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Hey there, it's Edwin and this is Paranormal Club meeting is
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now in session. That's like an invisible gobble
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in case you guys don't get the reference, even though there's
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no reference to anything really. But anyway, this episode you're
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going to notice something a little bit different and it's
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that it's it's our very own very first on location episode.
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And the location for it has been Singapore.
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So Singapore's is tiny city state country.
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It's a small, small country known as what the little red dot
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or tiny red dot, tiny little red dot.
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And it's known enough for its modern stuff.
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It's banks, it's senator, I'm from Singapore.
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Like it's, it's, you know, I got to see the offices of Bite Den's
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offices AKA TikTok. And it's been, it's been super
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cool. But also it has a lot of ghost
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stories, a lot of dark history too.
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So you're going to find out a couple things that are different
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with this episode 1. Obviously we're on location.
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So you're going to see me in shorts and AT shirt like
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breathing hard, like trying to, I really need to get in shape.
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But you know, walking around Singapore, finding out actually
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it was in one of the most haunted areas of Singapore, the
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Changi area. And you're going to see haunted,
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haunted location in here. You're gonna, I'm gonna tell you
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about some of the creepy weird things that go on here, like
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ghost marriages. Also some of the legends, some
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of the some actual recent stories that happened.
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And they're all very eerie, you know, And I really hope you
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enjoy this this style of, of episode, even though it's not
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going to be like an everyday or an every week type of story, you
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know, that comes out. But I'm very interested in
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finding out what you think about it because as I always
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mentioned, you are here like seeing it take shape, like the
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podcast is taking shape. And there's a lot of mistakes
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with it. There's a lot of like, you know,
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whoops, like things that you're going to see how I cut videos.
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I'm not very good at it. But either way, it's a very fun
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episode to make. So I really hope you enjoy it.
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I'm just going to let it play for you.
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And then you let me know what you think.
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I'll see you back in a bit when I tell you about ghost
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marriages. Here we are, another weekly
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session with Paranormal Club. Right now I'm on location.
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There's just going to be kind of a new thing that I do, I guess,
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depending on how it goes. Right now it is not going very
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well, has some technical difficulties.
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Mosquitoes are eating us as we speak and it is hot as heck, so
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you're going to see me wipe my face every once in a while.
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But right now I'm going to tell you the story.
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I'm going to tell you the story of one of the most haunted
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places here in Singapore. Actually one of the areas, the
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Changi area. Here's something that we don't
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learn about in Western countries, sadly, we don't learn
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that much about the World War and all the horrors that were
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involved. It's just one of those things,
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you know, like it makes sense that they don't want to teach us
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all this stuff. But when you when you're over
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here in Southeast Asia, sometimes you learn about all
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these things and customs that were brought up because of the
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war. Example, for example, one common
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thing that I always bring up is Vietnam and it's coffee, right?
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They didn't have fresh milk. They need to adapt.
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And the way they did that was, was with canned milk, basically
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condensed milk. So you're going to see a lot of
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coffee made with that Here in Singapore, they just call it
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cope and it's the same thing. There's also egg coffee, coconut
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coffee, all these things didn't have fresh milk.
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So a lot of the history here, when you ask some of the people,
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some of the locals, they say that they can clearly define
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history as if as been like pre World War, post World War.
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And with that comes a lot of horrors, a lot of really evil
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things that were brought by war, which are, you know, one of
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those things that unspeakable, unspeakable stuff.
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And some of those involve one of these really haunted hospitals
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that I'm actually nearby right now.
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This is Changi Abandoned Hospital.
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The Chungi hospital right now is located right in front of me and
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is where I'm recording right now.
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You can hear some birds, you can hear some some other strange
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animals. You heard some strange animals.
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They were like ducks or maybe they were somebody trying to
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scare us or something. So here we are, these insects
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just started. What do you got here?
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You can tell that some of the roof has collapsed in that
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building. You see how hilly it is like in
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between them. I believe this is the one that
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was like more modern in between. You can kind of see the
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difference in what it looks like, even though it's it's not
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modern per SE. But I believe one of these is
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24. One of these is 37.
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Hope those are animals, but yeah, you can tell how like,
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strange it is to get from one place to another.
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So yeah, it wouldn't be that efficient.
