I will share my experience. I had some affinity with the other side so most of the times I can feel or see.

So it goes. My paternal grandmother passed away when I was 7. She loved and doted on me the most. Cause I was her eldest natural granddaughter. She pampered me like a princess in all ways. So she passed on due to asthma attack. She had this favoutire old cupboard. The cupboard is old wooden kind. The doors can clamp shut tightly and you must exert a bit of force to open it and it opens outwards. Imagine wind can only shut it but not opne it.

So when my grandmother’s returning 7th day ot Tou Qi came, all of us including my uncles, aunts, cousins, dad and mum n siblings were waiting with the main house door wide opened. Then coming to 12 midnight, I was very naughty and went to shut the main door. My gugu (dad’s elder sis) came and and opened the door. Suddenly, a strong gust of wind blew in. My old house that kind of design is very hard to have wind blowing in from my main door. So I followed the wind to my grandmother’s room. I remember that the clamped shut door of my grandmother’s door flew opened. I was angry cause I do not know who the hell opened my favourite grandmother’s favourite cupboard. So I shut the door, then it opened again, so I shut it again. It is after a few times, my gugu come ans stop me and tell me that my grandmother is looking at her favourite things in the cupboard. I should not disturb since she loved me the most.

You may think its like some fake story, but it is my true experience. I can see ghosts as young as 4 yrs old. I still remember those incidents vividly. I truly miss my grandmother but there isn’t mich I can do for her though, since she passed on. I wasn’t scared though but subsequently I was very sad.

1. It is said sometimes that ghosts can actually feel your fear; they can even breathe it in and grow larger from it. If you are in a fearful situation with a ghost, say a mantra or a Buddha or Bodhisattva’s name that will help you feel at peace and protected. If you feel something close to your face taking your breath away, tell it to back off now!. Remember, you are more powerful than any entity. When they are breathing in your breath or the energy from your fear, it’s just an indication that they are not feeling very powerful and are trying to draw on your power.

2. When there are children ghosts in a house, it works well to ask one of the adult ghosts to persuade the children to leave together.

3. Children and animals can see ghosts easily. Their intellect isn’t getting in the way, telling them it’s not possible. If your dog growls or your cat hisses at nothing, or your children talk to “nothing,” chances are you have a ghost around.

4. Many times there are ghosts so filled with remorse, guilt or shame about something it did during its lifetime that it is completely stuck. It won’t allow itself to go on. Many feel they must stay in this state of “limbo” and be punished. The truth is, they are the ones who condemn themselves to limbo, but they can take the next rebirth whenever they’re ready to.

5. Ghosts will sometimes stick around if they are older and genuinely concerned for people on this side, or younger but using that as an excuse. We can always tell of the concern is genuine or not, but in either case, we re-assure the ghost that there are many people on this side who can help these people out. The ghost needs to learn to let go and trust that people will take care of themselves or find others to help them.

6. Ghosts who had a drug or alcohol problem when they were alive may choose to hang out with people who have a similar addiction and may actually take over their bodies from time to time to still feel that high.

7. Some people think of their ghosts as pets, and what’s sad is that these ghosts often think of themselves as pets. They’re grateful to be loved, no matter how it comes. These ghosts have very little self-esteem, so we are gentle and loving toward them. But it is also important to be firm about the fact that they need to set themselves free, e.g. by chanting “Namo Amitabha” to aspire birth in Amitabha Buddha’s Pure-land. Ghosts are people, not pets.

8. Sometimes if a person doesn’t believe in life after death, he will not move on when he dies, because he won’t understand what is going on. He will simply hang out in a place most familiar to him. The good news is most people do believe in some kind of after-life, so this doesn’t happen that often. When you are dealing with ghosts who don’t believe they are dead, it’s important to be honest and direct and tell them that their physical body is dead. We can tell them to chant the Buddha’s name and head for the golden light of Amitabha.

