THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
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 Singapore driver was driving up a Malaysian highway to visit his relatives in Kuala Lumpur. On the way, somewhere between here and Malacca, his car broke down. This was in the middle of nowhere, rubber trees everywhere. He had no idea where to turn for help and none of the vehicles whizzing by would …
My friend lives with her mother, who is a matron in an institution. She told me this story. She said a middle-aged woman who used to live in one of the rooms died one day. She could not remember what the cause of the death was. When they cleared her room after her death, they …
My grandmother told me this story. She began by saying that one should not speak ill of the dead, but she had to admit that my dear, departed grandfather was quite a womaniser in his time. He had three wives, of which my grandmother was the oldest and so the most senior in the household. …
When my father died suddenly of a heart attack, it hit me very bad. But when things like this happen, it is often the soul of the person who has passed away that tries to help the living. I remember that the night after the funeral, I was lying in bed with my wife. I …
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 …
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 …
