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- 0:00Speaker 1: So when I opened my eyes, I, I heard, I
- 0:02Speaker 1: couldn't move right, but I heard like surrounding me, there
- 0:06Speaker 1: was like Buddhist chanting, but it was going backwards.
- 0:27Speaker 1: My name is
- 0:28Speaker 2: Putz, my name is, my name is Wayne, my name
- 0:31Speaker 2: is Kyle, and this is Tales from Incredible Tales, inspired
- 0:35Speaker 2: by the classic horror series, we explore Southeast Asia's supernatural culture.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Our guest for this episode is a wildly popular Malaysian
- 0:43Speaker 2: content creator who explores topics like the Qing Ming Festival,
- 0:46Speaker 2: the Hungry Ghost Month,
- 0:48Speaker 2: And the afterlife. So really someone who's gonna fit right
- 0:51Speaker 2: in here. Dead parts, welcome to the show. All the
- 0:56Speaker 2: way from Malaysia right across the,
- 0:58Speaker 1: across the sea. The bridge bridge bridge.
- 1:03Speaker 2: You go by air, right? How, how's your, how's your?
- 1:05Speaker 2: Singapore been so far. That's a good start. I love
- 1:11Speaker 2: how she immediately, yeah, I know what you're asking, right?
- 1:15Speaker 2: No ghosts. I mean, I meant in general, but OK,
- 1:18Speaker 2: that's good to know that the hotel room is not haunted.
- 1:19Speaker 2: So in this episode, we wanted to chat with Pats
- 1:22Speaker 2: about something that's
- 1:24Speaker 2: Not that deep, but not really lah, but philosophical lah.
- 1:27Speaker 2: So about the afterlife, specifically from a Southeast Asian perspective.
- 1:32Speaker 2: This episode was inspired by the classic Incredible tales episode,
- 1:36Speaker 2: shaking off the ghosts.
- 1:37Speaker 2: Every major religion in Southeast Asia has its own beliefs
- 1:41Speaker 2: regarding the afterlife. Some believe in heaven and hell, some
- 1:46Speaker 2: believe in reincarnation or rebirth. Uh, within the region, there
- 1:50Speaker 2: are a number of religious, uh, festivals and certain periods
- 1:54Speaker 2: during the year that honor, celebrate and remember the deceased.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Pitru Paksha is a sixteen-day stretch during which Hindus pay
- 2:02Speaker 2: homage to their ancestors with prayers and donations. According to
- 2:06Speaker 2: an article by the National Library Board, quote, Although it
- 2:10Speaker 2: is not required for Muslims to visit the cemetery during Hariraya,
- 2:14Speaker 2: many do so as a remembrance of those who have
- 2:17Speaker 2: left them, end quote. The Buddhist and Taoists have Qingming,
- 2:21Speaker 2: which is observed by visiting cemeteries and columbariums with food
- 2:25Speaker 2: and offerings for deceased relatives.
- 2:28Speaker 2: And All Souls' Day is when Christians pray for the
- 2:31Speaker 2: souls of the faithful departed. But it's easy to see
- 2:37Speaker 2: why you might have, you know, um, have an interest
- 2:40Speaker 2: in the afterlife, uh, considering what we all grew up with,
- 2:45Speaker 2: was there anything in particular that sparked that interest?
- 2:49Speaker 1: Um, I think that because we have so many different
- 2:52Speaker 1: like races both in like Malaysia and Singapore, right? Like when, when, like, like,
- 2:57Speaker 1: let's say on the table, sometimes it's brought up like
- 3:00Speaker 1: I would say like, oh, after this, my next life,
- 3:02Speaker 1: I will do this, do this, do this, but there's
- 3:04Speaker 1: some someone like across me, maybe Malay, right, will be like,
- 3:07Speaker 1: I'm going to heaven, you know, heaven, I can get
- 3:09Speaker 1: anything I want and I'm like, wait, how come like
- 3:12Speaker 1: not fair? You get everything you want, but I need
- 3:14Speaker 1: to go through life again.
- 3:17Speaker 1: So which of it is true and, and also like, uh, in,
- 3:21Speaker 1: in Taoist and Buddhist, both Chinese, right, but like, um, one,
- 3:25Speaker 1: of course, you know, uh, in, in Buddhism, it's about reincarnation,
- 3:29Speaker 1: very akin to like Hindu belief, but like in Taoism
- 3:32Speaker 1: it's like a structured like heaven or hell, right, like
- 3:36Speaker 1: you go in, you get your sin's way, and then, yeah, which, yeah,
- 3:39Speaker 1: so I've always questioned it.
- 3:42Speaker 1: As a kid growing up,
- 3:44Speaker 2: speaking of like afterlife, right, I think I told you
- 3:47Speaker 2: this before, like there's the one thing that I was
- 3:49Speaker 2: really scared of, right, is afterlife. And why? Because when
- 3:54Speaker 2: I was young I ever questioned my uh myself that
- 3:59Speaker 2: what if, right? What if?
- 4:01Speaker 2: After you pass away, right, it will just be like
- 4:04Speaker 2: a black void. So you try to close your eyes,
- 4:06Speaker 2: you try to imagine this. What if you are just
- 4:09Speaker 2: like a soul trapped in like the, the vacuum, and
- 4:13Speaker 2: then you just like you cannot do, you cannot move
- 4:15Speaker 2: your hands, you cannot. I, I don't know how to
- 4:17Speaker 2: explain nothingness. It's like nothingness. It's so scary. I really,
- 4:23Speaker 2: but you're, you're, so you're saying that you're conscious, but
- 4:25Speaker 2: you're just like you just like.
- 4:28Speaker 2: So you're scared that you're bored la bored, no, no, no, no,
- 4:31Speaker 2: I'm just like, you know, like right now you are
- 4:33Speaker 2: in control.
- 4:37Speaker 2: No, but I get it, because you, you, there's nothing
- 4:40Speaker 2: to do. You can't like put out your PS5. You
- 4:42Speaker 2: can't play games. It's not really that. It's just like
- 4:44Speaker 2: you can't control anything right now. You're in control of
- 4:47Speaker 2: all your actions, correct? But you know, later on, like,
- 4:50Speaker 2: what if it's just a black void? You cannot do anything.
- 4:52Speaker 2: You just like, but then if you, you are conscious,
- 4:56Speaker 2: but you don't have a body or you don't have anything,
- 4:58Speaker 2: you're just a consciousness being, right? Then, then you can
- 5:01Speaker 2: just go to sleep.
- 5:03Speaker 2: That's the thing, bro. I, I don't know. Whenever, whenever
- 5:06Speaker 2: there's there will come a period of time that I
- 5:08Speaker 2: will feel that way and then I will feel so empty,
- 5:11Speaker 2: you know, like.
- 5:13Speaker 2: I need to do something with my life. Really. Do
- 5:14Speaker 2: you still feel that way if I get into the zone,
- 5:18Speaker 2: get into the zone, really, I'm not. I believe you.
- 5:22Speaker 2: People telling you I know you love me when I
- 5:25Speaker 2: get into the zone, we are talking about afterlife, you know.
- 5:28Speaker 1: I understand. I mean, to be fair, we never died before,
- 5:30Speaker 1: so we wouldn't know.
- 5:31Speaker 2: No, but apparently there's rituals in Thailand that you can do,
- 5:35Speaker 2: I think in Korea as well, to actually experience death.
- 5:37Speaker 2: They put you in a coffin.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Then you, you trance, you go into a trance. I
- 5:41Speaker 2: know people who have done the ritual and like they
- 5:44Speaker 2: went to hell to experience hell. So, so it's like, yeah,
- 5:48Speaker 2: it's simulated so that they appreciate life is, is legit
- 5:52Speaker 2: because they want to like meditate. They want to appreciate
- 5:54Speaker 2: life and see what hell is like. So I, I
- 5:56Speaker 2: know of people who have casually, oh yeah, I've been
- 5:58Speaker 2: to
- 5:58Speaker 2: hell.
- 5:58Speaker 1: You know what's a great idea. Maybe we can grab
- 6:00Speaker 1: like 10 people from 10 different religions and then send,
- 6:04Speaker 1: put them inside the coffin.
- 6:05Speaker 1: And then like see where which which server of hell
- 6:09Speaker 1: they go to like do they see Jesus or do
- 6:11Speaker 1: they see like Amy to 4 or is it their
- 6:14Speaker 1: next life instantly to finally answer the question of which
- 6:15Speaker 1: ones
- 6:15Speaker 2: yeah yeah
- 6:18Speaker 1: like which one is the
- 6:19Speaker 1: the
- 6:20Speaker 2: true one yeah I feel like it's just a skin,
- 6:23Speaker 2: you know, like game, right? Like you choose this class.
