Public interest in Amber Court Villa D’Genting Resort has been recently reignited when residents protested the unending rumours of the apartment complex being haunted last week as reported by The Star.

More than 100 residents and Amber Court Management Corporation chairman Datuk Sri Dr KK Chai blasted content creators and ‘YouTubers’ who consistently play up the building as one of the most haunted places in Malaysia.

As a result, Amber Court suffers a poor reputation even until today.

Naturally, when people deny such things, it garners even more curiosity. TRP ascended the mountain to investigate Amber Court for ourselves.

The road there is long and winding, almost a 10-minute drive past Genting Highlands resort. Amber Court apartments is quite hidden, at the literal end of the road, but it offers a frankly excellent mountain view.

As the apartment complex comes into view, the building honestly seems rather boring, painted a light gray that has little of the dark grimy discolouration so commonly found in online videos.

What is truly surprising, in fact, is that the moment you head in the main lobby, you are greeted by the bright glowing neon sign of a KK Mart.

Uniformed security guards greeted us at the door. There were also a good handful of people milling around in the lobby area, seemingly residents and a couple of visitors.

There was even a reception for a homestay business, which actually looked very warm and inviting.

Look, any building that has a 24-hour convinience store in the lobby is far from haunted. In fact, this supposedly “most haunted building in Malaysia” is frankly less scary than your old high school at night.

Surprisingly, there were also more than a few longtime residents living in the apartment complex. A longtime resident we spoke to who has lived there for 5 years said that he had never experienced anything spooky at all while living there.

There’s nothing scary here. It’s just very foggy and cold.

In fact, the lack of spooky encounters tend to be something of a disappointment, as people interested in the paranormal often try to stay the night at the apartments.

Ghost hunters and paranormal thrill seekers looking for ghosts are very disappointed when they stay here. A lot of those ‘scary’ videos online are engineered in some way or faked with filters and stuff.

The apartment complex is simply old with a rather dated design, considering that it was built more than two decades ago in 1996, then faced some years of abandonment due to the Asian financial crisis in 1997.

Right now, the empty lobby lends to its mildly eerie vibes, but the remaining shopkeepers noted that the place used to have more businesses on site. However, many closed down during the pandemic when tourism came to a standstill.

Still, businesses are slowly recovering. We even noted some construction happening in the outer balcony area, which probably means that good news as tourism restarts.

The main reason for its ill-repute and scary appearance is likely the moss that flourishes in the cold and damp air up the mountains. The red-coloured algae and mold that thrives in the foggy weather can be found not just on Amber Court, but even other buildings like Genting Highland’s own RSC staff hostel buildings.

The only thing vaguely haunted about this apartment complex is the 2017 horror film Haunted Hotel. Amber Court was used as a shooting location in some parts of the film, but that’s simply part of movie magic.

(And as someone who actually watched the film, it’s really not that scary either.)

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Thanks but no thanks

It just look 'abandoned' due to badly managed by the JMB.

I think they are trying to revive the place after being neglected past few years. I think they have repainted the whole building too.

Everywhr haunted including my hse . I kena press by ghost on bed canot move . Alot ppl encounter sleep paralysis thn spread haunted press by ghost kek

B4 REPAINTING

Now looks better.

If I am not mistaken, the condos are actually quite spacious.

Before first world hotel open, a lot of people stayed there when they go Genting in the 90’s and 80’s.

In d West they turn haunted Castles into tourist attractions... many ppl r atheists x longer believe in super natural...

Hotels, old folks homes, nursing homes, hospitals... ppl die there everyday... ppl go stay there everyday tooo... so?

Due 2 shortage of land, many gravesites oso used 2 build condo... 👻

Reputation smeared beyond redemption liao la...new paint job also no use.

Cinis pipul won't dare to buy, especially the old school superstitious ones.

the fact that the writer didn't stay overnight there tells u something about the place

This post has been edited by estcin: Jun 28 2022, 03:30 PM

Haunted la.. Got asura and tall & thin goblin lookalike creature

All old places look terrible, if x maintained.

Just demolish it. Then rebuild on top.

Need to refurbish the whole thing. Knock down is hard i think, but with proper paint, lights and crowd, it will be good.

Dont let it go down the drain.

suddenly news dig out of this building

getting ready for the developer to take over?

cause youtuber keep saying haunted lo.. then price drop, hence owners make press statement, say no such thing. stop saying is haunted, else they sue for defamation.

Ria apartment

Should rename to Amber Heard, a hotel where you can shit on the bed.

I wonder if the owners improve their unit's furnishing or not. From some youtubers which rent there during their 'ghost hunt' I notice the units furnishing is quite out to date, some still having old fashion box TV units. If the owners update the furnishings definitely more people will want to stay there.