What with the toys hanging from the back bumpers?

Driving around on the streets of nowadays you might spot an interesting phenomenon, a car with a stuffed animal or doll dangling from the back of the car. Many of the hanging dolls are dirty and ragged from being dragged around on the city streets. There is something eerie and morbid about the sight of a child’s toy looking so dishevelled.

Taxi drivers seemed to be the first group to adopt this practice and it has since spread to the average motorist. Even on a short drive in Bangkok, you are bound to spot one of the hanging dolls. Taxis still comprise the largest number of cars that hang dolls on their bumpers.

The question that you are probably thinking is “Why?” For awhile I pondered this myself and although I asked around, no one else seemed to know either.

Finally on the Thai news I got my answer.

The hanging doll or stuffed animal is an offering to the spirits of those that died in a traffic accident. It is hoped that the spirit will play with the toy and leave the car’s driver alone. This superstition is thought to have originated in Korea. Since Thai people believe that ghost hang around near the location of their death. They also believe that the ghost are waiting to be reborn and may provoke an accident by tricking a driver, especially at night. In light of such superstitious beliefs, it makes sense that some Thais would readily adopt a practice that seeks to placate these devious spirits.

Interestingly enough, the news report stated that many people have been adopting the practice of hanging a doll on their bumper without even knowing why. They simply saw others doing it and wished to do it as well. Other drivers get even more morbid and stick disturbingly real-looking fake arms out of their car trunks to shock fellow drivers.

Next time you take a drive through Bangkok, keep your eyes open for this quirky sight and we’ll see how long this trend lasts.

I already know that nobody is going to believe me but figured I would try this out and try to get some answers. When I was about 7yrs of age, I hit a depression and I figured I would try to turn to religion. I pray to God and said “God, I need to know if I’m actually needed in this world. If I am, send me a sign. If not, please forgive me since I will need to take my life.” and I said it with all seriousness and certainty. That night, I felt my bed shaking and it felt like punches coming up out of the bed. Since I was 7, I went and told my mom and dad. They told me it was just a dream so I went back. It continued for a week getting to the point where my bed would almost flip but apparently my parents never heard.

Since then I have this man that follows me around but only comes out of reflections in the dark. I’m a psych major in college and I have ruled out repressed memories and every logical path I could find. I have never seen his face and he has no eye colour. He has shoulder-length black hair and no beard. He changes clothes often. He doesn’t seem bound by gravity and absolutely hates the light. Sometimes he hides in the shadows. This has caused me to be very paranoid since I have, as of the last 2 yr., been having blackouts.

I would just like to put a name on this thing and just wondering if someone here might have an idea. Oh, and another thing, I don’t know if it’s just me that sees him because he disappears when someone else comes. Also, there’s no specified place that he appear It’s just where I am, when it’s dark, and if there’s a big enough reflection surface for him to come out of.

I will try to get on every day to check but no rush. I have been handling him for 12yrs; I think I can wait until I get an answer. I hope to be hearing from you.

Thanks

By Xedo

Lots of weird, unexplainable things have been going on in my home. Everything that happens in my house only happens when I am alone. Here are some of the things that have happened.

I was eating some candy Mike n’ Ikes and I threw about three pieces on the floor for my two dogs to eat as they both were begging me. Neither one of them ate the candy. I got up and I let them both outside in the backyard. I’m in my house completely alone now and I go into the living room to watch some tv and continue to eat my candy. The three pieces are still on the floor. I’m sitting on a small red rocking chair on the floor against the wall when this green Mike n’ Ike candy flew across the room and hit my shoulder hard. No one was in the house, including my dogs and I know that it wasn’t me, obviously.

Another thing that happened was that I was playing a video game in my living room on this small red rocking chair that sits very low to the ground. I was by myself and it was past midnight. While I was playing something or someone blew in my left ear hard and loud! My mother was asleep and my dogs weren’t in the room. I have taken some picture of some of the rooms in my home and a lot of orbs appeared in them, VERY visible.

I hear scratching noises in my kitchen and my bedroom closet door moved while I was trying to sleep at 6 am. My dogs bark at walls and empty rooms. I see shadows sometimes, mainly in my kitchen. My kitchen table moved and made a loud bang and woke me up while I was sleeping.

