Speaker 1: everyone welcome back to another episode of Too many Ghosts
Speaker 1: nowadays I am only supernaturalie. Genesis, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for this week episode. You know it was only the
Speaker 1: month and you can tell
Speaker 1: Because the air just smells different, it's different. And also
Speaker 1: because you see all the shops, supermarkets, you know selling
Speaker 1: lanterns and moones in place of all the money people
Speaker 1: offerings that they used to sell. So, I don't know
Speaker 1: if your nearest supermarket also offer the same kind of variety.
Speaker 1: But the everything. They have fruits, vegetables and during the
Speaker 1: seventh month of know, Louis Vuitton, Christy Dior, paper clothes.
Speaker 1: handbags, the shoes and then sometimes they throw in the
Speaker 1: Rolex watches. I know I tend to make a bigger
Speaker 1: fuss about the seventh month because the Hungry Ghost Festival
Speaker 1: always intrigues me. I know it's not technically a PH
Speaker 1: that recognized here. And there are bigger festivals that last
Speaker 1: pret long as well you know like Chinese typically for
Speaker 1: fifteen days.
Speaker 1: Something about the seventh month especially now that it has
Speaker 1: ended this makes me feel a little different. For me
Speaker 1: it feels like this huge rock, this really heavy rock
Speaker 1: be lifted my shoulders. I don't know why I get
Speaker 1: this crazy paranoia during the seventh month. I get this
Speaker 1: crazy paranoia that something out there is trying to get
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 1: So, every year when I thankfully make it out in
Speaker 1: one piece, it's like thank God because you know, there
Speaker 1: are too many goals nowadays. You see we have seven
Speaker 1: billion people at this place in this in this space
Speaker 1: right now. But you thought about
Speaker 1: bilion.
Speaker 1: So today, I'm gonna share with you a story and
Speaker 1: it is a real life recent encounter that one of
Speaker 1: my friends experienced. So jumping right in let's just call
Speaker 1: my friend Jonathan, he lives in HDB flat somewhere in
Speaker 1: the north side of Singapore and his story happens on
Speaker 1: a regular weekday night when he was alone with his
Speaker 1: four year old son at home.
Speaker 1: So, his wife was not back from work yet. Jonathan
Speaker 1: his son to sleep in his room. So, he went
Speaker 1: out and was just gonna chill in the other room
Speaker 1: waiting for his wife to come home from work. And
Speaker 1: it was just a very peaceful, slow and easy night.
Speaker 1: So John was just taking his time slowly folding the clothes.
Speaker 1: His son had just fall asleep, his wife was gonna
Speaker 1: come home soon and he was just taking his time
Speaker 1: doing his chores. It was just like the perfect weekday night.
Speaker 1: It was like the last night you would expect anything
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 1: But then he did, from the bedroom where he was
Speaker 1: folding the clothes, he heard a very unexpected banging on
Speaker 1: the dining table.
Speaker 1: It was rhythmic and honestly a bit tall. So he
Speaker 1: listened more attentively. It stopped on its own after five
Speaker 1: six bangs and that was when he started hearing muffled footsteps.
Speaker 1: Like someone slowly dragging their feet around the living room. So,
Speaker 1: his first thought was, is my wife back? Maybe she
Speaker 1: had just came home from work because it really didn't
Speaker 1: sound like it was just him and his son in
Speaker 1: the apartment that night. But wait.
Speaker 1: He didn't wife's open en house wife's greeting every night.
Speaker 1: Whenever comes home work,
Speaker 1: entry back home or she would immediately go to her husband, John,
Speaker 1: and let him know that she is back. Also John
Speaker 1: is a house husband. He is always at home. He
Speaker 1: is very used to the routine at home and because
Speaker 1: he is at home so much, he can tell, he
Speaker 1: can recognize if the footsteps were his wife or not.
Speaker 1: And the problem we have now is that the other
Speaker 1: thing in the living room was not his wife. So
Speaker 1: clearly he was not comfortable with the noises he was
Speaker 1: hearing from outside. In fact, he was feeling a bit
Speaker 1: anxious even you know his heart was like racing a bit.
