sha Tau Kok to the village of Ngau Shi Wu goes down; four of the twelve on board die. Ngau Shi Wu is abandoned that same year, and the accident is later misattributed to So Lo Pun Early 1970s The village chief says the last household leaves around then; some media write that by the 1980s no one is left in the village May 1998 A forty-seven-year-old hiker goes missing after a group hike in Hong Kong's northeast; rescue workers find him in So Lo Pun with multiple injuries and unconscious, and he does not survive Sep 20, 2007 Wong family members set up the So Lo Pun Village Committee, hoping to bring the village back Around 2017 Of the road the villagers applied for years earlier, the first section, from the pier to near the village entrance, is finished; the second section is stuck 【This episode answers】 ・Does the village name really come from a locked compass, and has anyone formally measured it? ・Which village lost people in that shipwreck, and how many actually died? ・If the village did not empty overnight, how did it empty, and where did everyone go? ・How far did the road into the village get before it stalled, and what is blocking it? 【Sources】 https://cco.gov.hk/tc/project-sites/so-lo-pun https://www.am730.com.hk/%E9%AB%94%E8%82%B2/%E9%8E%96%E7%BE%85%E7%9B%86%E8%A1%8C%E5%B1%B1%E8%B7%AF%E7%B7%9A-%E9%AC%BC%E6%95%85%E4%B9%8B%E8%AA%AA%E4%B8%8D%E6%94%BB%E8%87%AA%E7%A0%B4-%E6%A6%95%E6%A8%B9%E5%87%B9%E6%9B%B4%E8%8D%92%E6%B6%BC/322345 https://www.hkcd.com/content/2020-01/06/content_1172976.html https://hk.epochtimes.com/news/2021-02-10/65154583 https://www.thenewslens.com/article/176231 https://belief.elchk.org.hk/?p=2401 https://www.thinkhk.com/article/2021-12/30/53305.html — Background music: Unclosed Cases Intro, Unclosed Cases Underscore Bed (Google Flow Music) The narration and music in this show are AI-generated. The content is compiled from public sources, and the show contains no recordings of any real person. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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