Due to the nature of this case, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of graphic violence, substance use, assault, kidnapping, torture, and the sexual abuse of minors.

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In May of 1999, a girl approaches Hong Kong police about nightmares she's been having. She says she's being haunted by a woman, a young mother who died in a flat on Granville Road

in the city's Kowloon District.

The girl is 13 years old. She tells a harrowing story of captivity, torture, and suffering.

The inclination is to chalk the report up to an overactive imagination,

possibly the result of watching too many horror films. Surely the girl hasn't been

visited by the dead. But the officers investigate her claims anyway. They arrive at the apartment

she described, a seven-room flat that looks like a drug den. The general grime of the apartment is contrasted by some

unusual decor. It's covered in Hello Kitty memorabilia, including sheets, curtains, and

kitchenware. In the hallway, there's an oversized Hello Kitty mermaid doll. The doll in particular draws officers'

attention. It's covered in stains, and for whatever reason, it's been cut open and re-sown.

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