If I had not experienced it for the first time myself few years back, I probably still don’t believed in supernatural...

2 years ago, when I first got my P license....I go 'lim teh' with my friends and we chat about ghost stories. I never seen one before, so I was very stubborn back then...After I got home, I still think all those ghost stories are fake and crap. My friend told me earlier that there is a lady ghost near to the Lutong fish market, with only her upper half of the body....

I was very brave back then because I just got my car driving license, so I went for driving practice in the middle of the night. And of all place, I decided to go to Lutong to have a look, to see if the story is true or not...The first time, I passed by the fish market, nothing was there....I think in to myself, "this world where got ghost, only stupid will believed in that crap....". After I finished one round I turned back and passed by the fish market again.

Suddenly there was a bump… When I stepped on the break....I looked back to check if there is any car around....Then I saw a lady with long hair in white, sitting in the back of my car! I was so shock I stepped on the accelerate paddle very hard and drove as fast I could to reach home. In a Perodua kancil 660, i drove uabout 100+ km/h to reach home and dare not to look back. Till now, I can still remember the lady in white.... And from that time on, I really believed the existence of ghost...and never dared to drive by Lutong at night. It’s too scary....

Contributed by Athrun

Here is one from my experience....I got into a car accident and got my hand broken. I stayed in Miri General Hospital for treatment. It was normal in the day time, only a bit boring.. But after visiting hours, the hospital is getting quite and it started to get very cold at night...Around midnight, I couldn't sleep as I can’t sleep on a different bed...So I stayed up all night in hospital. The light was dim, which makes it really creepy and there was a feeling of someone looking at me.

Suddenly, I heard the patient beside me crying. The patient is a young bumi girl...I was wondering why she cry and called her...she didn’t answered me, and just hid under pillow and still crying...The wind is blowing into the window, the weather getting really cold and finally....it rains cats and dogs. It was a stormy night. I was also very afraid but there’s nothing that I can do.

The creepiest part is hearing nurse walking around in the hallway... “Why still busy late at night?” I got up from bed at 5am and go for the toilet. There I saw the nurse reading a magazine on the desk. I asked her why she was so busy last night, and she told me she was sitting there all night long and there was nobody else on shift. My family came to visit me in the morning, and I demand that to leave the hospital and not to stay for another night! I still don’t know why the girl cries....maybe she saw something that I can’t see? I will never get close to Miri general hospital ever again unnecessarily...it gives me goose bumps just to think of it...such a creepy experience....

Contributed by Athrun

The following story happened in Sibu in the early 90’s. It is said one better keep quite during funerals in order to avoid offending or in this case attracting the unseen…

A group of friends was walking home in the afternoon after a school extra curriculum. On the way home they pass by a Chinese funeral procession. There were people playing traditional Chinese music for the funeral and a lorry carrying the coffin with relatives accompanying beside it. In front of the lorry was the picture of a girl in her teen that had just passed away.

When the lorry passed by, one of the guy in the group named Ah Seng pointed out to the picture and said, “that girl look so pretty, if she was alive I would marry her…”. The others just ignored him and continued walking home.

After that day, Ah Seng had not gone to school for a few days. Curious on what happened to him, the friends called his home. Ah Seng’s mother answered the phone and she told them that Ah Seng had been very sick for few days for unknown reason. He went to see doctors and Chinese health practitioner but none can say what causes the sickness.

Ah Seng was getting sicker by the day. Not knowing what else to do, their family seek the help of a Chinese medium or bomoh. It is revealed that Ah Seng is being followed by a girl spirit. The spirit told the bomoh that Ah Seng said she was pretty and would marry her. The spirit followed her home and planned to bring him to the other world to be together…. that is why Ah Seng is so sick and going to die.

His family is shocked to hear this and requested the bomoh to help Ah Seng. The bomoh then asked the spirit not to disturb Ah Seng. The spirit was reluctant until it was threatened by the bomoh…soon together with offering for the dead, the girl spirit left. Soon Ah Seng regains his health but he was never the same person again. He became very quite and seems lost at time, like a person without its soul.