Speaker 1: And because he didn't know what was out there, his
Speaker 1: fatherly instincts kicked in almost immediately after that realization. All
Speaker 1: he could think of in that moment was his son
Speaker 1: and he dashed to his son's room to check. He
Speaker 1: swang the door open and he was just praying so
Speaker 1: hard that nothing should ever happened to his son. But
Speaker 1: his son wasn't in bed.
Speaker 1: He felt heart burning the panichout hesitation scrambled out of
Speaker 1: the room for his. Heading closer and closer to the
Speaker 1: living room. And that was when some movement in the
Speaker 1: kitchen caught eye. He whipped his head around and thank
Speaker 1: goodness he saw his son there. So, finally found his son.
Speaker 1: But it was pitch black. The light switched off in
Speaker 1: the kitchen and his son.
Speaker 1: Hm. So that was just having his own relief. Maybe
Speaker 1: he was at the start. You know because
Speaker 1: didn't anyone his house keys, no one entered the house,
Speaker 1: then there will be no reason rationally for any other
Speaker 1: stranger to be in his house, right? Because he lived
Speaker 1: on the fifteenth floor. So, even if he had the
Speaker 1: windows open, no one would be crazy enough to scale
Speaker 1: fifteen floors just to get into his house to break in. So,
Speaker 1: he called out to his son, Adam, what are you
Speaker 1: still doing in the kitchen? It's so dark. Why don't you?
Speaker 1: Suddenly, he stopped mid sentence.
Speaker 1: Because from the corner of his eyes, he caught a
Speaker 1: glimpse of a white figure just behind his son.
Speaker 1: Adam, come here now. He immediately called his son over.
Speaker 1: He didn't get a very good look at what the
Speaker 1: white figure was and he had very much preferred stay
Speaker 1: that way. All he could remember that the figure seemed
Speaker 1: to be in white cloth and for some reason just
Speaker 1: felt like that thing was just staring very intensely at
Speaker 1: his son. So John scooped his son up and brought
Speaker 1: him to his room.
Speaker 1: While waiting for his wife to get back. His wife
Speaker 1: came home shortly after and when he told her about
Speaker 1: what he saw, she just laugh at him. you expect
Speaker 1: that his wife would be equally afraid or even more
Speaker 1: afraid than him right? but not really there because he
Speaker 1: always laugh at his wife about her phobia, because she
Speaker 1: has this which means she is just scared of clowns.
Speaker 1: and you know speaking, I recently online and I don't
Speaker 1: think it is watching you like a duck, animal. I
Speaker 1: don't know why people are scared of that I find it.
Speaker 1: but my friend's wife doesn't have. So, you know after
Speaker 1: told his wife about what happened
Speaker 1: She felt like it's my turn to laugh at you
Speaker 1: now right now you scared of ghost you scared of
Speaker 1: clowns but you also scared of ghost and then okay
Speaker 1: lah John also didn't want to argue with his wife
Speaker 1: over whether this really happened or not. He didn't even
Speaker 1: bother trying to rebut when his wife clearly didn't believe
Speaker 1: in him. So he just let the whole thing go
Speaker 1: and just didn't want to think about it anymore. But
Speaker 1: in the next few days, maybe it was the paranoia
Speaker 1: from that event.
Speaker 1: Or maybe there was really something there because he always
Speaker 1: felt like there was someone watching him. You know sometimes
Speaker 1: when something slightly traumatic happens to you.
Speaker 1: You get very paranoid about it like super hyper paranoid.
Speaker 1: Like you know for example just a few months ago,
Speaker 1: I was being stupid okay. I had my earphones in
Speaker 1: belting in my ears. So, I was just walking out
Speaker 1: of the office and I really don't know what I
Speaker 1: was thinking if I was thinking at all and I
Speaker 1: just walked straight into the glass. Like there was this loud.
