THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
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, …
A group of friends were having a beer at the neighborhood coffee shop and the conversation turned to ghosts. Soon, in their state of inebriation, they started to aggressively challenge the boaster in the group to spend a night in a famous cemetery. “Of course, I can do it. I’m not afraid. There are no …
A motorcyclist was riding along a long stretch of road when he noticed a young woman, about 17 years old, waving him down. He stopped. She was a rather pretty girl and she wanted a lift to her house in Geylang. The biker, an eligible male about 22 years old said, “Sure , no problem, …
This didn’t happen to me. But I know the girl it happened to. She was one year my senior in secondary school. I was in Sec Two at the time. One day, during class-time in the afternoon, this girl, my senior, went to the girls’ toilet. The was on the fourth floor. She said she …
One of my classmates had the power to see ghosts. He was a very strange character himself. He always looked at people very hard, sometimes staring rudely. Sometimes he looked not at you but somewhere just to the left or the right of where you were as if he saw something there. In our final …
In the Toa Payoh flat where I lived, several times I encountered this spirit which at first scared me by its presence. Later, though, I came to understand it and was not so afraid. My first encounter with it was when I was studying for my first-year Pre-U exams. We were living in a three-room …
My elder brother was a cynic when it came to ghost stories until one day something happened to him. He came home with a strange look on his face sometime during the Hungry Ghost Festival two years ago. I remember it quite well. There was a sort of worried frown on his face, but at …
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 …
