It was before I was born at my kampong, before PAP came to
power, there was only a dirt path going up to my kampong (sits on a
hill), midway from the main road to my kampong, there was a cotton
tree next to those common toilet (bucket system, where you can see
all the shit).
It was said that the cotton tree has a pontianak, after 8pm, no one
would walk the path, and the path was not lighted. The people at
the kampong know about this, and as soon as it gets dark no one
will go to the toilet. There was this case of a man who came to our
kampong to look for his relative, it was about 9pm when he walk
along the path. When he was close to the tree, he saw a woman
carrying a baby crying there, he asked her if she was OK, she did
not reply, so he went closer to her. As he lays his hand on her
shoulder, and asked her if she need help, she raise her head, and
under the moonlight, he saw those burning red eyes and distorted
face, he immediately spring back. The pontianak said I need a young
man like you, with mouth wide and drooling. For a moment he was
frozen, and then he garner all his strength and run as fast as he
could up. According to my Grandpa, that guy face was all green when
he came up to our kampong.
He fell sick for the next couple of days, after they brought a
medium to him, he was ok. The cotton tree was struck down by
lightning and burnt one day, then lights were installed there when
PAP came to power, as a promise LKY made to my Grandpa. After that
nothing
was heard about the pontianak. BTW, the pontianak never kill
anyone, maybe that is the reason no one was called to destroy it.
There were hauntings during the Chinese seventh month behind the
toilet, they said the hungry ghosts went to feast on human
manure.
I have seen the spot where the cotton tree once stood, now Novena
square is on top.