These incidents happened about 10 years ago when I was
about 16 years old. My best friend who's parents were
diplomats of another Asian country (I will not name for
privacy reasons)were stationed in Singapore and were
relocated to a new property on the same grounds as the
Embassy they worked for. This new complex was newly built
on very old land and the last locals to live there was
probably in the 70's.
For some background info on this area (which will help to
understand the story better),Singapore has had a lot of
blood shed on it's soil due to the Japanese occupation and
almost everywhere you go some incident from the war can be
told about a particular piece of land or building.
So to continue, the new estate was built on land that had
seen a lot of death in the past.
One particular evening my friend and I were chilling out
in her bedroom which was on the second floor. The bedroom
had 2 main windows that faced the front of the house and
the 3rd was on the corner to the left of the house,there
was no balcony or any way to get in or out from the ground
floor from the outside.
The two of us had just finished homework and were being
quite quiet. the curtains were drawn and we had just
started having a chat when we heard a sharp cracking noise
run from the farthest right window to the last window
around the corner of the bedroom. It sounded like a rock
being chucked at the glass but it was very quick and was
over in a matter of seconds.
We sat wide eyed, jaws open and completely paralyzed. I
then looked toward the 2 main front windows and then
questioned my friend about the noise since it was so loud
and sharp sounding I thought the glass might have been
chipped or something. Instantly my friend said "don't look
out the window...you never know.....". We managed to
gather our thoughts and continue on with our packing up of
books and decided a little music would help calm the
nerves. Within 5 minutes of hearing the noises from the
window, this time the music on, again we heard cracking
noises outside the windows. I turned the music off and
just before I could say anything we turned toward the
windows to hear a thud noise like something heavy was
tossed up against the glass.
Quite shaken by this and my adrenalin pumping I got the
courage to turn off the lights and draw the curtains so i
could see what might be outside from the lighting in the
driveway down below (lighting in the room would only cause reflection).
We sat hard up against the opposite wall waiting and
watching the outside area to see if maybe one of the staff
was playing a trick on us - but with such tight security
and such scrutiny of all staff that worked there by the
bosses in-charge, I doubted that there would be any
messing around especially at night.
After the longest 5 minute wait we both got the shivers
and decided to call it quits, turned the lights back on,
drew the curtains closed and went to eat! (young bodies
need food - could never keep up with my metabolism!) :)
After eating we returned to the 2nd floor of the house and
played on the game console in an area just outside the
bedroom, like an upstairs foyer. Within moments we started
getting the chills (I was always getting the chills from
the internal air-conditioning system at this house and was
always bugging my friend to turn it up) funnily enough the
controller was OFF and this area of the house should have
been quite warm (??) I decided to get a jumper from my
friends room and a pair of socks to warm up. The Bedroom
was just as cold but the controller indicated it was ON. I
could never work out that incident - two seperate rooms
sectioned by a door and 'alot' of space from the area we
were sitting to the bedroom itself and the temperature was
the same???
Another incident was the week after, my friend had moved
the bed toward the opposite wall so the bed head wasn't up
against the windows. After school we did the usual and
finished up all our work so we could chill out and have
some fun. After a long night snacking, swimming at the
pool and doing a movie marathon until 4am we decided it
was time for bed, like usual we were rugged up like it was
winter (Singapore's weather never falls below 24-25
degrees Celsius) here we are in jumpers, tick socks and
tracks! We hauled ourselves to bed and didn't stir until
morning where I was rudely awakened with a shock.
I was lying on my side when I felt as if someone/thing had
blown into my ear twice. It woke me up with such a fright
because it was so loud, I turned to look at my friend who
was fast asleep and was not near enough to blow in my ear
and then hop back into bed again. I instantly thought of
the whole 'window' fright we had and decided to cover my
head with the covers and wish whatever was around to go
away from me.
I relayed all this to my friend and her parents at
breakfast and it was something that still gives me goosebumps.
There are many other stories I could tell you but the last
thing to add to this house of shivers and strangeness is,
a few years later when we both had moved on in our lives
and I went to visit her in her home country, my friends
mom recalls an interesting story told by the wife of the
new diplomat family living in the same house. The wife
recalled seeing a man in white dressed in traditional
malay style clothing looking into the bedroom we shared
together as he walked into the area we would play on the
game consol.
Her master bedroom was opposite and when looking out of
the bedroom door you can walk into the open planned area
where we would watch marathon movies and head off to bed.
The new family have had dramas with the thermostat cold
rooms when the system was OFF (??) and sightings of a man
in white on the grounds by staff, security and family
members.
I hope you have enjoyed this story and maybe write in
another sometime.
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