The scariest thing that happened to me was when I was downstairs in my basement where my computer is and I was talking to some friends online. It was about 3 am and my mom was upstairs sleeping. My dogs were sleeping on the other side of the room. I heard this loud growling, moaning noise behind me. It happened three times. I was so scared that I ran up my stairs and sleep with my mother that night in her bedroom!

I never go downstairs at night anymore. I have told my mom all of this and she doesn’t believe me, she thinks it’s all in my head.

By Brittany

I used to work with my uncle in penampang for 3 years, doing ad with flash for projector in the airport (it was called Ad Media, and it’s now currently taken over by Akira, thus Akira Digital Media now) and because that time I don’t have a driving license yet and I was living in Api-api, Kota Kinabalu, I had no choice but to stay over there.

Mind you, my so-called office is actually my grandma’s house, and my workplace is on the upper floor (it’s a double storey wooden house) and that house has been standing since my grannie’s grandparents and no, that house is not blessed because my grandma doesn’t want to chase her parents/grandparents spirit away.

And the rules of the house : -

1). Do not off the lights in the corridor hall of the upper floor.
2). Do not off the West room light after 7 if you’re sleeping there.
3). No ghost movies are allowed to be seen in the upper floor.
4). Once the light and door is close at night, no one is allowed to enter the upper living room until dawn.

My experience on the first rule : -

my uncle forgot to turn the lights on the corridor hall until everyone was asleep. Then around 2-3 am, I was still awake with my ex, we were talking some rubbish then suddenly, we heard chains being dragged on the corridor hall.

About the fourth rule : -

Before I had ANY rooms to sleep in, guess WHERE I had to sleep at? The upper living room. My grannie suggested that I always keep a light on as I sleep but my pc was always on 24-7 (the living room was ALSO my workplace), so I ignore her and turn the lights off and left the monitor lights on. Then, I heard it…whisperings…soft whisperings…what’s worst, as I was freaking freaked out by the whispering, I quickly go to the sofa and covered myself with my blanket.

And guess what? As I was covering myself with the blanket, I can see…a part of the blanket is being PUSH down by a hand!

By Nicho

After reading loads and loads of ghost stories, I’ve decided to tell you a story which happened to me in 1995, while I was living in Sabah. It was quite an experience to me, as I’ve never seen anything like it before.

As my dad was a policeman, we got to travel a lot around Sabah. One day, we went to Kota Belud, a small, cowboy-like town in Sabah. We were having a great time as it was indeed a beautiful place. Nevertheless, our wonderful experience there were shattered by an incident that happened to me just before we left Kota Belud.

Before arriving, my dad already warned my brothers and I to recite some verse from the Quran and to say “Bismillah” each time we were about to do anything while we were at Kota Belud. I thought his direction was a bit strange, but we just obeyed anyway. Furthermore we were still young and have been taught well not to question the elders unnecessarily.

On that fateful day, my dad brought us to a restaurant for lunch before we go home. As we sat down, I noticed an old man was staring at us. The strange thing was he looked at us with a straight face and eyes that gave me the creeps. I noticed he didn’t even blink his eyes once. After a while, that old man smiled at me, and to my horror, his face slowly changed! Then, there it was, a gory looking thing, with sharp fangs on his mouth and blood all over his face. I was petrified but I was still staring at him. I couldn’t move a muscle and I just sat there numbed. The old man then slowly stood up and walked towards me. However, he disappeared into thin air after a few steps.

I gathered back my senses and turned around. I started crying uncontrollably and told my father what I had just witnessed. My dad, appearing calm, immediately ordered us to get into the car, and took off. He drove so fast I was afraid we might skidded off the road. However, I was still in a state of shock and would rather prefer to reach home sooner.

Once we got home, my dad asked my brothers to go to their bedrooms, while he took me out to see an old lady friend of his. She was supposed to be pawang, a traditional witchcraft doctor. She told us that the ‘thing’ was sent as a warning to my dad, telling him to leave his position and to go back to Peninsular Malaysia. Apparently, there was a man who wanted his job for a long time and was so frustrated when my dad got the job on a transfer from Peninsular Malaysia. I wasn’t even supposed to see the ‘thing’, but strangely, I did. My dad then told us why he was speeding all the home home earlier. He said, through his rear view mirror, he saw a headless man chasing after us trying to jump onto the car. He thought the best way to lose it was to drive as fast as he could! The pawang said the ‘thing’ wanted to follow us home, in order to get to me, who saw it at the restaurant earlier that day.

