NSHW Spooky Tales

[Scion]

interesting read...

 

 

Don’t look behind you

 

Driving alone at night, even with music blaring out of your car’s in-car entertainment (ICE) system, always seems like a spooky thing to do.

Even if you happen to have a BMW or Mercedes with each marque’s nightvision optional extra, driving down a dimly-lit winding country road – and we have many crisscrossing the country (even within Kuala Lumpur itself) – at night can be a very “interesting” experience.

Were the headlights in the rear-view mirror really from a car and not a phantom VW Beetle trying to race you off the road?

 

 

Did you just spot a face in the mirror sitting in the backseat or was it all just a trick of the light and your own tired state of mind?

Apologies to those of you expecting bon mots on overloud car stereos and GPS units that lead unsuspecting taxi drivers down the wrong turning and into an oncoming train but, as Halloween is just around the corner (Oct 31, to be precise), a tribute to some of West Malaysia’s most spooktacular destinations seemed appropriate.

Of course, if you happen to be driving through or to some of the following places, what you thought you just imagined may not have been a trick of your imagination ... and not even the best car sound system in the world can drown out your shriek of terror upon putting one wheel into – cue appropriate music here – The Twilight Zone.

At destinations like Bukit Tunku or Kenny Hills where, aside from palatial mansions and more grey-market import cars than you can shake a stick at, you can sometimes find yourself being followed by a speeding phantom biker or a shadowy silhouette that keeps pace with the speed of your vehicle.

Then there is the strange tale of the taxi driver who picked up a fare to go to the Highland Towers only to be paid by his phantom passenger with a money bag filled with blood.

It is said that on the anniversary of the disaster every year, you can still hear the screams of the many dead who lost their lives tragically.

Given its age – and the fact that many of its older schools were used as torture and detention centres during World War II – it is no wonder that KL has its fair share of spooky corners, haunted carparks and phantom vehicles.

Yet, it does not have a monopoly on all things that go bump in the night.

There’s the Karak Highway and its various tales of phantom cars that try to race you into a deep gorge or the story of dead husbands and their severed heads being used to whack the top of cars by a demented banshee-esque apparition.

Or how about one of the destinations along the highway, the resort of Genting Highlands where – according to urban legend – there is a floor at one of the hotels where no one can ever get a room ...because the entire floor is reportedly haunted.

Further down the Karak, punch in “Tras” and “Police Station” on your TomTom/Garmin/Papago et al and chances are, you will end up at one of the most remote stations in the country. It’s apparently so haunted that policemen have reportedly resigned their commissions rather than be transferred there.

If you happen to be heading north on the North-South Expressway, a detour off the main stretch will lead you to the infamous Kellies Castle where unknown screams have been heard while doors have been known to open and close by themselves.

Then there is the eerie road near Tambun town where you literally are driving amongst the dead courtesy of the graveyards that seem to surround this lonely stretch of tarmac.

The ghost of an old lady is said to stand by the side of the road here waiting for what, we don’t know and we don’t want to find out.

Tired from your paranormal road trip and need a pit stop? Why not try the Tambun Inn? If you don’t mind lights switching on and off by themselves, hearing whispers where no one can be seen and occasionally see the odd shadow figure, then this is the place for you.

Ipoh itself has many spooktastic locales but, if you head further north to Kuala Kangsar – type Malay College Kuala Kangsar – and, unless your satnav is acting up, you will end up at a boarding school where the shadow of a hanging man can be seen amongst the shadows of a tree, where the sound of a platoon can be heard marching and where the sounds of chains being dragged can sometimes be heard amongst the corridors of this hallowed hall of education.

And then, and only if you’ve survived your ghost adventure through half of Peninsula Malaysia, punch in Union High School, George Town, Penang, and be prepared for what the locals apparently call “The Deadly Junction”.

It is said that, no matter how good a driver you are, if you happen to be driving on the road near this junction, you will crash your car. Or see the ghostly figure of a lady carrying what looks like a baby.

There is a TV series on cable called Ghost Adventures that regales the viewer of the adventures (some say misadventures) of three brave/foolish Americans who travel the world looking for ghosts. Now, with this rough introduction, some Internet research and a GPS unit, you too can do what they do.

Of course, if you’re crazy enough to want to do this, don’t forget the adage: “Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.

[Maxus-MIFA9]

I only know at night, don't stop to assist anyone by the side of highway .... , just remember the road markings (like how many kilometers)

 

If want to help, stop at the next rest area and call their PLUS hotline or their 999 (Polis)...

 

Also if they are S'porean cars can assist but have to check if it is a family with adults & children or all males cos if all males, that car could be a stolen car and if stop to assist, you be their next victim....

[Mockngbrd]

Robbers more scary than hantus

[Shull]

Robbers more scary than hantus

 

Also their hungry and thirsty white hantus.. that keep repeating 124km/h for no apparent reasons.

[Maxus-MIFA9]

 

Also their hungry and thirsty white hantus.. that keep repeating 124km/h for no apparent reasons.

 

Last weekeend (Sat) whilst driving on the highway before turns to Legoland to SG (Tuas Link). At around 6.10pm, my wife told me why a man (wearing black) hiding behind the central barricade with a 'gun'.

 

I was hur.... and asked her which direction the man facing and she said oppersite direction. I was and said heng ah, that man was shooting at oncoming vehicles from Tuas to NSHW for speeding.

 

The one hidding & shoot are in 'black' ....

[Karu]

 

Last weekeend (Sat) whilst driving on the highway before turns to Legoland to SG (Tuas Link). At around 6.10pm, my wife told me why a man (wearing black) hiding behind the central barricade with a 'gun'.

 

I was hur.... and asked her which direction the man facing and she said oppersite direction. I was and said heng ah, that man was shooting at oncoming vehicles from Tuas to NSHW for speeding.

 

The one hidding & shoot are in 'black' ....

 

That's a hotspot for the Hantus...

[Shull]

 

Last weekeend (Sat) whilst driving on the highway before turns to Legoland to SG (Tuas Link). At around 6.10pm, my wife told me why a man (wearing black) hiding behind the central barricade with a 'gun'.

 

I was hur.... and asked her which direction the man facing and she said oppersite direction. I was and said heng ah, that man was shooting at oncoming vehicles from Tuas to NSHW for speeding.

 

The one hidding & shoot are in 'black' ....

 

I just kena a couple of weeks back.. found the photos posted online on myeg.com.my.. but never state the speed..

[Fcw75]

Sometimes Humans are more scary than Hantus.

[Scion]

i never heard of the spooky tales mentioned in the article, other than the Genting Highlands one

 

the only hantu story of NSHW i've heard was the famous pontianak

 

something like....

 

many many years ago, a couple was travelling on the highway at night... their car somehow broke down in the middle of nowhere, flanked by thick plantations

 

having no choice, the husband left the wife in the car and went searching for help (or a public phone)

 

a polis car drove past and suddenly stopped, two mata came out and shouted to the wife, asking her to leave the car immediately

 

feeling frightened, the wife ran towards the polis car. when she turned back to look, there was a pontianak on top of her car, with her dead husband covered in blood

Edited December 16, 2013 by Scion