This book collects real folk ghost stories from all over the country and adapts them based on the author's experience, striving to make it a book everyone will enjoy.
Readers are also welcome to leave comments about frightening and terrifying things they've heard about or encountered.
The older generation says that after death, people go to the underworld. They pass by the River of Three Lives, cross the Bridge of Helplessness, and drink the Meng Po Soup brewed by Meng Po herself, forgetting all the memories of their past lives.
It is also said that the road to the underworld is dark, moonless, without even a ray of sunlight, and shrouded in a gloomy, terrifying gloom.
Lost souls drift aimlessly along the boundary between the living and the dead, with nowhere to go and no destination.
Those who die unnatural deaths before their allotted lifespan is over, through car accidents, suicide, murder, or other accidents, can neither ascend to Heaven nor enter the underworld, and cannot be reincarnated. They can only wander between the realms of the living and the dead as lost souls. Only when their lifespans are nearly over can they enter the underworld and face the judgment of the ghost officials. Those who did good deeds will make their way to the Bridge of Helplessness, drink Meng Po Soup, and be reincarnated.
Ordinary people are reincarnated according to the good and evil they did in life. They may be reborn as humans or as animals, such as pigs, dogs, oxen, horses, mosquitoes, or rats.
The truly evil are sent to the eighteen levels of hell in the underworld, where they suffer endless torment and are never allowed to be reborn, until their souls are completely destroyed.
Whether these legends are true remains uncertain, and there is no way to verify them.
