Why are we drawn to the issues that make us uncomfortable, that unsettle us, and terrify us? The Supernatural Confessions Walk with Hantu collection yanks you out of your consolation zone and shoves you headlong into the pit of the unknown.
…and you’ll volunteer for the privilege!
Supernatural Confessions Walk with Hantu: Changi Edition (S$85) is a 3-hour story-tour of the creepy aspect of Changi you knew existed however by no means delved into. Led by Supernatural Confessions superhosts Eugene Tay and Jonathan Lim, it’s a distillation of a few of the most mysterious city legends plaguing our little blood-red dot.
It runs Thursdays and Saturdays from 7.30pm. Find all the main points on their web site.
Changi has lengthy been related to the supernatural. Today, a lot of that repute is linked to the unbelievable ache, struggling and dying that japanese Singapore witnessed throughout World War II. However, the actual tales return centuries, maybe millennia.
Old Changi Hospital and Changi Beach are two of probably the most chilling names in native ghost-hunting circles. It’s painfully ironic that the hospital served as a jail camp the place troopers and civilians had been reportedly tortured to dying.
Changi Beach was the scene of an untold variety of executions through the Japanese Occupation, with victims unexpectedly buried in unmarked graves. Many extra had been made to stroll into waist-deep water earlier than being machine-gunned within the again. Most of these corpses had been misplaced to the ocean.
Some say that the excessive incidence of unexplained occasions on the islands of Pulau Ubin and Pulau Tekong (ask any NSman) off our japanese shore could also be attributed to souls left adrift after these massacres.
Me, I’m an out-and-out sceptic and that’s very true for tales of the supernatural. In an age the place everybody has a digicam cellphone, the dearth of convincing ghost footage irks me. So, it was fairly puzzling what occurred proper as we started our stroll from Changi Point Ferry terminal. Even extra puzzling was the top.
My Supernatural Confessions Walk with Hantu: Changi Edition
Just a defective mild, no massive deal. Our celebration of 11 laughed once I pointed it out as we started our stroll from the ferry terminal. Later, we handed the infamous deserted Chalet M. Of all of the lamps on the road, solely the one instantly in entrance of it was not working.
Jonathan and Eugene informed tales at 10 spots alongside the stroll, leaving Old Changi Hospital for final. A slim sloping street leads as much as that decrepit construction. We anticipated the realm to be eerily abandoned. Instead, there was a line of about 15 vehicles parked on the aspect of the street.
Old Changi Hospital has turn out to be such an enigma that the federal government has put in a delegated offering-burning metallic cage exterior its gates. The folks we noticed had been simply finishing their rituals and leaving as we arrived.
Eugene and Jonathan narrated a few of the most well-known tales concerning the premises. One of them has had private unexplained experiences inside. Then, it was time to go.
Me being me, I lingered the longest and was final to depart the gate. When I circled to affix the others, my again— from shoulders to a 3rd of the best way all the way down to my waist— felt chilly. Being the rationalist that I’m, I informed myself it was my creativeness and walked on after everybody.
Just a few steps later, the sensation dissipated. I circled to have a look at the constructing and… nothing. Before I walked away, I took an image from the place I stood however didn’t view it correctly until I used to be writing this text.
It is the final image I’ll add for this piece and you’ll see it for your self beneath.
Not certain why however I didn’t inform Jonathan or Eugene, or any of the others what I’d felt once I rejoined them. We walked down the sloping street and the tour ended. Funny factor is, my higher again nonetheless feels barely tingly/painful as I write this, 2 days later.
Final ideas
I don’t know what to suppose. (Although I’m particularly not liking the sound of “Final thoughts” proper now)
Does that black area between the two plumes of smoke appear to be a humanoid determine both climbing into or out of the choices cage?
Anyone who is aware of me is aware of that I don’t scare simply and neither do I overreact. Certain tales Eugene and Jonathan informed did make me pause and suppose whereas others had been nearly comical. All pale compared to the feeling of coldness on my again in the previous couple of minutes of the stroll.
Supernatural Confessions Walk with Hantu: Changi Edition is for the courageous souls (hah!) prepared to discover the darkish aspect of our outwardly clinically-clean metropolis. Steel your self for a mixture of unsettling areas, disquieting legends and disturbing historical past.
As for my again, I had a crick in my neck final week so it’s in all probability simply an extension of that. Right?
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