Ghostly tales for the Seventh Month
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Ghostly tales for the Seventh Month
With the Hungry Ghost Festival coming at the end of this week, inSing editors will be sharing with our readers the background, beliefs and superstitions associated with the festival. Stay with us as we advise you on what you should or should not be doing during this ghostly month.
We will also be featuring reader-submitted ghost stories. Read about the real-life ghostly encounters of others, or submit your own eerie experiences to us!
Be sure to tune in daily for more of our best ghost stories!
Ghost Month festivities for wandering spirits
A local temple hosted a banquet at Lim Chu Kang cemetery last night.
The 24-table banquet is meant entirely for wandering spirits and consisted of a generous spread of steamboat, vegetarian food and even a buffet.
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Celeb ghost stories: The woman in red
More than 20 years ago, when Chew returned to camp for his first In-camp training, a woman in red came to him in his dreams.
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Fans snap ghostly image during Hacken Li concert
A fan of Hong Kong singer Hacken Li Ke Qin reported that her husband took photos of a female ghost during his concert.
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Master exorcist: 'ghosts are everywhere'
The "Ghost King of Macau", Master Szeto Fat-ching is well known for hunting and exorcising ghosts on Hong Kong TV.
According to a report on the Daily Chilli website, Master Szeto is now in Malaysia for his latest project and he offers advice for the Ghost Month.
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Celeb ghost stories: Nat Ho's creepy experience
Nat spent a night in Desaru while filming a movie earlier in May. When the crew arrived at the hotel, they were a little surprised to find its door painted red. Nat thought that looked odd, and playing safe, knocked before he entered the room.
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Celeb ghost stories: Elvin Ng's ghostly encounters
Local actor Elvin Ng spent Christmas in San Francisco, USA last year. On the way back, he stopped by Bangkok and stayed briefly at a friend's home.
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Danny Yeo hears ghostly voices by his bedside
Danny, an atheist, has ironically had countless ghostly encounters.
During a trip to Hiroshima, Japan in mid-July, Danny was woken up by spirits talking by his bedside.
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Ghostly couple spotted on defunct railroad
The ghosts of a couple who died at the Bukit Timah railway two years ago have been spotted!
Many Singaporeans have been flocking to the defunct railway to take photos as mementos, and two people have on separate occasions encountered a ghostly couple.
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Fiona Xie: most likely celeb to meet ghosts
A well-known Fengshui master, Chen Jun Rong, has done some calculations on the luck of our local stars based on their Eight Characters - derived from one's time of birth.
The calculations show which actresses are most likely to encounter ghosts during the coming Seventh Month.
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Past stories: Woman's pants pulled off by pervert-ghost
A Taiwanese tourist says that she encountered a pervert-ghost while she was in Singapore.
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Past Stories: Most unlucky day of the Ghost Festival
A Fengshui Master says that 15 August is the most unlucky day in the Seventh Month of the lunar calendar.
Fengshui Master Hong Wei Liang says that the date clashes with the Seventh Month resulting in "bad" energy. The day is known as the "Day of Breaking".
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inSing reader sees ghosts: Part 2
This is Part 2 of our interview with Ms L, an inSing reader who can see ghosts.
We invite Ms L to share more of her ghostly encounters with readers.
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inSing reader sees ghosts: Part 1
For the Seventh Month Ghost Stories Special, inSing has managed to contact a reader, Ms L, who has the ability to see ghosts.
We invited Ms L to share her experiences with other readers and conducted an email interview with her.
This is Part 1 of our interview with Ms L.
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An encounter on a lonely dark road
This story is submitted by a reader, Fauzi.
Fauzi talks about his ghostly encounter along a lonely dark road in Singapore.
He believes something sinister followed him and his ex-girlfriend, causing her to suffer a miscarriage.
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Popular media company in Singapore haunted
An inSing editor recalls how a previous workplace – a well-known media company in Singapore - was reportedly "haunted".
Employees would stay late frequently to meet deadlines.
Soon, each one had their own story to tell about something "unclean" lurking in the office.
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A month of Hungry Ghosts?
The ‘Hungry Ghost festival' or the Feast for the Wandering Souls (also known as Zhong Yuan Jie 中元节) is for the Chinese what Halloween is for Americans.
Learn just what is the Hungry Ghost Festival.
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Celebrating the Hungry Ghost Festival
The month-long festival is most often celebrated in Singapore with grand temple rituals, bawdy “getai” and raucous community auctions.
Temple rituals during the ghost month are grand affairs involving many devotees burning the motherlode of offerings.
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Midnight visitor at Sentosa chalet
One weekend in August a couple of years ago, my friends and I decided to steer clear of our usual weekend nights of clubbing and decided to rough it out in Sentosa for a change. So we rented a hut at a resort on the island for the weekend...
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Crushed and paralysed while sleeping
Sherie (not her real name), 32, has never believed in ghosts.
"I believe in science and logic. Previously, I would roll my eyes whenever my friends told me their ghost stories," said the analyst, who works in finance.
But an incident which occurred recently changed her view on the supernatural.
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Woman suspects her child was possessed
It seemed like a typical, everyday situation – A Singaporean family living in a three-room flat, going about their everyday lives.
Their daughter had just turned four and was attending nursery class.
Everything seemed fine until one day, the child started behaving oddly.
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