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Scariest Taxi Driver Ghost Stories (w LazyCabbie) · Tales from Incredible Tales

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: For a taxi driver, our reaction is, OK, when we approach,
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: you get ready, right? Oh, OK, I didn't signal to
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: me that we are ready to board. So this not passenger,
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: I mean this figure there is just still like stand there.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: My name is Eddie.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Fa, my name is Wayne. My name
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  Speaker 2: is Kyle, and this is Tales from Incredible Tales, inspired
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  Speaker 2: by the classic horror series, we explore Southeast Asia's supernatural culture.
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  Speaker 2: Our guest for this evening.
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  Speaker 2: Eddie, better known as Lazy Cabbie. Eddie is a taxi
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  Speaker 2: vlogger who makes content on YouTube covering stories about what
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  Speaker 2: being a taxi driver in Singapore is really like, all
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  Speaker 2: while showcasing different interesting locations in Singapore and overseas.
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  Speaker 2: He's widely praised for his authenticity and vulnerability shown through
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  Speaker 2: his content. Lazy cabby, welcome to the
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  Speaker 2: show.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me here.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. We've been, we've been looking
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: forward to you. We're very excited. Yes, I, I think
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  Speaker 2: everybody knows why lah.
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: It's like the best. I think like taxi ghost stories
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  Speaker 2: is one thing, but having somebody who's a good storyteller
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  Speaker 2: telling taxi ghost stories, that's another thing. Exactly. So we've
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  Speaker 2: really been looking forward to you
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Yeah, thank you for your kind words,
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  Speaker 2: no problem. So in this episode, we will be discussing
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  Speaker 2: the origins and history of taxi driver ghost stories. What
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  Speaker 2: makes
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  Speaker 2: taxi drivers so susceptible to ghostly encounter, why these stories
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  Speaker 2: have prevailed to our current day and age and how
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  Speaker 2: ghost encounters would change in the technological era. This episode
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  Speaker 2: was inspired by the classic Incredible Tales episode, Taxi. Taxi
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  Speaker 2: driver ghost stories have their roots tracing back to the
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  Speaker 2: early 1930s in Japan.
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  Speaker 2: And mid-century in Southeast Asia, sighting driverless spectral vehicles speeding
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  Speaker 2: dangerously through city streets at night. This ghostly phenomenon later
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  Speaker 2: surged in Japan following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami,
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  Speaker 2: where taxi drivers recounted picking up passengers who would later disappear.
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  Speaker 2: In Singapore, taxi ghost stories have been passed down by
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  Speaker 2: taxi drivers of the 90s, the most common being a
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  Speaker 2: disappearing woman who would flag them down but vanishes from
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  Speaker 2: their mirror as soon as they drive past her.
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  Speaker 2: Eddie, I need to ask you, what was the very
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  Speaker 2: first supernatural encounter you faced while on the road? Can
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  Speaker 2: you tell us about some common ghost encounters you've heard
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  Speaker 2: about and have these encounters taught you anything about taxi
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  Speaker 2: cab ghost stories? Like what was the first one?
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  Speaker 1: The first one was when I was driving back after
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: a night shift.
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  Speaker 1: So usually graveyard shift, right, we are supposed to hand
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: over our vehicle about 4 a.m. So that's the time
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: when we close, close our meter and headed home. So
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  Speaker 1: that time I was at Bukit Panjang, yeah, my passenger
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  Speaker 1: from Bukit Panjang. So usually that area when we go
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  Speaker 1: back is through the Mandai stretch, that road, yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: during that time when, um, I was heading back to
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  Speaker 1: Yishun because I live in Yishun, right.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you, you encounter bookings, um, from flight down. That's
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  Speaker 1: not very unusual, you know, during 34 a.m. actually. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's a bus depot there. OK, so you've got
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: bus captain maybe changing shift or something. Also there's aquilibrium,
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  Speaker 1: the Mandaiquilibrium there. So sometimes you got workers there also.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: Mandai Zoo is still there. So yeah, we do have
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  Speaker 1: bookings there during odd hours, yeah. So during that, um.
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  Speaker 1: Stretch, uh, on my way back home, I was thinking, OK,
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: maybe if I can get another booking that will be
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  Speaker 1: great lah. I mean surcharge and then close the shift
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  Speaker 1: with one last booking. So along the way, I, um,
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  Speaker 1: do you know there's a few bus stops along the
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  Speaker 1: dotted on that stretch of route, right? So the bus
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  Speaker 1: stop there, one of those, um, bus stop, I saw
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  Speaker 1: somebody flagged me down, right? So I was thinking, wow,
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  Speaker 1: very good, uh, lucky night I got another booking back,
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  Speaker 1: back up. So as I approach.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I slow down my vehicle and as I approach,
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  Speaker 1: when I look for the passenger, I don't see anybody there. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we can drive from the side eyes because when as
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  Speaker 1: taxi driver, we are very like um very keen eyes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we will know when.
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  Speaker 1: Any no movement on the side of the road. People
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  Speaker 1: coming out to start flagging and all this, especially during
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  Speaker 1: the hours because it's dark. So when, when we on
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  Speaker 1: the stretch of route, right, we will be kind of
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: like keep our eyes around for any flag downs and all.
