GHOST FILE HK2017-1 – The Unborn Children
Hong Kong Files Part I
Diego Antolini
03/01/2018 22:01:43
GETTING READY
The X-Plan Group and SZ-X begin their collaboration with a full-night investigation across Hong Kong.
On September 9, 2017 TXP meets with SZ-X's leader, Jeff, at the Sheung Tsui metro station, Hong Kong. Jeff leads the way to a van parked on the nearby street; both the vehicle and the driver had been arranged for the occasion. The driver and his adjutant, TXP (2) and SZ-X (3) compose the whole investigation team.
The schedule is to visit at least three places before calling the night out. The first place we head to, under a tropical rain storm, is one of the most controversial buildings in our list of haunted placed: the Hong Kong Central Hospital, located at 1B, Lower Albert Road, Central Hong Kong.
HONG KONG CENTRAL HOSPITAL
Wikipedia has few lines about the Hong Kong Central Hospital (Chinese: 港中醫院):
"It was a non-profit, general private hospital located in the Central area of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.
The hospital's services included a large number of specialties which covered a broad area of medicine.
HKCH was a member of the Hong Kong Private Hospitals Association. It used to be surveyed bi-annually by the Trent Accreditation Scheme, a UK-based major international healthcare accreditation scheme, but is currently not accredited by any independent accreditation scheme.
The hospital closed on September 1, 2012."
However, a further research into local sources uncovered more details about the Hospital, its history, and its decline. The official reason for its shutting down is a generic "financial dispute over the tenancy."
The South China Morning Post's print issue of September 2012 was the first to give the closure announcement with a sounding title, "Tearful Goodbye as City Hospital Closes Its Doors."
According to the article, HKCH became the first private hospital to shut down in the city after a court order of immediate evacuation of the site was issued.
The hospital management urged the landlord (the Anglican Church) to grant them permission to remain operational until the end of October, but to no avail.
The Central Hospital was particularly known throughout the island as being the city's largest provider for the abortion requests: it offered low-cost services to patients who could not afford expensive medical care in private clinics.
Dr. Cheng Chun-Ho, superintendent at the HKCH, said:
"Even though the hospital is old and small, it had an important role in the private healthcare system...We provide a relatively cheap service to those grass roots-level patients who cannot afford other private institutions and did not want to join the long queues in public hospitals."
Three months before the case went public the Court of First Instance had ruled that the hospital would have to leave the site on Lower Albert Road, after its lease ran out in June of the previous year, and was not renewed for reasons that were never disclosed. Cheng said most medical equipment had been sold, and he has been helped staff to seek jobs elsewhere.
All clinical services were shut down that same day, although according to Cheng, the accounting office would continue to operate at least for a week more.
Chan Chun-Man, 50, a valet and doorman at the hospital for more than a decade, said that the government had not been helpful in solving the dispute over the tenancy, nor in providing another site to keep the hospital in operation.
The land was provided by the Anglican Church in 1966, in an attempt to help doctors fleeing the mainland and continue to practice. The hospital was run by a trust and was well-known for its safe and cheap abortion services. It carried out about 6,000 abortions every year, 60 per cent of the total performed in the city.
Cheng said that the strength of the abortion unit was not down to a conscious decision by the management, but rather by the fact that "the patients chose us for our service.". He said it exposed the inadequacy of abortion services and sex education in the city.
Only women with up to 10 weeks pregnancy were admitted, while it is illegal to terminate pregnancy with more than 24 weeks pregnancy without the permission of two doctors.
The Anglican church denied allegations that the abortion service was the reason which prompted its decision to not renew the lease and shift to a redevelopment plan.
The dispute over the tenancy first broke out in 2009, when the hospital executive board was told the building would have to make way for a HKD800 million plan for a museum and gallery.
To the present day, the building remains abandoned, with no sign of redevelopment whatsoever.
Following its shut down in 2012, people walking by the building started to report hearing strange noises, and experiencing unsettling feelings of "something" lurking behind its dark, abandoned windows.
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INVESTIGATION
Our first task after arriving at the site
was to scouting the perimeter of the premise, in accordance to The
X-Plan Group's procedure. The hospital lies at the base of a slope, with
two out of four sides adjacent to the mound, on top of which runs
another road. We used stairs to go from the lower street to the upper
level, and located one of the entrances by the side of the hospital,
about halfway between the two streets. The gate was closed and the whole
property appeared to be fenced with a metallic net. We moved to the
upper street only fo find out that there was another property built
right in front of the hospital. Therefore an entrance from the upper
side was ruled out.
So the side gate on the slope was chosen by SZ-X to perform a very interesting ritual called Dana.
It
is a charity act done to help a sattva (i.e. a living being, a person
or a sentient creature in the Buddhism philosophy) by burning candles,
incense and paper ingots in the hope to open the gates between the world
of the living and the realm of the dead. At the end, paper clothes and
paper money are placed onto the small fire to honor the sattva, and rice
is scattered around while reading Sutra to favor a complete and
peaceful trespass of the sattva into the spiritual world.
The term
Dana is a Sanskrit word linked to the virtue of generosity, charity, and
giving of alms. It is a common and revered practice common to
Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.
Dana can take many forms,
from helping an individual in distress or need, to philanthropic
projects, to prayers, to clearing the path for the trespass of the
souls.
The practice of the Dana appears to originate in the Indian traditions, as it is described in the ancient Veda texts.
