Thought I’d share this story I received in the mail with you
guys:
“Apparently this is a favourite story that spreaded like
wildfire among Singaporean taxi drivers. It happened quite some
time ago, when Punggol wasn’t so well developed. This story
certainly gives some food for thought for those presently staying
in Punggol!
It was a normal evening drive for taxi driver Ah Tan. The gloomy
streetlights provided little illumination for the dark road in
front of him. He had just dropped his last passengers for the day
at a seafood restaurant at Punggol Point and was rushing back home
to change shifts with his relief driver.
While he was driving along the road, he took notice of a young
lady at a bus-stop flagging for his taxi. He wanted to pick up the
lady but he knew he would be late for changing shifts if he did so.
Being a stickler for punctuality, he turned off his taxi light and
carried on driving. He noticed that she was wearing a red T-shirt
and black skirt but due to the poor lighting conditions, he could
not see her face.
When he passed by a bus-stop, he felt a sense of horror as he
saw another lady flagging him down again, in the same red and black
clothes! How could a lady move faster than the taxi? The distance
between two sightings was about about half a kilometre apart! This
time, he really felt terrified and floored the accelerator.
Ah Tan would have never guessed what would happened next. As he
sped along the road, he caught a flash of something in red running
into his path, followed by a loud thump. His heart was thumping
wildly as he saw the lady fly across his windscreen and land in a
drain beside the road.
Ah Tan was not sure what to do now. Had he killed someone?
Feeling guilty, he decided to make a report to the police. However,
to his utmost horror, when the body of the lady in red was found,
it was determined that her cause of death was not by a car accident
but she was instead stabbed by a sharp object and bled to death in
that very drain! She had already been dead for about three days,
and the body had already started to decay.
A week later, Ah Tan had begun to put the whole ordeal behind
him. By some stroke of luck, he had won a big sum of money in 4-D
after buying his taxi’s number plate. Unfortunately, he fell down
in the bathroom the next day and fractured his right arm. He had to
be admitted to Changi Hospital for a few days.
In the hospital, he started having nightmares about the young
lady in red, who kept calling out to him “Ah Peh, li di si lo
lai?”(Uncle, when are you coming down?). He really couldn’t
tolerate it anymore. Moreover, his arm had started to swell badly
and even the doctors were puzzled about his worsening
condition.
Fortunately, one of his friends, who was a Taoist priest,
suggested that he give up his windfall winnings for the sake of
“safety”. He told Ah Tan that he could sense that the lady had
serious grievances and has thus become a ferocious spirit.
Since she could not avenge her own murder, Ah Tan was chosen to
be the ‘scapegoat’ for her rebirth. The 4D winnings were to
exchange for his life!
Terrified, he decided to give up his winnings to The Community
Chest. Strangely enough, he recovered rapidly and was soon back at
work.
Everything seemed to be over, shortly after he was discharged,
his wife struck 4-D!
What transpired was, one day, his wife bought some vegetables
from the market. She noticed that the newspaper used to wrap the
vegetables actually contained the report of the young lady’s murder
case. She noticed the date on the newspaper and decided to try her
luck at 4D and didn’t expect to win.
Despite having a fierce argument between them, Ah Tan failed to
convince his wife to donate the money to charity. Ah Tan was even
more worried when his wife bought a red T-shirt and a black skirt
similar to the dead girl’s. She had seemingly gone mad, staring
into blank space, talking to herself and having constant bad temper
got hotter and hotter. One morning, Ah Tan heard her screaming in
the kitchen. He managed to stop her in the nick of time just before
she plunged a kitchen knife into her chest.she suddenly told Ah Tan
that the life is meaningless’. This time Ah Tan was decisive, he
donated all the money immediately. He also brought his wife to the
temple where his friend worked at and asked the monks to pray and
appease the young lady’s tormented soul.
After this incident, he stopped buying 4-D or being involved in
any form of gambling. Subsequently, he also gave up his
taxi-license for the trauma was too much for him to bear.”
hey I saw this exactly in one of the episode of Incredible Tales
(灵异怪谈)