- 6:26Speaker 2: Then therefore your god is this skin, but they are
- 6:29Speaker 2: all the same. The, the, the mighty being is just
- 6:32Speaker 2: 11 same light, but it's just based on your race
- 6:36Speaker 2: and your religion that you were born with. Then that's
- 6:39Speaker 2: your skin. It's like different DLCs. Yeah, exactly. It's like
- 6:42Speaker 2: you're a warrior. You cannot use.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Make skin, right, it's the same thing but it's just different. I, I,
- 6:47Speaker 2: that's my perspective from a point of view, right, right.
- 6:48Speaker 2: But really, but then again, everyone like help each other lah.
- 6:53Speaker 2: So like, you know, like jungle helped me and then
- 6:56Speaker 2: but you were saying that when you were younger you
- 6:59Speaker 2: always
- 7:00Speaker 2: Wonder which one was the true afterlife. Yeah. In this
- 7:05Speaker 2: present moment, have you come to some kind of conclusion
- 7:08Speaker 2: or are you still trying to figure that out or
- 7:11Speaker 2: are you at peace with the idea of not knowing?
- 7:21Speaker 1: Happens in the afterlife. It's what you do in this life,
- 7:23Speaker 1: you know, like how you impact like people around you,
- 7:26Speaker 1: communities around you. So I don't put too much thought
- 7:29Speaker 1: in that. But actually, like 2 to 3 years ago,
- 7:32Speaker 1: uh I started practicing Hinduism. So I, I guess in
- 7:36Speaker 1: a way like
- 7:37Speaker 1: After, let's say I die, then, well, at least there's
- 7:41Speaker 1: some books or texts that illustrate it, you know, it's
- 7:44Speaker 1: not like emptiness, nothingness like a void, yeah, because it's
- 7:48Speaker 1: always been void for me. So yeah, yeah,
- 7:50Speaker 2: yeah,
- 7:52Speaker 1: yeah, trailer.
- 7:53Speaker 2: So there's a thin line between.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Reverence for the deceased and having a supernatural encounter. As
- 7:58Speaker 2: the National Library Board puts it in an article, quote,
- 8:01Speaker 2: Special care is taken by someone to avoid the attention
- 8:05Speaker 2: of wandering souls during the 7th lunar month, which ironically
- 8:09Speaker 2: was last, uh, the last day was yesterday, end quote.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Parts have you encountered anything supernatural while filming videos about
- 8:17Speaker 2: the afterlife?
- 8:18Speaker 1: Well, um, if it's related to like videos of the
- 8:24Speaker 1: afterlife like Qingming or like Hungry Ghost Festival, actually, no,
- 8:29Speaker 1: I think, I think so far like I have been
- 8:32Speaker 1: like protected or shielded, hm, because, because like before we start, right,
- 8:37Speaker 1: the project, like, like Hungry Ghosts and like even Qingming,
- 8:40Speaker 1: you know, there's like.
- 8:42Speaker 1: You start by praying to the to the kong first
- 8:44Speaker 1: and then the taiakong so I, I will ask for
- 8:48Speaker 1: permission like in a way like, like, and then usually
- 8:50Speaker 1: I don't go empty handed. I will buy like the
- 8:53Speaker 1: offerings and then I burn first and then I say,
- 8:55Speaker 1: you know, this is my payment for you. Like you
- 8:57Speaker 1: settle it like you pay upfront and then later you
- 9:00Speaker 1: do later, not like do first then pay negotiation first, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 9:05Speaker 1: So so far OK, but uh if if you're talking
- 9:08Speaker 1: about like most scary experience.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Uh, well, me and my team, we had like this
- 9:14Speaker 1: like synced nightmare event, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, um, at,
- 9:21Speaker 1: at Lombar Bujang. So, um, I went there, I, I
- 9:24Speaker 1: asked for permission, like, oh, I thank you for, you know,
- 9:27Speaker 1: I've been here, I'll meditate for a bit, you know,
- 9:29Speaker 1: I respect you, respect me. Then my tour guide previous
- 9:32Speaker 1: trip was like, oh, there are a lot of rocks
- 9:34Speaker 1: here because that's, um, at that area it's also like mountainous.
- 9:38Speaker 1: And if you know, mountainous equals Ban place also, so
- 9:42Speaker 1: it's like a combination of like multiple factor different server together, OK.
- 9:47Speaker 1: So yeah, so, um, over there, um, I, I got
- 9:51Speaker 1: some rocks. I bring home. Nothing happened to me, but
- 9:53Speaker 1: on my second trip there, the tour guide was like giving,
- 9:56Speaker 1: giving out rocks to my friends like, Oh, look, quartz
- 9:58Speaker 1: for you, rose quartz for you, amethyst for you. So
- 10:02Speaker 1: my friend was like, Wow, very nice. Then she bring
- 10:04Speaker 1: back to the hotel, and that night was like.
- 10:07Speaker 1: It was quite fun. It started off with me waking
- 10:11Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night like, whoa, something
- 10:14Speaker 1: don't feel so right. I went to the toilet, uh,
- 10:17Speaker 1: my videographer who has the eye, right, and the, the radar,
- 10:20Speaker 1: he's my radar. He also met me at the toilet.
- 10:23Speaker 1: Then I was like, why did you wake up? He's
- 10:24Speaker 1: like asking me, why did you wake up? Then we
- 10:26Speaker 1: went back to, we went back to sleep. And then
- 10:29Speaker 1: suddenly it was during this sleep I got a nightmare.
- 10:32Speaker 1: So the nightmare was like,
- 10:33Speaker 1: Uh, I was sleeping and then suddenly my blanket was
- 10:37Speaker 1: being pulled from the right side, which was next to me, my,
- 10:40Speaker 1: my female friend that picked up the rock, and it
- 10:43Speaker 1: got pulled off her. So, and then I freaked out.
- 10:45Speaker 1: I was like screaming her name. I was like, her
- 10:47Speaker 1: name is Celeste. I was like, Celeste, Celeste, are you OK?
- 10:48Speaker 1: Are you OK? And then I was struggling. Then suddenly
- 10:51Speaker 1: it was like sleep paralysis. I realized, hm, maybe, uh,
- 10:55Speaker 1: I should like.
- 10:57Speaker 1: Get out of here for a while. I went downstairs
- 10:59Speaker 1: to like text like my mentor. Two hours later, they
- 11:03Speaker 1: were like, Yo, where are you? I was like, Oh,
- 11:05Speaker 1: I'm downstairs. And then I went up. Then they all
- 11:08Speaker 1: like look very like frazzled, you know. Then I was like,
- 11:11Speaker 1: You guys OK? And my videographer, right, he, he said
- 11:15Speaker 1: like from the moment.
- 11:16Speaker 1: He started sleeping. Uh, he has been battling something. He's
- 11:19Speaker 1: been fighting something, and that thing is like he said
- 11:22Speaker 1: like this hotel is everywhere, but it followed us from somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 11:28Speaker 1: So that's why he got, he, he was fighting so tired,
- 11:31Speaker 1: like he was tired, so he, we met at the
- 11:33Speaker 1: like the toilet at the same time because he took
- 11:35Speaker 1: a break or so.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Uh, then after that I was like, OK. Then he
- 11:41Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I think we cannot go
- 11:43Speaker 1: to the next location, which is Gunnong Jerai. It's like
- 11:46Speaker 1: the most, the, the very Ban hotspot, like, like the
- 11:50Speaker 1: top destination, yeah, yeah. So, um, that was supposed to
- 11:54Speaker 1: be the shooting plan. Uh, then, OK, he said that
- 11:57Speaker 1: I'm like thinking, OK, maybe, yeah, we shouldn't go. It's
- 12:00Speaker 1: also like 4 a.m. and we're supposed to be like.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Going up there at like 6 and like I haven't slept.
- 12:06Speaker 1: Then secondly, uh, I asked Celeste, right? I was like, yo, uh,
- 12:10Speaker 1: how are you OK? She's like, I'm very scared. Then
- 12:13Speaker 1: I'm like, OK, why are you scared? And then she
- 12:16Speaker 1: told me like, you know, I, I, I heard you
- 12:18Speaker 1: calling my name. Then I was like,
- 12:22Speaker 1: But, but I did call your name, but I was asleep.
- 12:24Speaker 1: And so how do you, how did you hear me?
- 12:27Speaker 1: And she was like, I don't know, I, I, I,
- 12:28Speaker 1: you were calling me. Then when I opened my eyes,
- 12:30Speaker 1: you were asleep. Then I was like, Oh, how did,
- 12:34Speaker 1: how did the audio link, like Bluetooth, you know, because
- 12:38Speaker 1: I am sure I was asleep, and if I shouted
- 12:40Speaker 1: her name, my videographer would have woke up like, why
- 12:43Speaker 1: are you shouting? You get what I mean? So that,
- 12:46Speaker 1: that is very mind-boggling. It's like metaphysics level. I don't understand.
- 12:51Speaker 1: I mean for
- 12:51Speaker 1: me, then I told them my side lah, and then
- 12:53Speaker 1: they were all like, hm, some, I think something we
- 12:56Speaker 1: didn't do right or something from the, the archaeological site
- 13:00Speaker 1: where the temples are. Then I'm just like thinking like
- 13:03Speaker 1: what could it be, you know? Did we say something?
