As a young boy about twelve/thirteen years old our family had shifted to Immigration Road where my father was a timber retailer.Every morning we had to walk to school and it was slightly more than a mile away.
On the way we would walked passed one side of a Chinese School.Those days the school was not properly fenced,only a row of hibiscus roughly grown as partition between the road and school.So as we passed by we could see the inside of the school.The classrooms were then constructed about a chain or so from the fence,so there were vacant space within.
That vacant space was reputed to be the torture and execution grounds of the dreadful Japanese soldiers.The very fact that we knew of its frightful past made us aware of what happened during the Japanese occupations.There were so many horrible stories regarding their outrageous atrocities.
Out of these killings later came the horrifying stories of bloody ghosts or otherwise headless ones not to mention those weird,frightful and sinister cries in the wee hours of the night especially a rainy and misty night.Those cries for mercy as if someone were being tortured and shrieking sounds seeking vengeance were commonly in the air.
"Give me back my head",were common phase my friends used to tease us from behind as we walked past that place,We were tensed as strolled by but those imitations with those frightful words did scared us at times.That was why as we passed that area our hair stood on ends and dared not steal a glance side ways.
We had friends residing just opposite those areas then and their horrid stories increased our fear as we passed the horrifying place.My friends staying there dared not even their windows in the night.
Presently those vacant area were newly constructed class rooms,with so much activities around daily those concerned hope would ultimately erased its terrifying past.But can that be forgotten just like that.I say no,those ghosts still existed in thin air,they maybe pushed to a corner but they are still around.
Many people can still hear weird sounds coming from with those class rooms,maybe they are now more comfortable with so many kids to play and study with them.So do not be surprised should one fine day your kids come telling of her new found "class mates".
Ghosts seeking vengeance do not disappear that easily,maybe if you put a Japanese soldier there ,that could aroused their anger and then watch out for that raging ghosts.Then someone will surely be hurt,take heed.
to be continued.
Well friend...I have written about the Japanese actrocities in the same school you talked about. The place where they used to pump water into the victims were there in the 1950s behind the school facing the now ah chai rojak stall.
ReplyDeleteMany old folks say the padang was a burial ground too.