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  Speaker 1: So I can actually see a figure flagging me down
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  Speaker 2: like from your
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  Speaker 2: peripheral vision,
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  Speaker 1: correct, yeah, say, w, sweet, I got a booking already.
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  Speaker 1: So I was thinking of that. I was not thinking
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  Speaker 1: of any other thing, so I can still remember he
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: was wearing a batik.
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  Speaker 1: I can, I can see the details. The party, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the black, black spot and brownish, yeah, very old school,
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  Speaker 1: old fashioned, like, you know, getting, gettingting that time you go,
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  Speaker 1: you must wear a bati to go in, otherwise you
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  Speaker 1: wear a tie, right, that kind of party shirt. So
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  Speaker 1: as I approached in uh.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, my, my car slow. Uh, I didn't see anybody.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine because I thought maybe playing tricks or something
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  Speaker 1: in my eyes because late night already last, last, you know,
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  Speaker 1: closing shot a bit tired, so I think maybe he's
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  Speaker 1: behind the billboard, you know, there's an advertisement behind, right? So, OK,
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  Speaker 1: never mind I inch forward. No, nobody, nobody there. I
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  Speaker 1: say hey.
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  Speaker 1: Then I know already.
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  Speaker 1: Bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what I do next is I floor my
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  Speaker 1: gas pedal.
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  Speaker 2: Actually true that area quite creepy, you know. And then
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  Speaker 2: like every now, every now and then I would go
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: eat dinner at um Spring Leaf, so I have to
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: go through that that reservoir, right, you were talking about, right?
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  Speaker 2: Got the Pondok, that one, right? Yeah, correct.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite creepy. Yeah, quite creepy, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: especially at night,
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  Speaker 2: especially at night. Afternoon is still OK, you know. Afternoon
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  Speaker 2: like very romantic like that, right
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  Speaker 1: at the fog and all
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  Speaker 2: these
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  Speaker 2: like, uh, actually, uh, when we were doing.
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  Speaker 2: Production for season 3 of Incredible Tales, right? We were
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  Speaker 2: thinking of using that as one of the on-location, but
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  Speaker 2: because of safety and sound, I don't think we could
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  Speaker 2: use that because there was, there's a lot of bus.
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  Speaker 2: And when bus pass by, it's very loud, so the
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  Speaker 2: sound wouldn't work. Yeah, then, uh, but it really felt
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  Speaker 2: very creepy because the long road. So when you realize
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  Speaker 2: that
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  Speaker 2: It was a spirit you you immediately like, OK,
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  Speaker 1: need to
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  Speaker 1: get in my head I was like I was very
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  Speaker 1: confused actually like what is it that uh flat me down, yeah, and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: when I find that something is wrong with you like
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  Speaker 1: why nobody because I try to recall it, I definitely
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  Speaker 1: see somebody.
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  Speaker 1: And it was uncle worrying about, yeah, I definitely, so
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  Speaker 1: I was questioning myself. But while I was, um, like
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  Speaker 1: rushing off, right, I also don't dare to look back
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  Speaker 1: at my so I was like just focused on the
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  Speaker 1: road and just
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  Speaker 2: that
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  Speaker 2: was that was your very first encounter, yeah. Had you,
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  Speaker 2: had you heard ghost stories from other taxis before from
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  Speaker 2: other taxi drivers?
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  Speaker 2: Before you encountered this, like what kind of stories did
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  Speaker 2: you hear from
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  Speaker 1: them? So there was one, with an ex-cabbie, right? So
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  Speaker 1: his encounter was at Chokang, yeah. So that Chokang road
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  Speaker 1: leading to the cemetery, lah, we all know lah, but
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  Speaker 1: Driver, we try not to avoid destination. You've got a job,
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  Speaker 1: we just take la, yeah. So some job will in one, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So for him, he actually got a job to drop
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  Speaker 1: off passenger there. So after he dropped off already, right,
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  Speaker 1: and make his way out, he also like me, wow,
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: hey man, got another flight now.
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  Speaker 1: Is it so for his case is um there's one
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  Speaker 1: figure that was standing right in front of him, so
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  Speaker 1: he's like he's going straight and this figure was just
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  Speaker 1: there like you see like the prop like that exactly
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  Speaker 1: so it's not moving at all. So as he approached,
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  Speaker 1: he's just standing still.
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  Speaker 1: Right, for taxi driver, our reaction is, OK, when we approach,
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  Speaker 1: you get ready, right? Oh, OK, I didn't signal to
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  Speaker 1: me that we are ready to board. So this not passenger,
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  Speaker 1: I mean this figure there is just still like stand
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  Speaker 1: there and not looking up and not doing anything. He
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  Speaker 1: was like, goose pimple up already. And he will say, OK,
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  Speaker 1: this one maybe not human. He was reasoning was, so
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  Speaker 1: he made a detour and just go straight past her.
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  Speaker 1: Right, uh, him or her, I don't know, but it's
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  Speaker 1: long hair lah, so he just go straight on. Now
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  Speaker 1: the thing is he told me that after he passed already,
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  Speaker 1: he keep
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  Speaker 1: Cannot come out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh go round and round and
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  Speaker 2: round.
