Driving Nightmare

By Joanne of Philippines

Taxi drivers often have interesting ghost stories to tell. One of my relatives who owns a taxi company related his story to us. It has happened to one of his taxi drivers.

It was the wee hours of the night but Ambo was still on the road. He had wanted to earn the extra money he desperately needed. He had been driving around for almost an hour without any luck of a customer.

The sky was clear after a heavy rain. The air is cooling and everything seems so peaceful. Ambo was whistling to the tune on his radio as he drove around. Soon, he found himself driving along Balete Drive. The street is full of balete trees and is known to most locals as a haunted street.

Ambo couldn't care less as all he wanted now was just a paying passenger. Right ahead of him, a lady was seen waiting for a taxi. As Ambo approached, she waved for a ride.

She got in the car and Ambo asked where she wanted to go. However, she said she had no particular destination and asked Ambo to drive around until she could decide where she wanted to go.

After circling around the area for several minutes, they came to a junction. Ambo met his friend Oliver, a tricycle driver at the junction. Oliver tapped on his window and he looked petrified. At first, Ambo thought he needed help. He winded down his window and said, "Are you ok, Oliver?"

"Wellll, I am ok. Bbbbuut your passenger haass goooo-t nooo head, Ambo!"

"What?!" Ambo turned around as Oliver fled in his tricycle.

However, the girl is no longer behind.

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Friendly Ghosts

By Klinsmann of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Many are afraid of ghosts, yet some ghosts are actually harmless, if not friendly. My uncle's experience tells it all.

My uncle had stayed in Kuala Lumpur since he started studying there. He rented a three-bedroom house after consulted a bomoh (a traditional Malay witch doctor).

The bomoh told my uncle that the house is not very "clean" because there are three spirits, two females and a male, living in it. However, he said the spirits are harmless unless they are being provoked. However, he told my uncle to be extra careful with the ghost in the last room as the spirit did not die peacefully.

My uncle took the bomoh's advice and tried his best not to offend the spirits. Every time my uncle eat he will prepare some extra food as an offering for them. Consequently, they became very friendly with my uncle and his wife.

Once, my aunt was boiling water on the stove when she fell asleep. Nobody was around but when she woke up and rushed to the kitchen, the gas had been turned off. In several other occasions too that the ghosts had helped them.

Perhaps if we are friendly to the ghosts and do not offend them, they are not that harmful after all.

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Vengence After Death

By Monika Marzec

My grandmother never gets along well with her mother-in-law. They were always fighting and arguing about everything under the sun. They just couldn't get along.

As the years passed, their relationship remained sour. However, her mother-in-law was getting old and soon passed away after a serious of illness. Not surprisingly, my grandmother was very happy with the fact. She would always tell my mother how peaceful everything would be then.

Well, yes, everything had indeed been peaceful until one night. My grandmother had gone to bed and she had a dream. In her dream, she was sleeping and her mother-in-law was standing right beside the bed. She stared at my grandmother with an evil look, an expression full of anger and hatred, just like she always did when she was still alive.

Then, out of a sudden, she lifted her hand and slapped my grandmother really hard on the face. My grandmother woke up from her dream screaming away. And the strangest thing was that the pain was actually there. She thought she had dreamt the whole episode but the pain on her face was as good as real.

It happened years after my great-grandmother had died, but apparently the hatred for her daughter-in-law never dies. Did she actually came back and slapped my grandmother that night?

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