Ghoulish trail to walk
along
- Turning off from Lim Chu Kang
Road, our bus will take you straight into the heart of the
cemetery. You will expect to see wide matrices of Chinese
tombs on both sides of the road covering in thick fog and
darkness. At the intersection of the Chinese cemetery path
and the Muslim cemetery path, everybody alights from the bus.
What surround you by now besides the silent graves at the
intersection are the Jile Memorial Park, the Garden of
Remembrance Park and the Ahmodiyya Jama'at Burial Ground.
If you still have not sighted a ghost yet, then talk a 15
minutes stroll towards the Masjid Pusana Aman and Cemetery
Chapel near the exit. This walk divides the CCK Cemetery
equally by two racial communities where the Chinese cemetery is
on your left and the Muslim is on your right. This stretch
of road is exactly where taxi drivers would avoid at night!
Ghoulish spots to see about
- A multicultural graveyard
comprising of Muslim, Chinese, Bahai, Parsi, Jewish, Christian
and Hindu
- Cemetery Chapel
- The Garden of Remembrance Park
- Jile Memorial Park
- Ahmadiyya Jama'at Burial Ground
- Bats and owls flying over your
head.
Entering into the
sanctuary of the dead.
Matrices of almost
identical tombstones.
Malay burial ground.
Ghoulish information to learn from
Feng Sui
The cemetery district is sited geomantically well on a piece of
interesting, undulating land with smooth physical features that
are in accordance with nature and beneficial influences. The
surrounding landscape is indicative of balanced patterns and
harmonious topography. Ranges of hilly ground spread on the left
(resembling the formation of the azure dragon and the yang
energy). -- Source: Chinese Geomancy by
Evelyn Lip, Times.
Mysterious Death
On Wednesday night, June 12, 2002, a mysterious fire suddenly
broke off from a car in Lim Chu Kang Cemetery. A lady of 40 was
burnt alive, died in hospital after 30 hours of struggle. Almost
80% of her skin was burnt into charcoal. Nobody knows why
she was there alone, and no one understands why her car suddenly
caught fire. -- Source: Shin Min Daily
After this incidence, there were
sightings reported by night drivers that a woman in flame was
walking limply near that track. With a closer look, the vision
vaporized in air.
What is the truth behind? or would that be a curse? It
is too eerie to be true.
Details here.
We will let you find it out, but one safety rule for everybody:
never bring along anything flammable nor go there by vehicle.
The curse may be haunting us...
An Untold Legend
The site of the cemetery estate was initially belonged to the
former NTU, Old Nanyang University as a park for future
development. At the center of the park where there was a small
hill (now being the Garden of Remembrance Park) used to have 3
flag poles standing; British, Malaya and India. During the
Japanese occupation, the Jap army removed them. And let their
enemies beheaded there. The strong vengeances of the victims
filled the air. After the war, whoever tried to re-erect any
flag there would die with no reason on the next morning. Some
believe that the "polarity" of the cosmic energy there has been
disturbed and switched opposite during the war. Because of that,
this piece of land was used naturally as cemetery as it is today.
-- Source: a taxi driver who took me back to NTU staff quarter in
1999.
Rumours
Taxi drivers received fare that later turned into dried leaves or
hell money -- Source: aiyah, heard of it many times lah!
Sightings of a ghost headless Japanese soldier and Chinese
commando in blue uniform at Lim Cha Kang. The Chinese commando
had many wounds on his body, and carried a severed head which was
dripping blood on his left hand, and a blood-stained parang on his
right hand. Later he was shot dead by the other Japanese troops.
-- Source: "There Are Ghosts Everywhere in Singapore", Vol. 2, The
Publishing Consultant.
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