Step inside the chilling ruins of Old Changi Hospital, where peeling walls whisper secrets of Singapore's haunted past. In this spine-tingling episode, we dive into scary stories, ghost marriages, and local legends that refuse to die.
From tales of spectral soldiers and phantom brides to the eerie rituals of the afterlife, we explore the dark underbelly of folklore and history that still haunts this forgotten place.
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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
00:22:42
dead and a dream, he shows up asking for a marriage with his
00:22:46
chosen bride. So he shows up to his parents in
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a dream. Symbols and other details start
00:22:51
arriving in dreams like this, this bride that I want lives in
00:22:56
this house or this house number maybe drives this car.
00:23:00
Like you start getting these hints and dreams.
00:23:03
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.
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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.