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But I understand in some hospitals also building tunnels
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in between. I don't know what what this one
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might have looked like, but you know, yeah, you can actually see
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the roof up there. Like it's, it's collapsed like I
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just went. So it's actually one of the
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first like, big abandoned buildings that I've been to
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ever. And you know, when they say
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that, it has a strange feeling. I definitely sense that.
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Like it feels like it should be busy and there should be things
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here. Like these were all built for a
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purpose, you know, to heal. And now it's like there's
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nothing. You know, some of the haunted,
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some of the most haunting stories, like all stories that
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I've heard is that people that come here to record, they see
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people that are dressed in like pre war clothing and they see
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doctors, nurses when they obviously shouldn't be here
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anymore. So could they be true?
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I mean, it's one of those things where like, yeah, you see an
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abandoned, you know, an abandoned building and you see
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they should have life and it doesn't.
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So we kind of, you know, put these things together.
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But also, you know, I would accept that if it hadn't been
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the scene of these torture places and all this, you know,
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the the horrors of World War 2. Pretty excited to be here,
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though. You can kind of tell.
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I'm like, it's pretty cool in its own way, you know, because
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it's you're here, you're like in part of something that was built
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almost, what is it 90 years ago And now it's just this.
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Very weird. Now what's creepy about this now
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is that when you Google the Changi abandoned hospital, you
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get these bizarre images. I'm saying ghost hunters coming
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in, breaking in the rooms inside have lean a huge pentagram,
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signs of satanic rituals happening in there.
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Are these true? They might be, but either way,
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when you look at the building, you're going to see that it's
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pretty creepy. It's huge, it's abandoned.
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You can see some of the windows here.
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Let me see if you're watching on on Spotify or YouTube, you will
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get some of this footage. So we're going to turn the
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camera around and I'm going to point at the building itself.
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This is what I'm looking at right now.
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And right in front of the camera here, there's a sign that talks
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about the former Chongi Hospital, says this hospital was
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part of the construction efforts by the British to turn the
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Changi into a large military installation.
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I can read the whole thing. It says it's it was built on
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Barrick Hill between 1930 and 1935.
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The Real Engineers actually held cinema shows twice weekly in H
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Barrett Block, the site of the hospital, back in the 1930s.
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And it says the period following the British surrender saw a
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dramatic increase in the influx of patients from Alexander
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Hospital and other temporary hospitals and this led to the
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shifting of hospital facilities to the nearby Roberts Barracks,
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currently Changi Air Base. Subsequently, the Changi
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Hospital had likely housed prisoners of war or
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accommodation for Japanese troops.
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With the return of the British, the Changi Hospital was once
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again used as a hospital for British troops and the Royal Air
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Force located the command of headquarters of ACSEA Air
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Command Southeast Asia in the building.
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So that's thanks to the Urban Redevelopment Authority here in
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Singapore. Pretty bizarre, pretty bizarre
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place to be in. Like it just feels really weird.
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So hopefully we, I mean, I don't really know what, what time the
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sunsets here, but hopefully we have a couple more hours,
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probably not of sun, but we're going to be getting a little bit
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closer to the Changi Hospital. And along the way, I'm going to
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be sharing some more eerie and kind of bizarre legends from
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Singapore or all the story of the Changi Hospital is well
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known here in the area, but a lot of us don't aren't really
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aware of it Turns out, you know, one of the plaques here says it
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was built somewhere between 1930 and 1935.
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And all the records that I find online say 1935 S, you know,
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around that, that that range. But it was originally used by
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the British to as the as barracks and then turned into
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eventually, you know, turned into a hospital.
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And the story was that the Japanese during the occupation
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for World War 2, they had a lot of they had pretty much the
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military police here torturing prisoners of war at least also
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one of the plaques there. It also says that it might have
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just accommodated the Japanese troops.
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But either way, legend has it that some of the rooms had heavy
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chains and that blood was on the floor.
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And this was, you know, 1942 during the the atrocities of
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war. Actually try to set up a a type
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of like tour that they had set up.
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Somebody had a like AI guess their grandparents were
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survivors of the war and happen to have some experiences.
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But unfortunately that tour did not work out.
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It's actually we're leaving and two days after that's when it's
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available again, unfortunately. But hopefully we get in touch
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and I'm able to learn some of the some of these experiences.
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But Singapore does have some pretty strange quirks and odd
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stories because there's a mix of cultures.
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I personally find those fascinating.
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Turns out it's my second time in Singapore.
