Thai spirits seem more malevolent. Usually if you encounter a spirit you make an offering and GTFO.
My grandmother used to tell me a story of a fisherman that stumbled on a village at night. He ate a stick of khao lam (sticky rice w/ beans cooked inside a bamboo sick). The next day when he woke up he realized that he was eating the bone marrow of a human bone. He had been tricked by the spirits.
Not sure why she told 6 year old me this before bed