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The Little Girl and Her Teddy Bear
Years ago, my friends and I would go ghost hunting several times a year. We would check out abandoned hospitals, and other haunted buildings in and around where we lived in SS14 and SS15. Sometimes we went farther afield into USJ6.
But these empty properties were just that: No furniture, no ghosts, just a lot of dust and emptiness, including a lack of ghosts or spirits. One of these houses was empty and for sale because a little girl had died in some freak accident.
We visited several times and found nothing. The second night we went back with a Teddy Bear and left it for the little girl’s spirit to find and play with.
“We came back on the third night and found that the bear was gone, which was a bit unnerving.”
We just laughed it off, and hung around for a while, messing with our phone cameras, and taking pictures and video clips.
Suddenly, there was a gust of cold wind, the sound of shutters banging and what sounded like the howling cry of a baby.
Villa Nabila had nothing on this place! We grabbed our gear and ran like the hounds of hell were on our heels.
Later, we reviewed the footage in the safety of a warm, well-lit Mamak, and found that a lot of our photos and videos had these thick clouds of smoke. Then we realized that the cloud of smoke was not in the same place, but seemed to move and follow us around as we went from room to room.
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Then we noticed, that in some of the photos, the smoke had taken the shape of a little girl… and we could see she was holding a teddy bear. I haven’t been ghost-hunting since.
No More Hospital Night Shifts.
Nightshift in any job is always when the strange and unnerving happens. This is especially true when you work the graveyard shift in a private hospital even if it only opened in 2020!
It was 02:55 am when Zaki responded to a patient page.
The patient asked him to remove the “two noisy faceless children” that were playing in his bathroom.
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A little confused, he assured the patient that he would remove them, and a few minutes later, he returned to his desk.
Ten minutes later, a patient in an adjacent room paged the desk again. Upon entering, Zaki was asked to “remove the annoying faceless children! Get them out!” the patient was a little hysterical and had to be given a mild sedative to calm them.
When he returned to the desk, Zaki mentioned to his colleague at the desk the haunted Déjà vu.
His colleague looked up sharply when he said “faceless children,” and immediately called up additional nurses and informed them that “the children are here.”
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Puzzled, and more than a little scared, Zaki asked what was going on, and the answer left him feeling chilled to the bone:
“When the children are here, that means whoever saw them, is probably going to die before sunrise.”
His senior elaborated, “We won’t be able to save them.”
Two patients passed away that night – which turned out to be the two that had complained about the faceless children. Zaki was floored, when it occurred to him, “The patients themselves were not scared at all. Faceless children. They are seeing faceless children and they were not scared?!”
Zaki still works the graveyard shift at the hospital, but he now visits patient rooms with a colleague if they buzz him after midnight.
The Forest is Haunted
When Cheryl was a child, her family lived in Bukit Damansara. Their house had a stretch of forest that bordered the property.
“We had four dogs and they were immediately freaked out by the forest, and refused to go anywhere near it.
We could hear the sounds of people walking in the forest. Every night on the full moon we would hear chanting, shouting and screaming. We would even be able to see shadowy figures moving between the trees.”
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During those nights, the dogs would growl and snarl all night long.
“When we began to hear knocking on the back doors and windows, my father decided enough was enough. He hired contractors, had a fence put in, with barbed wire, spotlights installed and surveillance cameras, but it did not deter… whatever was out there.”
In desperation, her mother called the priest from the church. Her father, thinking along the same lines called the Imam from the mosque.
“Both religious men agreed that there was something unholy, and unnatural in the woods. We moved out a few weeks later.”
The Shadow Over the Crib
For Khairul, he knows that his family home is haunted.
While he was babysitting his still-infant younger sister, Khairul fell asleep with the baby monitor in front of him.
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He woke up to the sound of his sister laughing and giggling.
The video showed a dark figure standing over his sister’s crib, making the mobile toy spin.
“I’ve never felt more terrified in my entire life, but I grabbed a knife from the kitchen and charged into my sister’s room.”
There was no sign of the shadowy figure, but he grabbed his sister and ran back into the dining room where had been studying.
He stayed there and didn’t move until his parents came home later that afternoon.
“My parents didn’t believe me when I told them that I had seen the shadow, spirit, whatever you want to call it, hovering over her crib. But they did believe me when she was five and started talking about her “comel kawan hitam.”
They had the house blessed by an Imam and little Puteri complained a lot about her “kawan” who didn’t visit anymore. Hopefully, they got rid of it.
“Puteri doesn’t remember it at all, and it’s been almost twenty years now.”
Ghosts Amongst Us
Perhaps the ghosts around us are always there. Perhaps not. Perhaps it’s something we said or did that attracted their attention. Who knows? But maybe, we’re just starting to notice that the world is just a little bit more supernatural than we would like it to be.
Know anyone with an exciting story to share? Drop us an email at hello@inreallife.my, and we may feature the tale!
For more stories like this, read:
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