Speaker 1: and then the security guard had to come out to
Speaker 1: check idiot walked into the door and luckily the glass
Speaker 1: wasn't hurt but I was. And you know from that
Speaker 1: day onwards, I just very consciously don't listen to music
Speaker 1: or use my phone when I'm walking in and out
Speaker 1: of the office building. So, it seems like I'm just
Speaker 1: more on my guard or maybe you could say I'm
Speaker 1: just being a bit hyper conscious of this event.
Speaker 1: transpiring again. So you know it could be the same
Speaker 1: thing for John because after whatever thing he saw, maybe
Speaker 1: it was a bit traumatic for him. He was just
Speaker 1: super conscious of this thing happening again so he was
Speaker 1: always kept on his guard when he was doing a
Speaker 1: at home. Maybe he just felt like there might be
Speaker 1: something there you know just got to keep an eye out.
Speaker 1: Following this incident, it was pretty peaceful
Speaker 1: Anything that happened to them within this week. It was
Speaker 1: just that my friend feeling a bit. But other than
Speaker 1: that again it was another weekday night. John was in
Speaker 1: his son's bedroom with his son and he was just
Speaker 1: reading a story which was really cute and he says
Speaker 1: he still remember it was the princess and the P.
Speaker 1: And even remember that they were at the part where
Speaker 1: the queen ordering the servants to put the underneath the
Speaker 1: layers of mattresses.
Speaker 1: When he looked out of the window.
Speaker 1: and saw a figure dripped in white cloth staring at
Speaker 1: his son.
Speaker 1: Yes, the same white figure and this time John managed
Speaker 1: to get a proper look. It had dark freezy hair
Speaker 1: that seemed to be shooting out in all directions and
Speaker 1: it wasn't very long the hair.
Speaker 1: He said it kind of reminded him of popcorn, but
Speaker 1: what was supposed to be a face, didn't look like
Speaker 1: there were any blood or flesh underneath the skin. Even
Speaker 1: then he couldn't really quite call whatever was clinging onto
Speaker 1: the face, skin.
Speaker 1: Because the texture was really weird like burnt wood and
Speaker 1: the colour was like a very very dark greyish black.
Speaker 1: The two black short eyes were white and nearly popping
Speaker 1: out of the sockets. Edged on its face was a
Speaker 1: huge unsettling grin. It was just greening at the both
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 1: And that grin got wider and wider as the two
Speaker 1: boys continued staring in fear. His son was screaming at
Speaker 1: the top of his lungs, pointing frantically in the direction
Speaker 1: of the window. He was crying like there was no tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but John, he immediately brought his son to his room,
Speaker 1: took out all his amulets, started chanting any and every
Speaker 1: prayer he knew.
Speaker 1: One hand was gripping tightly his son's hand, all his
Speaker 1: son continue to cry.
Speaker 1: While his other hand was just holding all his amulets
Speaker 1: and he was praying as hard as he could for
Speaker 1: that thing to just leave the both of them alone,
Speaker 1: never come back, never come into the house, outside the house, whatever.
Speaker 1: And as he was praying, he was closing his eyes tightly,
Speaker 1: he didn't dare to open his eyes because you know
Speaker 1: he was afraid that the thing might just jump scare
Speaker 1: him right in front of his face.
Speaker 1: So when his wife finally got back, she saw that
Speaker 1: both her boys were so visibly shaken by whatever has
Speaker 1: happened because the son also saw the same thing. So
Speaker 1: this time John's wife finally believed him and agreed that yes,
Speaker 1: they definitely need to find help to settle this. Because
Speaker 1: this definitely should not and cannot continue being a long
Speaker 1: term chronic issue in the house.
Speaker 1: Because clearly it was terrorizing and traumatizing for their son. Well,
Speaker 1: okay this is where our story stops. I have not
Speaker 1: heard from my friends since but the last I heard
Speaker 1: from him, John had already made arrangements with his wife.