It was the morning of Qingming or tomb sweeping day for the Chinese. Ann was not working on that Saturday morning and she decided to call her friend May for breakfast. When she calls her handphone number, someone pick up the phone but did not speak. All was silent at the other end of the line. She hung up. She checked the number to make sure it’s the right one and calls again. The line was picked up but still nobody was talking.

She thought that maybe there is problem with the line that day. She was about to hang up when she heard a faint voice. When she listens carefully, she heard the sound of a child, crying. She said “hello? Hello?” for a few times.. but all she heard was the child crying. She then hung up and redials her friend’s number.

This time May answered the phone. Ann asked her where is she and who was the child that was crying on her phone. May had no idea what she was talking about and told her that she is the cemetery for Qingming at there is no children there and her phone was with her all the time.

When they met for breakfast later, May told Ann that she was visiting the grave of her relatives, a young child who passed away due to illness….

The Qingming Festival (also know as Tomb Sweeping Day) is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice (or the 15th day from the Spring Equinox), usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar.

For the Chinese, it is a day to remember and honor one's ancestors at grave sites. Young and old pray before the ancestors, sweep the tombs and offer food, tea, wine, chopsticks, (joss) paper accessories, and/or libation to the ancestors.

The rites are very important to most Chinese and especially farmers. Some people carry willow branches with them on Qingming, or put willow branches on their gates and/or front doors. They think that willow branches help ward off the evil ghosts that wander on Qingming.

Also on Qingming, people go on family outings, start the spring plowing, sing, dance, and Qingming is a time where young couples start courting. Another popular thing to do is fly kites (in shapes of animals, or characters from Chinese opera).

Qing Ming in Malaysia is an elaborate family function or a clan feast (usually organized by the respective clan association) to commemorate and honor their late relations at grave site and their distant ancestry of China at home altar, clan temple or a makeshift altar in a Buddhist or Taoist temple.

Qing Ming festival in Malaysia and Singapore normally started early in the morning, with the ancestral veneration at home altar- paying respect to the distant ancestors from China. This would be followed by visiting the graves of their close relations in the country. Some would take the extent of filial piety to visit the graves of their ancestors in mainland China.

After the ancestor worship at the grave site, the whole family or the whole clan would be feasting the food and drinks they brought for the worship at the site or nearby gardens in the memorial park, signifying family reunion with the ancestors.

Qingming itself was created by the Tang Emperor Xuanzong in 732. It is said that because the wealthy held too many expensive, elaborate ancestor-worshipping ceremonies, in a needed effort to lower this expense, Emperor Xuanzong declared that respects could be formally paid at ancestor's graves only on Qingming.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

A close friend of mine stays at a housing estate just after Hilltop Garden, also nearby to the Riam cemetery. His house is a big double storey semi-detached house and every school holiday, me and my friends would hang out at his place to play video games. He has a sister that loves to collect poster. Her room is filled with all sorts of celebrity posters. One particular poster is a lady singer, which I forgot the name, that has a gothic look that always makes me feel uncomfortable just looking at it. The eyes seem to be looking straight back at you.

One late night, her sister screamed.. and this awoken her whole family. When they checked, she was crying.. and terrified.. as if something is in the room bothering her. There is nobody there except her. She was so scared that her family could not make out what she is talking about.

When she calmed down, she told her family that she felt something in her room. When she looked up, the eyes of the gothic lady on the poster glowed and starring at her. She was about to scream but suddenly felt something pushed her to the bed. She was unable to move or make any sound. While this is happening, she heard few coarse voices of man talking to her. It was the voice of ghosts. She was too terrified to hear what they said. This goes on for a few minutes before she was able to move and screamed.

