Punggol Slaughtering Station
 

These poor folks in the photos would have been slaughtered, eaten and digested in your stomach long ago


Historical photos of Punggol Farm in the 1980s while it was still in operation

Do you believe animals have souls?
Hundreds of pigs and chickens were slaughtered at Punggol Farm everyday, and delivered to food markets.
Throughout the past 30+ years, how many souls died under the slaughter accumulated in Punggol Farm?
Avenging phantom pig squeaking can still be heard today in the abandoned Punggol Farm at night.
The addition of the legendary white tiger spirit makes this place far more scary than cemeteries.
This place gets more chilling than ever. What's more, SPI has found a skull bone from there!
Read on...

The Era of Singapore Agriculture
(Source: Insider information)

In the era of 70s and 80s, Singapore has an enterprise occupying near 36 hectares of land in Punggol for farming business. This Singapore-owned enterprise is called Industrial Farm Pte Ltd (I.F.). Its office was initially in National Development Building, Maxwell Road, and was later moved to 1-4 floor, URA Building, Maxwell Road, in the 80's. Before it was last operated in business, they moved to Punggol together with the farm operation in 752-B Punggol Road, 17Km, Singapore, Tel: 2822251.

I.F. had multiple businesses include breeding pigs, chicken, fish and growing mushroom. The mushroom project was partnered with a Taiwanese firm. For example, in 1978, 1350kgs of straw mushroom were harvested; 48 tonnes of cotton waste was used for a month for the 12 mushroom houses. The operating cost per kg of mushroom is about $4. They grew both oyster mushrooms and straw mushrooms.

I.F. at its strongest had its fixed value asset over $1 million dollars, and its monthly revenue averaged to be above $90,000. The investment on expanding the farm area and upgrading the farming facilities was strong too, phased over several years projects. As at 31 May 1985, the pig population increased to 27,757 heads. I.F. mainly sold their porkers to local markets, Cold Storage and at one stage, they even considered supplying poultry to KFC.

As for today, the company that had its golden era in the past 30 years, suddenly seemed to vanish. Not many people know about what happened. The operation was suddenly stopped, and the whole land in Punggol that once operated at efficiency became abandoned. The last known news from them is their large business partner Sing Thai Farms Co Ltd was in a very discouraging situation. STF's cashflow became critical in the near future without further injection of capital. Nonetheless, there are other speculations on why I.F.'s business went downhill:

• Operation managers resigned, operating costs became too high, and tough competition from other countries

• Shortage of local workers. They needed foreign workers. But they got to compensate them with CPF that was not anticipated

• The raw feed ingredient increased prices since 1981

• Aujesky's disease broke out and became prevalent in the region

• Mortality of piglets was reported high at 6.1%, and the birth rate had increased at a slow pace due to small number of boars and inexperience of staff, etc..

1 - 3. Exterior views of the Punggol farm in the old days; 4. The engineering room


1. The pig stead in the old days; 2 & 3. The chicken barns - you can see eggs were there

White Tiger Spirit
(Source: Insider information)

Whatever was the reason responsible for the halt of operation of the Punggol farm came behind a paranormal one. An anonymous informant who worked at the Punggol farm before told us a chilling encounter. Let us nicked him as Mr. Kan. The time was 5am in the morning, the sky was still dark. Rain poured down non-stopped last night for it was monsoon season in late 1990. His job was routinely just like another day, to walk to the main gate from his bunk carrying a key, to wait for the delivery lorry to arrive. At around 5:10am or so every morning, the lorry would come in time to deliver exactly one and half ton of mixed feeding ingredient. Kan was supposed to open the gate and let enter the delivery truck just before it arrived.

As usual in that morning, Kan was carrying a small torch and the key, started walking up the slope towards the main gate. The rhythm of raindrops beating the trees and zinc roofs of the farm houses filled the air. Besides the rain it was dead silent although there were hundreds of thousands pigs nearby. They were still sleeping indeed. Slowly Kan was squelching through a muddy slope on his rain boots, while his vision was limited to only a few feet in front him by the torch light.

Suddenly, a pig from far behind Kan screamed. Then, two, three, ten, perhaps dozens of them echoed the screaming afterward. The noise came so swift and in order like dominos. It was as if a moving object knocking down the livestock while it was traveling in straight line. The pigs just screamed in pain reactively as 'that object' ran pass. Sounds of collapsing walls, wrecking timbers and bending metals were mixed in between, with the background noise of rain dropping. Eventually that 'object' sounded like hitting the gate with a loud bang that was about 50 meters in front of Kan. Followed by screeching of a car brake on Punggol Road that was not too far away.

All had happened in merely ten seconds or so. Kan was stunned. What could have caused that? He ran up to the gate and inspected around Punggol Road. That was the delivery lorry, as already wild-guessed by Kan, made a hard-braking and tossed over along the road side. A clear tyre track that was marked on the road in a "S" shape could be clearly seen despite the heavy rain and dim street lamps. He went up and pulled the driver out. "What happened?" both Kan and the driver shouted almost simultaneously.

