I began working at a tender age of seventeen plus at a plantation in Taiping ,Perak.It was just after the Overseas Senior Cambridge School Certificate Examinations and I was waiting my my results.
This was my first job.Those days jobs were scared and not easy to come by, therefore I was forced to accept whatever came in handy.So the very minute I got news of that position I joined it without any hesitation.In Taiping I was taken to a Plantation about 8 miles away from town.That was not all.we had to travel another two miles or so on laterite road to the actual plantation.Just imagine another two miles from the main road.
As my Boss drove me through this road I could feel the spookiness all round,as the the sides of that road were of old rubber stand with thick and bushy inter-rows.Being new to this sought of environment which appeared to me as weird and eerie as I was still very raw and seemingly terrified of ghosts and ghostly place such as these.
Soon my fear were overcome as we reached the plantation as well as the Manager's bungalow.Yes, I was to stay with the Manager in his huge colonial bungalow.That took the fright within me.I was given a small room upstairs in the foremost front.Now I am secured,or was I???.
Many a times I traveled with the Manager to town in his land rover.However there were times that I ventured out to town on my own at week ends.After some time I had friends also in town and went out to meet them on weekends.Most of the time I returned home to the plantation the following morning.
Unfortunately there were moments when I overspent my time there and having no place to put up the night or should I ought to be back at the plantation by that night that I was forced to return to the plantation that same evening.That is when my horrors began.
However,before those many people had expounded many ghostly events to me driving my young wits off.
This story had been circulating around for some time before I was employed at the plantation and I had also been advised never to give lift to any young any and beautiful females along my way home late at night.The story began with a young handsome young guy returning home on his motor-cycle after a long night outing in town.
It was a windy night with dark clouds hovering over the sky.The young rider rode on in a hurry to be home before the rain comes thundering down.Mid-way he came upon a beautiful young girl dressed in white.The petite beauty beckon him to stop by waving her hands frantically.
A damsel in distressed who would not, a stunning beauty begging for aid.She seemed pitiful as she also wished to rush home before the the rain began to fall.The young guy heart was softened and gladly offered her his assistance.She managed to convince him that she was in fact residing some distance along that spot,and begged him to give her a lift home.
Happily the young guy offered her a lift,surely it is a bloody shame to let the poor damsel in distress down,so he invited her to ride pillion at his back seat.On the way she flown shivering with cold because of the cold merciless wind.The kind hearted young man sensing that stopped and offered her his jacket to keep her warm.She gladly put that on and continued their journey.
Very soon they arrived at a house the girl had directed.The grateful girl alighted thanking the young man,she had wanted to return the jacket that very instance but the young man being kind obliged by not taking that back.They exchanged some sweet talks and they departed with him promising to return the following day for the jacket.
The following day that young man went to that house intending to meet his new found love and for his jacket.At the doorstep he was greeted by an old gentleman who appeared bewildered and similarly amused at the young man's suggestion that he saw his daughter last night.
After some talking the old man took the young man to the cemetery and there showed him, his daughter's grave.The terrified young man not only noted that the girl had been dead for at least five years but his jacket was also found her hanging on the grave stone that bored her name.That really stunned him and frightened the guts off him but he was glad she meant him no harm.
Just by coincidence almost at the same time there was a song by Dickie Lee singing about the almost similar strange story.Following I post that song.
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