The Chinese University of Hong Kong has a “Braid Path”; the girl who cries at night turns around and it’s still a braid

The Chinese University of Hong Kong has a story that’s been passed down for decades, said to date back to the sixties: a male student, walking back to his dorm at night, comes to a small path on campus. By the roadside is a girl with a braid, her back to him, crying.

He means well, walks over, and wants to ask what’s wrong. The girl keeps her head down, her shoulders trembling, her sobs faint. He takes two more steps closer, and the girl slowly turns her head—front and back are exactly the same; on this side of her head there is only a braid, no facial features.

The boy faints on the spot.

Later, students called that path “Braid Path.” When freshmen enroll, seniors take them along it once, and tell the story along the way.

The details of the story are told differently by each cohort, and no one can agree exactly which section of campus the path is on.

Legends of “turning around and having no face” exist everywhere. The most famous one in Japan is about a businessman who walks past a slope in Akasaka at night and meets a woman squatting by the roadside, crying; she lowers her sleeve, and her face is completely blank.

What university students fear most on their way back to the dorm at night is probably someone with their back to you on a deserted road.

No one ever said what the girl on Braid Path was called.

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