THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
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 happened about 15 years ago. I have a very good friend and I know most of what happens in his family. One day his sister was going to work in the factory behind the Kampung where my friend lived. It was about noon. She thought she was alone, but she heard footsteps behind her …
I remember when I was in the scouts as a little boy, one day I had to come back home late by myself after scout practice. I got down at the bus stop near my place. Between the bus stop and my home, I would have had to pass by the Kampung Jeva cemetery. This …
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 …
What I’m going to relate to you is an incident to happened to a good friend of mine. I remembered he broke the news to me in cold sweat, the year was 1994. Then my friend was staying in West Coast and on this particular night they need to need to travel to Changi Airport …
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 …
Correct me if I’m wrong but from my observation, it seems that the Chinese and Malay communities in Singapore also share a common belief or rather superstition about being wary of the presence of black cats in a funeral. Unfortunately, I have never had the opportunity to probe whether the reason behind this ‘wariness’ is …