A Chinese medium or bomoh was sought to check on the room. He said that there are spirits in the room and it is in the posters. He advises that all the posters to be removed as it attract lingering spirits. The posters were then removed and offering was made to make the spirits leave. She never slept in the room alone again.

This story is from a friend that used to study at Curtin University while it was located at their old campus at Riam Road.

Uni life is quite fun, meeting new friends and partying most of the time. One day after a drinking session, he was returning after midnight, passing by the Riam Chinese Cemetery. If you are a Mirian, you should know that the cemetery is quite a big site and the road passing by it is really dark and deserted especially at night. Most prefer to take the longer route through the highway instead.

While passing by the cemetery, he saw a girl waiting at the bus stop that is directly opposite the cemetery. Being curious on who is waiting for the bus so early in the morning, he decided to slow down to have a look. He saw a lady in white, long hair but he just couldn’t see the face. The lady then stood up, but she had no feet..and was floating toward him. He sped of immediately.

Not sure if the bus stop is still there, but better not take that route when you are alone at night. Or the lady may just hitch a ride with you……..

Kath is staying in the town area of kuching. Nearby to her house, there is an old abandon cemetery that is overgrown by bushes. Not many people ever notice that the cemetery is there.

A building development project was planned at the area and the cemetery will need to be relocated to another area. The whole relocation process took around a week to be completed and construction work starts not long after that.

Since then, Kath has been seeing an old man calling out to her in her dream. She dreams of the same thing every night for almost a month until one night she talks to the old man. The old man in her dream asks her to help him. Without saying anything else, the old man led her to the cemetery in her dream and pointed out to a particular spot before vanishing.

The dream went on for another few days before Kath decided to go to the construction site. There she told the workers of her dream. She showed them the place where the old man pointed to her. After digging at the spot for a while, they found bone fragments. It’s the grave of the old man in her dream. It seems that they left out his grave during the relocation process, and this caused the spirit unable to rest in peace.

The grave was relocated to a new site and given a proper burial. Kath never saw the old man in her dream again.

Due to rapid development in the city, many old burial site needs to be relocated to give way to new projects. With many contractors taking the easy way out, some relocation process was not done properly, leaving some graves behind. Is this happening in your area?

There are many new trendy restaurants sprouting in Kuching. Most of them are setup in old shophouses that was built in the early 20th century. One particular popular western food restaurant has a lot of old artifacts decoration in it. Among the items is an old grandfather clock.

It was reported that there is a spirit in the restaurant and it is attached to the grandfather clock. But so far there are no disturbance reported caused by it.

Wonder which restaurant is it….?

Bong owns a used car trading business in Kuching. He has a fond of using aroma incense stick in his office and it keeps the air fresh with fragrance. It is believed that aroma incense stick can naturally heighten one’s spirit and bring peace to the mind. It is especially useful when your customers comes into your air conditioned office soaked with sweat and has the strong manly smell.

Everything was going well until one day, Bong and all his staff is getting sick quite regularly and business has been poor too. Everything was not going well. It was recommended by a friend that Bong should have his place check by a feng shui master. He agreed and did this the following day.

The master checked his place and see the problem right away, there was a spirit living in his office. He asked Bong if he had been using the aroma incense stick for a long time. This is because the spirit was attracted to the sweet fragrance from the incense stick and refused to leave. Bong was shocked to hear this.

Joss stick and other offerings were then given to get rid of the spirit. Bong never uses the aroma incense stick again as it not only heightens one’s spirit, it can attract ghostly spirits.

I heard this story when I was young. Padang kerbau was located at Pujut Corner Miri. Back then there was no bus terminal and tar road. The place was covered in thick forest. A small group of people used to live there in their wooden house and farming was their source of income. While the adults went to the farm, the children would play around the house.

