GHOSTS HUNT YOU WHILE YOU'RE SLEEPING!!!

Lakiun Camp Brunei

What i am about to relate is a true account. It happened to me in 1991.
I can’t remember the month exactly, but i was still serving my full-time NS. My appointment by training is an infantry section leader. Which makes me a corporal. These days this rank is called “3rd Sergeant”. The unit i was serving in was 2 SIR.

It was the first evening of the battalion exercise. Most of the unit was outfield for exercise in the brunean jungles. Brunei is famous for its dense rain-forests. The tree tops are so high that they effectively cut off any moonlight. Making it pitch-black after dark..

I was delegated to stay in camp with some of the calafare ( i.e Attn B and Attn C those guys with medical sick leave.. The only other NCO ( specialist ) with me was another corporal. Let’s call him Corporal C. And i will be Corporal B.

Lakuin camp is rumoured to be built over cheap land. In this case, it was supposedly used to be a muslim burial ground. During our nightly RO ( routine order) read out by that day’s Duty Officer, he reminded us that if we needed to relieve ourselves. i.e urinate or shit. We should only do it in the toilet.

For those of you who have not been to Lakun Camp. The barracks are built long. Almost entirely wooden, except for the tin roofs. They are designed with 2 exit points on either ends. Where there should be windows, instead it is just window frame without any cover,doors or shutters. Rain would be prevented by the fact that the an extra roof extends really low.The barrack is built a few feet off the ground.

It was about the late afternoon, me and some of the men were bored. And you know what happens with idle minds. We began to think of crazy things to pass the time!

Now the other NCO, Corporal C is a much stricter person than i am. I am the type more likely to dish out “canteen breaks” as opposed to Corporal C making the men help him clean the extra weapons Needless to say. This made him less in favour amongst the men.

The hours went by and soon it was dusk. The blue hour when the skies durn dark cloudy and blue. The yellow lamp-posts were already turned on by then. I was in the barrack doing my own admin and i felt the urge to pee. So i walked down the wooden steps into the grass clearing by the side of the barracks. There were some of the men playing “Hide & Seek”. Yes! You heard me right. 18-20 year olds behaving like boys still playing this game! ha ha!. I felt lazy and decided to just walk towards the perimeter fence. The fence seperates the jungle and the bunk.
Standing by the fence i unbuttoned my fly and wet the ground, letting out a satisfying “ahh” to myself. My field of vision was trained on the grass where my pee was directed at It was then that i noticed a shadow. It looked like a man with both arms up over head ready to sneak towards me and give me a shock. Thinking i was the smarter guy discovering this person sneaking towards me, i quickly turned around to say “Boo!” to whoever this person was…
But there was nobody behind me… “Hmmm”. I thought to myself how strange this is. I turned back forward and button up my fly and walked back towards the barracks. I brushed this off as a trick of the mind. Although i could’nt help noticing the impossibility of that shadow. It couldn’t have been the street-lamp simply because it would not create a shadow where i saw it. I brushed this off as a trick of the mind.

Soon it was time to “Lights-off” so all the men were accounted for and we went to our double-decker beds to sleep. My bed was just next to the wall nearest to the main door. And i slept with my feet facing the window. Only the monotonous sound of the ceiling fan at high-speed could be heard now. Creaking as well with every revolution. Soon i drifted to sleep. But it was not going to be a peaceful sleep for me..

To my best recollection, i was asleep as i knew it. But suddenly i felt my body enveloped in a shivering chill. My ears felt like there was a wind blowing, sounded like the rush of air when you ride your bicycle downhill at high speed. I tried opening my eyes but i couldnt. I tried moving my limbs but i was paralysed. I felt like an Egytian Mummy!. My arms were stuck straight on both sides of my body and my legs lay straight. I felt awake and aware and all the while the “wind” blowing in my ears. I felt a silent terror like i never felt before. What is happening to me?!! “Help! Help!!” but no voice came forward. In my desperation i started reciting a prayer. Being Catholic i started praying “Our Father” and “Hail Mary”. Imagine the expression on my face as in someone muttering the prayers hurriedly, with eyes tightly closed as if afraid of what was before me. I must have prayed for what lasted like ten minutes before i felt the prayers working… slowly…I felt the “wind” leaving me. It seemed to leave thru my head as i felt my body slowly able to move and the “blowing sound” on my ears just left. Like somebody just pressed “STOP”. I opened my eyes and sat up. The feeling of fear had left me. It must have been the prayers. I felt at peace and very brave. Brave enough to scan the bunk around me. It was still dark except for some light coming thru the window. But bright enough that i could see the men were asleep.

POST-ANALYSIS

I shared my incident to some close friends when they came back from the exercise. No one could give me a conclusive answer on what happened. I did get reminders that the camp was built over a former muslim cemetery and that i should have gone to the toilet to pee.
Maybe i offended the Muslim spirits” when i pee-ed on the fence, without saying “excuse me” or “sorry”. Is Lakuin camp haunted?

I read on other threads here that what i experienced could have been a condition called ” Sleep Paralysis “. If so, can anyone share if they too also heard that sound of “rushing wind” in the ears. It also sounds like someone was blowing air into your ears at close range.

Since that incident i have encountered similar experiences, twice. In my home.

