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The Ghoulish Trail
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Fort canning Park
Kampong Java Park
Bukit Brown
Cemetery (Kopi Hill)
Mt Pleasant Cemetery
Devil's Bend
Old Changi Hospital
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Adopt-A-Park
In November 1999, Kampong Java Park was adopted by KK Women and Children
Hospital under the Adopt-A-Park scheme by National Parks Board.
As part of this park adoption, hospital staff have designed and
planted a landscaped garden. This garden is part of a larger
landscape plan to develop the park into a therapeutic garden.
The intention is to enable patients to use the park as a "window of
healing". During day time, Hospital patients roam around the
park for the therapeutic effects of "greening for health".
However, at night, Kampong Java Park becomes a popular lovers going
place for its quiet environment around the lily pond.
Many stories indicate that Kampong Java Park was badly haunted.
Patients died in the hospital would have their souls wandering around
because of the sentimental bonds built within there in their final
days. Lovers who went to the park at night for their private
moments often heard ghost voice whispering at their ears. Some
even encountered slapping on face by invisible entities.
Furthermore, school kids were known to have drown in the pond when
they were volunteering the maintenance of the park.
Rumor says that the park was used to be a Jewish Cemetery before it
was adopted by KK Hospital. The remains were excavated and the
tombstones were moved to Fort Canning Park. However, we have
verified that may not be true. (See Facts vs Myths)
Another rumor says the site was a mass burial ground during the WWII.
Upon the park development project by KK Hospital, most of the remains
were dug up, and thereafter left the ground with a big deep hole.
Water was then filled in to make it a lily pond. But today, as
what we can see, the pond still resembles a round big hole of the size
enough to hold hundreds of skeletons. The underwater soil at the
bottom of the pond is calcium rich that lilies are growing so vividly!
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A big round hole filled
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Mysterious Wind Chimes Hanging over the pond - Some kind of talismans
for Feng Shui?
Right at the centre of the pond, about 10+ meters above the water, one
may be able to spot one or two wind chimes hanging below the top
branches of the trees. Look harder. So far there are at
least six wind chimes of the same type being found by us. All
the wind chimes share some common characteristics: made of six long
steel rods attached to a wooden disc holder, same size and color, hang
on the part of the tree extruding out to the water, and they are
properly tied to the tree.
This has triggered a few questions on the wind chimes. Who has
hang them up there? Six wind chimes of six steel rod.
Technically, how that person hang them up there? From the
pictures, you can see they were quite high above the water. So
using a tall ladder is almost impossible unless it were done on a
solid ground. Using a long bamboo stick seems to be difficult
too because the wind chimes were not just hung there, but properly
tied to the tree. By climbing up to the tree and tie them there
by hands is not possible too, as the small tree branches seem too
fragile to support a human body weight.
Can you see the wind
chimes? How many can you find?
Nevertheless, during the Ghoslish
Trail, some guest friends offered two possible explanations. The
wind chimes were hung on the tree by using a ladder when the pond was
once a solid ground! This speculation supports that the pond
used to be a flat land before, and the wind chimes must have their
purpose for being up there right above that area of the land.
And the wind chimes have been there for many years. The other
possibility is that one put the wind chimes up by riding a mechanical
crane machine, like those used by government for trimming tree
branches or for fixing electrical cables on poles. However, this
requires relatively expensive resources, and unless for a very
necessary mission, ordinary people won't afford that.
Other than the questions of How the wind chimes were put up there, a
more mysterious question is WHY they were there... |
A Park or a haunting ground?
During some seasons, the pond would have been very well covered by the
lily leaves as shown in the first photo below. The bushes
surrounding the pond are tall. Just imagine, kids who play
hide-and-see or try catch a frog would love to trespass into the pond
through the bushes. Of course the lily leaves won't be able to
support their weight! Accidents did occur and they made the pond
look more eerie at night (the 2nd photo). Moreover, if it were a
cemetery or mass burial ground, although most remains were cleared,
some were suspected to have still left there deeper down the soil.
By having many haunting incidents and the rumored history of being a
burial ground, the spirits were believed unsettled and active there...
The water lily pond is
heavy in "Yin" energy. Nobody ever knows what is under the
water...
Somebody asked during the Ghoulish
Trail "So, is Kampong Java Park haunted?". Well, a hospital is
located just right behind (see the 3rd photo) that have patients
certified dead everyday, what do you think? |
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 Answering
Mysteries |
1. Why wind chimes are hanged over
the lily pond? Who did it, and how did he do it?
2. What is the original site of Kampong Java Park?
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