Remembering My Aunty
“Tai Yee” or
aunty is the eldest child of the 8 children from my maternal grandparents. She
stayed in several places in places like Singapore and Malaysia during her life
time. It was the unexpected and supernatural stories she told us before she
passed away which surprised us.
Some of her
unnatural incidents occurred when she was leaving at Thompson Road in
Singapore. Tai Yee worked as a seamstress ( kindna tailor) together with an
elder cousin during that time. She had rented a room at the back of an old bungalow,
which she worked on the dresses and also to sleep.
One night
when she was sleeping, she felt her entire body totally numbed (whether it was
a medical condition or supernatural) and she couldn’t even open her eyes – as if
something was on her entire body. Terrified she told herself to keep calm and
just relax and breathe slowly….and she forced her eyelids to opened and
OMG!...she saw a dark figure squatting on her chest with its face inches from her
face. She squeezed her eyes down and she just prayed. After a long time, she
felt the pressure on her body was slowly gone…and she opened her eyes…that
figure was gone.
The other
incident occurred when she agreed to “babysit” us in Penang when our parents
decided on going for a “world” tour. After we were fast sleep, she decided of
going downstairs to the kitchen for a glass of water. The kitchen was at the back
with a corridor beside the courtyard and it was cold and dark with only light
from the moonlight.
As she was
walking in the dark along the corridor leading towards the kitchen, she
suddenly saw a woman in white dress with her back facing my aunty. The woman or
spirit seemed busy preparing the ingredients in the dark. My aunt grabbed both her
hands to her mouth (to prevent herself from screaming) and slowing back away
and hurriedly running to the staircase as fast as she can.
My aunty
never told anyone of her strange and ghostly incidents until we were grown up
and only shortly before she passed away.
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