Stories - Tsunami ghosts haunting beach resorts

Dark stories of ghosts has been spreading like wildfire at the beach resorts that were hit by the tsunami. Many locals in Phuket and Khao Lak claim that they have had ghostly sightings and meetings. One taxi driver in Phuket told a story of having picked up a foreigner and his Thai girlfriend, they were both heading to airport and when the driver turn around to collect his fare, his passengers had dissapeared!



Another story which had been circulating told of locals hearing people crying and partying by the beach but when they went closer to have a look, there was nobody around.



Guards at a beachfront plaza in Patong told AFP one of their men had quit after hearing a foreign woman cry "help me" all night long, and similar stories abound of a foreign ghost walking along the shoreline at night calling for her child.



The local Thais and Chinese have traditionally believed that spirits of people who died violently and unexpectedly will still roam the earth not knowing that they had passed on. Whether these wandering spirits are all hearsay or just rumours caused by mass hallucination, we won't really know.