The ghost factories seem to have a PR department of their own when it comes to promoting tales of ghost rides on the MRT. The stories are tightly focused on two stations in particular although occasional stories are floated ( if you’ll pardon the pun) about other stations too. The two most haunted stations by all accounts are Biashan and Novena. The most obvious reasons is that they are both situated close to former cemeteries, the Novena station to a Jewish cemetery and the Bishan station runs under what was formerly a Chinese cemetery.
Actually, it is quite puzzling why the Dhoby Ghaunt station does not receive more attention. It too runs under what was formerly a little plot of land that was a cemetery, besides the old Hindu temple. Then again, maybe it’s not so surprising that there are practically no ghosts associated with the Dhoby Ghaunt station, especially when you consider that relatively few people know it runs under a former cemetery. Which just goes to show that the stories you are about to read are likely to have been manufactured by people, live ones not dead.
Well, that may not be exactly fair. There are some stories that may have been inspired by what people imagined to be real through no fault of their own. For example, many people think they hear footsteps late at night when they are alone at the station. This could be caused, explained one MRT staff, by changes in air pressure causing the roof tiles to make noises that sound like footsteps.
Also, late night riders sometimes report sightings of headless people but as anybody who has been in an underground station will know, the amount of glass there can easily play tricks on a person’s imagination, especially somebody already nervous about being one of just a handful of strangers in a quiet, lonely place on a late night.
The New Paper took on the task of investigating these ghost stories by sending a reporter and a photographer on the last train ride through these “haunted stations’ ‘ (there was, however, no volunteers). They found no spirits. But surely they must have known before they left on their unholy quest that they did not stand a ghost of a chance of meeting their adversaries. We ourselves have been told by photographers that when they tried to capture the ghosts on film, invariably the spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak.
But on with the good stuff…
Bishan
This girl was on the last train to Ang Mo Kio after being out with her boyfriend at the Satay Club. She was all alone in her carriage towards the end of the train as her boyfriend had got off at the Toa Payoh station. It was a Tuesday night, so it was not that surprising that there was no one else on this late ride.
When the train pulled into Bishan station, however, a whole gang of young, dialect-speaking teens entered and piled into the last seats. There were both males and females in the group and they were chatting very loudly and looking at her. The trains did not move for a while, the girl didn’t know why. But she grew uneasy at being near such a large group who looked rather loutish. That wasn’t the worst of it.
When she looked in the mirror she noticed that while there was a large group of these teens, there was not a single reflection of any of them in the windows!
She looked at them, they looked at her and conversation among them died. There was an eerie silence.
The “doors closing” signal suddenly came on, shocking the girl out of her paralysis. It triggered her to action. She dashed out of the coach just in time, before the doors closed and ran for the control room upstairs without looking back.
When she related her tale breathlessly, the staff control room looked rather calm.
“What dialect were they speaking?” one of the grey-uniformed staff asked her.
She told him.
“Oh, I see,” he said, “well that’s very common. They’re quite a frequent sighting on the last train.”
Another Bishan station story is of a young girl who enters the train at this station. The train does not move immediately. While she is seated, a young Chinese male enters and sits opposite her. There is no one else in the train. Their eyes make contact, and she can’t help staring because she feels there Is something strange about him.
He smiles at her and calmly removes his head and puts it, still smiling at her, on the seat next to him.
She screams and faints.
Novena
A young couple takes the last train from Newton station after a meal at Newton circus. They are in the second-last coach and they notice another young couple in the last couch.
When the train reaches Novena station, the young couple in the last couch suddenly turn into a pair of nuns and fly straight up through the roof of the train and disappear.
Another story is of a worker from Tan Tock Seng Hospital, which is near the Novena station, waiting for the last train. When it arrives, the last coach is full of nuns in prayer.
Only thing is, when they turn to look at the worker, they are all headless.
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