The driver later said "I saw something suddenly dashed out to the road. It looked like a white tiger but I wasn't sure. It jumped through the metal fence like throwing a stone at a spider web. Then it stopped, starring at me with a pair of red eyes in the middle of the road. The eyes were glowing in red and the fur was all white. I was completely shocked. All I could do was stepping heavy on the brake, and pulling over.. I think I run over the tiger. Where is it?"

Both men checked around the accident site and found no trace of a tiger body.  It was only years later, Punggol Road was widened by seven feet. Given the narrow road and the size of the truck, it would have hit the tiger in such a short range one way or the other. Why was there not even a drop of blood left on the road? Perhaps the rain washed it away?

After some counting, it was later estimated that more than one hundred pigs were killed and many wrecking damages on the barns. The strange thing was, the killed pigs and the damaged facilities formed a straight line, all the way to the main gate and ended at where the driver hit the phantom tiger in the middle of the road!

The terrifying news of this sinister incidence spread across the whole company like wildfire, from workers, supervisors, managers to the directors' board. Many had frightened and resigned, including Kan.

On Kan's last day at work, Kan can see that everybody was in a hysteric state. They were not concentrating at work at all but kept looking around. They were prepared to run for life should they see anything weird appear. During lunch break however, Kan and his colleagues were discussing over this matter. A lot of speculations were flying around. Some said Punggol had a legendary divine tiger; some said it was a secret weapon by the Japanese for they would invade again; some said there was a breed of mythical breasts lived near the swamp, etc, etc.. But the management insisted on believing that was a sabotage by their business competitor or other enemies. They even blamed it on the local owner of a large plot of land next to Punggol Farm that the company was trying to acquire by lawsuit.

Kan was not bothered in whichever the company wanted to believe. He was however most impressed by a version told by an old cleaner who had been staying there even before I.F. set their foot in. The old cleaner told Kan that, before this block of land was leased to I.F. there was a temple honoring a tiger spirit. The spirit was a divine warrior beast guarding the Northern-South of Singapore. The tiger in ancient times existed in pair with the legendary lion. Each one of them guarding different side of the island. Most people however know of the tale that Sang Nila Utama established his kingdom in this island that he named 'Singapura'. The name has 'Singha' for lion while 'pura' means town. That was because the king saw one of the mythical beasts - the lion in Tanjong Pagar area. But the other beast - the tiger seemed to be forgotten.

Only a small group of villagers recognized the existence of the tiger spirit and built a temple for it. Peace lasted for many years until one day I.F. ordered a contractor to bulldoze the temple. The demolition of the temple was strongly objected by the villagers. "And you were one of them?" asked Kan. The old cleaner nodded. The temple had to be knocked down because of the rigid arrangement of the farm houses in rows. In order to appease the villagers a high priest was employed by I.F. to hold a high-profile ritual for relocating the tiger spirit to somewhere else. It wasn't a successful ritual but the priest was paid to tell a lie that the spirit had returned to heaven. The villagers gave in. But the fact is, the priest knew it very well, that the tiger spirit was only put into sleep under his spell. And he predicted that the spirit will wake up after 30 years.

The priest was paid a substantial amount of money by I.F. and he migrated oversea later on. However, he died of a horrible death soon after in China mysteriously. Nobody knows why and how he died. "And it saddened me" the old cleaner's eyes were welled in tears. "The high priest was somebody close to you?" Kan sensed something fishy. "He was my brother. I stayed here still because I wanted to testify my brother's prediction. I never tell anybody here about this secret. Goodness me, it came true, verified, finally. My brother was correct in his prediction. But will his soul rest in peace? Anyway I have resigned, and I am leaving here tomorrow..."

Thereafter, Kan and the old cleaner along with many other workers left the company and they had not seen each other. Did the white tiger spirit come again? Did the white tiger spirit relate to the sudden closure of the business? Where is the white tiger spirit now? Nobody knows.

The temple that honoured the white tiger spirit in Punggol

Pictorial Tour
(Warning: Some photos display dead bodies that may be disturbing to some viewers)

1. Punggol 21 is such a new modern satellite town. Who would guess that not far away from it existed a spooky slaughtering station?
2 & 3. This is the main access slope that connects the office and the farm buildings
4. From Punggol road, one can hardly notice the farm district as it has been covered by wild bush


1. After you entered the farm, look on your left, you can roughly make out there is a hangar structure hiding in the trees
2 & 3. The hangar structure that is the ruin of a large green house was used to grow over a thousand kilograms of mushrooms in a year
4. Next to the hangar structure, you will get a glimpse of the office compound


The office compound is already overgrown with many vines and plants; walking in needs bashing through bundles of vines


1. Inside the office compound it was full of debris on the floor. This photo shows fire burnt at a corner. What was burnt there?
In a subsequent photo, we captured a mysterious red color line shooting up from the ash. It doesn't look like camera flaw. What is this?
 2 & 3. This is the center view and the right hand side view of the office; it is totally full of debris and the walls are torn
4. Looking up, the ceiling is almost wrecked, air-cond ducts and asbestos insulators are dangling down, ready to fall


SPI has discovered a skeleton bones and a skull that were believed to belong to a dead dog. The whole body has been decomposed
Strangely, it was left with a skull and a few ribs. Most of the bones and other parts have disappeared.
We wonder if most of the other parts naturally dissolved? Or eaten by other dogs? Or by 'something' else?


