Haunted Singapore: True Ghost Stories Part I

By Mary Devey

In this segment of the series, you will hear how young army recruits had to deal with the multitude of spirits on Pulau Tekong from the woman in red who takes her revenge chasing men in the hours of the night to the horror stories about Camp 1. Others include the terror of walking through the old Changi Hospital and meeting with the pitiful spirits of the locals and the allied forces who died under the cruel Japanese rule. You will hear about the ghost who visits the toilet at the army camp, about the local vampire and her frequent haunts, and about the once famed Matilda House which was used in movies like Tenko and then left to dilapidate with its unseen occupants left intact.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mary Devey
• Release date: Jan 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301683024

Mary Devey

Mary Devey writes historical fiction and everything Wicca. Her first book "Sold into Slavery: The Story of Adaku" addresses the effects of African slavery and its consequence for one woman and the people who surround her. Highlighted in three parts, the first part addresses Adaku's life as a kidnapped woman sealed away from the rest of the African world in a place called a baracoon where she meets other kidnapped tribal women like her. Part II on The Middle Passage will be available soon at Smashwords.com. Mary has also recently completed Part I of her Wicca Trilogy which promises the most unusual - Rebirth: The Gathering of the Witches. Other books written include, "In Her Mama's Shoes" - a coming of age book that addresses the tragic consequences for a young girl who instead of looking onwards, turns the pages of time to only learn too much about her Mama.

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Haunted Singapore: True Ghost Stories

Part I

By Mary Devey

All rights reserved. Copyright © 2012 Mary Devey

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The events in this book are based on facts. Some of the characters have been replaced with false names to protect their identity.

Also by the same author in the following series:

Haunted England: True Ghost Stories Part I

Haunted England: True Ghost Stories Part II

Haunted Ireland: True Ghost Stories Part I

Haunted Ireland: True Ghost Stories Part II

Haunted Singapore: True Ghost Stories Part II

Chapters

≈ 1: Preface

≈ 2 The Island Called Singapore

≈ 3 Pulau Hantu - Ghost Island?

≈ 4 The Old Changi Hospital - Site of the Damned

≈ 5 Bukit Brown Cemetery - A Haven or Haunt?

≈ 6 The Red House - Closed with Other Occupants

≈ 7 Pulau Tekong - Land of the Spirit World

≈ 8 Matilda House

Preface:

Those who know Singapore will tell you the island is simply fraught with many ghost stories to tell, some truly scary and others, reeking of nothing more than the abject creation of a mind looking for undue attention. So, be warned when you want to hear a good ghost story in Singapore, know your sources well. But for those who know and live in Singapore, you will know one thing for sure. There are plenty of ghost stories you can get if you listen to the right sources.

Stories abound about spirits that move through walls in high rise apartments, about the old woman who wanders aimlessly seeking her place in your living room space and then disappearing right before your eyes. Someone told me that an old woman had become a peculiar and rather expected entity in his high rise apartment building and that if anyone wanted to live where he did, seeing this old woman’s ghost should be just a part and parcel of their lives. I asked this gentleman if he lived with the idea of seeing ghosts in his building, and he told me that stories like his are just natural to hear. Many apartment dwellers have so many ghost stories to share and some are really frightening to hear because Singapore was constructed on what we may call tainted soil where blood was shed and especially so with the Second World War. The effect of this terrifying ordeal has only watered down in the form of mysterious apparitions, some of which are illustrated in the stories which follow in Part I.

Take a walk around Singapore’s old cemeteries and you might just see something unusual at night and yes, orbs are the norm. Try hiking through its wooded paths and you might just find yourself face to face with its vengeful vampires who hide up the large Singapore trees. Pontianak as she is called, will first warn those who come by her way with the profound smell of her intoxicating jasmine flowers. The flowers are said to be so intoxicating that it simply overwhelms you. Like her European counterpart, the Asian vampire loves blood and believes that by preying on young virgin girls, she retains her beauty across time. She is a beautiful entity who also lures unsuspecting men to her lair only to bewitch them and drain their souls. And it seems that in Singapore, there has been so much blood shed during World War Two that the spirits of the soldiers simply walk their way forgetting they have no place in today’s modern time. Ghosts of fallen Japanese and allied forces have been reported in many of the army barracks, and many soldiers who live in these barracks as in the Nee Soon camp, have reported unusual ghostly encounters. Some are really not so pleasant to hear and many of these soldiers have reported female ghosts as well. Possibly Pontianak on her rounds I guess…

And if you ask me if I believe in the supernatural, my answer is a yes because it takes one to see that part of the world to believe it. What I have seen and heard may possibly mystify you and I don’t ask you to take my word for what I have seen. Seeing ghosts and believing in them is a personal choice you have to make on your own. I do not always appreciate seeing and hearing unusual entities. It almost takes my breath away for that time because these entities come so quick and so sudden, it almost leaves you wondering if you saw what you thought you were supposed to see. For the record, I have seen so many that I can tell you I have seen enough to know that in the most logical possibilities given, at least some of what I have seen are truly ghosts. So, they are there. But I am not surprised when some people, lured by the intense belief in the sciences, still try to offer rational explanations after seeing strange out of the world entities. Tell me, how do you offer a rational explanation when someone turns the knob so many times to the second floor of your hotel room door when you know that the only way to get to that point would be past a locked door and a tall flight of steps? Well it happened to me and I can promise you that event was witnessed by another fellow mate of mine from the office who heard it the same way I did and saw nothing but a door that opened and showed no one behind it. Makes your hair stand right? Well that night, just like her, we simply closed our eyes and said our prayers so quick we fell asleep. And yes, I am glad to say no one touched us nor bothered us in any way. We slept pretty well actually. The next day however, I asked all my friends in the room if they had seen something the door

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