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  Speaker 1: It just cannot come out. I've been traveling like so
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  Speaker 1: long already. Why am I still at the same area,
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  Speaker 1: you know? And then he told me this one. I
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: feel like, wow, very dramatic. You see somebody knocking on
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: the roof.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know, I think maybe something dropped on
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: your because there are a lot of trees, wood or
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  Speaker 1: some branches, you know, say no, no, no, it's like
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  Speaker 1: consistent pop pop pop pop pop up.
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  Speaker 1: So somehow after that when the, the, the noise is
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  Speaker 1: gone and everything because he's like so confused and I
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  Speaker 1: can't understand because that time I kind of also very
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  Speaker 1: confused likeing yourself what's happening, you know. So at that
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  Speaker 1: moment of time when he stopped the vehicle, he was
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  Speaker 1: right at the center of the cemetery.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. So he was driving in circles in
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  Speaker 2: the cemetery somehow?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he told me he was just too confused or
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: because he's too foggy or something or maybe, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he encountered.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but give kudos to you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Like you guys really irregardless of the location, you would
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  Speaker 2: still take the passenger because if I see someone flagged
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  Speaker 2: down in the cemetery, I will just drive sorry bro,
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: you're on your own.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the thing is we do have legit passengers
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: like uh the Mondayquilibrium 4 or 5 o'clock. I do
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  Speaker 1: have really people flag down there working there now because
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: thanks bro for stopping the vehicle. I just know I just.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: But if you, if we give you cash, then you
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: better check like it's already cash.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: Turn,
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  Speaker 2: uh, you said that, so your first encounter, um, it
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: happened during your graveyard graveyard shift. So that's 12:00 till
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: about 4, right? You were saying,
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: yeah, the closing shift already,
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: yes. So when, when you have to do the graveyard shift,
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: do you think immediately, do you think to yourself on
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: going to encounter ghosts?
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  Speaker 1: No, lah. It's like we're just carrying on our job, OK, yeah,
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: it's not like very common to encounter.
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  Speaker 1: Like throughout my 8-9 years driving, yeah, 2 encounters only. Yeah,
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: some never even encounter everything. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think what Wayne meant is you get to choose
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: whether you want to work in the morning or at night, right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so you get to choose, yes, because I remember my,
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: my dad was a taxi driver as well, uh, I
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: think for close to 20 years if I'm not wrong lah. Um,
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  Speaker 2: so he usually prefer to drive at night because there's
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: less traffic.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so when you, when you picked the night shift, what,
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: what was your reasoning behind wanting to pick the,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: so when I started driving, I was not familiar with
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: the route. I scared, kind of scolded, you know, morning, ah,
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: people rush. I say, Hey, why you bring me here?
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: So I said, Mina she more chill, man. People are
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: just relax, no party only, yeah, so I just back
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: from work. So I was thinking we actually easier to
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: do after I familiarize already. I graduated ah well I
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: jump out.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You mentioned that 2 instances. So do you mind
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: sharing with us the second instance that you, you know,
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: experienced?
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. So the other one was
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: an advance booking actually. Yeah. You know Bidadari before they
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: built up.
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  Speaker 1: Unit area Gurkers camp beside, yeah, that's one of the
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: few blocks there, right, so that I think that time
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: the stretch of route is only like 11 lane, 2
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  Speaker 1: lane that
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  Speaker 2: kind yes,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: yeah, that was before now the bitery is different really.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: So I got an advance booking to the airport from
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: one of the flats there, right? So because I was
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: there early anyway we were supposed to be half an
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: hour earlier, right, and it was like
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: Very like kind of like 323 a.m. I can't remember
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: around there lah. So I was there early and you
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: know just take a break lah, nothing to do lah.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: So I
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Recline my seat, just take a quick nap. So I
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: got maybe about 40 minutes of nap, yeah, nap time.
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  Speaker 1: So I switched my engine, you know, we still must
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: lock lah because you know protocol, then why not be
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: a window and relax lah. So I, I'm not into,
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  Speaker 1: I was not into deep sleep.
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  Speaker 1: I was just like chewing but almost waa dreamland halfway
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  Speaker 1: there already. Then I smell something, right? I smell something
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: very strong, very pungent, it's kind of like earth earth,
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: earth smell, yeah, like forest, frosty smell, you know, when
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: people go and moan the lawn or grassy kind of smell, right?
