THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
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 …
When I was a small boy, so I am told, there was an incident that affected me directly. My grandmother was bringing me back home quite late at night after visiting a relative’s place, when suddenly there was a strong and unusual rustling in the branch of a tree ahead of us. No one else …
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 …
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, …
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 …
There were two good friends who were labourers during the time of the British in Singapore. One of them was newly married and so had more financial responsibilities than the other and so was always more worried about having to make more money than he had. One day the friend told him the British were …