- 13:05Speaker 1: Did we do something? Because I did the same thing. I,
- 13:07Speaker 1: I go and pray and ask for respect everything. Then suddenly,
- 13:12Speaker 1: suddenly one of them uh realized, I think my, my assistant, uh,
- 13:16Speaker 1: my PA, he, he was like, oh my God, I
- 13:18Speaker 1: think it's the stone, you took the stone.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Then, so that's like the stone, the stone. Oh, then,
- 13:24Speaker 1: then I was like, but I took it and I'm fine.
- 13:26Speaker 1: My Per was like, you see silver, ma. Then I
- 13:28Speaker 1: was like, OK, OK, I get it. I get it. OK,
- 13:31Speaker 1: so what's the solution? Then we were like thinking, you know,
- 13:34Speaker 1: I think return no. And then because we cannot go
- 13:37Speaker 1: back there, right, so we pass it to the.
- 13:39Speaker 1: To, to, to our tour guide la and then hopefully
- 13:41Speaker 1: everything is fine. But then the crazy part was like
- 13:43Speaker 1: the next day, right, like, um, when we were shooting right,
- 13:48Speaker 1: another archaeological site, suddenly out of nowhere, right, my, my
- 13:52Speaker 1: videographer was holding the camera, he suddenly tripped, twisted his
- 13:54Speaker 1: ankle and jumped, jumped because he wants to save the
- 13:58Speaker 1: Sony A7C2.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Like he didn't want to like break right so he jumped,
- 14:02Speaker 1: jump and then yeah, then after that the whole shoot
- 14:04Speaker 1: like we couldn't really shoot anymore because his leg was
- 14:06Speaker 1: like gone, you know, like yeah, so then, then he
- 14:10Speaker 1: told me right after he he tripped like he was like,
- 14:12Speaker 1: I told you we shouldn't continue. Then I was like,
- 14:16Speaker 1: but I really invest.
- 14:19Speaker 2: I really spend money.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Honestly, ah, coming from a person who has read a
- 14:26Speaker 2: lot of stories, you know, I mean, I tell a
- 14:27Speaker 2: lot of stories, right, would rule number one.
- 14:30Speaker 2: When you go to a sacred or like a ah
- 14:34Speaker 2: a mysterious place, right, or a place that is haunted, right?
- 14:40Speaker 2: You don't take anything from that place. That's what I learned.
- 14:45Speaker 2: 101, don't take anything even if it's like Nietzsche, you know,
- 14:49Speaker 2: because I've heard stories. Uncle Ramana, so there's this, um, spiritualist,
- 14:54Speaker 2: he actually, uh, helped someone that someone every country she goes,
- 14:59Speaker 2: she will collect all the, you know, the stones, rocks,
- 15:01Speaker 2: and whatnot, right, collect.
- 15:04Speaker 2: And then at one point of time she raba Eddie
- 15:06Speaker 2: bro she become like so obsessed with it and then
- 15:09Speaker 2: she cannot disturb already and the thing you just imagine
- 15:12Speaker 2: I forget which country uh it was, but like let's
- 15:17Speaker 2: say uh Arab Saudi Arabia, right? So the, the lady
- 15:19Speaker 2: went to Saudi and go pick up the stone or
- 15:22Speaker 2: what then the, the gin is from Saudi, bro. Hollo
- 15:26Speaker 2: to Singapore, you know.
- 15:27Speaker 1: I found out that like, you know, stones and crystals, they,
- 15:29Speaker 1: they actually like hold energy like.
- 15:32Speaker 1: Vibration like they absorb right and then it's like like inside.
- 15:36Speaker 1: So sometimes that energy might like uh conflict with your
- 15:41Speaker 1: personal energy or like let's say you have different god
- 15:43Speaker 1: at home, right? Like statues or like whatever you pray to,
- 15:47Speaker 1: like they have a frequency and if it clash, right,
- 15:49Speaker 1: that's where it will be like messy. Yeah, the interaction
- 15:53Speaker 1: of the colliding energies can give nightmares, can give disturbances,
- 15:58Speaker 1: can attract things to come.
- 16:00Speaker 2: So actually if you
- 16:01Speaker 2: think about it, right, like stones or rocks, it's actually quite,
- 16:03Speaker 2: it's very, very old, right? You get what I mean?
- 16:06Speaker 2: So like it could be a creature, it's like fossilized, right?
- 16:10Speaker 2: It could be a creature and people like it could
- 16:12Speaker 2: be their home also, you know, you know, going back
- 16:14Speaker 2: to your story, right, like you mentioned that your videographer
- 16:18Speaker 2: could see.
- 16:19Speaker 2: So did he say what he saw?
- 16:22Speaker 1: Well, he, he said like the, the shape is like,
- 16:26Speaker 1: like humanoid, but, but then, but then the head is like,
- 16:30Speaker 1: like big, big. Like I, when he told me that
- 16:34Speaker 1: I was thinking, wow, is this the demagogon from Stranger Things.
- 16:37Speaker 1: But then maybe he wouldn't have watched it, so I
- 16:40Speaker 1: didn't see it. But I, I think it's something like that,
- 16:42Speaker 1: like humanoid, because they can actually like I think gene
- 16:46Speaker 1: and all these things, right, they can take on any form.
- 16:49Speaker 1: Like they want, you know, so like sometimes maybe they
- 16:52Speaker 1: appear this way to some people. They might not appear
- 16:55Speaker 1: this other way. And then like it's like they can, they,
- 16:58Speaker 1: they have like this character customization feature anytime. So
- 17:01Speaker 2: like they they like they buy a lot of DLCs,
- 17:06Speaker 1: yeah, like mods, you know, they just
- 17:08Speaker 2: it's true. Like, it really depends on like let's say
- 17:11Speaker 2: I'm scared of Pochong, right, then they know already I'm
- 17:13Speaker 2: scared of Pochong, so they appear as Pochong. But if
- 17:15Speaker 2: for different people, maybe they're scared of Pontana, they appear
- 17:17Speaker 2: as pontana or something like that.
- 17:18Speaker 1: That's a very interesting topic because like you know in
- 17:21Speaker 1: the in the Malay Peninsula like pantheon of like, um, spirits, right,
- 17:28Speaker 1: I hear different spirits got like different skill sets and
- 17:31Speaker 1: it's like pick a character in the game, you know, like,
- 17:34Speaker 1: like so so that one also like makes me wonder
- 17:37Speaker 1: a little bit lah because like, OK, like for example,
- 17:40Speaker 1: for example, Pontiana, right, is equivalent to like die during
- 17:43Speaker 1: childbirth equivalent to we'll kill you or so like there's this.
- 17:49Speaker 1: right, but then at the same time they can change from.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Some can, some cannot. So I'm just thinking, what, like how,
- 17:54Speaker 1: how are they? Do they exist as is, or is,
- 17:58Speaker 1: are they like they can swap around anytime they want?
- 18:02Speaker 2: I do feel like there is a default setting for,
- 18:06Speaker 2: for this. I mean that's the best way you can
- 18:08Speaker 2: describe it. There's a default setting for these entities and
- 18:11Speaker 2: like you said, when they change and everything, it's what
- 18:15Speaker 2: works best. So if I really want to frighten this person,
- 18:17Speaker 2: and if I can change to a different form.
- 18:19Speaker 2: I'll change to a different form and frighten them lah. So,
- 18:21Speaker 2: so that thing that looked like a demagogon was in
- 18:25Speaker 2: the house with you
- 18:26Speaker 1: in the hotel room,
- 18:28Speaker 2: but, but scary, yeah, like can sing when
- 18:30Speaker 1: sing
- 18:32Speaker 2: no means that the haunting is like.
- 18:34Speaker 2: It's because the rocks, the stones were in the room, right?
- 18:37Speaker 2: So then, yeah, so they all eventually return the
- 18:42Speaker 1: pass it to my to my tour guide.
- 18:44Speaker 2: Then after that,
- 18:45Speaker 1: then after that, OK, I mean, then the ankle sprain,
- 18:49Speaker 1: but then I still like, you know what, I already paid.
- 18:52Speaker 1: Let's go.
- 18:53Speaker 2: But the tour guide anyhow I, OK, I was about
- 18:55Speaker 2: to ask, has anything happened? Has anything happened to the
- 18:58Speaker 2: tour guide.
- 18:59Speaker 2: But technically they got the payment ready. The spirit got
- 19:02Speaker 2: the payment because the videographer sprained the leg.
- 19:05Speaker 2: Ah yeah, maybe the camera was supposed to be famous,
- 19:09Speaker 2: but the videographer saved the
- 19:10Speaker 2: camera.
- 19:12Speaker 2: Yo, Mark
- 19:13Speaker 2: 2,
- 19:14Speaker 1: yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 19:15Speaker 2: So no, so
- 19:16Speaker 1: the production stuff, OK,
- 19:19Speaker 2: so the, the, the, the videographer sacrifice.
