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Ghost Pods of San Zhi

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Photo credit: Cypher

I can’t remember where I originally saw this story, but the image above is from an abandoned ‘Pod City’ in San Zhi, Taiwan.

Apparently, this podular housing was meant as a luxury vacation spot. But, after numerous fatal accidents during construction, the project was abandoned. Locals say the area is now haunted by those who died in vain and because they are not remembered, they linger there unable to pass on.

Unfortunately, the project may never be restarted, or even torn down because destroying the homes of spirits and lost souls is a HUGE no-no in Asian culture. So, it may just sit there rusting away for a long, long time.

I think these look really cool, but honestly, I half expect to see the Dharma Initiative logo stenciled on the side.

There’s more info and pictures here. Higher resolution images here. And, you can view the site in Google Earth with this file.

9 Comments to Ghost Pods of San Zhi

1. The full-size one from Flickr makes an awesome desktop picture :-D
Richard on October 23rd, 2006

2. I do not like this HDR pictures.. :P
Daniel on October 25th, 2006

3. What is HDR?
Stig on February 15th, 2008

4. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It’s a process of showing all the detail in both the hilight and shadow areas of a photograph.
paul on February 15th, 2008

5. Man, I could so live there. I can deal with ghosts. Biggest problem would be the clean up.
Cydwatts on April 2nd, 2008

6. [...] of a regional real estate bubble or even that so many workers died during construction that the place was abandoned as haunted – unable to be destroyed out of a cultural taboo on interfering with the homes of spirits and lost [...]
7 Abandoned Cities and Places in Asia | WebUrbanist on September 28th, 2008

7. I’m from Taipei, Taiwan, and I live near to these abaondoned houses. Actually, no accidents occured during the constrction. They stopped building the resort only because of short funds. The place isn’t haunted anyway.

   For reference:
   http://sofree.twbbs.org/blog/2008/01/20/truth-about-frp/

   It’s in Traditional Chinese, anyway, you can try to translate it by google.
Aweather on December 6th, 2008

8. Hey there …. I love the HDR effect. How can I make this effect with my photos? Can you give soem tips please. I have photoshop.

   By the way, also living in Taipei, and know some great scenic spots..

   All the best

   Fabian
fabian on February 2nd, 2009

9. [...] of a regional real estate bubble or even that so many workers died during construction that the place was abandoned as haunted – unable to be destroyed out of a cultural taboo on interfering with the homes of spirits and [...]
7 Abandoned Architectural Wonders of Modern Asia | DicknChick on October 4th, 2009

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