Singapore Paranormal Investigators in Bedok


SPI passing through FengShan community in Bedok, reached the client's residence.
 

(1) Unusually dark corridor.
(2+3+4) scrap-yard like house full of litters and junks everywhere.

Shocked by what we see!

Winding through a long corridor and some staircase, we finally reached the haunted HDB flat.  The unit was located at the end of the corridor for it is a jumbo flat or corner flat that has more space than the other layouts.  The corridor looked normal but it was exceptionally dim although the fluorescent lights in HDB dwellings are quite standard.  We noticed this due to little street lights were at this facing, and there was no nearby residence flats around except an office building that had its lights switched off after work at night.

We knocked on the door as the electric door dell was not working.  Alice dressing a plain white one-piece dress opened the door and welcomed us in.  As soon as we probed our heads into the house, all our senses were stimulated as though we have entered into another world.  There was no exaggeration to say that.  We had to pause when we were in the house for a few seconds before we walked further in.  That was for adjusting our senses into a .. different environment.  The experience is like when you go swimming, at the first moment you dive into the water you see, hear and sense being under the water that is very different from the ground.  To be specific, we smelled stiff air (with a little fouled smell), we saw a scrap-yard, and we hear almost no sound (dead silence) and we felt hot and suffocating because of poor air ventilation.

Our perception at that moment got total contrary against from our norm expectation (i.e. we can't believe our eyes).  "Is this a home?  A human's home?" a natural question emerged in our mind.  The living room in this jumbo flat was supposed to be spacious.  But most of the spaces were occupied by goods of all sizes, from bicycle to stale magazines.  An almost 500 square feet space now reduced to only a narrow passage, merely enough for a person to walk through at a time.  There was no furniture in the living room, except a large cupboard and a 3-door storage unit which shouldn't be where it was.

Walked a further down, was the dinning room, kitchen and bathroom at the end that was of typical Singapore's HDB design.  Along the wall, there was many unused plastic bags.  Many of them looked very old and they didn't have to there.  Nobody would need so many plastic bags in his house and they were never used.  They looked just litters being purposely dumped there to filthy up the house.

On the left, we saw that the dinning room was amazingly piled with all sorts of clothing that made us wonder if it has ever served its purpose at all.  The table, being ridiculously covered by all the junks, occupied almost the whole dinning area.  The strange thing was that it didn't get pushed all the way into the wall if the table was used solely for shelving.  The chairs were still placed around the table as usual, but with so many things piled around, nobody can walk near to the other side of the table.  That meant, the corner space between the wall and the table had never been stepped over for more than 20 years!  We called this hidden corner "Dark Corner".

(1) a large picture of kittens and rusted wind-chime in the dinning room.
(2) a pair of dancing figurines in the living room.
(3+4) the whole house was fully covered by thick curtains leaving the house in dark, day and night all year round.


(1) a Tung Shu was hung behind the main door.
(2) Alice's mother bedroom that is as messy as the scrap-yard outside.
(3) the toilet in the master bedroom.  Looking a bit closer, you will see that the floor is flooded because the pipe was cracked.
(4) the display shelf for many souvenirs brought from all over the world.

Eerie sights are everywhere

Without any delay, we spot checked on every corner and every item in the house.  In the dinning room, there was a big framed picture of kittens with its color started to fade.  It was a gift presented to the house owner (Alice's parents) for their house-warming.  Checking the date and the message written on the picture, it was more than 22 years ago.  The picture didn't look spooky at the surface, but usually cats or cat's pictures represent "yin" energy and the dark forces.  Well such is a superstition that can't be proven yet.  Just about a meter away from the picture hanged a wind-chime on the wall.  It was an old copper made wind-chime weirdly positioned at the far corner of the dinning room where there was no wind.  We thought of it as a decoration.

In the living room, on the wall was a pair of 'Dancing Indonesians' deco that looked eerie enough although it was common in S.E. Asia.  We noticed that the whole house was covered with thick double-layered curtains completely blocking out all the lights from outside.  Only one fluorescent ceiling lamp was enabled to switch on (the others were disabled) in the living room that made the house very dark.  The photos had to be taken with our own flood-light or flash-light equipment.

