1. The night-swimming girl incident happened at the Fuxing River beside Yujiang Road in Hexi District. On a very hot night in July 2005, a few young men went swimming in the river. Under the moonlight, they noticed a long-haired woman swimming not far away, her long hair floating on the water behind her, looking very graceful. For three consecutive nights, these young men saw this girl swimming alone. Driven by curiosity, they decided to get closer to her. As they approached, one of the young men suddenly felt something was strange—the swimming woman never seemed to show her hands or feet above the water. At that moment, the woman swam quickly towards one of the men. Just before colliding, the young man instinctively reached out his hands to meet her, only to find that what he had touched was a stinking woman's head with long hair… Three days earlier, there had been a murder nearby; a young long-haired woman was dismembered, and her head was missing.
2. Most friends living in high-rise buildings in Hexi usually use the elevator, which makes the stairs a neglected area. One girl living on the 13th floor was returning home at night, but the elevator happened to be out of order. Looking at the long stairway and feeling a bit scared, she asked her mother to meet her downstairs. Her mother went down and walked up with her. When they reached the 12th floor, the girl's phone rang, and her voice came through: “Sweetie, Mom has come downstairs, where are you?”
3. Collecting hobbies are increasingly popular nowadays. A girl from another city came to Tianjin for work and worked at a hotel in the Tianjin Development Zone (located in Tanggu). The female owner of the hotel treated her very well, even a bit excessively. At the end of the year, the girl was going home, and the owner invited her to dinner. After drinking a bit, the female owner smiled at the working girl and said: “Dear little sister, do you know what hobby your sister has? I like cute things.”
Then, she forced the working girl to her private room to take a look. Opening a large cabinet, the female owner said: “Dear little sister, look, this is my collection over the years!” The cabinet contained dried female heads hanging inside. “Looks like my collection will have a new addition!” The female owner looked at the working girl with a sinister smile.
4. The buildings at Nanda, along with the building of the Economics Department at Hunan University and a rear building shaped like a bagua, form a tomb-like structure. Because of this, several people have jumped to their deaths from high floors.One year, the lake at Nanda (Nankai University) flooded and drowned several foreign students. The teachers at Nanda went down to rescue them, and as a result, the teacher who rescued them was later said to have gone mad, because that teacher often saw a woman glaring at him fiercely, questioning why he meddled in others' affairs~~
5. Picking up Hell Money
In 2004, on Jiefang South Road in Hexi District (opposite Shunchi Mingdu), a cyclist commuting to work was run over and killed by a car. Afterwards, the onlookers discovered that the deceased was tightly holding a hundred-yuan denomination of Hell Money. According to the driver, his car had just come off an overpass, traveling at high speed, when suddenly a cyclist rode into the middle of the road to pick up a banknote from the ground...
It is said that this was a trap set by someone previously run over at this location, seeking a substitute to die in their place and ensure their own rebirth.
6. The Three Little Pigs
This incident happened in the late 1990s. One night, three people took a taxi to a rural household in Jinnan District. They were respectively wearing black, white, and patterned clothing. Upon reaching their destination, they gave the driver money and entered the house. The driver didn't pay attention at the time, but later found out that he had been given Hell Money. The next day, he went back to ask the household if three people had come by the previous night. The family said that no one had come at all, and that their sow had just given birth to three piglets: one black, one white, and one patterned.
7. No. 162 Machang Road
This is a European-style small villa located right next to Machang Road. Currently, it is uninhabited, and many of the glass windows are broken. Before the liberation, a wealthy capitalist lived here with his beautiful daughter. One early morning, the servants called the young lady out to eat, but she did not open the door. After consulting the master, they pried open the young lady's room door, but no one was inside. Strangely, her clothes were still there. Not long after, Tianjin was liberated, and the capitalist family fled the city. Later, the families who moved in often heard the sound of a woman singing on the roof late at night. Some also claimed to see a girl in white pajamas sitting on the roof at night, only for her to vanish in an instant. Such occurrences happened frequently, and the residents finally could not bear the torment and wanted to uncover the cause. They opened the ceiling on the roof to check for access to the skylight, and there they discovered, in the space between the ceiling and the roof, a skeleton wearing pajamas.Some say that perhaps the male servant attempted to molest the young lady at night. After waking her up, he was worried she would tell the master, so he strangled her and hid the body in the ceiling.
8. The Blood Kite incident happened at Galaxy Plaza near Youyi Road. One night in September 2005, a group of children was flying kites. One child's kite flew higher and higher until it could no longer be seen, but the string in their hand remained taut. Unwilling to give up, the child desperately reeled the string back and finally retrieved the kite from the sky. After getting the kite, the child found it soaked in bright red blood. The next morning, the child was found dead in their own bed, tightly holding the kite. The blood on the kite had not dried overnight.
9. The Handcart legend: In the San Tiao Shi area of Hongqiao District, there used to be a mass grave, a dumping ground for corpses from a Japanese factory during the invasion of China. During the Cultural Revolution, a pair of Red Guard youths came here to relive past hardships but stayed out too late. At night, they could hear the sound of a wooden handcart coming from underground. Some even saw a wooden handcart carrying a pile of heads under the moonlight, pushed by a headless person. 'He' also exuded some bloody-smelling liquid. What could that be?
