This study asks how specters have made disaster sites enchanting and important places of dark tourism, resonating with the history of the site and reconciling its current existence. The research is situated in Yingxiu town, the epicenter of the 7.8-magnitude 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China. Yingxiu is filled with haunted stories of the preserved ruins, but also carefully presented to tourists as a memorial and museum space. Drawing on the framework of spectral geography and hauntology, the article analyzes how disaster ruins serve as an extended expression of multiple temporalities, a space of affects shared by different agencies. Different yet intersecting interpretations of the three kinds of specters, including the spirits of the martyrs, purified souls, and invisible lives, have co-constructed the uniqueness and powerfulness of this monumental place of great death and rebirth. The persistent negotiation and rewriting of Yingxiu as a spectral site have cultivated alternative, materialized, and evocatively affirmative representations of the part of history significant and poignant at the same time. Thus, dark tourism can function as a rite of passage and provide a liminal space for community rebuilding and the reincorporation of one’s social life. Keywords: Dark tourism, ghost tourism, spectral geographies, hauntology, Wenchuan earthquake, politics of affirmation.