- 19:24Speaker 1: He was telling me I'd rather pay with my ankle
- 19:27Speaker 1: than my I can't afford this.
- 19:29Speaker 2: But, but why must you still pay? You already what
- 19:32Speaker 2: the stone.
- 19:32Speaker 1: Oh, that one haven't yet.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Maybe that's why. Maybe that's why they, they wrote. I'm
- 19:38Speaker 2: sure they were not happy. So parts are just now
- 19:41Speaker 2: before we roll, you actually mentioned that you have ghost
- 19:44Speaker 2: stories in Singapore. Why Singapore haunted? I wanted to ask
- 19:50Speaker 2: the same question Is Singapore haunted?
- 19:52Speaker 1: I believe so. I believe that every corner, every place
- 19:55Speaker 1: is like high pack, like high density concentration.
- 19:59Speaker 1: I think because the land is too small, maybe the
- 20:01Speaker 1: maybe the ghosts haven't reincarnated or maybe not sure which
- 20:05Speaker 1: server maybe instead of the void they're just in the
- 20:08Speaker 1: HDB
- 20:09Speaker 2: so instead of the void in the void deck maybe
- 20:12Speaker 2: that's what the void deck is for ah for the
- 20:15Speaker 2: ghosts the waiting area technically not not wrong. OK, maybe
- 20:19Speaker 2: we start off with how many.
- 20:21Speaker 2: Encounters, encounters that you had in Singapore.
- 20:24Speaker 1: OK, uh, my, well, I've been to, I'm here, this
- 20:27Speaker 1: is like my probably 5th or 6th time here. I'm
- 20:29Speaker 1: hoping this trip is not going to add to the list.
- 20:33Speaker 1: Then it will be like every, everyone is like checkmark already. Uh,
- 20:37Speaker 1: one of, OK, one of the encounters, uh, I can
- 20:39Speaker 1: start off with this one was like the intro intro
- 20:42Speaker 1: episode when I was sleeping, uh.
- 20:45Speaker 1: I think I I slept at 5 and then suddenly 6, I,
- 20:48Speaker 1: I got sleep paralysis. And then when I, when I
- 20:51Speaker 1: woke up, right, uh, that house got, my mom got
- 20:54Speaker 1: something I already noticed because I was there, I slept there.
- 20:58Speaker 1: I slept like in the living room. I saw something
- 21:00Speaker 1: at the side.
- 21:01Speaker 1: Of the house like at the shrine area. I think
- 21:04Speaker 1: I got a, I got a dream. I went there,
- 21:05Speaker 1: something is inside the shrine moving, yeah yeah yeah. I
- 21:08Speaker 1: told my friend, uh, I think your house or something.
- 21:10Speaker 1: She said, no lah. I already got like the the
- 21:13Speaker 1: priest to come like the spirit medium. Then I was like,
- 21:17Speaker 1: like what spirit medium? Like the western one. And I
- 21:21Speaker 1: was like, oh OK. Then I slept on her bed, right.
- 21:25Speaker 1: I was trying to take a nap in the afternoon, right,
- 21:27Speaker 1: and then suddenly I had sleep paralysis in that room,
- 21:30Speaker 1: that room, that room, uh, same room as the one
- 21:33Speaker 1: that the Connergray concert. So when I opened my eyes, I,
- 21:37Speaker 1: I heard, I couldn't move, right, but I heard like
- 21:39Speaker 1: surrounding me there was like Buddhist chanting, but it was
- 21:42Speaker 1: going backwards. Yeah, I think that was like quite high level.
- 21:49Speaker 1: I woke up and I was like.
- 21:51Speaker 1: Your house is haunted, sis. She was like, no, no,
- 21:55Speaker 1: we got it cleansed. We got it cleansed. I was like,
- 21:57Speaker 1: you get it cleansed by Chinese or or Western because
- 22:00Speaker 1: Western maybe server also not, not works, you know. You
- 22:04Speaker 1: can't do the out demon and then the thing is
- 22:06Speaker 1: like nijiahimo.
- 22:10Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, then she's like, oh yeah, I think it's fine,
- 22:14Speaker 1: nothing much. Then, then the next time I really no
- 22:17Speaker 1: choice that time, really no choice. I, I know the
- 22:19Speaker 1: house is like messed up, right? But then I was like,
- 22:22Speaker 1: you know, what's more messed up is if I have
- 22:24Speaker 1: no money to go back, so I go and stay
- 22:26Speaker 1: at her house.
- 22:27Speaker 1: house slipped downstairs. So I think I found out what
- 22:30Speaker 1: was it lah that is in the house lah because
- 22:33Speaker 1: um when I had that sleep paralysis, I saw on
- 22:36Speaker 1: my left was like one white color, wearing white color male, uh,
- 22:41Speaker 1: like quite tall, like watching over me. Um the appearance
- 22:44Speaker 1: is like,
- 22:46Speaker 1: Also quite long hair and like flowy clothes, like white
- 22:49Speaker 1: color standing next to me. I was like thinking, OK,
- 22:52Speaker 1: oh my God, this is so scary. Like, like, I mean,
- 22:54Speaker 1: not it's so Gen Z lah. I was actually scared lah.
- 22:56Speaker 1: I was like, oh, and then I looked to my left, right,
- 22:59Speaker 1: on her bed, right, on her bed, sitting on her bed, right,
- 23:02Speaker 1: was this like red color.
- 23:03Speaker 1: Dress, red colored dress, like cannot see the face very clear,
- 23:06Speaker 1: but the hair is quite long also, uh, female, something female,
- 23:10Speaker 1: like a ghost lah, female ghost. But then, uh, as
- 23:12Speaker 1: I look right, like the, the neck started like getting
- 23:15Speaker 1: longer and longer and I was like, get me out
- 23:18Speaker 1: of here, like get me out of here, like, like
- 23:20Speaker 1: I just want to wake up.
- 23:21Speaker 1: And then like I struggle and it's like lucid plus
- 23:25Speaker 1: it's always like this for me like unfortunately, so like
- 23:27Speaker 1: when when I woke up, like there's nothing there, there's
- 23:30Speaker 1: nothing next to me, then I realized behind me got
- 23:32Speaker 1: the mirror. Then I was like, oh damn, maybe this
- 23:35Speaker 1: might have.
- 23:36Speaker 1: Uh, influenced the whole thing because, you know, sleep in
- 23:39Speaker 1: front of a mirror is bad, but I decided, you know, it's,
- 23:42Speaker 1: it's OK. Thank you very much again, you know, is
- 23:45Speaker 1: it Jessica? I don't know who, whoever it is, uh, yeah,
- 23:49Speaker 1: I started packing my bag. I tried to wake my friend.
- 23:50Speaker 1: I was like, I'm scared, and then she couldn't wake up.
- 23:53Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, you don't want to
- 23:55Speaker 1: kick me out. I'll leave first. So I packed my
- 23:57Speaker 1: bag and then I, I left the unit at like
- 23:59Speaker 1: 7 a.m. and I remember like I was walking with
- 24:03Speaker 1: my luggage at 7 a.m. I was like,
- 24:05Speaker 1: Now where do I go? But I, I see, I,
- 24:09Speaker 1: I don't, I cannot, I cannot pinpoint and I cannot
- 24:12Speaker 1: understand lah, but I, I believe that house, right after
- 24:15Speaker 1: I asked her and everything, she, she said like before this, her,
- 24:19Speaker 1: she lived there, there's a family there and they're like
- 24:22Speaker 1: Chinese Taoists. Then, then I said the shrine at the outside,
- 24:25Speaker 1: like the corner, is it yours? Or then they said
- 24:27Speaker 1: they left it behind.
- 24:29Speaker 1: Oh yeah, then, then I think like very unethical, la,
- 24:33Speaker 1: you know, when you like when you move out of
- 24:35Speaker 1: the house or you will sell the house and then
- 24:36Speaker 1: you don't move all your stuff away, and then if you,
- 24:39Speaker 1: if you invite the God to come to your, your
- 24:41Speaker 1: house before, right, and then you don't send it off properly,
- 24:44Speaker 1: it's very, very bad.
- 24:45Speaker 2: Like what's her religion?
- 24:46Speaker 1: I don't know,
- 24:47Speaker 2: it's
- 24:47Speaker 1: crystals.
- 24:48Speaker 2: It's so it's just crystals.
- 24:50Speaker 1: It's like crystals and tarot cards,
- 24:54Speaker 2: so that's, right? So that makes sense lah. Then you've
- 24:56Speaker 2: got your tower shrine outside and your crystals inside.
- 24:58Speaker 2: When you talk about, she don't believe. Maybe she don't believe, yeah, but,
- 25:04Speaker 2: but I just want to like understand how the thing flow.