9. Sometimes it’s better that the owner or resident of a house tell the ghost to leave, first because it is empowering to the resident to know he can make this happen, and also because it is a message loud and clear to the ghost that it is not wanted.

10. The more fuss that’s made about a ghost, the more ghosts you’ll attract. A good example is the Chinese celebration of the 7th lunar month’s Hungry Ghost Festival. In Buddhism, contrary to the popular Chinese cultural superstition, hell’s gates do not open and the hell beings are not the same as the hungry ghost beings as they exist in different realms. Giving offerings in mass to the ghosts and fearing them thus attracts the hungry ghosts, who are already around, in masses, along with wandering ghosts. (Please re-read the header above if you are unsure of the differences between hungry ghosts and ghosts as in wandering spirits.) Many traditional superstitious Chinese do not see the difference between wandering ghosts, hungry ghosts and hell-beings. While the first is not really a realm by itself (limbo), the other two are realms in themselves. The so-called ghosts that we encounter as humans are either wandering ghosts or hungry ghosts- as hell beings do not wander in other realms.

Portals are openings from our world into the spirit world. The most common way to create one of these is to use an Ouija board (”plate fairy” in Chinese) because it’s inviting communication. The problem with opening ourselves up to the spirit world without knowing what we are doing is that we attract all kinds of ghosts to us that may not be so favourable. If you suspect you have a portal in your home, it’s time to have some psychic protection. This is nothing to mess about.

11. Ghosts in general have no concept of time. They can remain in the same room or area for years and years, never giving any thought to how long they’ve been dead or how much life is changing around them. They are literally stuck at a point in time in the consciousness. Honesty is the best way to handle a situation like this. We tell the ghost, “This is the year 2000; it’s important for you to move on to a better place.”

12. Ghosts can be very self-serving. They do what they want, without consideration of what it’s doing to others. Don’t ever let a ghost “have its way with you,” no matter what that means. If you suspect that you’ve been taken over by a ghost, do not under any circumstances put up with it. They need to honour boundaries just like the rest of us.

What to Do if Your Child is Frightened by a Ghost?

If your child complains that a ghost is trying to frighten him or her, don’t be too quick to judge him or her as crazy or imagining things. Listen and ask questions. She may become too frightened to sleep in the room. If something like this happens, try this: Get the child a can of (ozone-friendly!) air-freshener. Show him how to spray at the ghost with the can, while telling it to chant the name of Amitabha Buddha and go to the golden light. Just keep spraying until the ghost goes away. This helps to empower the child with confidence, to feel that he is not powerless. At the same time, the spray does not really harm anyone- not even the ghost. Remember to keep it simple- tell the child ghosts are lost dead people who need their guidance as to where to go and that he is doing a good thing by sending them to the light. Kids don’t need any big heavy explanations- just keep it simple.

I went taipei last year and the tour guide told us an accident that happened to a group of Malaysian tourist. When we were at the hill, he told us that if we see any tomb, dont comment anything and he say he will explain to us on the way back. So when we going up JIU FEN, there are some tomb and those were facing the sea. no one in the bus mentioned anything and when we were done with our shopping, we went back hotel. On the way back, the tour guide what happened to the Malaysian tour group accident on the way down from jiu fen…

According to him, last year, when the tour bus went up to JIU FEN, got some people commenting about the beautiful scenery and the nice location of the tomb, one girl even say she don’t mind staying there for 1 day while her sister replied that she don’t mind staying there forever!!! The tour guide heard their conversation and asked them to respect the dead and stop commenting such thing but they still continue. And on the way down the slope, the brake suddenly spoilt and back to normal again when the bus driver applied huge force but this cause the whole bus to OVERTURN!!! Everyone in the bus was injuried except 2 dead and 2 totally uninjuried. The 2 who died was the sisters while the 2 who are totally fine are the bus driver and the tour guide…..so…in the end, the 2 sisters really get to live there forever…..the tour guide is our tour guide friend and he told him this story to warn people not to comment on the tomb at JIU FEN.