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  Speaker 1: So I smell that first, but then the smell gets
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: stronger and it's not coming from outside. It's like coming
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: from my below the seat, very strong and
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Um, it is so strong, ah, it, it, I can
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: like almost taste it at the base of my neck, no,
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: but that's not the thing that wakes me up, so
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: I was like just chewing and and.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: So what woke me up was when I feel something
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: was beating on my neck.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Very near me breathing, yeah, like breathing like very near
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  Speaker 1: my neck. What the hell is it? I never locked
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: the door, man, because safety ma I thought somebody came inside.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Then I said, What's the smell? Then I look around
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: like nobody, you know. Then my goose people all out already.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: I said, uh, why is that? So confused, you know,
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: like why got, uh, people like I feel a presence,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: you know, when people are there, although you couldn't see,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: see it.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: You feel something like looking at you or breathing at
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: your neck, um, put back my seat. I straight away
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: go off the area. I didn't even cancel the booking.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: I think the passenger was so angry missed the flight, yeah,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I told her.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: So you just went, I went straight to the temple
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: and just kind of like I know something is wrong.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: After that I talked to my khakis, my friends. See,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: you're so stupid. You can't get sleep at that area.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: So what? Because I'm new, you see. I didn't know
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of places you cannot just park the car
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: and nap there. Where,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: where did you park
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: exactly underneath the.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: The block just around the area
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: the block is not too
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: bad. Yeah, it's not that dark. I'll
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: feel just the block beside the, the Gurkha camp right
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: is for the Gurkha Gurkha people.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: It's not like those roadside, you know I
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: sent all this there before, yeah, no, but, but the,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: the road leading to it is creepy lah, the Mount Vernon,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: that one is creepy lah.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Then after that when you turned out then it's, it's
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: actually where he, he went in actually it's not creepy
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: because he's well lit HDB that road going in then
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: it's creepy so but yeah the place but by that
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: point when you that happened to you.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: They were developing it, right, but they were haven't start
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: developing it. But was it abandoned already? Was the columbarium
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: abandoned or is it
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: still in use?
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's still in use at that time. Yeah,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not, I, I didn't recall, but I do know
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: that there's cemetery there and all this. That's why the
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: taxi drivers would say don't sleep at that area's
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: creepy. Somebody breathe on your neck while you sleep.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: That's
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: really one of the very memorable.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Maybe the, the, the entity also like was asking, what
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: colon is he using?
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, OK, nice. I, I realized that, you know, I
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: take a taxi, right, then I can see that there's
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: quite a few taxi drivers, I think 70 to 80%.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: They all have some form of spiritual protection one, yeah.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Do you guys like communicate with each other like, hey, uh,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: you know, you go to this temple is good, you're
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: good for the driving safety, or you go
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: here or what?
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we, we, I mean we each have our own
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: preference like sifu lah. Yeah, I do have amulets.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: In my taxi as well, one is for safety because
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: route ma, we encounter a lot of traffic conditions and
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: one for this kind of encounters, yeah, so I have both.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Did you get the protection only after?
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: No, it's like more peace of mind. You don't feel alone,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: you know, because sometimes you encounter this like what now
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: I'm going to this time really die already. But if
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: you have some kind of thing, you know, amulet or
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: you feel more like.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: It helps with, like, it helps psychologically, like I guess
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: in a way, in a way, yeah,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: yeah, but actually my amulet, la, the, the one I'm
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: still carrying since my NS if you, I didn't bring
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: my amulet, uh, there's, you know, the thai amulet that
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: this casing, right, this plastic casing that inside got a Buddha, right?
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: The plastic casing, uh, is split right at the hand
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: when you meditate there like a tie. So I asked
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the sifu before he say uh maybe he helped me to.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, help you block some, some bad stuff lah.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I noticed it after, uh, what you call that,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the cam, the digging, digging a trench during it and
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: come back and see because I, we are not supposed
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to bring it together because we put it in the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: bunker and come back and see it one split.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: that's interesting.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I believe that's why I'm bringing.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: When you think of jobs that have, you know, the
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: most uh supernatural encounters, you think morticians, night shifts, security guards,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: or like paranormal investigators. Uniquely, taxi drivers also tend to
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: have many ghostly encounters.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: What is it about taxi driving that would cause so
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: many encounters? Does this say anything about the strenuous working
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: conditions of being a taxi driver?
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I think definitely that's one of the reasons lah, because, um,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: midnight lah is very draining on the body, yeah. So,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Because everybody is sleeping and, and you're awake, so your
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: biological clock is totally out of whack, you know, energy
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: drink it keep you up for that few minutes, then
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: after that you sugar crash while you go tired again. So,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and you are spending a lot of time focused on
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the road. So you tend to like sometimes you relax, ah,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: your whole body relax and you know.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Something may happen, I don't know.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Maybe lah, maybe ah. My theory is, is it got
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: something to do with the working hours, yeah, because um
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know lah in in in my belief right,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: usually the timing for these genes, these these goals right
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: to to to roam free, right, is around, uh, it's,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: it's uh after Mahreb.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Until dawn. So it's sunset till dawn. Those are the
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: timings that they will really roam around, you know, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: then mostly taxi drivers when they are driving alone, you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: late at night, you know, being alone, you know, they
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: probably want to find
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Friend or what lah, right, you get what I mean
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: all this goes like, hey, you alone can I accompany you,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: you know, you get what I mean. I don't know
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: that's my theory. I think it's something got to do
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: with working hours because we rarely hear, um, taxi drivers
