The date was near the end of April during the Chinese festival
called 'Ching Ming' and the time was about 2am. This was one of
the spookiest hours one can get to investigate a dumping ground
filled with abandoned mythical statues. A legend commonly
known among the Chinese community is that during Ching Ming, the
weather is usually gloomy and rainy; that creates a saddening
atmosphere for the descendents to pay respect to their ancestors
at their tombs. Believe it or not.
In a way, our investigation trip on that night was like visiting a
tomb. A large tomb of lost statues! The mission was to
verify the trueness of our interviewees' accounts, and to detect
any paranormal phenomena (for sure there are many).
KC, Gate and Kenny drove deep into the end of Science Park II
where there was a wild bush land - the backyard of Haw Par Villa.
We passed several R&D commercial buildings like Crimson Logics
where Kenny had his first job as an engineer there (memories emerged).
This is an elite land called Science Park, that is converged of the top scientists, researchers
and professionals in the day time. But at night in this
eerie hour, it was like a ghost town. And it was a moonless
night.
After we parked our car at the end of the driveway, we started
trekking towards the bush. "Yuk!" Gate exclaimed. The
mud was so soft that our boots sank completely into it. The
boots were then sucked in by the mud, requiring much efforts to
pull our legs up. Squelch, squelch, squelch, our moving
speed was incredibly slow across this half-muddy, half-swampy
land.
The mud got drier as we reached the foot of the hill. The
upward slope helps letting out of water, and the ground returns to
its normal solidness that we were thankful about. On the other hand,
however, it has more wild
grasses overgrowing the place. We setup our detection
equipment as well as having our cameras ready. We switched
the camera mode to high shutter speed and multiple shoots.
Eerie occurrences won't stay long and still for us to photograph like those
stone statues.
1 & 2. SPI
trekked across a very muddy ground to advance to the dumping hill.
3. SPI reached the hill;
4. This is one of the most magnificant photo with both orbs and
green glittering lights.
Orbs are only visible to camera and the green glitters can be seen
by naked eyes. Are they fireflies or something else?
Out of a sudden, in a meter or two, we saw something with
great shock. We couldn't
believe our eyes. But yet we were not sure what we had seen.
Greenish glittering lights were flying momentarily. It was
like you open and shut your eyes repeatedly while watching
something moving along a certain loop. One moment you
could see them, the next they disappeared. Then they appeared
again with their intensity and hue changed.
Anyway, the glittering lights didn't show up for too long before
they completely vanished out of sight. "What is this?" we all
asked. They hovered at about six feet or so above ground.
They came out of nowhere and disappeared into air. "Are they
the fireflies as what the construction worker told us?" we
wondered.
While waiting for them to show up again (which we crossed our fingers
and hoped that they will), we found a place to squat down and aim our
cameras at the positions they just appeared before. Half an hour
was elapsed. We started to feel despaired. "Are they
coming back?" Our detectors picked up no abnormal signals
too. Only our nerves picked up some bioelectric pulses from
our lumped legs and backs to our brains reminding us of the aches, after
posturing still for half an hour.
"That's it, I give up.." said Kenny as he was stretching his body up
to his height. At at the split of a second, a flock of green
and yellow glimmers emerged from the green backdrop
of a dark forest, like a shower of emeralds and diamonds. Excited
we were, and forgetting our lumped limbs; we stood up and busy
pressing on our camera hoping to get the best shot. In less
than five seconds, the scene was back to the usual boring green
again. The lights have gone.
1. Here they
come! The green flying lights suddenly surfaced, and then
disappeared in darkness
2. KC chased the green lights into the bush; 3. Soon he felt very
unwell. His team mate captured a mysterious green light above his
head
4. These two green lights are the most prominent; they flew in a
pair, and vanished in a pair too.
"Come on, lets move close to the statues" KC was leading the way.
In the bush, the view was somewhat different from day time.
The statues have blended in with the bush successfully.
But we managed to identify several prominent ones. As we
touched the statues, weird feeling arose. It was like a
thumping echo moving from far to near, right inside our ears.
Then it vibrated every nerve of our brains and shook our stomach.
At the same time, the feeling it gave was
more sad, more intense and overwhelming than that of the day time.
The place was just like a
graveyard of many dead corpses, hidden in the dark - deserted, and
never properly buried. All three of us felt the same.
It was a sheet of invisible force, repelling us to leave, for they
didn't want anybody to sympathize their fate. As if we were
being watched by hostile eyes, we instinctively tried to find a
place to hide ourselves in the bush.
We were in the bush, feeling very uncomfortable. Stomach was
getting more and more cramped. Mosquitoes madly stunk on us. Under the
prolonged discomfort, we had no choice but to finally abort the
operation, walking back to our car. It was like a message
sent to us straight to our heart: "leave us alone..!" The
littered statues, if they ever have spirits hosted, took their pride and
perhaps not wanting anyone to see how miserable they are. It
is better to leave them alone unless we could have come for
offering something to
them.
Back to our car, we found ourselves full of mosquito bites all
over our body despite mosquito repellent was well applied, and our
boots stained with mud and clay.
Gate drove to the nearest patrol station, parked the car. We
went to the toilet and vomited...
1 & 2. We
aborted the mission and retreated; 3. Mud cake! 4. How many
mosquito bits can you see on Gate's arm? (Answer: 10+)
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