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The first time I was here, I was actually here for two or three
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days and it was a very quick visit.
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You didn't really get to learn anything about the the place,
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but there's some really interesting things that I found
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this time around, which, for example, the Hungry Ghost
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Festival, the during the 7th lunar month, usually around
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August. Is that somewhere around that
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time they have these ceremonies where, well, they do a bunch of
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things, but like one of these specific ceremonies when they're
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setting up, like the stage, they leave the front row completely
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empty, and that's for the spirits to watch from there.
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That's very interesting. Also, as you're walking along
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some of the houses and some of the shops and businesses, you're
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going to see food on the floor. Now, if you happen to step on
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it, even by accident, it's bad luck.
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Stuff's going to happen to you. So I found that super
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interesting, kind of connected to the Day of the Dead.
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If you think about it in Mexico, you have, you know, the, the in
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November you have the Day of the Dead, which is, you know, you
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set up altars because the spirits of the dead come out and
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visit. So very, I don't know, it's a
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very similar type of story. Also, there's some, there's some
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stories that go along with the hungry ghosts also.
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I guess it's also related. It's not just like a good type
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of thing, but also people use it kind of like in Mexico and use
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the Day of the Dead as a spooky time.
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There was a channel that I stumbled upon on YouTube that
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they actually end up coming to do a paranormal investigation, I
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guess, right. More like a tour here to the
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Changi Hospital and they do that so that we could watch what
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happens during the Hungry Ghost Festival around those times.
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So they kind of use that to, you know, bring forth all these
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talks of spirits and hauntings and stuff.
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Plus I also found that Singapore has a ton of stories when it
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comes to ghosts or Huntu as they're called.
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Very, very cool stuff. It's also incorporated
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spiritualism and spiritual practices are incorporated into
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pretty much everything because of the mix of of cultures that
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are here. So you have a lot of Chinese
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superstitions, superstitions from pretty much all over,
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especially Malaysia and some of the surrounding areas as well.
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So it's crossing the street illegally here.
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We get fined in Singapore for doing pretty much for chewing
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gum, believe it or not, for not taking your tray from the
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restaurant, you get fined. So we're trying not to get fined
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here. We might just take a right now.
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By the way, if you're hearing me a little winded, walking and
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talking, the very first ever on location recording for
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Paranormal Club for the content. For the content.
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So you can hear some background sounds and fortunately no music,
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so we won't get copyright strike.
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But yeah, as we keep walking along, I'll share with you a
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couple more interesting things here about Singapore.
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Let's see. There was one actually that I
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found very interesting. It's comes from Chinese culture.
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You're not supposed to point at the moon because if you point at
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the moon, your ears fall off, they get cut off.
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So it's one of those one of those things that you hear here,
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at least in in Singapore, and that comes from Chinese culture
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because the moon is sacred, so you're not supposed to point at
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it. Also heard talking about
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pointing. I need to figure out what it is
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because I'm not too sure about what pointing means, but
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supposedly you're not supposed to do it.
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I don't know. Interesting though.
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All right, so these are chalets now, I don't know if this is
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where they had that story where there's a very interesting
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story, Bachelet M, which is where 2 girls, you know, they
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were young girls, Taiwanese. They fell in love with each
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other and that's not allowed. So they needed, they wanted to
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stay together. And unfortunately that meant
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together forever. And they looked up online to see
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how they could end their lives and they did.
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They actually took charcoal won't go into the details, but
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and in the bathroom and they died together.
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So now they say that the ghosts, the spirits of these two girls
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are still in this chalet. And I think one of the most
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interesting parts that they try to cleanse it, at least the
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legend says, and that they refuse like they actually some
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of the messages that they received was to not make them
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leave, not force them to leave. That's because if they were
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forced to crossover, they were going to be separated.
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Pretty tragic. All right, so just jumping in
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here to tell you about the ghost marriage things that I promised.
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So there's this place that I visited and it it's strange
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because I couldn't record in there, but it was such an odd
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feel for a temple to be in the middle of the city.
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And that's how this place was. It was like this shack style
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tiny little, you could just see this old looking house with
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smoke coming out of it with this like chimney type thing and
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people are filtering in and out slowly.
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When I stepped in there, there was a man that was praying and
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he kindly just pointed at me in the right direction.
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He's like go to my right and step right in.
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And I was like, OK, went in there and what I saw, I've never
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seen anything like it ever. This was, it was a very unique
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experience. There was no filming or
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photography allowed in in select one of the sections of it.