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: who cannot like, uh, these kind of encounters in the morning.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, rarely. Is there any, Eddie? Have you heard
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: any from your friends? No. Oh, at night, right? I think, uh,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: for me, I think what would make it, yeah, interesting
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: is because the, the, the cabbies, the taxi drivers, they
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: are pivotal to bringing people home safely at night. Then
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: they meet a lot of people, and sometimes, you know,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: because you're tired.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Then you want to keep yourself awake, so you talk
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: to the passengers. So there's a lot of stories that
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: are being shared. I remember there was one time, actually
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: quite recent, I think this year, uh, I was going
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: home late and I, I, I went into this, uh, uh,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: taxi and his uncle, right, bro, the moment I go in, ah,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: he listening to ghost stories, yeah, some Chinese horror podcast
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: that I've never heard of. Then he was listening full blast.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Then he said, Hey, don't mind, ah boy. I listen
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: to ghost story. I like to listen to ghost story
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: when I drive. Then I say, Uncle, why do you
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: like to listen to ghost story when you drive? See,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: it keeps me awake. I said, You're not scared. I said,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Ah yeah, I've seen it already. Not scared. Ah, not
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: scared at all. Then, you know, then there's the conversation aspect.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Then we both listen the podcast all the way until
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I reach home. So I thought that was, that was
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: quite unique. Yeah. Then, but the uncle damn brave, damn brave. Yeah,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I think most taxi drivers are brave.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Let's be honest. You know my father is very nonchalant
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: one when it comes to all these like ghost ghost
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: thing he's very nonchalant one like, oh, OK, OK. Like
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: for example, my, my mom is the type of person
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: that she don't have the third eye, but every now
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: and then she can sense or she can like sometimes
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: see glimpse of it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: My dad is the type of person like, ah, there,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: OK la, you know, and my mom would like tell
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: my dad lah, hey, you know, just now I saw
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: this one, you see, OK lah like nonchalant, bro I
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: think because like.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I think throughout the 20 years, right, he, he worked
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: as a taxi driver, right? Most of the time I
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: think he worked night shift, so you know after a
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: while you kind of get used to it, you like you,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: you immune already, yeah, so yeah, that's what, that's what
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to be, I'm trying to be immune also,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: that's why I'm conditioning myself to, you know, work graveyard,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: graveyard shift, right, work, work, work, work, work, then be
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: immune right, then like, OK, easy.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's out of necessity lah because sometimes most, like
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I said, most of the passengers are legit one, you're
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: just doing your job, just maybe 1 or 2% sometimes
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: like a split second thing like eh, very extraordinary like
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: this one like not the usual passengers.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: then you start to question, you see. So is it,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: is it really a paranormal thing or is it you're tired,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you know, then you become like start to question your own, yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: then yeah, so that's why after a while you come
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to a conclusion maybe I'm just tired, yeah, or that's
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: why you become nonchalant about it, yeah, or if you're
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: really into it, you say, well, I really can't next
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: time I ask for the number and all you have
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: also have.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so this one is really, yeah,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: very individual one? Do you feel like it's more of
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: me being tired and then so your mind plays tricks
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: on you or do you believe in at least a
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: little bit in the in the supernatural aspect of it?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Not a little bit. Yeah, because I know last, last
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: time I
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I do a lot of photography, yeah, so medium format
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I had this has about then I like to do
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: on film processing. So that time, ah, dark room, dark room,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: everything dark. Then my parents very supportive. OK, help me
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to plain. Don't blame black. Maybe a little bit color. OK,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: dark red. So all the very maroon dark red.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Then we got those black curtain that's block out light
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: totally one. So when I switch off the lights ah
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and switch on the red light, right, then I can
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: do the film processing one, different trick because I very
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: fun alone. So, uh, the thing is because that time
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: we leave, uh, I don't have a separate room for
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: me to sleep, so I sleep in the same dark room.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: So, when I sleep, usually I'll, I will, because that's
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the only curtain I have to block out so it's
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: totally that one, you put out, you cannot see your
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: hand unless you switch on the red light, right, that's
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: my room. So I sleep one night.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I can feel my bed trembling, so trembling, never more
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and more tremble until the whole bed started to shiver from,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: from the corner of the room to slowly inch out,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you know, and it become like heavier and heavier and heavier.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: So I was like I woke up like that, then
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I open my eyes, I see a figurine floating up
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: at my feet looking down at me.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: And I was like cursing and swearing at that thing,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: you know, until my parents rush, rushed inside.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: So the next morning, uh, my parents, ah, my father
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: again bring a joss stick and come in around and
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: all this because they know already. I see that kind
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of thing because out of middle of the night I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: was screaming like I don't know. The next morning we
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: get a medium to come in and cleanse the room.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Then you ask me why your son so stupid and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the room like that. I track all the, you know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: hobby yeah, but this is my hobby is a young
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: ah your hormone, you don't think of.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: You think I want to do the firm. After that
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: we repaint the thing. So
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the medium actually said that it was because the color
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: of your
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: paint.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said why is it so dark it's too dark.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: You got
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: First
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: first of the season, he got scared. Every time people
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: see her it's OK. It's a prop. So, so, so the, the,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the color lah. Then after that you repainted the room, yeah,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I think I stopped doing the stop
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: your photo
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: photography thing, yeah,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: because you don't have a, yeah,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: you don't have the time they don't have rental I
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: think dark
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: maroon is worse than black, honestly. I think, yeah, it
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: looks like
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: blood because red.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: It doesn't reflect the light, so that's why you can