LITTLE Cameron Macaulay was a typical six-year-old, always talking about his mum and family.He liked to draw pictures of his home too — a long single-storey, white house standing in a bay.But it sent shivers down his mum’s spine — because Cameron said it was somewhere they had never been, 160 miles away from where they lived.

And he said the mother he was talking about was his “old mum.”

Convinced he had lived a previous life Cameron worried his former family would be missing him.

The Glasgow lad said they were on the Isle Of Barra.

Mum Norma, 42, said: “Ever since Cameron could speak he’s come up with tales of a childhood on Barra.

“He spoke about his former parents, how his dad died, and his brothers and sisters.

“Eventually we just had to take him there to see what we could find.

“It was an astonishing experience.”

Cameron’s journey to find his previous life is now the subject of a spooky TV documentary.

Norma said: “His dad and I are no longer together but neither of our families have ever been to the island.

“At first we just put his stories down to a vivid imagination.” Then life took a more sinister turn as Cameron started to become distressed at being away from his Barra family.

Norma said: “It was awful and went on for years.

“When he started nursery his teacher asked to see me and told me all the things Cameron was saying about Barra. He missed his mummy and his brothers and sisters there.

“He missed playing in rockpools on the beach beside his house.

“And he complained that in our house there was only one toilet, whereas in Barra, they had three.

“He used to cry for his mummy. He said she’d be missing him and he wanted to let his family in Barra know he was all right.

“It was very distressing. He was inconsolable.”
Memorable view … Isle of Barra which Cameron said was his former home

“He wouldn’t stop talking about Barra, where they went, what they did and how he watched the planes landing on the beach from his bedroom window.

“He even said his dad was called Shane Robertson, who had died because ‘he didn’t look both ways.’

“I assume he means knocked over by a car but he never says that.

“One day his nursery teacher told me a film company were looking for people who believed they had lived before.

“She suggested I contact them about Cameron. My family were horrified. There was a lot of opposition to it. I’m a single parent so it was me and Cameron’s brother Martin, who is only a year older than him, who were being badly affected by this.

“Cameron wouldn’t stop begging me to take him to Barra. It was constant.

“I contacted the film company and they followed Cameron’s journey to Barra.

“We had child psychologist Dr Jim Tucker, from Virginia, with us.

“He specialises in reincarnation and has researched other children like Cameron.

“When Cameron was told we were going to Barra he was jumping all over the place with excitement.” The family flew from Glasgow last February and landed on Cockleshell Bay an hour later.

Norma said: “He asked me if his face was shiny, because he was so happy.
Cameron and Norma … he says ‘if you die you come back again’

“When we got to the island and DID land on a beach, just as Cameron had described, he turned to Martin and me and said, ‘Now do you believe me?’

He got off the plane, threw his arms in the air and yelled ‘I’m back.’

“He talked about his Barra mum, telling me she had brown hair down to her waist before she’d had it cut.

“He said I’d like her and she’d like me. He was anxious for us to meet.

“He also talked about a ‘big book’ he used to read, and God and Jesus.

“We’re not a religious family but his Barra family were.”

The Macaulays booked into a hotel and began their search for clues to Cameron’s past. Norma said: “We contacted the Heritage Centre and asked if they’d heard of a Robertson family who lived in a white house overlooking a bay.

“They hadn’t. Cameron was very disappointed. We drove around the island but he didn’t see the house.

“Then we realised that if he saw planes land on the beach from his bedroom window, we were driving the wrong way.”Next the family received a call from their hotel to confirm that a family called Robertson once had a white house on the bay.

Norma explains: “We didn’t tell Cameron anything. We just drove towards where we were told the house was and waited to see what would happen.

“He recognised it immediately and was overjoyed.

“But as we walked to the door all the colour drained from Cameron’s face and he became very quiet.