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So I couldn't, I can't show you that there are some images on
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Google that you can find and they'll tell you more, you'll
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see more of like what it what it is.
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But essentially it's this place that's, it's called the Sang
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Wong Bell Temple. And I have some notes here that
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I'm I'm going to be reading from and it's the home of the city
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God Cheng Huang, a patron of departed souls.
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So imagine that, right? And it actually fits.
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You go in there and it's kind of dark.
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There are people that are praying.
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There are different sculptures there, things that you wouldn't
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necessarily expect to be inside of a temple.
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Obviously for me, not familiar at all with any type of religion
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things and and temples of any sort, this was kind of shock,
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right? To see it.
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There was this section when you step into the part that says no
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photography, no video. There were these large, I say
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I'm saying like life sized figures that were very eerie
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looking like they were creepy. I hope this is not like an
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offensive thing because I'm just describing it as how I saw it.
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I'm not sure if it was perceived like it was supposed to be
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perceived as a creepy entity, but I imagine like this person
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like here, here's what I want you to see right?
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It's this person really, really thick eyebrows, dark dark beard
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and this type of muck or like imagine like a dried blood like
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a black stuff coming down its chin, like down its mouth.
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That was one of the figures. Another one was like this other
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really like this creature like this.
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This is like a human, but it's like this they look angry,
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right? Thick eyebrows like all of them.
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All the features are human like right.
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You have like teeth and it's like kind of gnarling at you,
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not any like monsters or anything like that And there
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were two on one side, 2 on the other.
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I believe it was, it was like that might have been three and
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three, but basically, I mean, you're talking about something
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about what is it the the departed souls, right.
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So it's supposed to be a little bit creepy like hell in a bit
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like in a way, not in a bit. And it it was strange to be in
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there among people who understand what this is.
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And I'm, I'm, they're like, I don't know where I am, but, you
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know, try to look at everything really, really holding it in
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like I really want to take pictures, but sadly couldn't.
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But we made our way on to the inside.
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There were people burning just paper in there and a lot of
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people just kind of sitting there like I guess it was very,
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a very calm place in the city. And I have some footage in case
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you're watching on Spotify or YouTube, you'll be able to see
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it. But it it was strange.
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And what's even? More like brings you into like
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what this is all about is that this is the place where they
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keep records of ghost marriages and actual ceremonies of ghost
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marriages happen right there. Now what this means, when I
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first heard of it, heard of, of ghost marriages, I thought, OK,
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so this is just probably just a, a story like tradition, like,
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oh, this is celebration that we do once a year and we marry
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ghosts or something like that. You know, you hear stories like
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these in, in different cultural, you know, get togethers and
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cultural ceremonies and things like that.
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Well, not here. This is literally marrying
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ghosts. Now, the stories are a little
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deeper than what I, you know, than what I just told you.
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Basically, you have stories of, let's say you have a child that
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went missing, right? And they've been gone for 20
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years. So now it's like time for them
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to get married. And you don't know where they
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are. They're probably dead.
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And you need to find them somebody to marry.
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So you go to to this woman, Madame.
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What is it, Madame Tom? And she is a matchmaker for
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ghosts. And she finds another family,
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finds another person that, you know, the ghost can marry.
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And she holds a ceremony for these ghosts to get married.
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Now how this happens is literally marrying like figures,
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like they they make of the craft amount of paper, make them look
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like the person. And then the, you know, they
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make nice suits out of paper. And I mean, it's might be worth
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a few dollars, you know, to make everything, but it's all so well
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made. Then at the end, they just do
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the ceremony and they burn everything, you know, And when
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you think of it like that, it's, it's kind of a sad affair,
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except people go there like family members and they, they
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witness a marriage and they treat it like a marriage.
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So, and the censor basically logs, you know, that this
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marriage occurred. And now it could be, you know,
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they, they could be at peace. So there was this this newspaper
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article that was pasted in the front of this temple.
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That is, you know where I'm getting a lot of this
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information from. Here's the use of the example,
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right? So says, let's say a dead unborn
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child from 30 years ago is looking for a partner, but he's
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dead and a dream, he shows up asking for a marriage with his
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chosen bride. So he shows up to his parents in
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a dream. Symbols and other details start
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arriving in dreams like this, this bride that I want lives in
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this house or this house number maybe drives this car.
