Yu Menglong's name returned to the spotlight in December 2025, when an American psychic claimed during a livestreamed 'spirit box' session that the late Chinese actor had been 'wrongfully killed' and was trying to communicate from beyond the grave.
The session, broadcast online and quickly clipped for social media, is now feeding an already dense web of rumours around Yu's unexplained death, which Chinese authorities have still not formally clarified.
