Singapore Taoist priest says ghosts can ‘haunt you’ whether you knock on hotel room doors or not

If you’ve ever knocked before entering a hotel room because you were worried about ghosts, a Singapore Taoist priest is saying you actually don’t need to.

Taoist priest amused by ‘new rule’

In a TikTok video posted on Tuesday (1 Sept), Taoist priest and content creator Lee Chee Tong was baffled by the “new rule” that hotel guests should not knock before entering.

This was supposedly because doing so would mean that “you agree to stay with the ghost”.

“Like, what do you mean?” he said, calling the idea the “stupidest thing ever”.

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According to Chee Tong, it would not matter much if the spirits really wanted to haunt someone.

“If the room is haunted, you knock on the door, or you don’t knock on the door, the ghost will still haunt you,” he said.

He said that he could understand another common practice of knocking before entering a hotel room.

This is believed to signal to any spirits in the room that a human guest is about to enter, giving them a chance to leave.

OP urges everyone to think with logic

Using humans as an analogy, Chee Tong reasoned that the idea at least made some sense.

“If you’re a human, you’re in the room, then somebody knock on your door. If they are supposed to stay here, of course you will go out of the room, right?” he said.

Chee Tong recounted a friend who knocked before entering hotel rooms, then cursed at any spirits inside.

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