“I think he thought it would be exactly the same as he remembered it, that his Barra mum would be waiting for him inside. He looked sad. There was no one there. The previous owner had died but a keyholder let us in.

“There were lots of nooks and crannies and Cameron knew every bit of the house — including the THREE toilets and the beach view from his bedroom window. In the garden, he took us to the ‘secret entrance’ he’d been talking about for years.”

Researchers also managed to track down one of the Robertson family who had owned the house.

Norma said: “We visited them at their new address in Stirling, but couldn’t find anything about a Shane Robertson.

“Cameron was eager to see old family photographs in case he found his dad or himself in any.

“He’d always talked about a big black car and a black and white dog.

“The car and the dog were in the photos.”

Since the family returned to their home in Clydebank, Glasgow, Cameron has been much calmer.

Norma said: “Going to Barra was the best thing we could have done.

“It’s put Cameron’s mind at ease. He no longer talks about Barra with such longing.

“Now he knows we no longer think he was making things up.

“We didn’t get all the answers we were looking for — and, apparently, past life memories fade as the person gets older.

“Cameron has never spoken about dying to me. But he told his pal not to worry about dying, because you just come back again.

“When I asked him how he ended up with me, he tells me he ‘fell through and went into my tummy.’

“And when I ask him what his name was before, he says, ‘It’s Cameron. It’s still me.’

“I don’t think we’ll ever get all the answers.”

This incident I saw it with my own eye.

It was school holiday, there was NPCC annual camp. As usual, group by group, we took turns to do patrol around the school. There wasn’t any security guard then.

In a sleepy mood, we had to do patrol anyway. It was around 2am in the morning, patroling around the school campus. When my group and I pass by the computer lab, there was blue light coming from it. We we look inside, one of the computer was on, and the light is blue, no blinking. We assumed someone did not off the computer in the day. So we use walkie talkie to report to one of our in-charge sir.

For unknown reason, our sir told us to report back, and tell us to keep it to ourselves about it and ask us to go back to our bunk to sleep, and don’t have to wake up the next group. Curious, but we went to bed.

Next morning around 6am to report, we ask the pevious group, and they said there wasn’t any lights from the computer lab. And in the morning, the computer was off. Weird, and this beginning to spread through the cadets. During the last day of camp, there was debrief. And our sir told us they were the one in the computer lab and playing computer, and told us don’t go anyhow spread around.

One thing, we really look into the computer lab and knock on the door for at least 15 minutes, there wasnt any movement. The computer screen just black blue, there no blinking which means no one is using the computer.

It still unknown today.

Those NS guys who trained at Tekong would have heard from their friends or whoever that Tekong is not the ‘cleanest’ of places. Stories like the unlit staircase and the flying bed are but just some of the stories that most recruits have heard at one point or another. Personally, I’ve had a closer encounter…

If I’m not wrong, it was during the third day of field camp. For those who are unfamiliar about it, a field camp is an extended period of outdoor training, during which you pick up skills like field camouflage, battle movement and such.

In any case, it was some time in the late afternoon when we arrived at our camp site. We were ordered to set up camp there, and of course we had to get down to work immediately.

I can’t recall how long it was, but as I was hard at work digging the ditches, I heard a commotion further down the site. I saw the soldiers of the neighbouring platoon crowded over something. Being curious, my buddy and I wanted to go and see what happened, but our sergeant stopped us as he rushed by us.

From what I witnessed, soon several PCs and the OC (officer commanding, or the officer in charge of our company) moved into the crowd. Then I heard him shouting something which I could not make out (due to the distance), and then a few minutes later, everything was over.

After this incident, we were told to forget about it and just get back to training, but of course it lingered at the back of our minds.