I was scared to my wits, I didn’t make it to school the next day. When I told my friends about it, they said that Kota Belud was indeed famous for being the ‘darkest’ area in the whole of Sabah. They said that they should have warned me before going. Now, I would appreciate it if someone could verify this.

By Heikal

Considerable consternation has been caused recently in Tawau by alleged supernatural manifestations in the house of a Chinese farmer near the Pumping station.

For the past ten days articles in the house have disappeared from their accustomed places and have been found in other parts of the house. This in itself caused considerable alarm, but when the crockery began to throw itself about the house the terror-stricken occupants decided to leave. They, however, waited for a few days but things then became so bad that they left the house.

One day, great stones and blocks of woods were thrown over partition walls, a knife whizzed through the air from the kitchen, plates were flung off the table while the family was at food, mosquito nets were broken and baskets thrown about the house. In the afternoon the owner of the property, an old and very respected Chinese, was picking up one of the bowls which had deposited itself on the floor when he received a most unexpected and painful blow on the stern portion of his anatomy and found that he had been struck with a bottle.

All these manifestations took place in the day-time and the nights were without incident. The Chinese fully believe that the trouble was caused by a supposed enemy well versed in witchcraft. Tawau, of course, has long had a reputation for ghosts. The undiscovered murders near Tawau Bridge years back were by some laid at their door, while the well-known white giant, which patrols the Hospital Road and is said to have its abode in the Residency grounds, has been seen by many.

By DiscoverTawau

When you stroll along the hallways of the building, you will notice some paper being put up on some of the doors with verses from the al-Quran on them.

one story from a lab technician goes like this; it was past 7 pm, and she had just finished preparing stuffs for tomorrow mornings’ lab. as she packed her stuffs in her office, she heard the echoes of footsteps in the hallway. she was the only one left in the building, and all the doors except for the main entrance and her office were already locked. thinking it was either one of her colleagues who forgot to pick their stuffs, she went out to greet him/her, suddenly the footsteps stopped.

Now, whenever someone unlocks a door in the building, you can hear the sound of the lock. also the main entrance tends to make a sound when it opens and closes. she heard neither of these sounds, before the footsteps started, or after it ends. doing her job, she went to check all the labs and doors making sure it’s properly locked.there was no sign of any of the lab or offices being occupied.

freaked out, she went to grab her stuffs and locked the door to her office. as soon as she did, the footsteps started again. she asked who was there. no reply. this time she was pretty sure no one was in the building except herself. the footsteps kept on going even as she went out the building and locked the entrance. she could stiil hear the faint sound of the footsteps in the building as she head to her car.

By Mr.D

Telur berdiri tegak ketika gerhana bulan penuh baru-baru ni 10 Disember 2011. Mohd Ezli Mashut Journalist TV Selangor telah membuat sebuah eksperiment mengenai daya tarikan graviti ketika gerhana bulan penuh pada jam 10.45 malam. Menurut beliau:

Bumi akan mengalami daya tarikan graviti dari matahari dan bulan yang lebih besar. Keadaan ini berlaku ketika gerhana matahari bila bulan berada di antara matahari dan bumi. Pada kedudukan ini, telur yang berada di bumi, mengalami daya tarikan graviti dari matahari dan bulan yang paling kuat dari tempat lain. Oleh kerana itulah, telur yang berada di bumi akan berdiri kerana mengalami daya tarikan graviti yang kuat.

Berdasarkan pendapat saintis, di antara matahari dan bumi terdapat garis medan graviti yang mampu mempengaruhi elektron dalam telur sehingga menjadi stabil, sekali gus membolehkannya berdiri tegak. Ianya berlaku kesan daripada kedudukan bumi, bulan dan matahari berada dalam satu garisan sewaktu gerhana yang menyebabkan wujudnya tarikan graviti ke ke atas.

Dalam keadaan ini, putih telur dikatakan tertarik ke bahagian atas manakala kuning telur yang sedikit berat berada di bahagian bawah sekaligus mewujudkan keseimbangan. Prinsip yang sama juga berlaku kepada kejadian pasang surut air laut. Jika dalam keadaan gerhana, di mana bumi, bulan dan matahari berada di dalam satu garisan, maka akan berlakulah air pasang perbani atau disebut juga air pasang besar.

