QUOTE(skeelee @ Nov 12 2013, 06:57 PM)
You stayed in haunted houses before?
As a young engineer, I was posted to a small district in northern Perak as the JKR District Engineer in early 80s. The government quarter assigned to me was a 2-storey colonial bungalow with a compound larger than a football field, with no neighbours within ear shot. The building had outhouses for amah, driver, gardener, etc, but there were only my wife and me to occupy the house.
There were a living hall and a dining hall downstairs, and another living room and two large bedrooms with attached baths upstairs. It is of thick masonry columns and walls, black and white chequered tiles downstairs and timber floor upstairs. Bath tubs are the very ancient types with four exposed legs, and yes, with squeeky plumbings.
In the end, we only occupied the ground floor, upstairs were only used when we had visitors, and they were surely very excited with the experience. When I had to go outstations for meetings, I had to bring my wife along because she dared not stay in the house alone at night.
To make things worse, we had uninvited visitors to the house - cobras and other types of snakes and insects such as centipedes.
It was a very long 3 years and 3 months in this house.
And it is totally understood that while watching The Conjuring with my wife, I had to accompany her to the washroom when nature called.
I guess that I wasn't the luckiest kid around. Moved a few times coz my parents were poor back then. Stayed in 3 haunted houses before.
One with the occasional water tap being turned on. It was a bungalow house that was rented at a cheap rate. Right opposite there is a field on a small hill. Left was the 'Datuk Kong' and a tree and to the right was the durian tree. It wasn't long that we realised that there was a man hanged himself at the Datuk tree many years ago and a lady dressed in red committed suicide by hanging from the durian tree. Many scary incidents happened until we decided to move out. That was more than 25 years ago.
Moved to another house. This was much better coz only a lady hang herself in the shower. Fridge door opened by itself on many occasion. Toilet flushing at night. My cousin bro was locked in the bathroom while taking his bath.
Then, we moved to another house just a stone throw away. Didn't realise anything until my aunt's family moved out. Almost every night, I can hear children's footsteps walking down the staircase to the bathroom and playing upstairs. I wasn't quite sure whether it was my neighbour. I went up to check. Nothing. I asked my aunt about anything unusual since my cousin brothers used to sleep upstairs. She said there isn't and that it was the neighbour's children.
The footsteps happened again on many occasions. I decided to go up to check again. Nothing. I peeped through the balcony to see whether my neighbours were playing there. No sign of them. Went outside to check whether neighbour is in or not. Holy crap, no one is at home. The reality sank on me. I went back to my room. It was only 9pm. Then, I could clearly hear those playful footsteps coming down the staircase. The nearest 'encounter' was the faint footsteps at the kitchen, which was just next to my room.
After we moved to our new home, my aunt told me that there were 3 'toyols' in that house. My cousins also being disturbed by them. She said that she did not tell me the truth as she doesn't want me to be too frightened.