Mysterious Figure

This is a personal story during my younger days in Brunei Darussalam, till today I still can picture the grotesque image in my head.

I used to study in a chinese school back in the early to mid 1990s. Those days were some of the most memorable days of my life. My friends and I were always on the hunt for rubber seeds, fighting spiders and even looking for 'jewels'... We would go into a small jungle clearing behind our school that was rumour to be an old burial ground for those who died during the Japanese Occupation and those 'jewels' are being buried there, although we never did find anything. It was during one of these searches that ended our hobbies of being treasure hunters.

On one particular humid afternoon after lunch, me and two of my best friends, Jim & Gary, decided to go hunting behind our school. My purpose was to collect rubber seeds to play with the other kids in school as sometimes we would compete with each other to see who has the strongest seeds. Jim & Gary's mission 'impossible' was to look for those 'jewels'.

While on the way into the jungle clearing which we are ever so familiar with, I begin focusing on ripe rubber seeds that had fallen onto the ground, if any of you knows about collecting rubber seeds, when the seeds are ripe, you will hear a small explosive sound when the rubber seed covering burst open releasing the seeds. Being a choosy rubber seed picker, I was selecting those good rubber seeds, don't ask me how I know that the seeds are good, I just know. Jim & Gary are ahead of me making their way towards the clearing. They were roughly just 50m ahead.

All of sudden, while I was busy filling my pockets with rubber seeds, I heard a loud snap on my right above me, it was not like the normal rubber seed covering bursting open kind of sound, it was more like a branch being broken. Naturally, I turn my gaze toward the direction of the sound. To my horror, I saw a dark figure perched on top of the tree branch staring at me. There were those dark red, evil eyes and slightly blurred figure, the head was tilted towards one side. It wasn't laughing nor crying, just staring...This was enough to send instant shivers down my spine and my hairs were all standing at their ends. I scream at it and called out for Jim & Gary... Now comes the bizarre part...

Jim came running towards my direction but Gary was nowhere to be seen. I pointed at the direction of the figure and I don't know if Jim saw it, but sensing the fear in my panicky face was enough to scare the crap out of him. But where is Gary? We ran off in search of Gary, not knowing if the Thing was following behind us. We finally found Gary squatting down against a tree clutching his right hand a few metres down the path. We quickly grab him and made it out of the jungle clearing as fast as we could.

Back at school, Gary was in a daze. We queried him where he was when we called out to him and what was wrong with his arm. Gary claimed that he heard nothing and instead called back to us during the time he got 'bitten'. We inspected his arm and to our horror we saw 2 bite holes on his arm about 1 inch in separation, it was like a dracula bite. His arm was swollen but not bleeding. Jim and I looked at each other with fear in our eyes and that was my confirmation that Jim had saw the evil figure as well.

We instantly notified our school teachers and rushed him to the nearest clinic for treatment. We received a good lecturing from our teachers for wondering recklessly into unknown places; Gary received treatment and was having high fever the next day but recovered a few days later. Doctor says that a poisonous insect had bitten him and cause the swelling, but me and Jim knew that no insect would have fangs as wide as that, even if there was, the insect should be big, however Gary claims he did not see any insect during the time he was bitten... And why didn't he hear us call out his name loudly, we were virtually screaming at the top of our lungs!

That was the last treasure hunting expedition for us. After the incident, some of our 'hero' friends still continue going into the jungle clearing and although nothing happened to them, we are not taking our chances anymore...

Genting Highlands - Borned Spirits

Gentings Highlands, one of the most popular tourist locations in Malaysia. Located in the state of Pahang and resting at 2,000m above sea level, it offers a cool respite from Malaysia's bustling capital city. Many people head for Genting Highlands specifically for its nightlife at the renowed world-class Casino de Genting.

With all the excitement and happenings going around, one definitely will not know about the evil sinister that lurks within the place. The following story was told by a friend whose uncle used to work in Genting as a building maintenance worker.

Several years ago, before the opening of the casino and hotels in Genting Highlands was opened to the public, ten pregnant Vietnamese ladies were being brought to Genting Highlands to stay in a particular hotel. Witness confirmed that the pregnant ladies are roughly about 7-8 months pregnant and their bulging tummy are clearly visible. Each of them checked into different rooms and alternately switched into different rooms after some time. All housekeeping and food were being taken care discretely only by one Vietnamese man who had came with them and strictly no one else was allowed to witness or interfere with their activities.

A month later, the ten 'pregnant' ladies checked out of their respective rooms. Astonishingly, when they checked out, all the Vietnamese ladies look very slim and beautiful and none of them were carrying any babies. If was as if they were never pregnant before. In all the rooms that the ladies had stayed before, there was a special wind chime hanging at the window.

A few months later after the opening of the casino, a young man committed suicide in one of the rooms where a wind chime was placed. He had lost all his savings and company's money at the casino. Subsequently, after the suicide, many hotel staff and patrons had heard the sound of a child crying and seen a figure of a young man angrily running after a young child.

The workers were then told that the wind chimes are actually 'toys' for the ghost child that the Vietnames ladies had given birth to. These ghost child (toyol, gwei zhai) are child spirits that roam the hotels to 'invite' people staying there to visit the casino and gamble. It was rumoured that the man was one of the victims that was being persuaded by the child spirit to gamble his life savings away. His spirit cannot rest in peace and wants to take revenge on the ghost child.

The wind chimes were subsequently removed by the management after that. However, do becareful when you happen to check into a Genting hotel, who knows there may be some wind chimes that had been left out and not yet remove.....

Restless @ F15

A girl friend of mine forwarded me 2 pictures that was taken by her friend last few weeks. The picture was taken in Midvalley shopping complex; one of the most happening shopping centres in KL. You can see on the right side background that there is a picture of a white girl standing at Pillar F15 (click picture for a larger view).

Several reports and comments from the internet had indicated that the pictures are fake. Fake reports includes the 'ghost' casted a shadow; the 'ghost' cannot exist under lights, the 'ghost' looks too 'solid' etc. While some people believed that it is real and some even tried examining it under Photo Shop and could not find any 'con job', some believe that it is really a ghost.

There was even a story told by the security guards that a few years back, a car knocked down a girl at fast speed in the shopping mall late at night when there were not much cars around. The girl was playing with the trolley at the centre of the parking driveway while the parents were loading accessories into their car near column F15. It was a hit and run incident. And since then, several sightings of a girls playing around the area had been spotted. Could this be the spirit of the girl?

Be it real or a hoax. Please be respectful when you happen to be parking at the basement of MidValley shopping complex........