{"podcast":{"title":"Hong Kong Horror","slug":"hong-kong-horror-7826938","podcast_index_feed_id":7826938,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/108574c58/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hong-kong-horror","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44249062/44249062-1780973182994-5cd303a1b8d02.jpg","author":"Hong Kong Horror","episode_count":61,"summary":"Hong Kong Horror covers stories from across Asia. My name is Simon, and after each story, I break it all down from a Chinese cultural perspective to cover cultural beliefs and try to figure out exactly what is happening in these stories. I will be uploading once a week for free public episodes, and once a month for membership exclusive episodes!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T02:20:01.604119+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hong-kong-horror-7826938"},"episode":{"title":"Never Fall Asleep on a Hong Kong Bus At Night: A True Hong Kong Horror","slug":"never-fall-asleep-on-a-hong-kong-bus-at-night-a-true-hong-kong-horror","published_at":"2026-04-08T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hong-kong-horror-7826938/never-fall-asleep-on-a-hong-kong-bus-at-night-a-true-hong-kong-horror","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hong-kong-horror-7826938","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hong-kong-horror/episodes/Never-Fall-Asleep-on-a-Hong-Kong-Bus-At-Night-A-True-Hong-Kong-Horror-e3hdb97","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO3548144247.mp3","summary":"There’s a special kind of exhaustion that hits you when you work a late shift at work. You’re drifting in and out of sleep, your guard is down, and you just want to get home. But on the empty night buses of Hong Kong, having an unstable consciousness might just make you the perfect target for dark entities out there.In tonight's story, we follow Henry. He takes the exact same route, at the exact same time, sitting in the exact same seat every single night. It’s a predictable routine. One that gives a strange passenger in black plenty of time to observe, wait, and make her move. Is she just a lonely commuter, or is something darker at play here?Sometimes, being in the wrong place at the wrong time is all it takes to become the perfect victim.","meta_description":"There’s a special kind of exhaustion that hits you when you work a late shift at work. You’re drifting in and out of sleep, your guard is down, and you ju…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1412,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hong-kong-horror-7826938/episodes/never-fall-asleep-on-a-hong-kong-bus-at-night-a-true-hong-kong-horror/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hong-kong-horror-7826938/never-fall-asleep-on-a-hong-kong-bus-at-night-a-true-hong-kong-horror.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}