User:Lenin16899/The Scarlet Maidy

The Scarlet Maidy (Chinese: 紅衣小女孩) is said to be a phantom around Tāi-Khenn area of Taichung city. It was firstly recorded in 1998, when a family was travelling through the eighth hiking trail of Tāi-Khenn. The video taken by a V8 camera, shows that a little girl or maidy, wearing a scarlet dress, following the family along the pathway, while none of the family members had noticed that before. The face of the Scarlet Maidy looked so emaciate like an old woman, but her body shape looked like a girl.

One of the family members passed away after a few weeks. When the family was collecting the videos in order to recall him, the video was found somehow appalling as the Scarlet Maidy showed up without being perceived then. Consequently, the family had sent the video to a TV program regarding supernatural occurrence, where the whole event started to be so popular in Taiwan. Besides, lots of witness have been reported following the event, and lots of folklore experts and psychics refer the Scarlet Maidy to as a mountain ghost or spirit (Taiwanese: 魔神仔).

Even though the video succeeded in making sensation during the time, some people have questioned about its authenticity. For instance, some argued that the Scarlet Maidy looked so uncanny because the photographic technology was not that qualified, making the image so vague and even distorting it.