I got one horrifying experience when I was young, about primary 6....

I moved to Miri from Kuching. My dad stopped at Bintulu for rest as he was tired from driving the whole day.... It was around 11pm, we checked into Plaza hotel. My dad rented 2 suits. The room was very spacious and very luxurious. I can still remember that it has 1 toilet and 1 bath room... And it has a door that can go to room next door, where my parent rooms are. It was very late, and after taking a bath, I wanted to have a drink but there is no water in the fridge...So I asked RM2 for buying mineral water to drink. Our rooms is at the 5th floor, so i took the elevator down...

Inside the elevator, I heard someone crying, sniffing....but I am the only one in the lift. I can feel the person is just right beside me and crying. It sounds like a child crying in the lift....I hold on till I reach the ground floor and ran out immediately....
After I brought the mineral water from the near by Li Bing Café, I was scared to use the lift again....I don’t want to see it in the elevator. But at that time, I have no hand phone yet....and I cant call for help. I tried to use the stair ways but the light was blinking and the place was in a very dim yellowed light.

I was too afraid to use the stair ways, so I braved myself to use the lift to go back to my room.... In the lift, I feel the chill over my body, and touches on my legs....plus the sniffing sound again. Going up to the 5th floor seems like forever. I got no choice but to hang on till I reach the room...I was crying when I reached the room.

It was the most terrifying experience I ever had...I didn’t see it, but the feeling is very real....It still gives me the creep when I think about it...I will never go back to that hotel again... I heard there were a number of children that drowned in the swimming pool there. Perhaps they are still looking for their mothers....

This is an encounter of a friend back in the mid 90’s. It was an overnight trip to a well known hotel by the beach by a group of frens in Kuching. They stayed at the Hilltop chalet during the peak season. As the good rooms were fully occupied, they were given a room that is quite remote.

My friend was in his teens and he and his group of friends were a young rebellious group of students, having fun partying, with drugs, underage drinking and smoking. They were having fun in their chalet with loud music going on.

It was late into the night and everybody was drunk and tired. My fren was drunk and high from the ecstasy pills he took earlier, and was sitting on the floor in the room. Suddenly, he felt someone beside him. He turned to see who it is, and he saw a young boy squatting beside him starring at him.

In a blink of an eye, the boy vanished in thin air. Not suspecting anything and Still feeling high and drunk, he called out to his friend, “eh, who brought their young brother here?”

No one responded.

Another of his fren, still having the effect of the ecstasy, was standing in front of a loud blasting speaker, shaking his head to the music. There my friend saw a lady in red standing next to the him, starring at him. The lady too vanished is a split second.

Still, being in a drunken and high state, he did not suspect anything. Thinking his mind is playing tricks on him.

Looking around the hotel living room, he notices that the room was getting crowded.

One of the friends was sitting at the dining table, resting his head on the table. He saw many blur figure of people, some standing while some seated beside the fren, all staring at him. Rubbing his eyes and taking a closer look, everyone disappeared, left only his fren still resting on the dining table.

He then looked at the main door of the hotel room. He saw few images of people, curiously looking into their room. He panicked when he saw a blurry figure of policeman in old uniform with short pants looking at them, (as there were drugs and alcohol in the room).

He called out to his fren, but when he turned back, there was no one at the door, only darkness.

Realizing that something was amiss, he then gone straight to bed. Pulling up the blanket to his head. He was immediately joined by all his fren, all cuddling up in the bed and spoke nothing until checking out the next morning.

When asked, all the frens saw mysterious figure in the room that night, with one seeing a lady at the balcony, waving slowly at him to come over.

Every single hotel, there shall be at least a permanent room which should be left vacant at all times. No matter how full the hotel is, they are not to sell that room(s) to any guest. It was said that special room was "reserved" for those "special visitors".

So, if you plan to stay in some hotel, always book in advance. Try to avoid walk in. If the receptionist told you there's no more room available, do not insist one anymore or try to bribe them to give you a room. If you do that, most of the time the room you have will be that "special room".

Sometimes those "special visitors" might go to other rooms also, so here's some tips on how to protect yourself:

Before entering your room, always knock on the door first, even if you know the room is vacant.

After you enter the room, if you felt very cold suddenly and have "goosebumps", leave the room quietly immediately and go to reception to request to change room. Most of the time the receptionist will understand what's happening.

After you enter the room, immediately switch on all of the lights, and open the curtain to let the sunlight in.

Before you go to bed, arrange your shoes so that one of them is upside down. Some say this is representing yin& yang to protect you while you're asleep.

Always leave at least a lamp on while you're sleeping, preferably the toilet's lamp. If you're staying alone and they have give you a twin bed, do not sleep with the other bed vacant, try to put your things like luggage on the other bed before you sleep.