It was much later, on the eve of our POP (passing-out parade) that we knew what actually happened back then. Apparently a recruit had been possessed, and was going through convulsions, uttering unintelligible things. His section commander immediately called for help. When the OC arrived, he uttered something in Malay, which was something along the lines of ordering the spirit to leave the recruit’s body, before using his beret to slap the recruit. After some attempts, the convulsions stopped, and moments later, the recruit regained consciousness, with no knowledge of what happened to him earlier. The poor victim was given three days of Attn C (akin to sick leave) after that.

Normally such things would not have happened, but our section commander told us that the commanders actually misread the maps, and we pitched camp at a “virgin site” - not broken in, and still filled with the air of the wilderness. Normal camp sites would have been used by several batches of trainees.

1) before entry knock or ring the bell say “Sorry to disturb”

2) entry side ways so that in case there is anything unclean, it can leave without knocking into you.

3) Prepare a pair of shoes or slippers and place them opposite each other at the door so that unclean things from outside will follow the footwear out.

4) Place a cup of water at the head of the bed to ward off evil.

5) Before you use the toliet flush first to get rid of any unclean stuff that is lingering from the earlier occupant.

6) If there is a bible in the room or/and it is flipped opened leave it as it is.

7) Avoid wearing black and red. Wear more yellow to ward of evil.

When sleeping keep the toilet door closed and do not switch on the light

9) Do not sleep facing a big mirror because it attraches negative energy

10) When sleeping at night do not put your shoes neatly best if arranged opposite each other. Additionally do not place it facing the bed. Kicking them all over the room is also okay.

This is a true first hand account of my experiences with hauntings.

1. A 2 star hotel in Taipei - can’t remember the name as it was so long ago. I stayed alone in the room and in the middle of the night I woke up to the sound of the cupboard (2 star, no build in wardrobe hor), rattled. It sounded like there’s someone locked inside trying to get out. I was so petrified I ran out of the room and frantically pressed the lift to the lobby level, ran to the receptionist counter and told the staff there what happened. They got a security guard to go back to the room with me and no sound from the cupboard. The guard opened the cupboard to check and there was no one there. Because I was hysterical, the hotel changed my room.

2. I used to work at this hotel called Hotel Malaysia, subsequently called Marco Polo Hotel in Tanglin, near orchard. The hotel is now a service apartment. There used to be a pub on the lower level of the hotel and staff were not allowed to use the pub’s toilets so my colleagues and me used the toilets on the shopping arcade next to the pub. It was around 8 plus in the evenings. I was early for work that day so I went to the toilet to freshen myself up. The ladies’ toilet has only two cubicles. When I went in, one of the cubicle was occupied. Thinking it was one of my colleagues I called out ‘Mabel? Is that you?’ - no one answered. I knocked on the door making a lot of noise intended to irritate my colleague. We always did that to each other so when I got no reply, I wasn’t bothered thinking that whoever it was inside would eventually come out. I then went to the other empty cubicle to pee. I heard the sound of flushing from the next cubicle and again I yelled “Woi! Mabel! You deaf ah!’ I hastily finished my business and got out of my cubicle hoping to see my friend. The cubicle was still closed. I got down on my knees to look under the door and to catch my friend’s legs with my hand. THERE WAS NO LEGS! My hair stood on ends and hurriedly getting up I rushed out of the toilet hoping to see someone I know. I met Mabel who was on her way to the toilet. I told her what happened and together we entered the toilet. BOTH the cubicles were empty and the doors opened. No one was in the toilet. No one could have gotten out without Mabel or me seeing who it was. It was really creepy man! From that day onward, none of my female colleagues dared to use that toilet and the manager
had no choice but to allow us to use the toilet inside the pub.

This happened to a girlfriend of mine who used to stay at the New York Hotel when she has business trips to Johor Bahru. It was rumoured that New York Hotel, Johor Bahru had a suicide case a few years back where a girl killed herself in one of the New York Hotel room.