- 25:08Speaker 2: The house itself, the, the, the apartment itself is just
- 25:11Speaker 2: the two of you, or are there other
- 25:13Speaker 2: people? There's this like rental rental,
- 25:17Speaker 2: but it's like a HDB flat la. Then the shrine
- 25:20Speaker 2: is inside the house or outside, inside the house, just
- 25:22Speaker 1: at the living room, room corner. Then
- 25:24Speaker 2: nobody pray to it. No,
- 25:25Speaker 1: nothing there. There's no statue there.
- 25:27Speaker 2: Or the shrine shrine. Wait,
- 25:30Speaker 2: wait, wait, wait, wait, so the previous family left the
- 25:32Speaker 2: shrine on there and nobody who's living there now talk
- 25:36Speaker 2: to themselves.
- 25:37Speaker 2: Maybe we don't keep or was it, was it the,
- 25:40Speaker 2: perhaps it could be the family that that moved out,
- 25:44Speaker 2: but they rent the house. OK, yeah, then they told
- 25:47Speaker 2: the tenants cannot, but then there were things inside the
- 25:51Speaker 2: shrine itself, maybe occult stuff. Yeah, yeah. I have a
- 25:55Speaker 2: few theories. It could be the shrine itself that's attracting
- 25:58Speaker 2: or the house already haunted or your friend is the
- 26:02Speaker 2: portal because it seems to.
- 26:06Speaker 2: Revolve around your friend. Oh yeah, because she got the
- 26:09Speaker 2: Ouija board. The Ouija board is actually a portal that's
- 26:12Speaker 2: maybe she opened already. She don't know. I, I, I
- 26:14Speaker 2: don't think it's, but, yeah, don't know how to settle. Maybe,
- 26:18Speaker 2: and these are Chinese ghost, bro.
- 26:20Speaker 1: Yeah, Chinese ghost,
- 26:23Speaker 2: but red red color usually very strong one, right? Yes,
- 26:26Speaker 2: is it vengeful red color is vengeful
- 26:28Speaker 1: spirit. Why I got white beside me?
- 26:29Speaker 2: White is normal, just a normal like maybe a hungry
- 26:32Speaker 2: ghost or wandering spirit lah, but red usually is venge,
- 26:34Speaker 2: vengeful
- 26:35Speaker 2: revenge.
- 26:35Speaker 1: They know each other, you
- 26:36Speaker 2: know, maybe they are siblings or maybe like they together
- 26:41Speaker 2: in the ghost realm like they are friends in the
- 26:43Speaker 2: ghost real ghosts in the same house. Maybe one is Jessica,
- 26:48Speaker 2: maybe the red one is Jessica and
- 26:49Speaker 1: red like Singapore.
- 26:53Speaker 2: Fair patriotic ghost, but true, ah,
- 26:57Speaker 2: it's scary. Yeah, maybe the red one is the Jessica, yeah,
- 27:00Speaker 2: you know, when you, you know, when you look at, uh,
- 27:03Speaker 2: the photos of, uh, certain houses, if you, let's say
- 27:05Speaker 2: you're looking for rental or buying, right.
- 27:07Speaker 2: You see some photos like this house haunted, yeah, you know, like,
- 27:11Speaker 2: it looks very sad on the photo like, wow, this
- 27:13Speaker 2: sometimes from the picture itself you can like sense the
- 27:15Speaker 2: kind of sense like the house.
- 27:18Speaker 1: OK, now why is Singapore so haunted? Is it because
- 27:20Speaker 1: of the land, the, the density,
- 27:23Speaker 2: you know, right? Even though I feel like, I heard
- 27:26Speaker 2: some Malaysians say, say this, you know, like even though
- 27:29Speaker 2: Singapore is small, right, but for some reason it's damn haunted.
- 27:33Speaker 2: Who said that Malaysians or someone, someone quite famous said
- 27:37Speaker 2: that lah. But it is because of Singapore's size, I
- 27:40Speaker 2: think it makes sense that by density we are the
- 27:42Speaker 2: most haunted city in the world, cram everything crammed together. No,
- 27:46Speaker 2: because it's
- 27:46Speaker 2: too small.
- 27:47Speaker 1: Hong Kong can fight.
- 27:48Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe Hong Kong can fight, but I, I, I
- 27:50Speaker 2: do think that density, they don't care. And I mean
- 27:53Speaker 2: the ghosts also cram 7 months you see
- 27:56Speaker 1: after that incident, right, going back to this.
- 27:59Speaker 1: Like one or two years later, she like texted me
- 28:02Speaker 1: and then she was like, you know, you are right.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Then I'm like, what, what, what do you mean? She's like,
- 28:07Speaker 1: you know, like, like my, remember that time you came
- 28:10Speaker 1: to my house and blah blah blah bla blah, I
- 28:11Speaker 1: didn't believe you. You might actually be right. Then I
- 28:14Speaker 1: was like, OK, what happened now? She said she moved
- 28:16Speaker 1: up back to her parents' house, and then suddenly her
- 28:19Speaker 1: room got like rotting smell, and I found out there's like,
- 28:22Speaker 1: there's like worms and like.
- 28:25Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, like maggots inside the aircon, yeah, like the
- 28:29Speaker 1: compressor or something, so it's like blowing like insect dead
- 28:33Speaker 1: insect air.
- 28:36Speaker 1: Yeah, and then her, and then her room like always
- 28:38Speaker 1: get moldy and then she said like, like one day
- 28:42Speaker 1: she was like using her phone on the bed and the,
- 28:45Speaker 1: the like the rod for the for the curtain like
- 28:48Speaker 1: suddenly fell off and like hit her. Yeah, and then
- 28:51Speaker 1: I was like
- 28:52Speaker 2: the
- 28:53Speaker 2: Final Destinationssica it's Jessica, bro. She got follow already.
- 28:58Speaker 1: Then I said, hm yeah, I, I'm, yeah,
- 29:01Speaker 2: yeah well seek
- 29:04Speaker 2: help.
- 29:05Speaker 2: Well,
- 29:07Speaker 1: and then she told me like her brother was passing
- 29:09Speaker 1: by her room and I saw like one lady wearing
- 29:13Speaker 1: red seat on her bed also. Then I was like,
- 29:15Speaker 2: yeah,
- 29:17Speaker 1: it must be, it's the same one.
- 29:20Speaker 2: It's Jessica, of course. Ouija board, is it? What is
- 29:23Speaker 2: your name? How she know I think they
- 29:25Speaker 1: just give a name nickname maybe she wants to be funny,
- 29:28Speaker 1: you know.
- 29:29Speaker 2: I understand you want to play it cooler. Like, yeah,
- 29:31Speaker 2: she like,
- 29:31Speaker 1: I
- 29:31Speaker 2: got,
- 29:33Speaker 1: I mean, for me lah, because I was in it
- 29:36Speaker 1: and then I, I, I witnessed it for the first
- 29:39Speaker 1: time I saw a figure like that.
- 29:41Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing with Singapore. I go and I, I, I'm
- 29:45Speaker 1: like doing all this mystical content in Malaysia, so like
- 29:47Speaker 1: not as bad as this. Can see the can see
- 29:49Speaker 1: the form
- 29:49Speaker 2: because she
- 29:51Speaker 2: saw the spirit, yeah. Then the brother also saw like
- 29:54Speaker 2: her friend's brother it wasn't a dream for you.
- 29:58Speaker 2: Or you, or like you said, you don't know whether
- 29:59Speaker 2: it's
- 30:00Speaker 2: lucid or I don't know.
- 30:01Speaker 1: I really, I really don't know because it's like this.
- 30:03Speaker 1: Then like this I was like, oh, and then I
- 30:05Speaker 1: again
- 30:07Speaker 2: mirror to look, you look right, got ghost. You look left,
- 30:09Speaker 2: got loose. You look left, right, lah, yeah, so you
- 30:13Speaker 2: close your eyes.
- 30:15Speaker 2: You know, you know what's the scary part? It's like,
- 30:17Speaker 2: imagine you close, then you still see it. I don't
- 30:21Speaker 2: know I think I read a ghost story or something
- 30:22Speaker 2: like that. They close. The spirit is still there, even
- 30:24Speaker 2: they close their eyes. Can you imagine how screwed up
- 30:27Speaker 2: is that? It's in your brain already. It's in your
- 30:29Speaker 2: brain already. Then what to do? Give up.
- 30:32Speaker 2: Imagine, OK, imagine that happened, would you, what would you do?
- 30:36Speaker 2: I, I recite prayers, bro. That's the only thing I
- 30:38Speaker 2: can do. What else can I do? Recently I got
- 30:41Speaker 2: a nightmare. Like I said just now, or if she
- 30:44Speaker 2: goes and you recite prayer. Wow, bro, in that nightmare, right?
- 30:46Speaker 2: I tried, you know, I tried to recite a prayer.
- 30:49Speaker 2: I cannot recite lah. You forgot. Yeah, suddenly I went blank.
