Neighbors break silence on the night of terror inside the luxury apartment block: women’s screams echoed for hours, police lights flashed below, then 93 units were suddenly dumped on the market turning the entire complex into Beijing’s most infamous “haunted estate.” TH

Beijing luxury estate turns “haunted” overnight after actor Yu Menglong’s mysterious death

Beijing, January 23, 2026 – Hours after Chinese actor Yu Menglong plunged from a high floor in the Yangguang Shangdong residential complex, longtime residents reported chaos: prolonged screams of women interspersed with unfamiliar male voices starting as early as 8–9 p.m. the previous evening, followed by police cars and flashing emergency lights swarming the building entrance. A neighbor, quoted by Feng Shui master Ma Xian on his self-media channel, described the disturbance lasting an unusually long time. “No one dared go downstairs,” the resident said. “We heard the police were there—we stayed inside.”

By the next morning the atmosphere had shifted from fear to exodus. Tenants broke leases, owners rushed to sell. Real-estate platforms soon showed 93 older units listed simultaneously, priced between 11.5 and 16.5 million RMB—a rare “collective fire sale” that sent shockwaves through the market and fueled speculation about what residents had really witnessed. Within months the complex earned the grim nickname “Beijing’s most famous haunted estate,” with rental demand collapsing even as prices were slashed.

Authorities swiftly ruled the 37-year-old actor’s death an “accident caused by alcohol intoxication and a fall.” Several netizens were detained for spreading “rumors.” Yet the neighbor accounts—screams, unknown men, prolonged police presence—directly contradict the official line, deepening public distrust. The mass sell-off has become the strongest circumstantial evidence that something far darker unfolded that night.

In an era of intense online censorship, the willingness of dozens of families to absorb heavy financial losses rather than remain in the building speaks louder than any suppressed post. Whether driven by collective trauma or unspoken knowledge, the rapid abandonment of a once-desirable address has turned Yangguang Shangdong into a symbol of unresolved questions—and eroded confidence in official narratives.