When my mother was a young girl, she had to share a room with her many brothers and sisters. It was one of those old gigantic bedrooms and everyone slept on mattresses lay out on the floor.

One fateful night, everyone except my grandmother was already in bed. My grandmother was just outside washing dishes. My mother was trying to go to sleep when a noise in the room startled her. As she looked up to where the noise had come from, she saw a lady dresses in a long white gown hanging in mid air. The lady had no feet and her neck was cocked to one side as if she had been hung except there was no rope! Her face was very pale and her eyes were wide opened.

My mother turned to wake up my brother only to realise that he too was awake by the noise. My uncle, however, was too struck with fear to move or scream. My mother cried, "Nanay, Nanay! (Mother, mother!)"

A baby girl was born to a young couple in Taiping, a small town in Perak, Malaysia some years back. As the couple were taking the new-born baby back home from the hospital, they met with an accident. Unfortunately, although the couple survived, their precious baby was killed in that tragic accident.

They baby's death was a great distress to the young couple and they decided to move down to Johor. A couple of years later they had another baby girl. When the baby was about 4 years old, the family took a holiday back to their hometown. As they were getting into Taiping, they drove passed the same road where they had lost their first baby.

Suddenly, their daughter asked, "Mommy, did I meet with an accident here some years back?"