The Twilight Zone!

As a multi racial country, we are exposed to many different cultural habits, features, rules, religion, etc and of course the supernatural. We are a land full of stories on the supernatural and surprisingly each culture seems to have their own versions. It's like the supernatural tend to haunt their same race. So a pontianak (Malay vampire) is never seen by a Chinese as is a Chinese corpse-hopping, arm-out-straight vampire never goes near an Indian. As of course we Indians tend to be dark so its not easy to spot us and because of that, we scare the hell of the ghost more than they scare us. (We are an endless supply of dark jokes! Don't blame me, I didn't make us).

I have a few stories that happened to those around me recently and I thought it would be interesting to share with you. Just after Raya in October, my business partner's General Manager and his team had a brainstorming session in his office room about their sales plan for next year. They wrote in neatly on the glass wall in multiple colour markers and decided to call it a day sometime around 9pm. Everything was locked and everyone went home.

Next day, when he unlocked his room, he saw that the words have been jumbled up, suddenly taken a form of a wavy snake and all over the place. I thought initially it was a prank but when I saw it, I can tell you that it was just too much to do for a prankster and it the words were too neatly broken off or lying down to be a prank.

A few days later, this GM heard footsteps on the roof of his office and the gypsum board started to bounce up. Ok...maybe its just a very big rat.....from the Cretaceous period. Then one day, the first person to arrive at the office accidentally tripped off the alarm and as the agreed procedure, the security office called to ensure if all is ok. Before this person can pick up the phone, it stopped ringing. Nothing was thought of it, until it rang again. This time when answered, the security officer on the line wanted to speak to the designated person and told the receptionist that another person answered the earlier call and identified herself as "Rosie". There was no one else in the office and no one was called Rosie!

That was the last straw and the next day a medium was invited to look over the office. The findings were that, it was a spirit of a young orang asli (indigenous people) girl who meant no harm and was just playful. The spirit was invited out (the medium didn't say where, maybe she went to the next floor).

The office is in Mutiara Damansara which together with Damansara Perdana used to be the Kg Bukit Lanjan area that is forested and was an orang asli settlement. So many of them were buried there for decades. Another story is about a family living in Damansara Perdana and one night, the couple heard their daughter talking to herself in her room. When asked, she said she was talking to an old man. Prayers were held and the apparition stopped.

The Red Box at The Curve also had its share. A friend of ours went there one night with 4 other friends and when they paid their bill, they were charged for 7. Naturally they disputed the bill but when shown on the CCTV, there were 2 other girls sitting in the same room with them as if part of the group. These 2 figures were blurry but you can make out their shape as young girls. The management allegedly waive all charges on account of their "technical" problem.

I have also heard stories of people who could see and/or hear spirits and I have one such friend, also a business partner. She and her 4 year old son could see. She once saw her boss at his own funeral being sad and shocked. She kept seeing him for a while in the office and once even said "hi" to her. This same friend and her son saw mist come into their room at First World hotel in Genting Highlands, transform into a guy and 2 ladies and casually just floated from the window and out her door. Guess they were taking a short cut!

When she was little, she kept seeing this tiger at her grandma's house and could even touch it and play with it when no one else could. Of course she didn't know better than and for some reason this tiger spirit didn't like her cousin and would scratch her until she is bloody. Only then did they realize it was some supernatural tiger spirit.

Her son also saw a a little boy floating by their car and waving at them, when they were waiting for the husband to get in the car. But the scariest was that one time, when she was sleeping, she turned around and saw a spirit sleeping between the husband and her. Poor husband!

I can't wait to tell you my own experiences but at this moment, it's already 12.30am and I'd better got to sleep because that white towel by the corner is starting to look as if it wants to get up and talk to me.