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Like you start getting these hints and dreams.
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So then they find out who it is. They finally find the, the, the,
00:23:07
the the other ghost or the other spirit and they get married.
00:23:11
Another thing that I found from Eugene from Supernatural
00:23:14
Confessions is that not, it's not that both parties need to be
00:23:18
dead. One of them can be alive, the
00:23:20
other can be dead. And that ghost needs to be your
00:23:25
first spouse. As in they take priority.
00:23:29
They're the ones that you're going to be with in the
00:23:31
afterlife. I mean, it's, it's just, it
00:23:36
gives me chills to think about it and witnessing one of these
00:23:38
things, you know, in there, like an actual ghost marriage when
00:23:43
you know, the dreams are being interpreted.
00:23:45
This is when Madame Tom comes in and she introduces the ghosts to
00:23:49
each other, like the whole little rituals and stuff.
00:23:52
So the ghosts can meet. Then once you know that they,
00:23:56
they meet and they're like, OK, you know what?
00:23:59
I'm sensing that they want to get married, then they go ahead
00:24:03
and and perform with a marriage. So overall, I'm going to play
00:24:08
some clips for you to to see, you know, what this was all
00:24:11
about, but it, it, it was a strange thing to to learn about.
00:24:15
Very interesting. I don't know.
00:24:17
Let me know what you think of that because there are
00:24:19
definitely cultures out there that have traditions that are
00:24:24
different than what we're used to.
00:24:26
And I find them so fascinating. You know, just to think about.
00:24:29
Still a little eerie, though. They were thinking about ghosts
00:24:33
and then getting married. All righty.
00:24:37
And our trip continues here. I am standing right now in front
00:24:40
of of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, which is probably one of
00:24:45
the more popular. Like if you imagine Singapore,
00:24:47
this is what you're imagining. This is probably what's on your
00:24:50
brochure for those of us, for those of you who are just
00:24:53
listening, literally just listening, I'm going to describe
00:24:57
it the best I can, which is imagine three towers in a row,
00:25:01
not in a triangle shape like in a row.
00:25:03
And then a ship was to like just come on top of it and like just
00:25:08
lay on top of it like that. Like it, It's just like this
00:25:12
structure. I don't even know how to anyway,
00:25:14
if you're watching on YouTube or Spotify, you know exactly what
00:25:16
I'm talking about because I'm standing right in front.
00:25:18
And it's fitting because what I'm going to tell you about is
00:25:21
this really interesting factoid about Singapore and its belief,
00:25:26
like a spiritual beliefs. There was a mystery of the $1.00
00:25:30
coin that happens while they were building the MRT.
00:25:34
There's a lot of metal that was introduced into the city, right?
00:25:36
So into the bedrock. Bedrock.
00:25:38
The Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew asked.
00:25:40
The Venerable Hong Chuan was a Feng shui master about the
00:25:44
plants. He was like, hey, what do you
00:25:46
think of these? And Hong Chuan was like, you
00:25:49
know what, the metal in the bedrock, it's going to
00:25:51
counteract with the positive Feng shui of the area.
00:25:53
So what every Singaporean should do is to carry this bagua, which
00:25:58
is an octagonal shape like a like a Taoism symbol.
00:26:04
I represent the trigrams from Taoist cosmology.
00:26:06
And the Prime Minister was like, you know what, we have so many
00:26:10
different cultures here. We can't force everybody to use
00:26:14
that, like it. How are we going to manage that?
00:26:17
But he was like, you know, what we can do is use the $1.00 coin
00:26:23
and put that shape in there. So now every single Porian
00:26:25
without knowing is going to carry that.
00:26:26
And they're going to counterbalance all the tunnels
00:26:29
in the metal that's being introduced into the bedrock.
00:26:31
So very interesting thing that I found out about here and it's
00:26:35
actually like spiritual like spiritualism and the belief in
00:26:38
ghosts and spirits influences a lot of the design here in
00:26:41
Singapore as well. There was one really interesting
00:26:44
story that I learned about just recently, and that's the the
00:26:48
metro station. There was this is it slow the
00:26:52
Woodley station. I think of the pronouncing that
00:26:54
right, there was a cemetery that was on top of it.
00:26:58
And from what I read online, 147 bodies were buried there
00:27:03
with the largest cemeteries in Singapore, and they were exhumed
00:27:07
in order to build this development thing over it.