One day, a child was lost without trace. The family searched the whole jungle night and day to look for the child but to no avail. They then seek the help of a bomoh. He told them that the child was lead astray to the jungle by the jungle spirits. The child’s eyes have been covered by the spirits and are unable to find his way back. The only way to find the child is to make a lot of noise in the jungle to frighten the spirits. The family led a search team to the jungle, armed with tin cans and kuali (cooking pots) to make as much noise a possible. Soon they were able to find the child, tired and crying alone the middle of the jungle.

When the child recovered, he told his family that he followed someone into the jungle and got lost. He also saw them searching for him but every time he tried to call out, he had no voice and would vomit out mouthful of insects.

Caught on camera....




Is it real .. ? What do you think ..?

Taman Selera is one of the first recreational parks in Miri. It’s located at Tanjong Lobang, which is 3KM from city centre. Besides the golden sand beach, there is children playground and other outdoor facilities. There is also an open air hawker stall that is a popular eating place with the local and neighbor bruneians.

During the school holidays, many would flock to the beach to have barbeques and enjoy themselves swimming in the open sea. Unfortunately, many cases of drowning occur every now and then, with many survivors claiming someone or something is pulling them down into the water.

Many ghost sightings has been reported over time.. If you still can remember, the park used to have two zebras statues. Back then, there was no proper lighting unlike today and its dark scary. Many people or dating couples that went there said they saw ghostly figures of children playing on the Zebras and also empty swings, swinging on their own.

Hungry Ghost festival is an annual occasion that is taken very seriously in Taoist Fengshui. This festival falls on the 7th month of the lunar New Year, which starts somewhere between July and August for one full lunar month. During this month the gates of hell are opened to free the hungry ghosts who then wander to seek food on Earth. Some even think that the ghosts would seek revenge on those who had wronged them in their lives. The reason why the Chinese celebrate this festival is to remember their dead family members and pay tribute to them. They also feel that offering food to the deceased appeases them and wards off bad luck.

Rituals and Prayer Celebrations:

The dead would return to visit their living relatives during the 7th month of the Chinese Lunar year and thus the living people would prepare sumptuous meals for the hungry ghosts. The Chinese feel that they have to satisfy the ghosts in order to get good fortune and luck in their lives. During this festival, the Chinese offer prayers to the deceased relatives, burn paper money, paper houses, paper transportation, paper accessories and joss sticks massively to their ancestors as well as wandering spirits in front of their homes. Giving the ghost such necessities would enable them to live comfortably when they go back their own world. In Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, it is a common sight to see entertaining Chinese Opera shows performed on outdoor stages in many neighborhoods. These events are always held at night. Such entertainment would please those wandering ghosts that comes to earth once a year.Taboos to Follow:

1. Avoid swimming during the 7th month. It is believed that those previously drowned evil ghost might cause you to drown in the swimming pool. Such ghost need to find victims in order for them to be go for rebirth.

2. Children and young adults are also advised to return home early and not to wander around alone at night. This belief is due to the reason that the wandering ghosts can possess children easily.

3. Avoid moving into new homes and opening new businesses this month as it is considered inauspicious and bad luck on new ventures.

4. Avoid getting married during this month because couples will have bad ending. Some bad ghost may cast a bad spell on couples during their wedding.

5. Avoid going for jungle trekking and going on camping trips as chances of injuries, possession and death are high.

6. Drive very carefully during this month to avoid accidents, as there may be many wandering spirits who died of accidents previously that are searching for next victims so that they could be reincarnated.

Source: hungzai.com

This one happens to my mom in Kanowit when she was in her teen. Back then, in 70's, rubber tapping was a job to feed oneself & family. At least 2 square meals per person will do that time. She & her late-sister went to rubber plantation.

It was like 4.30am. Being early birds, they should have more rubber milk. They arrived at their shed. To their surprise, there was a light coming from the inside. At 1st, they thought, their brother came...but how could that be as the brother was asleep before they leave? Then they opened the door. Suddenly there was no light, nobody inside. Sense something amiss, they turn back to long house. Not far, they turned their head back, light was lit up.

Contributed by J.Howard