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: have red lights in the in the dark room.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: was creepy. You were very young teenager.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, young adult lah.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that was scary. Yeah, there was a female ghost.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Ah yeah, it is. It's just looking down. It's just
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: floating
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: above that one.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's like, no, just looking down.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, wow. So that's why I say little bit, no,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I absolutely believe guys. I see.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: You were a believer lah. That means you were a
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: believer when you went into driving night shift for taxi. Yeah,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: so you already knew
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: that.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: That's why I bring my amulet protection. I I know
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I will not be driving graveyard shift for, for life, yeah,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: as long as I know the, you know, after I
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: learned the ropes or the trade, I will jump out already.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I only drove, I think graveyard shift for
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: 1 year plus or 2 years coming
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: that's still very
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: long. I'm sure it's very tiring for your body. It
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: is like when you say only 1 year plus maybe 2.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I was like only when you say only I thought
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: maybe like 3 months or what that's
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: why I respect those uh they drive graveyard shift.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: For like 20-30 years, even not say taxi, even those
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: like working in the midnight um graveyard shift kind of wow,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: it's really kudos to them.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: You see no bliss.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Who who's who you're a fan of who again?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Is there any particular rules that the taxi drivers
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: would try their best to avoid late at night, or
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: were you like advised by your taxi friends that, hey,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: this one, try not to drive around this road at night.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Um, the, the, the, the more common one is the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: old Cho Kang Road, yeah, from the, what is it,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Home Academy all the way up, yeah, so that one
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: is the common one. The other one is, you know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: there's um
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Is it Bonne or what Taman Jurong Lakeside MRT, uh,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: so Lakeside MRT there's one, on the right-hand side there's
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: last time was a school, yeah, now they revamp it
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: so the road is like a S right? So that one,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: always cannot accident one for no reason. So the worst
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: accident was the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Motorcycles, the hip.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: but always accident in the area so.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: That one have to be careful.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Remember I told you I heard it's
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: because I don't know the way they design the road
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: or something, but the accident will happen for no reason.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: So that's that's another stretch that that taxi drivers may know, yeah.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: So, the other one is Vernon, but now it's built
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: up already, so I don't think it's well lit already
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: that area, so not so much so much better back
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: then last time I worked as a uh um a
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: fast food delivery rider.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Then I had to send to every now and then I, my,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: my station, my, my workplace is at Tampines, but every
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: now and then I must send to Hougang.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: So the only way to Hougang I must go there.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: I must go via Old Tampines Road. It was so scary, bro.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: But nowadays is, is, it's
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: OK.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Usually people, they, they say people will, you know, they
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: will see figures just standing at the bus stop,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: right? Yeah, yeah. I got I got a story from
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: one of the cabbies, ah, ex-cabbie also he told me
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the old Tampines Road, he picked up, um, a couple, right?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: He came up, um, it was a flag down.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I think that was even way before Uber came to Singapore,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: so long ago, you know. So the couple came inside.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And um after I bought the taxi already both never
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: talked so just play with their phone la ding ding
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: ding ding ding ding like that. So after that I
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: drop already uh drop off uh at Tampines also at
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the stretch. Then the boy went out first, so I
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: have to pay the money la obviously. Then the taxi
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: even drove off. The cabbie say I'm still waiting for
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the the girl to couple ma.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: She turned back and no one, only one person. Only
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: that guy only cannot be right remember it's a couple
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: that came in that was his experience.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Maybe
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the lady was following the guy.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so your friend is safe. It's like maybe he
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: go there, then he can or something because they got
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of columburial, quite a few, few temples there, temples, yeah, yeah,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: a lot, but no, OK, no, yeah, yeah, I've been there.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I've been there. Like the lane is expanded, so it
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: feels safe, and then the light, they change from the
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: tungsten to the white light, right? Yes. So I think
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: the tungsten light makes it more creaky,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: very, very it makes it more eerie. Oh, now you
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: make my.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Because I think you follow him out already,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: yeah, so
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: it's good not not not not the, not your friend
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: that could now yeah I think that's just pretty.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting. So, these stories have deep root in our
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: history from which many other ghost stories seem to have
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: faded away. Why do you think these taxi ghost stories
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: are still so prevalent? What makes ghost stories entertaining and memorable?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: You see, taxi driver is like um we're just doing
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: our job, right, point to point services. So, um,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: There's like no money in telling you this kind of
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: ghost stories. It's not like we are, we are actors
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: or what like, what, tell this story, I'll be famous,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: you know. These are the things that we try to
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: avoid because it's not good for business, man. We just
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: want to like earn money, go home and be with
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: our family members. So I think when taxi stories, um, uh,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: when it's like shared to, you know, online, all these
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: people can feel that it's maybe more authentic.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they are just doing their job and these
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: are the things that they encounter. Whether or not it's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: real is up to individual interpretation, right? But um from
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: our point of view it it really did happen, but
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: what actually happened maybe we also, no idea. Yeah, because like,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: as I said, maybe it's a split-second thing, like, hey,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: where's that guy, I remember I saw that guy, but no,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: no more, right? Is it because I'm tired or is
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: it really a panel, you know, it's a spiritual thing.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think um this kind of story coming
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: out from uh even a security guard or someone is
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: more authentic life, yeah, so people like want to more
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: tune in.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: To this, yeah,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I think it's very grounded, yeah,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: sometimes when I get passenger, they actually recognize me, lazy caddy, right?
