THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
It was a damn boring night. But heck, doing guard duty is never interesting. You listen to the crickets screeching, to a stray dog barking at nothing in particular, to the buzz in your ear that tells you you’re listening to nothing either, really. Damn boring. In this boredom, Recruit Cheng imagined his M16 and …
Remember the amusement park in Kallang that used to be the favourite haunt of many a couple? It’s gone, now but one incident in that place will haunt me for as long as I live. It happened on the Ferris wheel. It was a cool night and my girlfriend was holding on to me. We …
On the 18th of October, 1987, which was my birthday, a stranger visited my home. He left me a package, saying it must be opened by me only. I thought it was a mysterious present. I opened it and found a very old jade pendant. It was quite precious. There was a note which had …
I was staying at the hostel of a university in Australia. It was my second year there as an arts student. I am easily scared, so I used to sleep with the lights on. And with good reason. I had a friend studying in a nearby university at the same time as me who is …
I was sleeping alone in the prefect’s room on a Saturday evening, after a hard night of studying. There was no mattress or anything there, of course, so I had to lie down on the table. It was about 2 am in the morning and there was hardly any movement around. There was someone studying …
One day my little girl seemed disturbed and kept crying and mumbling. I realized she had been “disturbed” by someone. In other words, something spiritual was disturbing her, so I prayed hard that night and asked for a sign so that I could know what it was. That night, well it may have been a …
I used to live in the PWD Health quarters in Tanjong Pagar. Those buildings have all been demolished now but I remember in those days, when I was in Secondary 4, there used to be this casuarina tree just outside the house. My brother had a motorcycle that he always parked there. At night, whenever …
I had a friend who died in a motorcycle accident. Poor thing, she was very close to the family. She was riding pillion on her boyfriend’s motorcycle when it happened. He suffered serious injuries and was in the hospital for a long time, but she was buried the same day of the accident. Her mother …
My great-grandmother told my mother this story to make the point when my mother was a small girl that she shouldn’t accept things from strangers One day, when my great-grandma was grinding chilli on a large grindstone in the courtyard of the house, which was quite open, she was approached by this mendicant medicine man. …
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 …