Junli Hotel
Aoba Paranormal AgencyBiodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Junli Hotel (骏骊酒店) 9 |
| Type | Hotel; site of a spirit-nurturing feng shui formation 463 |
| Location | Minqing City, on land redeveloped from a former residential area into a commercial district 11 |
| Founded | 1998 11 441 |
| Original Owner | Rego Xie, an overseas Chinese businessman and Taoist believer with knowledge of feng shui 441 |
| Later Owner | Liu Xiangqian, Rego Xie's domestic partner, who acquired the hotel while Rego's estate was being settled 441 |
| Status | Sealed off during the later death incidents; the site subsequently became a center of escalating spiritual unrest 487 478 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 9: Ghost Fetus on New Year's Day (1) |
History
| Period | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Junli Hotel opens. | Initial investigation found no violent incidents on either the former residential land or the hotel premises. 11 |
| New Year's Day 1999 | Xiao Zheng proposes to Xu Ling in Room 809. | This was the earliest known New Year's Day proposal connected to Room 809. 17 |
| New Year's Day 2001 | Pan Ping books Room 809 to propose to Shi Wenshan. | Shi Wenshan leaves the hotel in a disheveled state the following morning, is later found pregnant, and dies by suicide. 14 17 |
| 2002 | Wei Yinan and Zhou Guangcheng stay at the hotel. | Wei Yinan later dies after a ghost fetus emerges from her body. 14 17 |
| 2004 | Yu Meng stays in Room 809 during a New Year's Day couples' promotion. | She later develops an abnormal nineteen-week pregnancy; Qingye's investigation initially finds no recorded deaths, accidents, or complaints at the hotel. 11 |
| 2018 | Rego Xie dies of illness. | Liu Xiangqian takes ownership of the hotel afterward. 441 |
| Later | A series of fatal incidents occurs inside the hotel. | The manager is crushed beneath a falling lobby horse sculpture; a cleaner is scalded to death in a shower stall. 448 449 |
| Later | The hotel's concealed formation is identified. | A porcelain bowl sealed into the foundation during construction is identified as the source of the hotel's problem. 471 472 |
| Later | The hotel becomes a spiritual trap. | Its spirits become violent, prevent escape, and trap people beneath the ruined hotel. 478 |
Room 809 and the New Year's Day Ghost Fetus
Room 809 was marketed as a special New Year's Day couples' suite, including a candlelit dinner and floor-to-ceiling windows with a view. 9 11 By March 2004, investigators had confirmed more than 7,000 former guests of the room, complicating efforts to identify a connection among its victims. 11
The room was abnormally cold during Qingye's investigation, suggesting a ghost had lingered there for a long period. However, the team's recording captured no supernatural sounds, and the hotel's records showed no known deaths or accidents at the time. 11
Structure and Notable Locations
- Room 809 — A high-floor couples' suite associated with New Year's Day proposals, disappearances, abnormal pregnancies, and the ghost-fetus case. 9 14 17
- Room 2107 — The room to which spectral figures carry Liu Xiangqian in recurring dreams; he is trapped there and confronted by dead hotel-related victims. 468 469
- Lobby horse sculpture — A large horse ornament that falls and crushes the hotel manager. 448
- Shower stalls — Location where a cleaner is found scalded to death. 449
- Foundation — Contains a blue-and-white porcelain bowl sealed in cement, serving as the focal point of the feng shui formation. 471 472
Supernatural Properties
Spirit-Nurturing Feng Shui Formation
True Master Xuanqing identifies Junli Hotel's danger as a complex feng shui formation that nurtures spirits. He considers it necessary to destroy the formation before it produces further disasters. 463
- Rego Xie discovered after construction that someone had set a “trap” inside the building. 464
- The formation's physical anchor is a blue-and-white porcelain bowl sealed into the hotel's foundation. 471 472
- The bowl bears human figures whose imagery resembles that of the Treasure Gathering Basin. 471
- Xuanqing seeks the hotel's blueprints in order to excavate and destroy the bowl. 473
Material Hazards
Objects and fixtures within the hotel become lethal under the formation's influence.
- The lobby horse sculpture falls and kills the hotel manager. 448
- A cleaner dies after being scalded in a shower stall. 449
- Wei Xiaozhong's dream of working at Junli Hotel leads him to associate its danger with inanimate objects being able to harm people. 454
Spiritual Confinement
The hotel eventually acts as a containment site for hostile spirits and trapped victims.
- The hotel's spirits become increasingly unstable and prevent people from leaving. 478
- Numerous people are trapped underground beneath the hotel. 478
- Yuan Zhiyi is killed by spectral figures while attempting to flee through the hotel's restaurant. 478
Relationships
- Rego Xie — Original owner. He understood feng shui and warned Liu Xiangqian that a trap had been set within the building. 441 464
- Liu Xiangqian — Rego's domestic partner and successor as owner. He knew of the formation but initially dismissed its importance; later, he becomes convinced that the hotel itself is killing people. 441 464 469
- True Master Xuanqing — Taoist expert who identifies the formation and advocates destroying it before it causes further disasters. 463 473
- Su Cheng — Connected to the construction-era sealing of the porcelain bowl; later arrives to oversee excavation work addressing the foundation. 472 499
- Xiao Zheng and Xu Ling — Their 1999 New Year's Day proposal in Room 809 is the earliest known incident tied to the room. 17
- Yu Meng — Room 809 guest whose abnormal pregnancy brings the hotel's earlier pattern to Qingye's attention. 9 11
- Shi Wenshan and Pan Ping — Couple affected after Pan Ping's 2001 Room 809 proposal. 14 17
- Wei Yinan and Zhou Guangcheng — Couple connected to the 2002 ghost-fetus death. 14 17