It was 8:30 in the morning, we got all up to go grocery shopping and buy supplies for my cousin’s birthday. When we were all ready to leave, I was the first to get in the car (2nd hand mitsubishi Pajero) since I don’t put on make-up. I was silently enjoying the car music. I didn’t notice my aunt going up to the back seat.

She claimed she saw a spiky-haired boy beside me looking at the opposite side to where my aunt was. She thought the boy was my youngest cousin, I only notice her saying “Miguel, where’s your brother?” I looked at her wondering why she’s calling me Miguel (Name: Denice). When the actual Miguel came up to the back seat, my aunt was shocked she saw the real Miguel. Looking back to the back seat where I was, she also got shocked the boy was no longer there.

Even before this happened, there were numerous counts of farts but no one was farting at all. Even if the car was 2nd hand, it was still running at a fine condition. We got scared each time we left on a trip with that car. My father even saw the boy in the back seat through the rear mirror. We were all threatened by this spiky-haired boy. We went on this trip just to bless the car to be protected from evil spirits.

It never happened again, we never saw the boy nor notice one of his farting.

By Denice

This story happened when I went to Singapore to visit friends, not long after spending several years living there. There was me, and my three friends, two Eurasians and a Caucasian, J,G and D. D got a crush on this one guy and she learned that this guy and a bunch of his friends were going camping at Bukit Timah Natural Reserve by the quarry (sort of like Bukit Shahbandar with a gigantic unused pool) and since we were all hanging out she managed to convince us to go and join them. The me, J and G figured ok, we’ll go for the day and leave before evening. We packed some food and clothes and went.

I remembered we swam in the quarry, jumping off the cliff especially the boys who were showing off their daringness. The water in the quarry was murky and it was amazing that it never occurred to us that anything dangerous could have been in the waters, for all you know they could be spikes of wood or metal that could have impaled us as we jump in.

By evening we dried off and had a fire started and we did the old cooking by the camp fire thing, I remembered burnt marshmallows… and the guys were wrapped up in their own thing and ignored us girls and I wanted to head back to civilisation. Somewhere at that time, I had a fight with D, I can’t remember what it was about anymore but I got fed up with her, stood up and started walking back into the forest to get out of the place. I remembered I just wanted to get far away from her. J and G came after me and I think J managed to get D to join us and just leave the place.

We didn’t even have a torchlight to help out make our way out but somehow we did. It was a still night, nothing was moving, no wind, no crickets noise, it was quiet. All of the sudden I smelt something sweet and floral, like the smell came up from behind. We were walking in a single line and I was up front, J was behind me.

“J, are you thinking what I’m thinking?” I asked her.

“Yes… G?” and G replied, “Yup.”

D asked us, “What are you guys talking about?”

None of us answered and we speed up. We dare not run we just walked faster. D complained we were moving too fast, and we just told her to keep up. The smell got stronger. Dogs were barking in the distance and I was praying we get out of here safe and trying not to imagine anything. I warned the girls to keep looking ahead. D was still bitching when all of the sudden she stopped talking.

Can she finally smell it? We didn’t ask and just continued.

Finally we managed to get out of the forest and into a clearing, the barking got louder and the four of us walked side by side. We could see street lights in the distance and made me feel slightly better but it was still far from safety. Ahead of us we saw the dogs, probably about a dozen in numbers barking straight at us. Oh crap, and we need to get pass them to get out. I told the girls to just continue walking ahead, I figured we can always fight off the dogs if need be than trying to fight whatever was behind us that’s giving off that smell that just seemed to threaten to engulf us.

As we got closer to the dogs, I wondered why they didn’t lunge at us, they just stood there barking their heads off. The four of us walked right by them and I realised the dogs weren’t interested in us, they were barking whatever was behind us! As soon as we passed the wall of dogs, the smell stopped. The dogs continued their barking and we got onto the main parking area as quickly as we could and onto the road and hailed a taxi and get out of there.

Since we were staying at J’s place, we took the precaution of making sure we washed our feet and walked around the house three times before heading indoors. After we got ready for bed we started talking of what happened earlier. D said she at first had no idea what we were talking about when we were in the forest and she wondered why we were so quiet and was moving quite fast, when suddenly she smelt something sweet from behind her was when she finally understood what was happening. J, G and I were impressed, because we always wondered whether Caucasians get affected to, now we know, cos D is a blonde haired blue eyed orang puteh (white guy) and the four of us almost had our first encounter with what I assume now was a pontianak.

By Rozie