Speaker 1: He agreed to get a master to come and get
Speaker 1: rid of this entity that somehow has just always been
Speaker 1: creepy watching them for the past week. And you know
Speaker 1: really I think it's a good thing that
Speaker 1: decided to take prompt action to this issue because it's
Speaker 1: really good to have this kind of things around especially
Speaker 1: if you know that there are things like that in
Speaker 1: close proximity of you and your family. And if you
Speaker 1: want to take the spiritual point of view, definitely this
Speaker 1: kind of things have a lot of negative energy bring
Speaker 1: a lot of
Speaker 1: to the terms of relationship relationships relationships
Speaker 1: very very bad energy. Sometimes we might evening our lives.
Speaker 1: And I've heard of this. I've heard of this kind
Speaker 1: of things happening. And then on the other hand if
Speaker 1: you want to move away from the spiritual, of course
Speaker 1: it is not good for kids especially if they are
Speaker 1: so young to be exposed to this kind of things
Speaker 1: because you can leave them. That experience definitely
Speaker 1: traumatic for John's because the next night Adam refused to
Speaker 1: sleep in his own room, which is of course very
Speaker 1: valid because if you have seen something so scary, especially
Speaker 1: when you are such a young boy, right outside your window,
Speaker 1: can you really feel at is going to sleep? Because
Speaker 1: I know I wouldn't be able to. Even at this age,
Speaker 1: I definitely would still be scared. And I think it's
Speaker 1: This is not very good. If he can't even feel
Speaker 1: safe in his own house. You know because people always
Speaker 1: say home is very hard is, if you can't even
Speaker 1: feel like you are protected in your own home, then
Speaker 1: there is no point. And what more he is just
Speaker 1: a young kid. He still has many years to learn. Okay,
Speaker 1: so before we endorf our episode, we still have time
Speaker 1: for one more short story.
Speaker 1: And this story was contributed by one of our listeners, Terence,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for your contribution. So, Terrence said
Speaker 1: that he doesn't really have a lot of experiences with
Speaker 1: the supernatural. And this is the only experience that he
Speaker 1: has ever had so far and it's been more than
Speaker 1: ten years, but thankfully nothing else has happened to him.
Speaker 1: So here goes Terence's side of the story.
Speaker 1: driving license he thought that it would be such a
Speaker 1: idea friends out at night you know many cars on
Speaker 1: the road. So that's what he did. father's of his
Speaker 1: best friends house. Both of them were living very close
Speaker 1: of them were living around the same neighborhood. So, he
Speaker 1: picked the both of them and then the
Speaker 1: them just drove off. It was like ten thirty PM
Speaker 1: and Terence drove the three of them to get supper
Speaker 1: somewhere a bit further away from their neighborhood. And then
Speaker 1: after supper, they were gonna head back home. So the
Speaker 1: three of them went back into the car and then
Speaker 1: Terence drove them back.
Speaker 1: So on the way back they were driving down this
Speaker 1: pretty small and a bit narrow road that they don't
Speaker 1: usually go to or pass by.
Speaker 1: And by then it was already past midnight. So it
Speaker 1: was dark and there were many cars on the road.
Speaker 1: But when they were driving along the road, they saw
Speaker 1: there was this guy wearing a hoodie and some kind
Speaker 1: of jeans pants long pants, he was just walking in
Speaker 1: front of them.
Speaker 1: So was along the side of the road. So, the
Speaker 1: three of them were curious as to why there was
Speaker 1: this guy walking along the side of the road past midnight.
Speaker 1: Furthermore he was walking very slowly like one small step
Speaker 1: at a time. So, the three of them thought like
Speaker 1: maybe this guy was injured or he needed a ride
Speaker 1: somewhere so they drove past him.
Speaker 1: Slowly, Terence already wded down the window because he wanted
Speaker 1: to ask, you know if he needed a ride somewhere,
Speaker 1: when they drove past this guy, he turned to look
Speaker 1: at them.
Speaker 1: When they caught a glimpse of his face, the three
Speaker 1: boys started screaming and his two friends was just telling him,
Speaker 1: Terence drive off as fast as you can right now
Speaker 1: just drive drive drive drive, go, go, go. So, Terrence
Speaker 1: just took off off without looking back.
Speaker 1: So what was that that that that that could never
Speaker 1: forget that. And week episode thank you so much for
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