THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
One day after driving everybody home in the company car after the night shift, I was back in the company premises and sleeping in the car quite peacefully with my shirt open because it was a warm night and I had the windows down. Suddenly, I was awakened by this leopard’s paw that just reached …
I live in a massionette in Potang Pasir. Occasionally there are strange incidents in my house. One day, early in the morning, at about 3 am I think it was, there were several loud bangs on the door to my bedroom as if someone was trying to break in. I remember I was shocked out …
When I was in primary four, one day my classmate’s elder brother rushed to the school and after asking the teacher’s permission, took my classmate straight home. He had been in such a flap when he had arrived to pick her up that naturally we were all very curious to know what had happened. She …
Have you heard about the spirit which has been going around attacking virgins? This spirit takes on the form of an old woman and is known as “Kum kum” because she cannot say the greeting “Assalamu Alaikum” and can only say “Kum kum” in short. The spirit has come over from Jakarta. They were having …
Kolam Ayer residents know this story very well. They tell of the cyclist who was returning late one night from work. He had with him some murtabak he had bought at a late night stall. He held the packet in his left hand on top of the handlebar. In those days, when Kolan Ayer existed, …
There is a house in the city area, which is famous among some Singaporeans. It is a bungalow on a hill and it is accessed by a small road. It is said that the owner of the houses hacked his family to death with an axe and killed himself. There is even a stable, which …
Doctors tell this story all the time. One day a medical student left his bag in the anatomy room (the large hall in the SGH school where students dissect real bodies, which have been preserved in formaldehyde). By the time the student remembered, it was quite late in the night but there were some notes …
A taxi driver picks up a young woman on a lonely road late at night (ofcourse). She tells him to take her to her house in a deserted area. She does not speak to him at all and looks rather distraught. The taxi driver keeps glancing at her through the rear view mirror. Her quietness …
One person we ourselves spoke to mentioned that when her sister’s relatives went to have a look at the new flat they had acquired, they met an old woman sitting on the stone seats downstairs. They asked her in a neighbourly way what she was doing there. She replied casually that she was waiting for …
The last bus down the Tanjong Pagar route was flagged down by a young girl just outside of Har Par Villa. When she paid the conductor, for some reason he did not put the coins in the money bag straight away. Soon the girl gestured that she wanted to get down, so the conductor pressed …