THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
I am quite used to returning home to my Bedok flat very late at night without incident, but there was one evening at about 11pm, when something happened to me that I will never forget for as long as I live. I had finished work and had gone to visit a friend in another area …
Three of my girlfriends and I booked into a chalet in Changi – this was many years ago and those chalets, the old bungalow types, are not there anymore – and that was when we had the fright of our lives. We aren’t superstitious people and since that incident we have tried to explain away …
What I’m going to relate to you is an incident to happened to a good friend of mine. I remembered he broke the news to me in cold sweat, the year was 1994. Then my friend was staying in West Coast and on this particular night they need to need to travel to Changi Airport …
This story took place in a small town in rural Vietnam. It was told to me by my uncle. People in that town lived in houses very near to one another. There were houses built closed together with a mere 5 feet wooden fence separating their backyards. The backyards double up as their kitchen. Back …
When death occurred in a hotel room, will the spirit of the dead haunt the room? If you had worked in the hotel industry, you would know that death in hotel rooms are common. The reason is because hotels are just like any public place where people murders or suicides can occur. According to a …
Correct me if I’m wrong but from my observation, it seems that the Chinese and Malay communities in Singapore also share a common belief or rather superstition about being wary of the presence of black cats in a funeral. Unfortunately, I have never had the opportunity to probe whether the reason behind this ‘wariness’ is …
I have never known myself to have a full on enconter with the spirits of the undead. Most of the stories I have read about ‘true’ encounters are truly unbelievable. Though I never bothered to go to places like Bidadari cemetery or Mount Pleasant late at night just to find out myself what kind of …
It is believed that if you hold a pencil and ask a question, the pen guardian will answer your question on a piece of paper. Something along the line like die xian or ouija board or the coin spirit game. But these games need a minimum of 2 person to play. And it can be …
Some superstitious beliefs I heard when i was younger is that when a person is about to die, he will come to this river where once you cross it, you will be officially dead as a human. The river was a pathway to heaven. For those who commited suicide will not get to cross it, …
Have you ever heard of people keeping child spirits? They are called Toyol in malay and Gumantong in thai. In Bugis, temples on waterloo street which is commonly known as Si Ma Lu guanying temples are always crowded by onlookers curious about rituals conducted for multiple statues on table. Most of these statues are accompanied …