The Red House (Red Theater), Ximending

The Red House (commonly called Red House Ximending or historically the Red Theater) is a signature historical landmark located in the Ximending pedestrian area of Wanhua District, Taipei. Tourism and travel sources describe it as a preserved theater and cultural plaza that hosts weekend craft and arts markets, street art, and nightlife. Since the mid‑2000s the Red House Plaza has been documented as a nucleus for Taipei's LGBTQ+ businesses and nightlife, with accounts noting the opening of venues such as Café Dalida in late 2006 and subsequent growth in gay‑oriented businesses around the plaza. The surrounding Ximending area is also recorded as a frequent site of public demonstrations and civic gatherings. The supplied research notes and sources do not provide concrete accounts of hauntings, apparitions, named spirits, or other paranormal phenomena tied to the Red House itself. References to ghosts or supernatural themes appear only in fictional media set in Taipei/Ximending and are not presented in the sources as local oral tradition or eyewitness reports about the actual site. Therefore no paranormal investigations, entities, or explanatory theories are documented in the provided material.