- 30:52Speaker 2: I was like, Allahula forget, bro. Now, like, wow, this one,
- 30:56Speaker 2: this one dream, you know, if in person, if in
- 30:59Speaker 2: real life, ah.
- 31:00Speaker 2: It's like really challenging you already, bro, challenging your faith.
- 31:03Speaker 2: That shows my faith is not strong
- 31:05Speaker 2: enough. I saw
- 31:06Speaker 1: this IG reel, right, that there's this game on Steam
- 31:09Speaker 1: where you can download. It's like, it's like festmophobia, but
- 31:13Speaker 1: like if you see the ghost, you need to recite
- 31:15Speaker 1: the Ayakuri, and then if you get it wrong, then
- 31:18Speaker 1: you need to like they will like show you what's
- 31:20Speaker 1: the correct. You can hear the audio, then you can
- 31:22Speaker 1: memorize through that.
- 31:24Speaker 2: That's like wow.
- 31:25Speaker 2: Oh, what is the game name?
- 31:26Speaker 1: I don't know. I need to find back. Well, that's
- 31:28Speaker 1: actually
- 31:28Speaker 2: quite good, innovative to
- 31:30Speaker 1: help people remember.
- 31:33Speaker 2: Oh, interesting.
- 31:34Speaker 2: Yeah, that's, I saw one that is there's a Catholic version,
- 31:37Speaker 2: so you need to exercise, use you, you know, on
- 31:39Speaker 2: your mic. Then you need to recite the prayer. Then like,
- 31:42Speaker 2: then you can walk around as a character. Then you
- 31:44Speaker 2: can take out the cross. You can do that. You
- 31:47Speaker 2: can rip out, yeah, it's a festival simulated like that, yeah,
- 31:49Speaker 2: but the ghosts get stronger and stronger like every.
- 31:51Speaker 2: Around every stage the ghosts are stronger. Then I think
- 31:54Speaker 2: I saw this streamer. He do. Then he do it wrong.
- 31:56Speaker 2: Then the ghost recite it back to him or something.
- 31:59Speaker 2: Then he got scared. He ran away. They don't scare you, bro. OK.
- 32:02Speaker 2: Aside from Bo Chong, I scared of that also. They
- 32:04Speaker 2: recite it back to you, right, because technically they are, they,
- 32:07Speaker 2: they know all this rule. They are way smarter than you.
- 32:10Speaker 2: So just that they are, they are what are rebellious,
- 32:13Speaker 2: you know. They are sombongla people say, but the.
- 32:18Speaker 2: The reverse Buddhist one is reverse Buddhist chanting.
- 32:21Speaker 1: That is very
- 32:21Speaker 2: scary.
- 32:21Speaker 1: That is messed up. That is like very scary.
- 32:24Speaker 2: Is,
- 32:25Speaker 2: is there, are there other stories where there's the reverse
- 32:28Speaker 2: of the chanting? Have you heard of other stories
- 32:29Speaker 1: in, in, in Islam? they got say before if the
- 32:33Speaker 1: thing is very high level they can like make the
- 32:36Speaker 1: radio play it backwards
- 32:37Speaker 2: or I don't know
- 32:38Speaker 2: it backwards. But for like if you recite prayers, then
- 32:42Speaker 2: they recite back means that one strongly.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Yeah, they laugh at you sometimes. They laugh at you,
- 32:47Speaker 2: you know. You recite already you like, you like full
- 32:49Speaker 2: on your faith. You recite your prayer already. You feel strong,
- 32:53Speaker 2: you know. Suddenly they recite back like, Hey, hey, wrong
- 32:55Speaker 2: bodo stupid. I'm not lying, especially when, when someone like possessed, right? Oh,
- 33:02Speaker 2: they don't scared lah. Like actually across, across religion that's.
- 33:06Speaker 2: What happened, but for the Chinese one is slightly different
- 33:09Speaker 2: is that when you do the depending on the chance,
- 33:12Speaker 2: but most of the chance they will come because it's
- 33:14Speaker 2: to receive, uh, goodwill to help them move on. So
- 33:18Speaker 2: don't anyhow recite. They say don't hang out. So some people,
- 33:20Speaker 2: they're training, right, uh, as Buddhists, right, they do, they meditate,
- 33:24Speaker 2: then they chant.
- 33:25Speaker 2: You will attract the spirits, bro. Then some, they are
- 33:27Speaker 2: not strong enough or they are not skilled enough. The
- 33:30Speaker 2: spirit
- 33:30Speaker 1: attach, true,
- 33:31Speaker 2: actually, um,
- 33:33Speaker 1: this happened to my mom before, just when, when I
- 33:35Speaker 1: went to Nan Nanjing in China with her, and then
- 33:38Speaker 1: we went to the mausoleum with all the people, right?
- 33:41Speaker 1: I was sorry, not people with like, like the remembrance side, right?
- 33:45Speaker 1: She took out her beads and then she started like
- 33:46Speaker 1: praying for them.
- 33:48Speaker 1: Then after that, she lost her bits like the same day.
- 33:51Speaker 1: Then when I came back, I went to the temple
- 33:54Speaker 1: and then I went with her and then the, the,
- 33:56Speaker 1: the nun told her that something followed her back from China.
- 34:01Speaker 1: And then, and then we think back like, where did
- 34:03Speaker 1: she lose it, where did everything, and then also at
- 34:05Speaker 1: the same night, right, I got a nightmare also in
- 34:06Speaker 1: the hotel room. I still got like one grandma and
- 34:09Speaker 1: one kid.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Like next to me, but it's not my grandma. Then,
- 34:12Speaker 1: then I was like telling my mom, she was like, OK,
- 34:14Speaker 1: I lost my beats though. We go back to the
- 34:18Speaker 1: temple and troubleshoot. So I think that's true because like
- 34:21Speaker 1: when you pray for them, right, they might come to
- 34:23Speaker 1: like try to collect that the
- 34:25Speaker 2: meritt, yeah, because the chance in the Buddhist is actually
- 34:28Speaker 2: for you to reincarnate or move on. Yeah. So you come.
- 34:31Speaker 2: So if you're not trained right and you do it right,
- 34:34Speaker 2: it may attach itself to you. Oh, you help me,
- 34:36Speaker 2: yeah I come.
- 34:38Speaker 1: And true, also the ghost take the flight back with us.
- 34:41Speaker 2: No, but then it's also like fate. Like if you
- 34:43Speaker 2: believe in like fate, right, everything is fatal. Maybe it's
- 34:46Speaker 2: fatal that the spirits follow the mom back through so
- 34:48Speaker 2: that then the temple can settle because the temple will
- 34:51Speaker 2: do the proper prayer and then they get red. Yeah,
- 34:54Speaker 2: it's fatal sometimes this kind of thing is, is fatal.
- 34:58Speaker 2: Even the ghost haunting is fatal. Did the did the
- 35:03Speaker 2: woman and the child?
- 35:03Speaker 1: No, she didn't. She just said something back from China.
- 35:07Speaker 1: Then we, me and my instantly like, we know, we
- 35:10Speaker 1: we exactly know where and how and why. So yeah.
- 35:14Speaker 2: Did you all get the sense that what followed your
- 35:16Speaker 2: back was evil or just it just was a
- 35:19Speaker 1: present? It wasn't, it wasn't red hair and Singaporean.
- 35:31Speaker 2: The evilest ghosts, the Singaporean ones. Yeah. So, but one
- 35:37Speaker 2: thing a lot of people really appreciate about your videos
- 35:39Speaker 2: is that you're not just casually exploring the spiritual customs
- 35:43Speaker 2: and festivals of different cultures. We're really taking this deep dive.
- 35:48Speaker 2: So for example, when talking about the Mameri people's relationship
- 35:50Speaker 2: with their Moyang or ancestors, you actually visited the Mameri
- 35:53Speaker 2: in Kampong Sukai Bombun.
- 35:55Speaker 2: Uh, how much research do you do before making a video,
- 35:59Speaker 2: and this one's a bit more relevant to our show.
- 36:02Speaker 2: You know, you talked earlier on about, you know, there's
- 36:05Speaker 2: certain things that you have to do to prepare for
- 36:07Speaker 2: spiritual protection. So what sort of rituals do you conduct
- 36:10Speaker 2: or items do you carry to ensure that spiritual
- 36:14Speaker 2: protection?
- 36:21Speaker 1: Go overseas to or or like if I'm going to
- 36:24Speaker 1: stay at like these places I, I usually bring with
- 36:26Speaker 1: me my my uh my my prayer bits in in
- 36:31Speaker 1: in Tamils called Ruraksha like like the 108th 1 that
- 36:35Speaker 1: that's for like when I when I meditate at night
- 36:37Speaker 1: or if I pray I will use and then I
- 36:39Speaker 1: mean I.
- 36:41Speaker 1: I feel like it protects me lah and then there's
- 36:42Speaker 1: also one cloth that I bring around. I got it
- 36:45Speaker 1: from the temple. Yeah, it's a, it's kind of like
- 36:49Speaker 1: it has like some some prayers on it lah. So
- 36:51Speaker 1: I just keep it next to my bed when I
- 36:52Speaker 1: sleep because uh for me, I'm just like my concerning
- 36:57Speaker 1: part about being me.