Heavy
rain started to pour down again, adding to the dim illumination under
the trees which impaired a clear vision of possible entry points. From
the side gate we descended again to the lower street, then we went off
the paved road and plunged into the woods, climbing up the mound
following the fence. Finally a hole in the net was spotted, which
allowed the entrance into the rear of the edifice. That hole opened to
the right of the side gate, so we had to hang ourselves onto the
handrail of the walkway which was slightly above us as we slipped past
the net, to avoid a several meters sheer fall down onto the street level.
Once passed through the hole, we managed to jump over the handrail and
landed safely onto solid ground. We followed a paved walkway sneaking
among the trees, leading to the very back of the building. The emergency
stairs connecting each floor's escape doors, although rusty, wet, and
slippery were still in decent conditions; so we used them to descend to
the ground level and, from there, we started to check for any opening
into the inside of the hospital. It didn't take long before locating an
unlocked window. We jumped on and through it, and entered. The darkness
was absolute, and so was the silence. Our steps echoed through the many
rooms as we slowly began to explore the ground floor. Shattered pieces
of medical equipment, made of glass, plastic, fabric, latex, wood, and
metal creaked and snapped under our feet although we used the highest
caution to avoid making unnecessary noise. We observed the empty,
lifeless spaces with the sense of desolation and melancholy that
abandoned places usually convey. We found the plastic dummy of a young
boy tossed on a corner of a room that reminded us of the many children
whose lives had been suppressed by the abortions performed in the 46
years of activity at the HKCH (4+6 years, or a Universal 1+0 or the
number of the beginning and unity according to Qabbalah.).
Five years
elapsed since, and whatever energies were impressed upon the walls and
into the very structure of the hospital, have had time to settle toward
one direction or the other: freedom or imprisonment. If the place needed
to be cleansed, the Dana performed by SZ-X should have helped the
spirits still stuck in the earthly dimension to break free and go back
to the Source.
We went on exploring the other floors: two underground
stories and six more upper floors. Some of them felt peaceful, while
some others – at least two levels – seemed to be filled with sorrow,
coldness, and a sense of suspension or waiting. While exploring one of
these floors we came across various graffiti sprayed upon the walls;
some were the usual "urban trivia" of sexual and vulgar meaning. But
other signs were something else. In particular a one-eyed, grinning face
was spotted all over the walls, doors, glass panels, and columns. Under
this face two other symbols were drawn, one being a stylized Violin Key
crossed by a vertical arrow pointing downward, and the other a
seemingly Mercury Wand which had been doubled to form a distorted
triangle. These symbols, although not matching with any of the Voodoo or
the Santeria known icons, appeared to have been placed there for a
reason, perhaps in the attempt to perform a ceremony of Black Magic (to
entrap the spirits that still remained in that floor, for instance), for
they clearly were not placed there to protect or cleanse the area.
We
remained inside the hospital for more than an hour, taking photographs,
videos, and noting observations. Then we returned to the entry point
and reunited with the rest of our team.
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DEBRIEFING
Back to the van, soaked with rain and covered with mud, we began to check our photos and videos. The exploration of the building went pretty smooth. Nothing strange had happened beyond the piercing feeling of uneasiness and loneliness that lingered into some of the rooms. However in Ghost Hunting, those impressions alone can't be accountable as "proper evidence", unless visual or audio phenomena are recorded to sustain the work of the senses. That's when the frame from one of the videos we took inside the HKCH caught our attention.
The frame displayed what looked like the shape of a sky blue t-shirt - the long sleeves and the V-neck are quite neat and visible – standing, suspended behind the glass of a cubicle separator. We must say "suspended" because the height at which the Tee stands implies that an adolescent or a young adult should have worn it when the camera recorded it. Needless to say, nobody was there while we were exploring that part of the building. As a matter of fact, nobody was in that building at all; in that absolute silence, any sound or noise would have been magnified by the echo of open doors and empy rooms, and would have not failed to reach us.
The only doubt we had was whether or not that "Tee" could have actually be a speck in the glass, sprayed by someone who knew about the Abortion Unit's fame at the HKCH. A far-fetched hypothesis, but one as good as any when it comes to consider all rational explanations first, as it is TXP Group's research policy. So we went through a photographic analysis of the frame. Later it was established that the frame was taken out of a footage shot on floor 4.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE BLUE TEE FRAME
The most remarkable finding of this investigation – i.e. the most concrete evidence - is by no means the Blue Tee Frame, which clearly displays a child's T-shirt, only placed at a height that should fit a young adult. Our initial photographic analysis shows that the object was likely real and physical, although none of those present in that room seemed to have noticed it (as it can be seen by the video). We compared the Blue Tee Frame with another picture taken on the glass separator and found some differences in the resolution data as well as in the values of the segmentation. The blue tee came out neatly separated by the other objects, whereas the grinning eye appeared to be more embedded into the scenery; the filters we applied to equalize and enhance the area point at an object which seems to bear a kind of 3D thickness in the middle if compared to other 2D graffiti sprayed onto the same material. We ran the segmentation trying to determine whether the object was in the foreground or in the background however at this first processing we were not able to determine with 100% accuracy the position of the "Blue Tee" against the window. We could only ascertain that the object didn't come from a glitch in the digital recording. It was there, and none of us saw it.
Further Analyses are being done over the Blue Tee Frame.
X---FILE HK2017-1: CLOSED---X
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