Nam Koo Terrace is now under renovation and inaccessible by the public.

Known infamously as the Wanchai Haunted House, Nam Koo Terrace is a two-storey mansion with a mysterious history. Built by a Shanghainese merchant between 1915 and 1921, the mansion showcases a blend of traditional Chinese and European design elements in a style known as Colonial Eclectic.

It has a colonnaded porch with sculptural columns, which are now overgrown with moss. The building is notoriously creepy for its walls are painted in blood-red and peeling wallpapers, and half-submerged in overgrown greenery, relatively hidden from the main streets. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the owner of the mansion was forced to abandon it, and it is rumored that Nam Koo Terrace was overtaken by the Japanese troops as a ‘comfort house’, or brothel for the military.

Tales of abuse and torture spread throughout the neighborhood, and it has become an urban myth that ghosty flames appear at night, or that female voices echo in its abandoned halls. The myth was fortified when a bunch of teenagers sneaked into the building, in the hope to have a ghostly experience in 2003. They claimed to see dark figures waving at them, and one was even possessed by a ghost and ultimately they had to be rescued by police officers. It was rumored that the teenagers suffered from mental breakdowns afterward.

Over the decades, Nam Koo Terrace had been vacant, waiting for its fate from property developers until recently, it was announced that the mansion will be converted into a marriage registry, perhaps a rather unusual choice, considering its troubled history.