A Keelung resident said he had trouble sleeping and felt ill at ease after seeing a “female ghost” while driving a scooter through a tunnel, and later sustained injuries from falling off his scooter due to his mental state.
The man, surnamed Lai (賴), said he rode a scooter through Keelung’s Zhongshan Tunnel at about 7pm on Sunday.
“Then I saw a female ghost, dressed in black, with long hair past shoulder length,” he said, adding that he was not sure whether he saw a ghost or something else.
Photo courtesy of a man surnamed Lai
He passed through the same tunnel later that night and saw that “ghost” again, he said.
“I was really frightened and almost lost control and fell off the scooter... But I steadied myself and made a quick stop, took a photo with my mobile phone,” he added.
Lai posted the photo on social media, which attracted wide attention from the public and local media.
When interviewed by reporters on Wednesday, he had bandages on his hand and knee, which he said were because he fell off his scooter the previous day due to having trouble sleeping since the incident.
Lai told reporters that he was so frightened that he headed to Keelung’s Cingan Temple (慶安宮) to offer incense prayers to calm his mind, and cast “divination blocks” to ask for spiritual guidance.
An investigation by the Keelung City Police Bureau found that there was indeed a “female ghost” in the tunnel at the time, identified as a woman who was being filmed by her two friends for a Halloween video. The trio is now facing charges.
According to surveillance footage, a woman emerged from a car at about 7pm that day, dressed all in black, and walked around in the tunnel, while another filmed her with a mobile phone, before they returned to the car and drove off.
The trio was summoned for questioning on Wednesday.
The trio — a woman surnamed Yen (岩) and two male friends, surnamed Lee (李) and Chiang (江), all in their 20s — are from Taipei and said that they were making a Halloween video, police said.
They apologized for their behavior after learning that it scared Lai, as well as many people who saw his post, the officer said.
The police officer said the trio are facing charges for stopping near a tunnel entrance, which contravenes the Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act (道路交通管理處罰條例), and their actions in the tunnel might have violated the Social Order Maintenance Act (社會秩序維護法) for causing fear and endangering public safety.
Keelung City Councilor Shih Wei-cheng (施偉政) said that “we welcome people to make videos or movies in Keelung, but when doing so, they should first apply for permission and set up signs around the site to let people know that filming is taking place to avoid scaring the public.”
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