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Written by SPI Friend, Alex Yeoh,
(alias: Textbook3000)
Photo credits to Alex Yeoh
Back to about 2
year ago, in year 2007, time was near end-April just at the
end of Qing Ming festival. I spotted a scary moth outside
our flat in Woodlands. The moth just didn't leave the place...It
stationed there until it died off, about a week later.
Coincidentally, what spooked me is that at the same lobby
of our flat there were already two deaths. One of cases was
a boy committed suicide. He jumped off from the parapet and
died instantly when his body smashed very badly on the ground
from 12 storey high. That happened before we shifted in. Our
neighbours told us that.
The other dead occurred after we moved into our current flat;
an old man leaped off the front of our lobby at 6am in the
morning after I have gone to work. I just missed the scene
by minutes as I was off to work slightly earlier than 6am.
Strangely I do not remember seeing anybody loitering around.
The old man might have just leaped and jumped. My wife at
home was answering the police investigation if we ever witnessed
anything.
I didn't get to see in my own eyes of the gruesome deaths
that took place right in front of my home. But this unusual
big moth gave me real creeps; the eerie sensation of death
was so intense that it just gushed into my body through my
every pore.
Out of casual chats with my neighbours, they were aware the
existence of the moth on the ceiling of the corridor. Nobody
dare to ever touch it or chase it off. Somehow they even avoid
talking about it as if they scared that the moth has ears
to listen and bring them ill-luck.
We all have a strong feeling that the moth is more than just
an insect. Who knows it could be a messenger from the other
world. Oddly, our gut feel was telling me that another death
may just happen out of a sudden in the presence of the moth.
The worry was relieved after a week when it was gone - back
to probably where it came from.
About the photos, the moth is Atlas Moth, one of the largest
in the world. Look carefully the tips of the wings have images
of Snake Heads - that serves as moth's self-defense measure
to scare off predators.
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