Bangkok Haunt

16/03/2025

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
Low-Rider.

09/03/2025

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
Oh boy.
Restaurant servers, often known for harassing guests with "Still, Sparkling, Still, Sparkling, Still, Sparkling?" even before saying "Hello," or "Good Evening," are now going after our beloved spirit houses.

02/03/2025

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
The Thailand equivalent of dropping a carton of eggs in the US at the moment.

16/02/2025

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
With many of the smaller alleys and sois, to avoid being run over by a quick-moving motorcycle or a more patient ice-cream cart, be sure to scoot to the side.

13/02/2025

Appreciate the honesty.
"Nang Kwak," Bangkok's "beckoning lady" that is often placed on shelves in both homes and businesses to beckon and attract wealth, success, luck, and good fortune (and also the original model for the Mankei-neko 'good luck cats" that you often find in many Japanese and Korean restaurants) has apparently given up on trying to lure in guests and clients with either great guest skills or valuable products in favor of a smart phone and a quick selfie.
Happening everywhere?

12/02/2025

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
Ever feel like the world around you is collapsing and your roof is caving in?
Well, maybe it is.
But, hang in there.

26/01/2025

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
With deteriorating air-quality, Bangkok is forced to close 352 schools and the city is now just 3 places from from capturing "Worst city in the world for air-quality."
Anyone remember to give their spirit house angels a mask?

19/01/2025

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
With cooler temps in Thailand expected to last until February, everyone is bundling up with extra layers.

29/12/2024

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
The ending Sunday of 2024.
Perhaps it's fitting that this spirit house shows a historical and beautiful, old Thai home (Trok Sake Palace) in the background. This palace was in the process of being torn down last week.

22/12/2024

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
This is rubbish.
"You can find our spirit house in the shade, next to red fold-up table, behind the plastic chair, next to the styrofoam box, in front of the recyclable bottles we're not recycling, and with a bunch of other stuff."

10/12/2024

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
Contrary to popular belief, the Mighty Thai Spirits prefer coffee over Red Fanta in the morning.

10/12/2024

This is wild.
Wouldn't a better headline have been, "Well, well, well," or perhaps "All's Well that Ends Well?"

A Chinese man, Liu Chuanyi, was rescued after being trapped in a 12-metre-deep well for three days near the Thailand-Myanmar border. Villagers, initially mistaking his screams for ghosts, alerted police. Liu, found injured and weakened, is recovering in a hospital as authorities investigate his pres...

24/11/2024

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
Same same, but different.

10/11/2024

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
Whew! Just in time!
With so many people increasingly addicted to their phones, it’s rewarding to see board games making a comeback.
Just last week the Bangkok version of Monopoly was released.
I haven’t seen the game pieces yet, but surely one of the game pieces is a spirit house, yes?

03/11/2024

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
Harassed by signage.

27/10/2024

Sunday Morning Spirit House:
With Halloween around the corner, this spirit house was spotted outside a decorative haunted house, complete with a 2-headed Kuman thong. Believe the text would be translated as "Red devil house."

13/10/2024

Sunday Morning Spirit House:

Minimalism.

(From the Queen Sirikit Book Fair, which is currently featuring several books on “Reading into the Afterlife.”

12/10/2024

We know restaurants come and go in Bangkok with regularity, but how about shopping centers? The Nightingale-Olympic, Bangkok's oldest department store, sadly, has apparently closed down after 90 years of operation. A regular stop on some of the spirit & ghost tours I put together, the shop was exceptionally memorable for it's exceptionally high "creepy" factor. Mannequins whose eyes followed you around the store, cashiers who would have been happier if you hadn't stopped by, the smell of expired perfumes, a grumpy "No Photos" policy (as well as an even stricter no-entry restriction to the beauty salon on the 3rd floor), posters that featured John McEnroe endorsed tennis racquets (nothing more recent than the late-70s), and no matter what time of the day, unless visiting with a friend, you were likely the only one in the store.
I have offered to run over and buy the mannequins and the John McEnroe posters, but unfortunately, the only message I keep receiving back is "indefinite." I'm guessing this is in reference to the closing period and not the expiration date of the 1930s Merle Norman skincare creams that were also part of the store's unique appeal.