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Saigon is famous for mysterious and mysterious stories about places said to be related to ghosts and strange events, making people feel shivers every time they mention it. Behind the crowd and noise of the city, there is a small part of Saigon with scary and fascinating stories about places with many mysteries. Although no one can prove the authenticity of these stories, every time they hear them, everyone is fascinated and wants to know more about spiritual stories full of mystery and horror.
One of the places that haunts and makes people afraid, like house number 24 on Ly Thai To street. The 2-story house at 24 Ly Thai To Street, Ward 2, District 3, located right on the front of a busy street in Ho Chi Minh City, has been the subject of many ghost stories for decades.
This house is related to a heartbreaking murder. One night in 2001, a fire broke out here. When the rescue team extinguished the fire and climbed up the ladder, they discovered several people had collapsed in the middle of the walkway due to smoke inhalation, before they could run to the balcony. After more than 90 minutes, the fire was finally extinguished.
However, the scene in the house after the fire made it impossible for even those involved in the rescue work to forget. A total of 7 people died in the terrible fire, but the most unfortunate were two children, one 3 years old and one in the womb, who also lost their lives because of the unjust fire.
Dozens of motorbikes were destroyed in the fire. Fire, smoke, and the smell of rubber spread quickly to the 1st and 2nd floors, where everyone in the family was sleeping soundly. The house is solidly built and enclosed, with walls adjacent to other houses. There is only one main gate to exit, but it is currently locked with two layers of iron doors. Here the whole family was burned, only a mentally ill boy and an elderly mother were lucky to escape the fire.
The pain became even deeper when the culprit of the fire was that mentally ill boy. When asked why he set fire to the house, he only vaguely answered: “Because they don’t let me go out with them, because they always force me to take medicine.” From then on, the house was discreetly closed, and people no longer saw the mother and son of the mentally ill boy.
This is also the time when strange rumors about house number 24 spread throughout the city. When the fire broke out, a woman, the homeowner’s pregnant daughter, along with her 3-year-old son sleeping upstairs, panicked and ran to the second-floor balcony to call for help. Both mother and daughter cried in despair, making everyone who witnessed them feel heartbroken. People stretched a tarpaulin and called on this woman to jump down or throw her child off the high floor, but for some unknown reason, this woman took her child back into the house, where black smoke was emitting. After a while, they appeared again on the balcony overlooking the street and then mysteriously ran back into the house, and no one has seen them reappear since then. Some believe that the mother and child have passed away. And that image is just the soul…
With the strange incident of the pregnant woman, house number 24 has become the subject of ghost stories and attracted the attention of many people. People often hear strange noises coming from that house. Some people even claimed that when passing by, they saw the image of a pregnant ghost appearing on the second floor holding her baby standing on the balcony, gently rocking the baby to sleep, and the sound of sweeping the house echoing. in darkness. The cry of a small child in the middle of the night spread from that house… These stories were widely shared, making readers feel shivers. The house became famous in Saigon for its ghost stories.
For a long time, this house became a desolate and abandoned place, possibly due to traumatic events that made the owner’s relatives do not want to return. Therefore, the house has become the subject of many horror and superstitious ghost stories.
While the local government still hopes that the homeowner will return to rebuild this place, so that the streets become spacious, so that people can do business with peace of mind, and so that children do not I had to be afraid every time I passed by while this house was deserted. However, perhaps the events were so painful that the homeowner’s relatives did not want to return to this place.
Recently, a bank rented this house to use as a transaction place. However, after the bank moved out, rumors immediately spread that the security guard was constantly threatened by ghosts. Although the bank conducted religious rituals, it still could not solve the problem, and eventually had to leave…
Currently, a foreign partner has rented the house and is carrying out repair work to open a foreign language center.
