Deception, perhaps?
BTW, while touching on this topic, here is a well known story abt
Pontianaks among the M'sians...
Along the North-South highway in Malaysia, there are various spots
marked with sign alerting drivers of crosswind. The dual
carriageway is one of the world's most advance expressway and
hence, when designing it, one would assume that the planners would
not have built it with crosswind sections. The expressway is open
for 24 hours and thousands of vehicles use it everyday. However,
there is hardly anyone who has seen the wind indicator marking the
presence of such claimed crosswind.
I found out later that these sections are actually black spots for
'mystery accidents'. As all these sections are neither winding nor
slippery, the authorities could not find any explanation of those
accidents. A study revealed that those areas are either cemetery
sites of the local tribe before the highway was built, or they were
the so-called 'dark' areas by the local tribes. Therefore, those
crosswind warnings were put up just to warn drivers so that they
are more alert and careful as they were driving along those
stretches, especially at night since the highway is not
lighted.
None of the accidents are, however, worth mentioning here. No one
has ever reported seeing a ghost or spirit driving them away from
their senses or any sort of unexplained phenomena happening
there.
Nevertheless, there is an incident that happened on the highway
that has caught the attention of a lot of people. This incident
does not happen along any of those crosswind sections but, instead,
near the tunnel on the northern section of the highway. Before
approaching the tunnel, drivers will go through highly areas with
the hill on one side and a sharp cliff on the other. The sharp
bends caused the authorities to put the speed limit down to 80kmph
(110kmph for most of the highway).
This story went public the first time when someone called in to the
radio during a ghost story programme. What make this story even
more interesting are the several calls later from witnesses and
relatives to verify that the story is true.
The incident happened on a Malay couple with a small baby. They
were driving along the expressway on a late night. It must have
been past 2am then and there aren't many private cars at those
hours. As they got near the tunnel, their car broke down. Perhaps
it is the hilly road, which put a lot of stress on the car, that
caused the car to broke down more than anything else.
The man stopped his car along the emergency lane and got off the
car to see if there was anything he could do. His wife was sitting
at the back of the car with their baby then. He got off the car,
opened up the engine and apparently was doing something there. The
wife just waited in the car with their baby since she is the type
of people who has the slightest idea about cars.
As the engine cover was turned up, the lady could not see what her
husband was doing in front. Then, there was no noise at all. She
started to get worried. Perhaps more worried about not being able
to get out of there than if there would be anything wrong with her
husband. Then the baby started crying. She carried her up and tried
to calm her down. However, the baby kept crying and crying.
Afterwards, she noticed two police cars drove by. They slowed down
as they past her. As she thought they would stop, the police cars
suddenly sped off. Then she heard a shrieking break of the police
cars ahead. Apparently, the police stopped their cars under the
lights of the tunnel about 100 metres ahead.
Then, she started hearing the policemen shouting at her. They
shouted at her and asked her to get out of the car and run towards
them. She got panic upon hearing that. Then, worry about her baby's
and her own safety, she grabbed her baby, got out of the car and
started running as fast as she could towards the policemen. As she
was running, they kept shouting at her to hurry and asked her not
to look back. As she almost got to where the policemen were, she
suddenly thought of her husband. She turn her head back to take a
look while continued running.
To her horror, she saw three 'pontianak' (see notes) with lots of
blood on their mouth. She saw one of them holding her husband's
head and licking off the dripping blood while two others were busy
sucking the blood from the man's body.
Two policemen, fearing that she may stop running upon seeing that,
rushed to her and dragged her into one of the police car. They shot
off as fast as they could after that. Seven policemen witnessed
this incident. When the police got there, the man was lying there
headless and 'bloodless'. The police, after interviewing the widow
and the seven policemen who witnessed the incident, decided to
close the case.
In the radio programme, someone called up later to say that he was
one of the policemen there at that time while another called up
claiming to be the victim's uncle. He said he refused to believe
the story and had applied for the case to be reopened for
investigation. He believes it was a murder case. Another caller
said his sister, the widow, was distressed after the incident and
he appealed to all listeners to believe that the story is true and
be more careful on the highway.
Scary stuff, huh? 