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: They will share their encounter, you know. So like one
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: security guard shared and he said, Hey, I love you
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: go sorry, I combined to share. So during the ride
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: he shared his, he's a security guard at one of
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the country club. I'm not going to say the name anyway.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: So the country club has different swimming pools. So when
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: he was new at the time, he told me he was,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: he don't know about the lay of the land. I
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: just go around doing his patrol during the midnight shift, right.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: So that time he was alone, not with anybody, so
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: he's just going down, clicking and then taking pictures, right,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: that's what they do to check in the point. So
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: as I was walking towards the swimming pool, he can
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: hear
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Uh, splashing sound, people playing in the pool lah. I
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: think this hour midnight go and play dangerous, right? No
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: lifeguard at this hour. But it's also not uncommon because
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: there's a hotel there, so maybe some kids come down
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and play. So you move forward and walk past, nothing,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: no water splashing, no children, right?
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: So he go back, he can ask his colleague, and say,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: you know, the kids are playing, ask him is it
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: that swimming pool because there's a few swimming pools. So yeah,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: that's the one. So the colleague told him said, don't,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: don't say, next time you hear again, just ignore and
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: go and do your things, yeah. After that, he realized
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: that he's not the only one or security guard that
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: do patrol there will hear that children playing in that
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: swimming pool, smashing sound.
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  Speaker 1: You know creepy.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Then after that you become nonchalant
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: la la.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: In every episode, we have a question for everyone here
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: and those who are watching at home. For this episode,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I would like to know the creepiest place in Singapore
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  Speaker 2: you have driven to and would never visit
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  Speaker 2: again.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely that will be Lim Chu Kang all the way
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  Speaker 1: up to the last police station
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: or the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: coastguard coast it's actually a police station or what yeah,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: all the way in because that one like that road
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: almost like no at night is like yeah that one
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: is quite, quite scary. I imagine your
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Tire punctured there, it is a very narrow, yes, so
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: that's the one and only time I went all the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: way in because the booking is for the coast guard
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: or police, I don't know, all the way in.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: At night also, no, not at night, it's actually evening, yeah,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: but it's a beautiful view because you can see the sea,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and it's nice.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: So you pick, you pick the passenger. No,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I dropped him off, then I had to make my
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: way out wow, and I don't think,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: you know,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: going in, OK, you know, because I got passenger, yeah,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: going back
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  Speaker 2: alone, bro, yeah,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: going out alone a bit, yeah,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: and, uh, the day is, uh, after Gedong.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Yes,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: that's
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: why
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Gedong,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: very
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: few taxi drivers willing to take the book,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: it's very deep. It's Gedong, then Estate, then the end point,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: the police coast coast
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  Speaker 2: guard.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: You should try one time. It's quite fun,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: right there, right
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  Speaker 1: there.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: It's quite a view.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: It's quite
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: a view.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: I recently went
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: to Jalan Batra. It's around there, right? Uh, further lah,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: on the other side. Oh, Jalan Batra is further, is it? No,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: it's further down, uh, on the right side of Neu,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: I think. I, if I'm not wrong, or left side,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: but on the way to Jalan Bare, to me it's
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: quite creepy. Also, it's near the cemetery already, right? Uh,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: I have no idea. I met merchant, bro. I just
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: look at the map inside this one for my, for
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: my jalaja, yeah, it was pretty, pretty creepy.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: But not my scariest. I think.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Even though I have never driven there, you always, uh,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: someone else who drove, uh, uh, I would say Old
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Changi Hospital, the back part, the back part, I think it's, yeah,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: it's the back part means the the slope, the slope up,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: not the front. The front is the car park, right,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the back, the back is the mall because as you're
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: going out, you can see that it gets more and
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: more dense, um, and you can see on the right
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: side there will be a big incense burner.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: And then all the Tibetan flags, the prayers, they always
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: is to protect and seal the place, seal the things
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: that are inside or protect the people that are there, lah.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: So it feels, and we, we will go there at night,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: and we go drive. Then my friend parked right in
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: front of the gate. Then he high beam.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Hey, I was sitting right beside him. You were much younger,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: I assume.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, high beam, right now I was filming. Like
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I wanted to film some content for Hantu, right? Then
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I can hear behind my, uh, camerawoman. She's like, Hey, OK,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: stop already. Stop. Don't need to go closer. Don't need
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: it going closer bit lah. I cannot see. Ah, then
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: you high beam there, but quite idiot could be very eerie.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: The air there is dense. I think it's the most
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: haunted place in Singapore. I, I feel personally is very.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not great,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: is
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: it because of the Japanese occupation?
