There is a famous stretch of road connecting Kelantan and Ipoh. This stretch of road is feared by many due to 4 reasons. First, This road is infamous because quite some people was robbed(in the past-it was the communist.) Second, at night, if your vehicle breakdown, it will be hell for you as that place is in the middle of forest and jungles. Third, night safaris animals eg elephants tend to cross the road and chances are, motorists might hit them. Finally, the stretch is spooky enough to keep motorists off it after 7pm.

One of my friend who is a Malay salesman drove the whole family to Kelantan through the east west highway. It was in the middle of the night. Everyone in the car dozed off except himself.

As he drove, he passed by a tree and notice a white figurine sitting on the tree bunch. This figurine possessed long hair partially covering the face and had bright red eyes staring at my friend. My friend tried to concentrate on his driving and continued to drive on slowly as it was an uphill.

After he drove past the tree, wondering whether he was hallucinating, he checked the rear view mirror. There it was, the figurine was on the back of his car squatting on the bonnet.The car could hardly move at this moment….

His heart was thumping hard and he turned away the rear view mirror starting to pray his Quran. Slowly, he managed to pull away from that haunted stretch and when he reached Kelantan, he couldn’t sleep for few nights.

Coincidentally, I also traveled the same stretch around the same time. When I was at Rantau Panjang, the duty free zone at Kelantan. I was ushered by the shop keepers to rush and leave Kelantan by 4.30pm if I were to travel to Ipoh.

I did so and while it was my turn to rest I experienced something strange. Whenever I closed my eyes and sleep, whenever there is a corner, I will be shook up and became awake.

Despite these spooky scenarios, I still love the scenery along the Gua mUsang road. Especially Gerik. Real nice place. I did felt the place spooky.