The Ghost of Bride's Pool

Located in Plover Cove Country Park, Bride’s Pool is a famous waterfall popular among hikers. Local villagers, however, treat the valley with reverence, believing it is haunted by a tragic legend that gave the pool its name.

In the early 20th century, a bride was carried by sedan chair from Wu Kau Tang to her groom’s village in Luk Keng. During a sudden storm, a porter slipped on a rock at the top of the waterfall, throwing the woman into the raging water. Her heavy–now waterlogged–dress dragged her to the bottom, where she drowned.

Since then, hikers and villagers claim to have seen a lonely woman in a red dress combing her hair in silence while staring into the pool. According to local folklore, her spirit still lingers around, luring men into the pool to be her companions in death. Troublingly, the vast majority of drowning victims in the pool happen to be adult men.

This curse further seems to have spilled over to Bride’s Pool Road above the falls. Emergency crews call one of the bends “The Deadly Curve” due to an unusually high number of fatal crashes and sudden fires. Crash survivors claim they swerved after seeing a woman standing in the road.

To this day, you can still find spirit tablets, burnt joss paper, and small shrines hidden in the trees left by Taoist priests and grieving families trying to appease the dead.