Last year, Jeffrey (not his real name)
checked into a room in a hotel in Singapore. He began to have this
uneasy feeling that there was someone else in the room and on the
third day, his suspicions were confirmed. But the brave sales
executive decided to stay on after striking a “deal” with the ghost.
“I booked into a room with twin beds for five days. I slept on one
bed, took out my clothes from my bags and put them in piles on the
unoccupied bed,” said Jeffrey.
“This is a habit of mine when I travel because I do not want to risk
leaving my clothes behind. Once I had to ring up the hotel to keep
my clothes for me; I had left them in the wardrobe and had to make
another trip to the hotel to collect them.
“The next morning, the piles of clothes were neatly stacked on the
floor. I wondered whether I was drunk the night before as I had
remembered placing the clothes on the bed.
“So on the second night, I stayed sober. I placed my clothes in
piles on the empty bed again. The next morning, the same thing
happened. My clothes had again been moved to the floor.
“I decided to ask the hotel staff and found out that a man had
committed suicide in the room I was staying.
“On the third night, I negotiated with the ghost. I told the ghost
not to disturb me and that I would put my clothes in the wardrobe.
Nothing happened.
“I stayed the five days but it was an eerie experience as I also
heard the tap running and the sound of splashing water as if someone
was washing his face. I also sensed someone walking about in the
room and getting into the next bed!
Jeffrey also recounted two unnerving incidents which took place at
the Karak highway which many motorists claimed was haunted.
“In the first incident, I remembered a bend at a particular spot
along the highway but what I saw in front of me was a straight road.
I refused to be hoodwinked and allowed my instincts to take over. I
negotiated the bend and was safely on my way,” recalled Jeffrey with
a shudder.
“On another occasion, I saw a white apparition in the middle of the
road while driving along the Karak highway at night. As I passed the
spot, my car suddenly became heavier as if I was carrying 10 fat
passengers. I kept praying and urged the spirits to get out of my
car. Somehow my prayers worked. All of a sudden, I felt a swish of
air leaving the car and the weight was lifted. I sped home, weak in
the knees.”