Shanghai’s Ghost Hour: 7PM, No Traffic, No People, No Future? And No One’s Talking About It

Something strange is happening in Shanghai. Once China’s pride and economic powerhouse, the city now feels… off. In this video, we take you inside the city’s busiest train station—at a time that should be packed—and show you what the camera saw instead. Local vloggers are asking the same question: where did everyone go?

From empty streets to vacant high-rises, quiet restaurants to shuttered malls, the signs are everywhere—but no one seems to be talking about it openly. Is this just a temporary slowdown, or is something deeper unraveling behind the scenes?

As China pushes an image of strength to the world, what’s happening inside Shanghai tells a different story—if you know where to look. In the first two stories of this video, we follow the local voices who are seeing it firsthand. This isn’t a prediction. It’s already here—just quiet enough to ignore.

Until now.

Watch, and decide for yourself.