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I think
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: the theory is that there's portals somebody going to open
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: a portal or it was already there.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: That's why they seal up the so-called,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but whatever's there, I don't think is, is,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: is spirits. It's more than spirits. It's much darker, yeah,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: so it's very, yeah, very violent, I think that place.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I've never been there, you know, it's close, right.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Outside you can feel it already, bro. Look, you don't
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: need to go into the hospital itself. You take the
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: slot out already enough. I, I give you the idea,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: the episode idea.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: You go there, you stand outside the gate. If you
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: can last longer than half an hour, you win. Yeah. Normally, yeah,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: 5 minutes, you, you, you feel ready.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Honestly, thanks, thanks for the idea. You gotta, you gotta, uh,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Tales from Incredible. I'll give you guys a shout out, man.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I honestly, I, I agree with you. I take it
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: just a little bit further. It's not just that slope
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: for me, it's that entire area.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: It's OK. The entire area that stretch that turn until
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: you see Changi Village itself. Once you can see the
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: lights of Changi Village, I think it's OK. Everything leading
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: up to there, up to and including the slope, I cannot.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: That place is just.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: It's like what you said. It feels like the atmosphere
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: feels heavier out there. It's not as bad as up
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: the slope. Up the slope is just the worst, lah.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: But even when you come down and you're around the area,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: so I, I cannot. Old Terminis Road back then, Kampong
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Wa Asan. OK la, Kampung Wa Asan, the place itself
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: is fine. The road leading towards it, you avoid it. Um,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: that's the only way I can go to Kampong Kampong, uh.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: But if there's nothing, there's, if I don't have, I
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: don't have any content to shoot over, then I probably
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: wouldn't go there also maybe because it's quite, quite creepy
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: also actually left and right and then if you go
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: to the other side, you got the, the row of
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: like banana tree at the side and then there's the
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: pet cemetery behind the mosque. You see a lot of patches, one,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of um creepy like the yeah they put there.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Alright, to drive us home today, ha ha ha ha,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: we have Kyle with our morbid fact of the day. Kyle,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: take it away. So, you guys ever heard of the
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Devil's Bend? This V-shaped road bend at the old Upper
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Thompson Road was one of the most difficult and dangerous
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: part of the Singapore Grand Prix circuit from 1961 to 1973. However,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: after 11 years of races, seven drivers were killed racing
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: that track, canceling the Grand Prix circuit forever.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Today it is considered a haunted road with numerous ghost
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: sightings as well as regular appearance of a young woman
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: dressed in white who would pay hell money for taxis.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: You know that, sorry, yeah, yeah,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: but it's not that road, right? No, it's that the
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: bend of road. I heard of that, but I've not been,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: you know, to that area,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: so I don't know why, why I always like to walk.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: So far I've walked and bikes in Old Tampines Road.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: In Devil's Bend, uh, Monday, some, some, some stretch, and then, uh, yeah,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: new 2 also, yeah, I would say the, the most
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: unnerving one was Old Temporary Shore, the original Old Temporary Shore, yeah,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: we were cycling like we had 8 of us stupid kids,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: nothing to do during somewhat during Chinese New Year. It
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: is go cycle I cycle, and 3 a.m., you know,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: we cycle when we passed the third bus stop, wow,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: the hair stand on it.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: It's like then they got the red lantern. yeah, that was,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: that was great. I never forget about it. Yeah, I
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: think like you notice a lot of these roads, most
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: of them lah, they're not as scary anymore like you
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: said like Old Tampines Road, they brighten up the place. Um,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sure there's other roads as well, like Old Tampines
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Road is more famous, but there are other roads as
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: well where, you know, after development it is not as
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: scary anymore. That's why I was trying to think to
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: myself like, what's a place that I've driven that I've
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: been at that's creepy that remain creepy.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the outside the road to Old Changi, yeah,
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: that's the only one because that road, right, they changed
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: the hongsten light to the white lights, but it's still creepy,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: it's still bloody creepy, still creepy, yeah, you, you see the,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: the security guards are they will drive and then they
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: will clock, so make sure people don't trespass, right? You see,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: they drive also quite fast on very fast. They open
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: the gate, go inside for when I come out goodbye.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: It's just a job to them. They're like, not worth it,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: not worth it, not worth it. Yeah, thank you, Eddie,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: or lazy.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Gaby, for joining us. Thank you so much. This episode
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: was so fun. It's interesting, you know, because it's very
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: close to the heart, you know, taxi drivers. And thank
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: you to all of you for tuning into Tales from
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Incredible Tales. New episodes go online every week on MeWatch,
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• 43:20
  Speaker 1: My name is Eddie,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: my name is Wayne, my name is Kyle. My name
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: is Far.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: And we'll see you next time. Tales from Incredible Tales
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: was hosted by Far Anwar, Wayne Rui, and Kyle Ong,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: with special guests, Eddie, Lazy Cabbie, directed and produced by
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Kyle Ong, written by Wayne Gray, assistant director, Chin Chin Wei,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: director of photography, Shervin Chua, Gaffer, Jonathan.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Chan, art director, Jolene Lim, sound recordist, Audrey Lee. Behind
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: the scenes footage shot by Ella May Walker, hair and
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: makeup by Bino Lim, Production assistance, Aishwarani Durias Singam, Ella
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: May Walker. Post-production by Fudge Studios. Assistant editor, Ella May Walker.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Motion graphics by Jolene Lim.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Camera support by Nikon Singapore, lighting support by Amaan, smoke
• 44:20
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• 44:24
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• 44:28
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• 44:32
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