Bizarre Incident

I bought 8 vouchers from one of the Penang hotels located at Batu Ferringi in the recent Matta Fair. My wife’s uncle said he cannot drive long distance and requested I drive his Naza Citra to Penang. Though the Korean engine was a tad rough but the overall ride was good. I suspect the manufacturer origin of this car, KIA sought European engineers to tune its suspension. I had the same feel when I test drove the new 1.4L KIA Rio, a highly under-rated car. The Koreans are coming!

After spending more than a hundred ringgit eating the overpriced char kway teow, chee cheong fun, asam laksa, hokkien mee (prawn mee), oysters and mee jawa at Lorong Selamat, we finally checked into the hotel.

On the 2nd night, sister-in-law (S-I-L) wanted to check out the pasar malam activities towards the end of Tg. Bungah road. I left all of them to wander the pasar malam while I went to an open building area that sold thousands of DVDs. Called Mee Peng on the handphone to inform her of the availability of Korean movie series.

Later she came with her 18-year-old cousin. Not long I received a rather frantic call from my S-I-L asking me where was my wife. I calmly replied she is with me. Not suspecting anything amiss, I continued with my browsing. Within minutes, all of them came to the big DVD shop including my S-I-L’s husband. The moment I saw him, I showed him the 4-in-1 “Faces of Death” dvd (the cover pictured skulls) and asked if he had seen this documentary before.

After we had made our purchase and about to leave, my wife turned to me and asked a strange question “Do you know what happened?”. I replied “Hugh???”.

The story unfolds:

Apparently, earlier S-I-L’s husband received a call from a man’s voice purportedly called from my wife’s handphone claiming that both she and the cousin were accosted and held in captivity!(?). S-I-L’s husband sounded the alarm to the uncle whose daughter was with my wife, and the rest of the family members. They were in deep shock and ran to the dvd shop after hearing I was there.
Fortunately, when they found nothing of that sort happened everybody was puzzled whose voice did he hear on the handphone?

I withheld information…

Prior to this Penang trip, I spoke to one my most trusted friends about the hotel vouchers. My friend wanted to tell me something about the hotel but his wife stopped him from continuing since I have already finalized the hotel bookings. I suspected it had to do with something supernatural. My friend reassured me and said, “You just go and have a good trip”. I did not want to relay this to my wife then.

Once I was back in KL, I called my friend again to ascertain what was the mystery that he was withholding from me. He told me the Hotel that we stayed was once an area occupied by the Japanese Army to conduct executions. It was rumored the “Swimming Pool” is haunted.

My S-I-L’s husband was the only adult amongst the 9 of us who went into the Swimming Pool the evening before the incident.

Chilling revelation or pure coincident?