HK Actor’s Wife Claims Spirits Followed 8-Yr-Old Daughter Home After Spooky Stay At Korea Hotel

It’s Hungry Ghost Month, which means all those warnings about what not to do to avoid attracting unwanted “visitors” are making the rounds again.

And if you’re travelling, Hong Kong actor Sam Lee’s wife Sophia Leung has a spooky hotel experience to share.

Sophia recently revealed that her eight-year-old daughter, influencer Lucy, had a series of strange encounters while they were staying at a hotel in South Korea — and she later claimed that spirits followed the girl back to Hong Kong.

Sophia shared that she, Lucy and a friend travelled to South Korea from Aug 2 to 7. She had deliberately planned to return to Hong Kong before the start of Hungry Ghost Month.

When they checked into their hotel, Sophia noticed they had been assigned an “end room” — aka the last room along a corridor, which some believe is more prone to supernatural activity.

Still, she wasn’t too bothered. There were three of them, after all, and their room was only about three rooms from the lift.

What did alarm her was what her friend did next.

He opened the curtains, lit a candle and placed it by the window.

Sophia immediately closed the curtains.

According to her, lighting a candle by a hotel window is a big no-no as candles and incense are traditionally used when making offerings. She believes doing so could inadvertently attract spirits.

She later learnt that her friend had opened the curtains because he already felt there was “something” in the room.

Then the strange happenings began.

On the second or third day of the trip, Lucy suddenly developed an ear infection. Sophia said it came without warning — Lucy had no fever or other signs that she was falling ill and simply started complaining that her ear hurt.

Over the next few nights, shortly after going to bed, she would wake up scared with her heart racing. On one occasion, she told Sophia she didn't even know what she was afraid of.

The room’s motion-sensor lights also reportedly came on several times when no one was walking past.

Then, on their final night, Sophia’s friend heard the toilet repeatedly flushing by itself, along with what sounded like “calling” noises.

Sophia slept through it, but Lucy apparently heard it too.

“Luckily, we packed our bags and left that day,” said Sophia.

Even after returning to Hong Kong, things didn’t return to normal.

Lucy, who Sophia said normally sleeps soundly through the night, began having trouble falling asleep.

She would toss and turn for two to three hours before dozing off. On her worst night, it took her a whopping six hours.

Sophia also noticed that Lucy’s complexion appeared darker and uneven, while the area around her eyes looked red.

Worried, she sought help from a spiritual master she regularly consults.

According to Sophia, the master told her that Lucy had picked up some “dirty things” at the hotel.

He claimed the spirits of a man and a woman had been in their room. They supposedly meant no harm, but because Lucy was “more sensitive” to such things, he said they had followed her back to Hong Kong.

Sophia then bathed Lucy with coarse salt water and “seven-coloured flower water” as a cleansing ritual and also took her to a temple for rituals.

Her master also told her she had made one mistake when checking into the hotel: She shouldn't have knocked before entering the room.

According to her master, knocking or ringing the bell is akin to acknowledging that “someone” is already inside and could be interpreted as agreeing to share the room with them.

Instead, he advised simply entering without knocking, then saying aloud that you’ve paid for the room and will leave after your stay.