This happened at the a camp in Seletar.
It started when a few men from my platoon start seeing something at
night in their bunk, they sort of sleep together in a big bunk.
They are a good, rough, brave and tough bunch, so everyone just
wants to write it off as his imagination. Things got worst, as more
men see it. Soon Corporals and Sgts all sleep in bunks beside the
men, saw it too.
What is it that they saw ? From the interviews with the men,
corporals and Sgts, the story, is something will come into their
bunk at night, it will either walk by their bed or stop beside
their bed for a while. They can see it as a human shape, but it is
a shadow form, which you cannot see it clearly, no matter how hard
they try to see.
At that time, I was one crazy and brave soul, who fear nothing, so
I waited outside the men bunks for 3 nights in a roll, which
nothing happen. But soon, it started again. Possible reason my
Staff Sgt can think of was, blessing by the different religious
leaders during my commission parade. We try to put talisman but
none works. We try every thing we can within limits of army rules,
but none works also. As the nightly visit still did not stop, the
senior officers finally agree to turn a blind eye, what one of the
men did was he brought in a small golden Buddha from Thailand which
they put in the corridor. Strange the sighting just suddenly
stop.
That the end ?
No
there is a part 2 to it. You see, after half a year, I was
transferred out to another company and my men ROD and the golden
Buddha was brought home.
Soon a BMT platoon take over the bunks. All was fine, nothing
strange happen, till the 3rd week of the BMT, and it was a Friday,
everyone booked out except the recuits and their instructors. I was
the duty officer that day. At 10.30p.m after visiting the
guardroom, I went to check on the BMT platoons. They just finished
their night snacks, and are about to turn in, all was fine.
It was 2.15 p.m. when the phone in the Operation room, rang. On the
other line was, the one of the Platoon Commander of one of the BMT
platoons, he was panic. He was asking me to activate the guards,
and shouting they cannot hold him any much longer. What I got was
they seem to be having trouble with someone who went berserk and
they just manage to hold on to him with over 10 person and still
are having trouble.
I rush to the guardroom by that time the Guard Sgt already
activated the guards. He already got a call from one of the BMT PC
for help. I draw out 2 pair of handcuffs in case in need to
restrain the person, and I have to unload all the guards from the
landrover as the Guard Sgt had arm them with rifles with ammo !!! I
told the Guard Sgt, that going into action with a crazy guy with
armed rifles is not a good ideal, because we cannot shoot him, but
he can if he grabbed one rifles. Well that sure frightened the
guards, on the thought of going in unarmed.
When we arrive, we saw an amazing sight, there is more than 10
person one on top of any other pinning someone to the ground, like
a ruby tackle. After looking at the situation, I suddenly have this
feeling that everything is ok, dont ask me how, I just know. I
told the PC there to get his folks off that guy, but they all
refused, as they are too frightened to do so. I have to scream at
them before they unwilling get off one by one, but all ready to
pound on top again. He was totally stiffed, he muscles is all
contracted and he didnt even move. I was soon looking into the BMT
recruit, there is just something strange about him, I cannot tell
why, but I soon know. People say the eyes are the window to a
person soul, I was soon looking face to face into his eyes. The
strange things is his eyes dont blink, also they seem hollow,
without the type of shine of a normal human eye. I told him, that
everything is ok now, we are here to help him. Soon the Ambulance
arrive from the medical center, we got him in with 4 huge
escorts.
After the Ambulance left, I start gather all the information on the
ground, the facts on what happened was this recruit sudden just
woke up and start banging his head to the cupboard, the rest of the
recruit try to stop him, but he is just too strong. Next the
instructors try to, stop him but he attempted to jump down from 3rd
floor. So they had to force him down to the ground floor before
they manage to overpower him. The strange thing was, this is one of
the top recruits, who has no family problem, no girlfriend problem
and super fit.
The recruit was send from one hospital to another, because none
found any problem with him. They finally send him to NUS, but they
also found nothing wrong, in the end they send him to the
Woodbridge Bridge Hospital. No one seem to know what is wrong with
him. We even have difficulties in submitting the incident report to
mindef, so in the end, we just put it as suspected case of nervous
breakdown.
What happened to the recruit ? He got back out without any
recollection of what happen that night. The unofficial fact is that
we got one of the Senior Sgt to informally tell the dad and mum to
go and pray for their son, which they did and he became ok a day
after that.