I used to travel a lot with during my previous job and that included Johor Bahru where my company would book a room with the New York Hotel. Me and my other 2 male companions knew about the suicide case that happened not long and always cautioned the New York Hotel staffs not to put us at that particular floor where it happened (I forgot if it was the 13th or 15th floor, let?s just assume that it was the 13th floor). I would always stay at the non smooking floor which would be located on the 15th floor and above whereas my other 2 male colleagues would stay at the smooking floors.

Nothing really happened at everytime I stayed at the New York Hotel, that is, until that particular day. It was like any ordinary day and it did not occur to me the slightest when it happened. Co-incidently, I was taking the lift back to my room. Usually, I would be accompanied by my collegeagues but so happen that day, they could not accompany me and I decided to walk back to the h0tel room by myself. I pressed the number to my hotel room floor and the lift started to move upwards. As sudden as it seemed, the lift stopped at the floor where the suicide case took place. I thought nothing of it and waited for the lift doors to close. I have to admit that I was kind of puzzled when the lift suddenly stopped at the floor without any warning. That was not the only thing puzzling me, there was no one at that floor at that particular time! I shrugged it off as perhaps it was just some naughty kids playing with the lift buttons.

I pressed the close button again and again but the lift doors just wouldn?t budge. I gave up and thought that maybe it was malfunction (it was a pretty common thing) and decided to walk to the 2nd lift that was located on the other side of the building. I have to briefly explain that this hotel?s design is pretty funny. There are 2 lifts and both lifts are located on either side of the building separated by a long corridor of rooms.

So, bravely here I was walking along the corridors. I was just looking around at the hotel room doors, ?Room 134??, ?Room 136??, ?Room 138?? then suddenly, something stopped me. I was staring at a locked room. I mean really locked. I couldn?t recall what?s the room number but it was obvious that the room was locked from public because the rooms all had eye hole except for this room! Not only that, the slit which was used to slot the card key was sealed and there was no door knob! It suddenly hit me that instant. Could it be the room that the girl committed suicide? I thought no further and quickly walked to the 2nd lift.

As the 2nd lift came to my rescue, I quickly stepped into the lift and pressed the floor number to my hotel room. As the door closed, the lift was suddenly jammed. It would neither move up or down as I pressed the ?G? button. I panicked and pressed the ?Open? button but the door did not budge. As I pressed the emergency button, I couldn?t help but to feel little goosebumps running down my spine. I was stuck for a whole 5 minutes. By the time someone answered my distress call and fixed the problem, I was fuming with anger.

By the time the lift got to the lobby, I made it a point to complain to the hotel manager about their service. To my shock, the hotel manager told me that they immediately responsed to my emergency call but no one answered for the first few minutes. As for me, I was pretty sure that it took practically a few minutes for someone to answer the call.

Just 2 years ago, my friends and I went for a short Bangkok trip. While we were there, we stayed in a hotel in the Pratunam area (It was near First Hotel) Upon checking in,the 4 of us split into the two rooms. I was unpacking my stuffs when I heard knocking noises.It sounded like it came from the end of the corridor.My friend’s unit was situated there.

My room mate and I opened the door to check what was going on.Nothing.I was surprised no one else bother to look out at the corridor to see what was happening. As time goes by, the knock got exceptionally loud and it was definitely from the area near my friend’s room. After much discussion, my room mate and I braved our way to our friend’s room. She told us that she heard the knocks but ignored it. She was actually telling us to stop knocking on her door like that as she was trying to rest. We tried explaining it wasn’t us and she was skeptical coz she knew me as someone playful.

I was let off the hook finally when the next round of knocking occurred. It was so loud the knocking/banging that I could hear it clearly from my room. My room phone rang and my friend asked us if we were the ones responsible for the loud knocking. I replied ” Are you kidding me? We are both in the room watching TV. How can we be knocking your door and be in the room at the same time??”

We got the hotel staff to come to her room.They started explaining that the knocks were coming from the wall. Another one said it was coming from the air con.Bull shit lahh. To settle the matter, my 2 friends were given another room just opposite mine. After they left their old room, we never hear any knocking sounds anymore.