Dancing Ghost

Some ghosts are always there where they died and they becomes a famous ghost. my friend’s aunt was working midnight shift at the hospital one quiet night. she had been hearing about the “dancing ghost” from alot of her colleagues but she waved it off saying that she do not believe in such things. but apparently this famous ghost haunt the hospital ward after he died for years. so some says the more you do not believe the more it is likely to happen to you. so during the night in her shift she was doing writing out some rooster thing at the nurses counter. suddenly from the corner of her eyes she noticed something or someone was bouncing around her counter. she immediately thought of the rumours about the dancing ghost that her colleagues were talking about.
She was rather scared but decided to look up thinking perhaps it’s just her own imagination. but when she looked up from her work there it was bouncing around her counter left and right left and right. there was nothing very distinctive about it, it’s just a translucent white man with no expression bouncing around. she was so scared she turned her head back to her work and daren’t look up. then the thing stopped bouncing and merely stood at one corner just staring at her for the longest of time. she was literally frozen in fear that she kept her head bowed from 2am to 6am then she dare to lift up her head since it’s already day break. the thing has left and she finally believe. so next time even if you do not believe what someone tells you, just keep it to yourself and not say it out else it will make you believe it’s existence.

Flight Fright

Apart from the hospital account that my friend’s aunt told me about, she too has something to share about what her flight stewardess friend encountered in the plane itself.
My friend’s aunt has a friend who works as a flight stewardess for a local airline. Whilst they were flying back from Bangkok, she was walking to the back of the plane where the toilet is situated and she found a lady crouched outside the toilet shivering. When the flight stewardess asked the lady if she needed help, the lady told her to inform her husband that she ain’t feeling well, she is feeling very cold and wanted him to come help her, the lady crouching even gave the stewardess the seat number. so the flight stewardess agreed to help as this is what she ought to do as her profession. she walked to the seat and indeed found a man sitting alone on the window seat. she then briefly told the man that his wife needed help because she is cold. the man looked at her in shock and said: my wife is dead, i traveled to Bangkok to bring her back, her urn is just in the luggage section beneath the plane. the stewardess fainted on the spot upon hearing that. so the dead wife wanna tell her husband that she is feeling cold below in the plane.

Hospital Duties

Since i am an avid fan of true ghostly encounters, i had my friend’s aunt tell me about her encounters whilst working as a nurse in a singapore hospital near outram.
She told me that they have this pregnant colleague who was supposed to report to work in the noon shift but apparently she did not turn up. they tried to contact her to no avail and her husband claimed to have sent her to work an hour earlier. shortly, a bad news came. her colleague jumped down from the private canteen meant for only nurses and doctors. she came crashing down from the roof with her face badly smashed. reason till today is still unknown as her husband claimed that she seemed alright when he dropped her off at the hospital. during her catholic funeral they put on a surgical mask on her face because her face was badly disfigured from the fall.
Then on the 7th day of her death a patient from a private one person ward rang the bell for nurse. she insisted she wanted to move to another room because there’s a nurse in her room wearing a surgical mask walking non stop from left to right around her bed. everyone upon hearing that froze and knew that either their colleague came back to pay a visit on the 7th day OR she still ain’t aware that she has died and still come back to the hospital to do her duties. how terrifying!

Supernatural

I think being “press” down by the supernatural while sleeping is something widely known already though still no one can be sure if it is truly something to do with the supernatural or something scientifically or psychologically but i do have some spooky experience to share.
I remember it was during my teens that I have such encounters happening to me over frequently. As a notorious teen I used to love exploring ghostly places with friends, eg: red house, yellow house, white house, old changi hospital, old changi camp, ecp yellow tower, playing oujia, even got friends who frequently got possessed by what we call ghost. i think up to a certain degree everything i seen is true because i personally do not believe 5 people could not hold down a girl who weighs merely 39kg and was even being hurt by her. that aside, my mum chided me that it was because of my adventurous nights to seek the supernatural thrill that gotten me incline to having them lurk around me and causing a disturbance during my sleep. My first encounter was seriously spooky that i never sleep in complete darkness anymore. i remember on this night i was in bed trying to sleep. Just when i thought i was sleeping already, i felt a weird tingling brain numbing sensation in my head, i tried to open my eyes but i cant, i tried to talk but i cant, i tried to move but i cant.
i was desperately scared as i know i was encountering what i always heard from others “bei gui ya”. i struggled to pry open my eyes but each time it shut back tight but i did not give up. when i finally able to open my eyes i saw a horrible thing. (i was sleeping on my side not facing up) i saw a man’s hand, wearing a suit as i could see the cuff of the suit, his hand was over me as though he’s hugging me from behind then after i saw the hand there came a loud deepest laughter of a man into my ear. i was frighten beyond words as i forced myself to wake up and not go back to sleep anymore for that night. that was the first encounter and the worst. subsequently i see things like speakers at the corner of my room with melody coming out from it, i feel something hopping at the foot of my bed around my legs, i feel something lift up both my legs and swing them left to right, i heard little girls laughing and then sob silently, i saw a black shadow of a woman… gradually i gotten used to it and i even can feel it coming before it comes.
A lot commented that my forehead looked “black” - “ying tang fa hei” which symbolize down on luck. i got the feeling so frequent that i grew out of being scared. at times it’s more annoying than scared itself. i tried all sorts of ways to stop. i would switch on religious Buddhism songs, pastor prince’s (new creation church) sermon’s tape, sprinkling lime water in my room which helped a lil only, when all didn’t work i simply sat up in bed to curse and swear asking it to leave me alone cause i need sleep for work tomorrow. at times that worked. but ever since i discharge from hospital, i rarely have such encounters anymore at home except for a few times i was at hotel in KL and BKK. I believe my luck must have improved a lot and perhaps it’s my illness that caused me to be down on luck while attracting unwelcome. these experiences was with me for a long way but i hope they will never happen again as one’s luck already ain’t too good to attract such ying elements, and with too much of ying elements one’s luck will get even more down.