Bride's Pool (新娘潭, San Leung Taam) is a waterfall and plunge-pool in the Pat Sin Leng Country Park on the northeastern edge of the New Territories of Hong Kong. According to local Hakka tradition — attested in village oral history since at least the 1870s — a young bride from the nearby Plover Cove village was being carried in a traditional wedding sedan chair from her home village to her husband's village when her bearers, crossing the slippery rocks above the pool in rain, lost their footing and dropped the sedan chair (and the bride) into the deep plunge pool. She was unable to free herself from the heavy ceremonial garments and drowned.
Since at least the early twentieth century, hikers, campers, and military personnel training in the Pat Sin Leng ranges have reported a consistent pattern of paranormal phenomena around the pool: a young woman in a red wedding gown observed standing at the water's edge, the sound of a bride's processional music rising from the pool on still evenings, and — most distinctively — figures reflected in the water's surface that do not correspond to any living person standing above. British military records from the 1950s and 1960s reference multiple Gurkha training exercises interrupted by reports of a red-clad woman in the area. A 2000s Hong Kong Paranormal Society investigation catalogued more than 200 individual reports since 1970.
Bride's Pool is further reputed as a site of multiple subsequent drownings and suicides, which local tradition attributes to the ghost's continuing action. Hong Kong Police and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department have recorded at least eleven deaths in the pool between 1960 and 2020, a rate disproportionate to visitor numbers. Despite this, the site remains one of the most popular weekend hiking destinations for Hong Kongers, who continue to visit during daylight hours and routinely report uncanny sensations near the pool's edge. The legend is covered in every major Hong Kong ghost anthology and is taught as part of Hakka cultural heritage.