00:27:11
And right under it there's a station.
00:27:13
Now, the station itself was completed in 2006, but it wasn't
00:27:17
opened until 2011. Word says that it was because of
00:27:22
these spiritual things, you know, that were happening.
00:27:23
This was on top of us, I mean, under a cemetery, literally
00:27:26
under a cemetery. So for the longest time, from
00:27:29
2006 to 2000, 2011, the train, you know, the people that were
00:27:33
taking the train would see like they were passed by the station.
00:27:38
It would be completely empty. Like it wouldn't, it would just
00:27:40
skip it, right? And people would say that they
00:27:43
would see figures floating there in the in the station.
00:27:47
So pretty interesting story, really creepy, really creepy to
00:27:51
think about. There's also some other, you
00:27:54
know, haunted stations, haunted MRT stations that are said with
00:27:57
their own stories. You know, there's always some of
00:27:59
those, but that was particularly interesting.
00:28:02
Also Eugene's tour which is called which is a you know, I
00:28:06
met with him here in in Singapore from Supernatural
00:28:09
Confessions and he was telling me about some of the interesting
00:28:12
things that some of the ghosts that are said to roam around.
00:28:16
Like a lot of them are influenced from like Malaysian
00:28:18
culture. But there was one that was
00:28:20
really creepy. It was called a Penangal or
00:28:24
Penang Penangalan, which is this nocturnal is from Wikipedia is a
00:28:30
nocturnal vampiric entity from the late ghost myths.
00:28:33
It takes the form of a floating disembodied woman's head with
00:28:36
its organs and entrails trailing from its neck and trails hanging
00:28:42
trailing from it's neck. From afar, the Penangalan is
00:28:45
said to twinkle like a ball of flame, similar to the will of
00:28:48
the West phenomenon. To me that sounds a little like
00:28:50
a witch. Still pretty eerie.
00:28:53
And some of these floating heads also are said to be witches that
00:28:58
want to live forever and they prey on pregnant women and
00:29:02
children. So got to watch out for all
00:29:05
those things. But Malaysia sounds pretty,
00:29:08
pretty eerie. So you want to take a guess
00:29:10
where our next on location episodes coming from?
00:29:14
Stay tuned. But last week I asked a couple
00:29:17
of for some questions in case anybody's wondering anything
00:29:20
about my visit here in Singapore or anything like that.
00:29:23
And I did get a couple of questions here within the
00:29:27
broadcast channel that I have on my username is Edwin Cove
00:29:30
EDWINCOVI. Got a couple questions here from
00:29:34
Links of the Snow. Here's one.
00:29:37
Didn't you say the other day that you met up with someone to
00:29:39
discuss spooky things with and someone had said you were there
00:29:43
the previous night? What happened with that?
00:29:47
And I don't know what happened with that, but it was really
00:29:49
weird. So here's the thing.
00:29:51
Here's what happened, right? So there was a, there's a guy
00:29:55
who does a, he has a YouTube channel here.
00:29:57
People show up and they tell their spooky stories and they're
00:30:00
all these really eerie things that happened here in Singapore,
00:30:02
right? And the colors from Malaysia.
00:30:04
He also has different set, different types of segments.
00:30:07
So I messaged him and I'm like, hey, you want to meet up?
00:30:09
You want to do something. And he was like, yeah, like,
00:30:11
let's record something, right? And it was interesting because
00:30:15
it was late at night when I asked him, hey, what are we
00:30:16
going to do tomorrow? And he was like, you know what,
00:30:19
we want to come down at night. And it was like, he's like, how
00:30:21
about 10? And I was like 10 at night,
00:30:23
Like, sure, right. Turns out one of the stations
00:30:26
there, as I'm making my way there, he's like, go down this
00:30:29
long, empty here corridor, which may or may not be haunted.
00:30:33
And I'm like, Oh, no, like something's happening here
00:30:36
because some of the MRT stations are known to be haunted, you
00:30:39
know? And anyway, I show up finally
00:30:42
after I got lost, I met up with them and I sat down at this
00:30:45
Hawker food sent like a, like a basically what it is, is like a
00:30:48
imagine like a food court. It's kind of outdoors, a lot of
00:30:52
little food stands. And that's where it was.
00:30:54
So I sat at the table with Eugene.
00:30:56
Eugene said, hey, you want something to drink?
