Bride's Pool The local
urban legend of the Bride's Pool, located near
Tai Mei Tuk in
Plover Cove Country Park was used as the setting for the introductory episodes of the series. In the traditional
Chinese wedding, the bride would travel by
litter (also known as 'sedan') to her groom. It is said that one of the four porters slipped. The bride, along with the sedan fell into the connecting river and she was trapped by the waterfall and washed into the pool below where she drowned, unable to escape due to her heavy wedding dress. The villagers also failed to find the porter. Another
superstition in China is that the spirit of a person who have been drowned, continues to float along the surface of the water until it can drown another victim to take its place, and this was the only way the spirit can leave the earth or fulfil
reincarnation.
The Winding Road near the Bride's Pool In the Hong Kong legend, the bride's spirit would wander the area and favoured the nearby winding road, giving it the nickname "deadly curve". Several fatal accidents have been reported and is believed to be connected the evildoing of the deceased bride's spirit.
New Territories West A saucer-like shining object was reported in
New Territories West in 1978. The village where the school is located has a history of tragedy, with local residents killed and buried in the area after resisting British efforts to evict them from their land. It has been said that a large number of villagers were massacred in 1941 during the
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, with their remains buried in graves built into the hillside next to the school. Today the site is abandoned and sits permanently guarded behind locked rusty gates.
Tai O Tai O is a fishing town, located on the western side of
Lantau Island in Hong Kong. The site was used as the backdrop for the Lo Ting Fish-Man myth from episode 11. The Lo Ting is a half-man, half-fish hybrid, that populated the area around
Tai Hai Shan, which was also called
Tai Yu Shan (Big Fish Mountain), one of the old Cantonese names for Lantau Island. Hong Kong people believe they are descended from this ancient fish-like creature, which transformed into a human body some time in the past 2,000 years. Several ancient Chinese literature references about southern China portraying characters similar to
Lo Ting. "New Stories from Canton (
Guang Dong Xin Yu)" published in 1662–1722, "Knowledge from Canton (
Yu Chung Kin Mun)" from 1777,"Collection of Lingnan Narratives (
Ling Nan Cong Shu)" from 1835, "Notes on the South (
Nan Yue Bi Ji)" from 1809, "General Records of the Sun On County (
Sun On Yu Zin)" from 1819, all contain passages about the half-human and half-fish creatures which were mysterious, able to get in-and-out of the sea quickly, not able to speak human languages, but had tails, red hair and a few other features with different descriptions in different versions.
Cheung Po Tsai Cave Cheung Po Tsai Cave is a natural cave located on
Cheung Chau Island. During the
Qing dynasty,
Cheung Po Tsai was one of the many pirates who roved the
Guangdong coast. According to urban legend, he had thousands of followers and a fleet of more than 600 ships. The coast and myth of Cheung Po was the setting for the geo-treasure hunt and murder case from episode 19 to 21. == Episodes ==