1 - 3. Checking around the office, all you see on the floor are debris. No surprise if you can find any set of skeleton of other creature
4. Dare you use that toilet? Nobody even bald enough to lift up the toilet bowel lid, because afraid of seeing something disgusting


1 & 2. Opposite the office compound is the pig stead. The blue and white house that you see in the pictures is the slaughtering station;
Hundreds of pigs were slaughtered almost non-stop here over 30 years. Notice the design of narrow doors and corridors;
This is to control number of pigs going in and dying out. Today, phantom pig screaming was reported to be heard at night.
3. These cubicles are where the pigs got slaughtered individually. Their killing had not to be seen by the other pigs.
Otherwise, the pigs would refuse to go in as though they can understand that this was a death trap
4. Most of the slaughtering operation eg, cutting up the pork, disembodied, scooping out organs are done with electrical tools: chainsaws
This electric switch box ensured multiple slaughtering operations carry on efficiently. Sorry, no anesthesia for them


1 - 3. This is where pigs would spend their whole life: from the moment they were born, grew, mated, matured to slaughtered
Pigs' living hell.. what they received was a shelter, food, water and vaccine, and what they returned is their meat
When the business was at peak, over a hundred pigs were cramped under one house, waiting to be slaughtered one day
4. This picture was taken without using flash under natural light. You can see it was so dim even under a bright day light.
Such is a hellish living condition for the whole life of a pig, miserably bounded by the metal rails.
Here are other view 1, view 2. It is known that dark and damp places where sunlight never reached are attractive dwellings to ghosts.
After the pigs died (in at least thousands) will their souls be trapped here? You will find the answer when you visit here alone at night


At the end of the path down slope there are clusters of large chicken farms and fish farms. The business had stopped
So what you can see today are the ruins. The red hanging basket that was used for carrying chicken eggs still there. Another view.


1. Ruins of lots that used to hold aquariums for breeding fishes;
2 & 3. Sinks were built at the sties and the manure allowed to rot until it became a turgid liquid which was then used to fertilize vegetables
4. The farms are badly damaged, junks are piling up everywhere


If you explore around you will notice that some construction work had been carried out, but half-way stopped
More photos are here (1), (2), (3) and (4)


1 & 2. Somebody seemed to stay here and left behind the cloths. But that had been many years since the cloth were there.
3. In the middle of the farm house, there is a divine altar. It is quite empty except it has a portrait of a Chinese goddess sitting on a tiger
That immediately reminded us the legend of white tiger spirit here. Some orange and candles offerings remained there.
That shows somebody would still come here from time to time to give offering to the tiger goddess. Who is that somebody then?
We guess he must have known about the legend on this place.
4. Behind the altar there is a giant Banyan tree that overgrown through the roof. The upper part of the tree trunk has a horrible surface


We call this "Back-Stabbing-Buddha". It was found only a few feet away from the altar.
Look into the inside texture of the Buddha in the last photo - this will certainly turn your stomach


Here are some disgusting pictures of a dead bird. The body has rotten & discomposed into almost fluid, seeping out through its feathers


Out of nowhere, there suddenly emerged a gang of stray dogs. We had a mixed feelings when we saw them. We stayed high alerted;
Afraid that the dogs would attack us. On the other hand, we felt safe because the dogs wouldn't be here if the tiger spirit was around
The legend of white tiger spirit, we kept wondering how true is it... Looking around..
Are most of the damages that we see here caused by natural deterioration, or by the violent tiger spirit?


At about 100 meters away from the Punggol Farm, we found a bus-stop style temple. This temple looks quite simple and new;
The temple honors a number of goddesses including a tiger (!!)
It has an old dengkee chair (that was used in ritual) and a Buddha statue next to the chair
Look closer! This Buddha statue is the same kind as the Back-Stabbing-Buddha found in the Punggol Farm.
This one, has the head smashed. And looking inside, the texture looks exactly alike.
Would that be the same person who pays respect to the tiger spirit in the Punggol Farm? Is he a dengkee?? Why he wanted to do that?


We tried to contact Kan who used to be a worker at this Punggol Farm for his colleague - the old cleaner
We felt that the old cleaner is not an ordinary person, who knows a lot about this tiger spirit legend.
We even speculate he knows about the downfall of the Punggol Farm company
SPI is ready to discover the underlying secret adhered to this Punggol Farm area
And disclose out the truth!