- 36:59Speaker 1: That usually they find me in my dreams like whatever
- 37:01Speaker 1: I mentioned just now it's all dream related. It's not
- 37:03Speaker 1: open the door like, oh hello, they close. No, it's it's,
- 37:07Speaker 1: it's all like in the subconscious, so I keep that
- 37:10Speaker 1: with me when I sleep, uh, and when I'm visiting sites, right,
- 37:13Speaker 1: I usually just go empty-handed like because you know.
- 37:19Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like, right, like if you carry
- 37:21Speaker 1: all that talisman with you and then you go in, right, it's,
- 37:24Speaker 1: it's kind of like conflicting also because you're in a
- 37:27Speaker 1: way you're going into their space, right? Like you get
- 37:30Speaker 1: what I mean? Like if someone comes to your house
- 37:32Speaker 1: and then they wear like bulletproof vest and masks, you'll
- 37:34Speaker 1: be like, bro, calm down, bro. Like why you, why
- 37:37Speaker 1: you like so armored up, you get what I mean?
- 37:40Speaker 1: So I want to appear like, you know.
- 37:41Speaker 1: Just come as I am, you know, I'm not a threat.
- 37:44Speaker 1: You are not a threat to me. Like we have
- 37:46Speaker 1: this like it's like more mutual lah. Yeah, I mean, uh,
- 37:50Speaker 1: for me, like I, I will, of course every, every
- 37:53Speaker 1: week I go to my temple, like my temple, I,
- 37:55Speaker 1: it's like my weekly commitment to go. So before I
- 37:58Speaker 1: start on any like shoot or like project, I will
- 38:01Speaker 1: like pray first and say like I hope it goes well.
- 38:03Speaker 1: That's that's step one.
- 38:05Speaker 1: The step two is the localized one. So like, like
- 38:07Speaker 1: I said, like Qing Ming, I will ask the Tuttikong
- 38:10Speaker 1: and everything, you know, like please, you know, like I
- 38:13Speaker 1: don't want anything. I'm just here to do educational content,
- 38:15Speaker 1: not here to make like
- 38:17Speaker 2: yeah
- 38:17Speaker 1: trouble or like make it dramatized. So
- 38:21Speaker 2: how
- 38:21Speaker 2: do you feel about having, uh, prayers for the particular
- 38:25Speaker 2: festival and then your own personal prayers.
- 38:28Speaker 1: Uh, I think, I think, I think, OK, it's not like,
- 38:33Speaker 1: it's not like, oh, you go, B cannot go a,
- 38:37Speaker 1: it's like, it's like respect or like every, like everything
- 38:41Speaker 1: in the universe because everything is, is, is like.
- 38:45Speaker 1: As it's as easy, you know, it's, it's not like
- 38:48Speaker 1: because this is Christian or because this is not, you
- 38:51Speaker 1: cannot respect ma. I'm, I'm going there not to like
- 38:54Speaker 1: ask for favors or so I'm, I'm just like informing
- 38:58Speaker 1: like I'm here, I want to do my shoot peacefully.
- 39:01Speaker 2: I think that's what is special about Southeast Asia is
- 39:04Speaker 2: that we are.
- 39:05Speaker 2: We are very mixed lah and it's like sometimes it's
- 39:08Speaker 2: the culture is a little bit cross also like for example,
- 39:11Speaker 2: one thing that's very unique to Southeast Asia is Natukong.
- 39:15Speaker 2: Natukong is like um a localized deity, uh, but it's
- 39:20Speaker 2: like Topekong, right, but with the, the yellow karamat.
- 39:25Speaker 2: Yeah, Singapore has it. Uh, it's at, uh,
- 39:29Speaker 1: Kus
- 39:29Speaker 2: Island, yeah, she knows it's Kusu Island. It's quite a
- 39:31Speaker 2: special one,
- 39:33Speaker 1: that's the biggest one. Yeah,
- 39:34Speaker 2: that's the biggest one. So it's like it's a mixed one.
- 39:36Speaker 2: It's a cross-culture. It's, it's not, it's not known in, uh,
- 39:40Speaker 2: outside of Southeast Asia, because, uh, Tutigong, the earth deity, right,
- 39:45Speaker 2: is very Chinese. Then they have like this.
- 39:48Speaker 2: Localized version of it.
- 39:49Speaker 1: Indonesia,
- 39:50Speaker 2: Indonesia, Southeast
- 39:51Speaker 2: Asia.
- 39:51Speaker 1: It's not an exact like SOP or rules, you know, it's,
- 39:54Speaker 1: it's kind of like how you perceive like other religions
- 39:57Speaker 1: and how you interact with people. So and like also
- 40:01Speaker 1: depending on your servers, rules, terms and conditions, right? Like,
- 40:04Speaker 1: like then, then you can decide what you want to
- 40:07Speaker 1: do in a
- 40:08Speaker 1: way.
- 40:08Speaker 2: I love how the euphemism for this server.
- 40:13Speaker 2: Very nicely. The Southeast Asian law is quite, quite deep. Like,
- 40:18Speaker 2: so then, you know, a lot of hybrid already,
- 40:20Speaker 1: correct? But like the overarching theme is always about like respect,
- 40:24Speaker 1: you know, like different, different, like in Malay's like alarm,
- 40:27Speaker 1: you know, like if, if you're, if you're going into
- 40:29Speaker 1: like a different zone, it's like
- 40:31Speaker 2: like different uh.
- 40:33Speaker 2: Uh,
- 40:34Speaker 1: realm, yeah, yeah, like realm or like area, right, like
- 40:37Speaker 1: the most important thing is you respect what's there. You
- 40:40Speaker 1: don't take what's not yours like like the story and
- 40:43Speaker 1: like you need to like like acknowledge their presence, like
- 40:47Speaker 1: tell them like your intention, like you have good intention,
- 40:49Speaker 1: not here to do anything bad, like that, that is
- 40:52Speaker 1: like the
- 40:54Speaker 1: The control variable, you know, it's like present in like
- 40:56Speaker 1: all of the like requirements so I think in Southeast Asia,
- 41:00Speaker 1: like as long as you have good intention, you have
- 41:03Speaker 1: like
- 41:04Speaker 1: No, nothing bad you want to do and you ask
- 41:07Speaker 1: and you haha, it's OK. Yeah, they are, they are
- 41:12Speaker 1: pretty
- 41:12Speaker 1: chill.
- 41:12Speaker 2: You must respect. You don't then
- 41:14Speaker 2: you can it's just like,
- 41:16Speaker 1: you know, like Asian culture lah. You, you go to
- 41:19Speaker 1: people's house, you take off your shoes kind of thing, yeah.
- 41:23Speaker 2: Alright, so this question is for everyone here and those
- 41:26Speaker 2: watching at home. If you could play a prank on
- 41:29Speaker 2: your loved ones at your funeral.
- 41:32Speaker 2: What would it be? I, I start first. I would,
- 41:35Speaker 2: I wouldn't play any prank on a funeral. You're, you're
- 41:39Speaker 2: you're so nice. You're so respectful. I'm so nice but
- 41:43Speaker 2: I don't know, it's just like to me like.
- 41:49Speaker 2: Why would someone play a prank at a funeral? I mean, like,
- 41:51Speaker 2: for my, I mean, in my belief, lah, in my belief,
- 41:54Speaker 2: like I think it's a bit wrong. I play prank
- 41:55Speaker 2: at the funeral, but if from you, you are the
- 41:58Speaker 2: one who's playing prank. That's, that's the thing like.
- 42:03Speaker 2: If we, we are talking about afterlife, right, like I
- 42:05Speaker 2: don't even know if I'm going to hell or heaven,
- 42:08Speaker 2: and then like if you pass away, then you play
- 42:10Speaker 2: pranks and then you go to hell, then like, oh well,
- 42:13Speaker 2: you know, you get what I mean, it, it be
- 42:18Speaker 2: damn good prank. My prank will be I will, I
- 42:21Speaker 2: will hire a comedian dressed as my attorney, my lawyer,
- 42:25Speaker 2: and then go up to my family during my funeral
- 42:28Speaker 2: and tell them that you guys get nothing. He donated everything, guys. Sorry.
- 42:33Speaker 2: And then have him stand there, wait for like 30 seconds.
- 42:37Speaker 2: Surprise is a joke. You better make sure this comedian
- 42:39Speaker 2: can run faster they chase him and then the last
- 42:42Speaker 2: instruction is run.
