There were a number of haunted houses in Teluk Anson in the fifties,now let me tell you all what I know.As a teenager I and my friends used to cycle passed those houses,hoping to steal a glance of those houses at night.Rumours had it that there were weird voices coming out from within those houses but did we heard them???.
No,never,except seeing some owls flying about but at night all those houses seem very weird and spooky.The silence dark night and spooky looking trees around and with no souls moving around made them more frightening.Any way as youngsters we moved around them in group never alone.There was no way we dared venture near them alone, no way.
During my school going days in the fifties two better known ghost houses were the one situated at the entrance road of Speedy Road.This was the mansion of a local Chinese rich man.However,this house only very few of their descendants resided within it.With all its windows and doors shut most of the time and quiet compound fenced,the place seem lifeless.Really weird and spooky even those days.
With such a beautiful mansion most of its relatives choose to stay in houses elsewhere,this really irked many of us and support the issue that that mansion was really haunted,though their relatives disclaimed that fact.There were no denying that many of its past workers had no dispute over that.In any case a huge mansion with little residents surely very inviting ghosts to dwelt within.
However to- day that house still in tagged and can be viewed from the road side.It could be a heritage of good old Teluk Anson,presently had gained city status.
Along the first sharp bend of Batak Rabit Road once stood an old colonial building which everyone named the "Rumah Hantu".How scary it was to be but there were people living within it.A beautiful girl my junior once lived there with her family,haunted or otherwise many teenage boys used to visit her and that included my kid brother.
So ghosts or no ghosts,got beautiful damsel in within somehow never in distressed,she truly attracted many young boys there.The ghosts therein never bothered with all those present there,guess that were friendly ghosts.So the boys had no fear just tackle on.
When I was working in the plantation in Taiping,Perak,may family shifted to a tiny bungalow which apparently was also known as a haunted house.It seem to have been left vacant for sometime,many trees around shading that house giving it a weird and frightening atmosphere.However,those were easily overcome with the removal of all those unwanted plants around.
It was no more eerie looking when I went back for holidays,as all those awkward looking shady trees were removed.But further behind our rented house was another old wooden double stories house was also another haunted house.What irked us were that all the occupants of that house just like to live on the ground floor.Now why was that???.
Yes,the up stair was haunted.In the wee hours of the night,those tenants down on the ground floor could hear weird sounds and foot steps walking about right above them.However very poor people with no other places to go,they were forced to stay.Another thing we heard of was they reside in that house rental free.It seemed that house belonged to a relative of their,so that was why they stayed there for free.
With free rental they just lived on there,ghosts or no ghosts beside those devils did not disturbed nor harmed them in any way.Only horrid noises from up above just turn a deaf ear to their existence and everything will be fine.Either way apparently they seem a happy lot residing there,a family of eight,a couple with two children,two teenager sister,their aged parents.Those ghosts within seem to have a good relationship with them,thus they lived happily together.
The latest addition of ghost houses in Teluk Anson should be the abandoned home of the Raja Muda.During our school days that was the official residence of the Raja Muda.Presently this abandoned house had been partly demolished but all its pillars and cement walls still partly in tagged the place seemingly huanted .The thich busghes and unkept trees made the house more sinister and weird.
Many people claimed to have seen figures deep into the night in that building.Some even claimed to have heard weird and spooky sounds coming from within.Don't believe me find out for yourself should you be there.I think no guards were posted there now.
Four digits punters,go there should want strike it rich,those lovely female ghosts awaits you.
to be continued
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