South Korean's Yeongdeok haunted house.

 

The Yeongdeok Haunted House (historically known as Wooseok Garden) is  located in Gyeongsang Province on the eastern coastline.

 The house was built in October 1980 as a family owned  seafood restaurant near the beach, though it now lays in severe disrepair and over the past four plus decades since it's construction it has become one of the most well known  haunted houses in South Korea.

According to legend,  the ghost's are the former student solders that died during a diversion operation at Jangsari beach in Yeongdeok while  drawing the North Koreans attention away from the Battle of Inchon in the Korean War.

Around 400 to 700 young  soldiers tragically lost their lives during this battle and are belived to have been buried in this area. It is said that while 139 were killed and 92 were wounded (officially), the rest just went missing. 

The reason for the haunting is because the house was supposedly built on top of the mass grave of the soldiers that died there.

Though that's how the legend goes many locals also claim that's not true.

 The house has been featured on several lists as Korea’s most haunted and in the top three haunted locations in many publications.

This house has also been featured in several TV, paranormal special's, nline articles and in countless YouTube paranormal investigation's.

Visitors have reported headaches,  equipment malfunctions and even EVP's ( electronic voice phenomena) Ghost talking on recording.. 

One famous shaman that visited the location claimed their are in fact thousands of spirits there.

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Urban Legends 

In one story, a young couple once bought the place to turn it into a seafood restaurant as they got it cheap because of the haunted rumors. But not soon after they opened for business strange things started to happen. 

The wife reported spotting a ghost in the staircase, descending from the second floor again and again with the hair hanging down and when she first saw it she is reported to have fainted at the spot by the mere sight of it. It all was too much and they ended up abandoning the place not soon after because of all the incidents that kept occuring in their home.

In another version of this story the husband died in a car crash and the wife later flees the house because of the frightening ghost in the stairs .

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According to a slightly different variation of this tale the first owner died in a car accident shortly after opening the restaurant. The second buyer reported a woman ghost descending the staircase with her hair hanging down, fainted at the sight, and abandoned the property within months. A third occupant, who practiced traditional Korean shamanism, moved in believing he could cleanse the spirits and was also gone within a year. Like most urban Legends, each new story add's a little more to the rumor.

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The current owner, Mr. Ham, moved to the United States in the mid 2010s and has mentioned that he may eventually have the house demolished to make way for a war memorial park honoring the Jangsari student soldiers. 

The 2019 Korean film The Battle of Jangsari, starring Kim Myung-min and SHINee's Minho, retold the operation for a new generation and renewed public interest in the site.

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 If you plan  to visit this location, take a KTX to Pohang and a 30 minute taxi north along the coast, the exact address can be found online BUT  Be advised the building's seems to be  going through renovations with a new sign that reads Angle Garden, the exterior walls have been repainted in yellow and white with new exterior lighting, new paint and heart-shaped plywood window cutouts and the entrance is  blocked at night with lights on inside, indicating that people are currently living on site. 

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Legends of the house have also inspired a psychological horror video game..

Called... The Abandoned House in Yeongdeok, which was released on August 28, 2026.

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Top 3 haunted location are ..

Neulbom Garden (늘봄가든) in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province

 A former restaurant building that sat vacant for a long time. It inspired a horror film named Neulbom Garden.

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Tied to local tragedies involving a family accident, suicide, and illness. Neighbors and visitors reported strange phantom occurrences, such as dirty tables cleaning themselves overnight, weird noises when closed, and customers claiming they ordered food from a female server when no waitresses worked there

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Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital (곤지암 정신병원)

Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province

It closed down in 1996.

It's reputation became so well know as one of the most haunted locations, that the story was even picked by CNN in 2012 as one of the world's most terrifying places.

Urban legends claimed patients died mysteriously and the owner went insane.

 Visitors reported seeing paint like blood at the entrance, along with rusted beds, equipment, and medical supplies left behind just as the staff fled. 

The building was  demolished in 2018.

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A horror movie based on this location was also released in 2018 The story follows the crew of an online horror web series called "Horror Times" as they livestream an exploration of the abandoned Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital it's a found footage movie similar to the Blair witch project..

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And the third is the Yeongdeok Haunted House..