- 42:46Speaker 1: I always had this thought in my head. Maybe it's
- 42:48Speaker 1: not a prank, la, not on for my loved ones. Like, like,
- 42:51Speaker 1: I mean, um, it would be funny. OK, uh, let's
- 42:54Speaker 1: just say, uh, I end up in like some sort
- 42:56Speaker 1: of like Buddhist Taoist funeral. I don't know. I don't
- 42:59Speaker 1: know because I don't know how, what is gonna happen
- 43:01Speaker 1: when I die because I'm Hindu, right, so I'm not
- 43:03Speaker 1: sure where, um, so I imagine like my outer like
- 43:06Speaker 1: maybe like a nirvana or something, or like two candles, right?
- 43:09Speaker 1: Anytime someone I don't like steps into the wrong of
- 43:11Speaker 1: the candle.
- 43:11Speaker 1: Like, yeah, yeah. Then, then they'd be like, everyone will
- 43:19Speaker 1: freak out, you know, everyone will be like, why, why
- 43:21Speaker 1: this person, why this person? And then the person will
- 43:23Speaker 1: feel very stressed also like they will come to me
- 43:25Speaker 1: and say sorry or I'm so sorry, or they just
- 43:28Speaker 1: run away. That'd be fun to watch. Oh,
- 43:31Speaker 2: I wish I had gone first because that's such a good,
- 43:36Speaker 2: you get to watch it.
- 43:38Speaker 1: Well, it depends on the server.
- 43:41Speaker 2: Yeah, it really,
- 43:41Speaker 1: it really depends on the server like will you just roam,
- 43:44Speaker 1: will you just go up or go down or you
- 43:47Speaker 1: go to the passageway, don't know, but if I can, right,
- 43:51Speaker 1: or just off the, off the whole make the whole
- 43:54Speaker 1: building electricity trip.
- 43:56Speaker 2: I love the candles one because that's very specific to people. Oh,
- 43:59Speaker 2: so like somebody comes like that like you, I don't
- 44:01Speaker 2: like what did I do to you?
- 44:04Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
- 44:05Speaker 1: Yeah, you better be on the camera
- 44:08Speaker 2: after the person, uh, ask for forgiveness. Then you mine
- 44:14Speaker 2: is a mine is a very, I say classic prank.
- 44:17Speaker 2: I don't know anybody who's actually pulled this, but I've
- 44:19Speaker 2: heard a lot of people who want to do this.
- 44:21Speaker 2: Set up a pulley system with my body.
- 44:23Speaker 2: So that when certain people come to pay their respects,
- 44:26Speaker 2: my body just pops up.
- 44:28Speaker 2: Your dead body. My dead body. Nice. Yes, I think
- 44:31Speaker 2: by the same time. No, no, just a, just a
- 44:34Speaker 2: freak out. It doesn't have to say anything. Just like
- 44:35Speaker 2: it will break it up like that. He's just assuming
- 44:37Speaker 2: it's an open casket, lah. We don't know, right? Let's
- 44:39Speaker 2: assume it's an open casket. We don't know lah, right? Hey,
- 44:42Speaker 2: if closed casket, it would be even funnier. Wow.
- 44:46Speaker 2: Pop out of the casket everything, but technically if you
- 44:48Speaker 2: do believe that there is nothing right, then you don't
- 44:51Speaker 2: really care about the body, right? You can just play
- 44:53Speaker 2: with it, right, especially if it's you lah. You are
- 44:55Speaker 2: the one who's playing with it, correct? It look, it's,
- 44:58Speaker 2: it's this is gonna sound weird, but it's my body.
- 45:01Speaker 2: I can do whatever your choice, right? Yeah, exactly.
- 45:05Speaker 2: As fascinating as this discussion has been, it's time to
- 45:07Speaker 2: bring this episode to a close, and that means it's
- 45:11Speaker 2: time for Kyle to give us our morbid fact of
- 45:14Speaker 2: the day. Kyle, so there might be an alternative option
- 45:19Speaker 2: to Afterlife, uh, in our future, it's basically the Matrix lah, huh.
- 45:23Speaker 2: Uh, mind uploading is, as the BBC puts, quote, a
- 45:28Speaker 2: proposed technology that would allow for the structure of your
- 45:31Speaker 2: brain to be effectively mapped, rendered, and uploaded into a
- 45:37Speaker 2: digital cloud, end quote. So, basically, right, you upload your consciousness,
- 45:41Speaker 2: your your brain, and allowing you to live forever, but
- 45:44Speaker 2: in a virtual world. So like you upload your whole
- 45:47Speaker 2: entire persona, everything to like.
- 45:50Speaker 2: I guess social media platforms, would you guys upload your
- 45:52Speaker 2: mind online? I mean, technically we already are. I mean
- 45:56Speaker 2: like for you, no, for win no because you guys
- 45:59Speaker 2: are creatives, but for some people they use AI already
- 46:02Speaker 2: then technically you upload your brain.
- 46:05Speaker 2: Whoa,
- 46:06Speaker 1: a conversation we can only have in 2026 it gets
- 46:10Speaker 1: worse every year.
- 46:11Speaker 2: I feel like,
- 46:12Speaker 2: uh, with the technology, uh, we are all being scrapped
- 46:15Speaker 2: lah like our because you know this show is online
- 46:18Speaker 2: as well, so.
- 46:19Speaker 2: I think uh uh I I won't say a consciousness,
- 46:22Speaker 2: a version of ourselves is being put through um uh
- 46:26Speaker 2: LOM already. So there's no escaping big technology. Um, however,
- 46:32Speaker 2: if I have the choice to upload my brain, my conscious,
- 46:35Speaker 2: I wouldn't die then die already. I want to live
- 46:38Speaker 2: forever for what. So let's say you could upload your brain,
- 46:41Speaker 2: your brain into the cloud.
- 46:44Speaker 2: If they give you an option to upload your brain
- 46:46Speaker 2: into one particular game, which game would you upload your
- 46:49Speaker 2: brain into? The rest of eternity, right? You're in a game.
- 46:53Speaker 2: Sounds fun Jumanji.
- 46:56Speaker 2: I don't know. It's pretty old. I don't know what
- 47:01Speaker 1: fun.
- 47:03Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of want to be the MPC inside
- 47:05Speaker 2: GTA 6.
- 47:08Speaker 2: I saw that. I saw that coming. In all seriousness, uh,
- 47:15Speaker 2: maybe Pokemon. I want to be a Pokemon master. I
- 47:18Speaker 2: really can't think of anything. No, I thought you like Pokemon. Yeah,
- 47:22Speaker 2: but you already picked Pokemon. What? No, you cannot. We
- 47:25Speaker 2: go on a journey together. Maybe he becomes the trainer.
- 47:27Speaker 2: You become the Pokemon.
- 47:32Speaker 2: So, so you become the old unk at the tower. Hey,
- 47:36Speaker 2: I don't want you to go to the game. I
- 47:37Speaker 2: already am the old a. I don't know. Well, become
- 47:41Speaker 2: what become snow legs. You can pick whichever. It's your choice.
- 47:45Speaker 2: You can pick whichever Pokemon you want to be. You
- 47:46Speaker 2: will be 2. No, me too, like not, not in
- 47:50Speaker 2: line with my character. Oh then what do you want?
- 47:53Speaker 2: I don't know anything.
- 47:56Speaker 2: Sure.
- 48:01Speaker 2: How about you? What game?
- 48:03Speaker 1: Um, well, I guess.
- 48:06Speaker 2: So we all in Pokemon. Win the guy with the seagull,
- 48:10Speaker 2: the old guy with the seagull. I, I was told
- 48:13Speaker 2: before I look like Jigglypuff.
- 48:17Speaker 2: And thank you again Patz for joining us and thank
- 48:20Speaker 2: you to all of you for tuning into Tales from
- 48:22Speaker 2: Incredible Tales. New episodes go online every week on MeWatch,
- 48:26Speaker 2: Me Listen, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcast.
- 48:29Speaker 1: My name is Pat.
- 48:30Speaker 2: My
- 48:30Speaker 2: name is Wayne. My name is Kyle, my name is F.
- 48:34Speaker 2: And we'll see you next time. Tales from Incredible Tales
- 48:37Speaker 2: was hosted by Far Anwar, Wayne Ru and Kyle Ong,
- 48:42Speaker 2: with special guests, parts, directed and produced by Kyle Ong,
- 48:48Speaker 2: written by Wayne Rui, assistant director, Chin Chin Wei, director
- 48:53Speaker 2: of photography, Shervin Chua, Gaffer, Jonathan.
- 48:56Speaker 2: Chan, art director, Jolene Lim, sound recordist, Audrey Lee. Behind
- 49:02Speaker 2: the scenes footage shot by Ella May Walker, hair and
- 49:06Speaker 2: makeup by Bino Lim, Production assistance, Aishwarani Durias Singam, Ella
- 49:12Speaker 2: May Walker. Post-production by Fudge Studios. Assistant editor, Ella May Walker.
- 49:20Speaker 2: Motion graphics by Jolene Lim.
- 49:22Speaker 2: Camera support by Nikon Singapore, lighting support by Amaan, smoke
- 49:27Speaker 2: support by PMI gear, monitor support by Desview and DC
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