00:30:57
I will grab something. And he went for some diet Cokes
00:31:00
or whatever, and he went there and when he was getting back,
00:31:04
like when he was coming back to like where where I was, there
00:31:08
was this woman that was talking to me and she was like, hey, do
00:31:11
you want a beer? And I was like, no, my friend
00:31:13
went out to get something and he's, she's like, she just kept
00:31:16
looking at me like she knew me. So I'm thinking it's really
00:31:19
weird. And basically she said that I
00:31:23
had been there the previous night and then I was looking for
00:31:26
ghost stories. Is that true for her?
00:31:30
Was I there? My ghost was there.
00:31:33
But either way, what ended up happening was that Eugene
00:31:37
believed her and was like, oh, you were here yesterday and I
00:31:39
was like, no, I wasn't here yesterday.
00:31:42
Like and I kind of have to double check because I get lost
00:31:44
easily. So I might have been there
00:31:46
right, But no, this thing was like an hour away.
00:31:48
I I would have to like want to go there and like make the
00:31:52
effort to go there because there's nothing around there for
00:31:54
me to be let go. Look at and it was weird and we
00:31:58
just kind of went like, that's really weird.
00:32:01
I was like maybe my stories, my Instagram Stories, but no, like
00:32:03
she said I was there. So who knows?
00:32:06
I don't know what happened. If you believe in like
00:32:09
doppelgangers, maybe doppelganger was there looking
00:32:11
for ghost stories and has been talking to everybody right now.
00:32:15
Maybe I'm the doppelganger, but that was really weird.
00:32:20
And then let me see, Louise L Mokiki says or asks.
00:32:24
Your experience at one of the Hawker centers was spooky.
00:32:27
Have you visited any haunted places there?
00:32:29
And did you try Haney's, Haney's or Haney's Chicken Rice?
00:32:35
Yes, I have actually the really famous 1, the Michelin star food
00:32:38
stand was really good. It was really good, but the line
00:32:44
was way too long all this time. So I end up going to some other
00:32:48
other centers like Maxwell Center to have that tried it
00:32:52
with different types of meats, different types of vegetables
00:32:54
and stuff is really good. By the way, this is like this.
00:32:57
It's like I I believe it's like a chicken that's boiled in some
00:32:59
type of like, is it like AI don't know if it's like a
00:33:03
vinegar or or wine, but either way, it's very, very good served
00:33:07
with I don't even know where they get the rice from, but it
00:33:09
was amazing. Everything was was spectacular.
00:33:13
So really, really like that. So thanks a lot for those
00:33:16
questions. By the way, I think we can make
00:33:19
this into a little segment. Again, you're one of the first
00:33:22
people here that are watching the pocket.
00:33:24
They're watching Spotify and YouTube.
00:33:26
But if you're listening to a we're taking shape.
00:33:28
This is how we're doing this right now.
00:33:30
This is a segment might be called on location.
00:33:32
So thanks so much for for your questions on about this.
00:33:36
We also have some questions that I mean, comments that we got on
00:33:39
Spotify says from our last our cult episode, it says so cool
00:33:44
you went to Sikhor. I'm sorry, that was the last
00:33:46
one, was it? Yes.
00:33:47
So cool. You went to Sikhor.
00:33:49
This comes from Gene Lewis. But I haven't been back to the
00:33:52
Philippines for a while now. I never knew that.
00:33:53
But let the trees are known for healing.
00:33:55
My family left the tree alone because we were little stitches.
00:33:57
And I love that little stitches part because it's a reference to
00:34:01
the office and I love the office.
00:34:03
But yeah, but let the tree actually looked up a little bit
00:34:05
more about it. But let the trees.
00:34:07
It's very cool. OK, The music starting here.
00:34:12
So we might get copyrighted here.
00:34:14
So anyway, we'll end it here. Thank you so much for listening
00:34:20
to the podcast. We'll see where it goes.
00:34:23
We'll see what this podcast is taking us.
00:34:25
But if you're watching over on Spotify and YouTube, thank you
00:34:28
so much as well and for your comments and everything.
00:34:32
As always, if you want to get in touch with me, you can e-mail me
00:34:34
at edwin@scarystory.com. And yeah, that concludes this
00:34:39
episode. And that concludes our meeting
00:34:40
of Paranormal Club. Thank you so much for watching
00:34:43
or listening. Keep it scary everyone, see you
00:34:46
soon.