On the back of the main door was hanging a Tung Shu that arose our curiosity.  According to the owner, the Tung Shu MUST be hanging there at all times as a house rule.  Nobody was allowed to touch nor remove it.  Their explanation was that before they had first moved into this house, this Tung Shu was thrown on the floor and had been left there overnight.  They believed that it had the magical power to 'absorb' all the spirits in from the house.  And thereafter, the Tung Shu with the spirits trapped in, would have to be hung on the back of the main door, so the spirits can't trouble the new house owner.  This was said to be a well-known Cantonese tradition.  We doubted of its trueness.  Later we consulted some Feng Shui masters in Hong Kong and they confirmed that there was no such thing.  We therefore suspected that the owner (Alice's mother) was lying.  If Tung Shu really has the power to spirits, putting it there on the door was more like preventing them to leave through this door than keeping them from outside.  It was for keeping the spirits contained in the house.  This was our logic and it was proved to be quite fit in later on.

(1+2) a strange tweed.  (3) a Toyol urn.  (4) a Kalasha vessel.


(5+6) Bomoh ingredients.  (7) a mysteriously kept treasure.  (8) a ghostly doll.

Investigate into details

In the living room, since there wasn't much furniture, the cupboard standing prominently caught our attention.  And so did the 'objects' placed on the cupboard.  You can name over dozens of different items on the shelves.  Alice's mother traveled around the world very frequently, mostly to places of old civilization such as Greece, India, Egypt and S.E. Asia.  According to Alice, every year, she went at least a few times to Thailand or Nepal.  Every time she traveled she would have brought something home, and put them on the shelves.

We have selectively gone through a few items.  They looked just damn creepy. 

(1) a piece of wood with an unusual shape for unknown use.  Even the structure of the wood didn't seem like normal.  It was naturally twisted, crooked and distorted in shape.  God knows where the wood was originally from. 

(2) a sealed wooden bottle with a toddler's face on.  We could never figure what it was inside and what the bottle was used for.  It seemed as if something was inside, and the lid was tightly sealed.  Upon shaken, sounds of powder moving up and down could be heard from inside the bottle.  The bottle looked eerie although we thought it was for baby use because it has got a toddler's face on.  Suddenly we were reminded of something that Alice told us: "I suspect my mum keeps Toyols at home.."  Toyol is a baby's soul controlled by dark forces usually got recruited during his mother's abortion.  Popular in Thailand where the owner had to feed the Toyols by his own blood, and the Toyols will do obey to the master's commands.  We just put the bottle (or urn) right back to its place. 

(3) a copper vessel inside got some burnt ashes.  One of our SPI members familiar with Hindu imagery immediately recognized it out "It is Kalasha - symbol for abundance, wisdom and immortality".  It supposed to contain the nectar of eternal life (amrita).  It is the attribute of Brahma, Shiva as a teacher and Lakshmi.  Besides the technical terms, we knew this little vessel had been used in some rituals.  The inner surface was blackened that showed it had been intensively used.  But for what exactly, nobody knows.

(4) a glass test tube with a wooden cork.  Inside it has got some dark blown sticky fluid.  Looking at it more closely, we saw there was some 'legs' and remains of some unknown insects.  Fair enough, we already known from Alice that her mother practiced Bomoh.  Though we were not Bomoh experts, we knew this art involved many weird substances like toad's bladder, snakes and spider's poison, etc.  Unless under strong request, we didn't feel like taking it back to our lab for chemical analysis.

(5) a piece of very old newspaper dated 1982.  It was reporting about US army in Vietnam war!  We observed that down near the bottom of the newspaper was some scribble writing that we cannot even resemble its language.  Of course a newspaper was a common thing, even though it had been kept for 20 years.  But, a newspaper that was put into a locked drawer where had nothing else valuable would not be a usual thing.  Alice said that her mother had been very secretive about this locked drawer.  Her mother had even thrown away the key to secure the drawer that would never be open again.  Why then for 20 years she wanted to lock just this page of newspaper?  (How SPI can open the lock without the key?  I am sure you don't want to know).

(6) the last but certainly not the least - the doll.  Among several other dolls, this particular doll caught all of our attention that we could not explain why.  It eyes were staring at us when we looked at it, as if we were looking at a life.  We will come back to this doll later on with more frightening story associating with it.  If you think it was only an ordinary plastic doll, well think again..


Other than the usual material objects that we can see, our member who has a 3rd eye made a comment "something is not right!".  We stunned, staring at him.  "Who do you mean?"  The 3rd eye member took a deep breath and said "I don't see anything here".  Our eyebrows contracted, as we understood that there was something really weird going on.  Usually he could see at least one or two dirty things even just along the street at night.  The house seemed to be 'entity-free' by him, in contrast to the eerie environment and evil-looking stuff around?  That was quite impossible.  A creep condensed on our head skins.  We stopped digging further on the ornaments from the shelf, and wanted to start our ghost detection right now!