Do you knock on the door before entering a hotel room?
For some travellers, this practice is rooted in the belief that the action would alert spirits inside the hotel room of their arrival, allowing them to “leave and make way” for the guests.
But is it really necessary?
According to Lee Chee Tong, a Singapore Taoist priest and content creator, the answer is no.
In TikTok videos posted on Tuesday (Sept 1), Chee Tong said he had come across what he described as “the stupidest thing ever” — the idea that knocking before entering a hotel room could mean agreeing to share the space with any spirits inside.
Questioning the logic behind the superstition, the 27-year-old said: “What do you mean? If the ghosts wants to haunt you, they will just haunt you no matter you knock on the door or not. What is this? Where did this saying even come from?”
That being said, he doesn’t think that the worry is unfounded — he explained that it makes sense if the knocking was meant as a courtesy to let any spirits inside the room know that there are guests entering.
“This one I can understand. This one got logic,” he said.
“If you are a human and you are in the room, and somebody knocks on your door, then if they’re supposed to stay here, of course you will leave the room right?”
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