Latest / Tales from Incredible Tales / S2E12 | Beyond Southeast Asia
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- 0:00Speaker 1: She basically goes, that poor woman in white in the
- 0:02Speaker 1: tree is stuck on that. Can somebody please go up
- 0:04Speaker 1: there and help her? And she's like asking all the
- 0:05Speaker 1: staff and every one of the staff. I was like, no, no,
- 0:10Speaker 1: she's fine. No, it's ok. And nobody wanted to tell her.
- 0:33Speaker 2: My name is Art.
- 0:34Speaker 1: My name is Ryan. My name is Wayne. My name
- 0:39Speaker 1: is Kyle and this is Tales From Incredible Tales, a
- 0:43Speaker 1: show where we look back at the popular media horror
- 0:46Speaker 1: series joining us today once again is at host of
- 0:50Speaker 1: a Global Tails across its 13 years.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Hi,
- 0:55Speaker 2: good
- 0:55Speaker 1: to see
- 0:55Speaker 2: you. Good to see all of you too. You look
- 0:58Speaker 2: and you
- 1:00Speaker 1: all right. You need to stop here
- 1:06Speaker 1: for some reason. I thought he was looking at me.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Are you
- 1:11Speaker 2: with us? Each and every episode
- 1:15Speaker 1: that
- 1:15Speaker 1: makes me feel good. Plus you dressed up with the
- 1:19Speaker 1: blazer again today. So you know,
- 1:21Speaker 2: I have the blazer but we both have the same
- 1:24Speaker 2: look today.
- 1:24Speaker 1: I know. Yeah,
- 1:25Speaker 1: I mean training, I mean, I haven't gotten the approval
- 1:28Speaker 1: to wear the and yeah, I really miss my mel
- 1:33Speaker 1: Gil blazer. Right. Now.
- 1:35Speaker 1: So anyway, in every episode of Tales From Incredible Tales,
- 1:37Speaker 1: we explore a different theme and how it ties back
- 1:40Speaker 1: to the classic incredible Tas episodes. For this episode. We're
- 1:44Speaker 1: looking at how Southeast Asian supernatural travels beyond our region.
- 1:48Speaker 1: This episode's theme was inspired by the souvenir from season four.
- 1:53Speaker 1: When Robert, a guy down on his luck gets a
- 1:55Speaker 1: finger bone from his friend as a souvenir from his travels,
- 1:59Speaker 1: he thinks nothing of it soon. His luck turns for
- 2:02Speaker 1: the better. But then Robert discovers that accompanying the good
- 2:05Speaker 1: luck are nightmares that come true
- 2:08Speaker 1: is the finger bone. The cause of all the bad
- 2:10Speaker 1: events happening. Well, it's a loss. Yeah.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:20Speaker 1: You know what, I was
- 2:20Speaker 1: expecting him taking the bone throwing it far away instead
- 2:24Speaker 1: of keeping it in his like, OK, I've seen the
- 2:29Speaker 1: episode already. I wrote the description down even as I'm writing,
- 2:33Speaker 1: even as I'm reading the description, I'm like, why would
- 2:35Speaker 1: you accept the finger bone as a gift? It's like
- 2:37Speaker 1: in this part, he haven't decided to throw it away.
- 2:40Speaker 1: I don't think he just kept it, but he was
- 2:43Speaker 1: freaked out because the bone was placed right next to
- 2:45Speaker 1: him and he was like, I did not put this year,
- 2:48Speaker 1: but then this was not enough for him to throw
- 2:50Speaker 1: it out.
- 2:51Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I think is the whole idea
- 2:54Speaker 1: of cultural biases, right? Because it's not your culture. Therefore,
- 2:59Speaker 1: you don't believe in their beliefs, therefore you're kind of
- 3:01Speaker 1: immune to it. But that's true. Yeah.
- 3:03Speaker 2: II, I agree with Kyle. I think
- 3:06Speaker 2: sometimes, like, you just don't know any better. So you
- 3:10Speaker 2: just don't think it's going to affect you. Yeah, that's right. So, um,
- 3:15Speaker 2: it's interesting seeing reenactment with, like, with entire be far, like,
- 3:21Speaker 2: you know, I'm almost like Westerners because all the stories
- 3:25Speaker 2: we tell it's like, you know, it's like Asian based or,
- 3:27Speaker 2: like amongst our like
- 3:29Speaker 2: the countries in Southeast Asia. So it's, it's interesting to
- 3:33Speaker 2: see how like, you know, the energies and the situations
- 3:37Speaker 2: are they go across lines, all colors and barriers,
- 3:42Speaker 1: which speaking of which because you travel
- 3:44Speaker 1: lot from between America and Thailand. So with what we
- 3:48Speaker 1: have seen how much of our Southeast Asian Ghost stories
- 3:53Speaker 1: make it to somewhere as far off as the
- 3:55Speaker 1: States
- 3:56Speaker 2: they do, but they become remakes.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Which one we,
- 4:04Speaker 2: I find it really entertaining when they become remakes because
- 4:08Speaker 2: the authenticity and the trueness of like the stories it
- 4:12Speaker 2: gets tweaked into, it becomes very westernized. Like let's keep
- 4:18Speaker 2: it to like the Asian version like the Ring, you know,
- 4:21Speaker 2: the Ring or a lot of the shutter is remade
- 4:26Speaker 2: and it just doesn't, it doesn't translate the
- 4:30Speaker 2: same,
- 4:30Speaker 1: I guess because did they bring down the scary scale,
- 4:35Speaker 1: the horror
- 4:35Speaker 1: scale down
- 4:36Speaker 2: at the end of the day? It comes down to
- 4:38Speaker 2: the fact that it's just elements and specific things that
- 4:44Speaker 2: do not pertain to the western culture. Right? So then
- 4:48Speaker 2: when it gets tweaked, then it's like it kind of
- 4:50Speaker 2: just everything changes.
- 4:54Speaker 2: So, going back to the question is, um, do I
- 4:58Speaker 2: feel the stories make it there? Um Yes, I definitely
- 5:01Speaker 2: do if there
- 5:03Speaker 2: brought in their authentic form of my friends who love
- 5:06Speaker 2: the original shutter, who love the original stories because it's
- 5:10Speaker 2: something far off from what they know. But when it
- 5:13Speaker 2: gets translated, I guess, like, it's ok but it's like
- 5:16Speaker 2: it loses some of its authenticity.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Yeah, I always believe that vampires are the westernized version
- 5:24Speaker 1: of pot. Don't you think? So? I
- 5:27Speaker 1: love that. You sit around because I, all the time
- 5:30Speaker 1: I hear like the Southeast Asian version of vampires. So
- 5:33Speaker 1: for you to say like, oh yeah, vampires, their version
- 5:37Speaker 1: of our, I think so, like male to female and
- 5:40Speaker 1: then the, I mean, it's black white and then now
- 5:44Speaker 1: it's black white. I'll take your word from just not
- 5:46Speaker 1: looking and it still has like, really spoiled the vampire
- 5:51Speaker 1: for us.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Sexy. They're like, oh, then become teenage romance, that kind
- 5:56Speaker 1: of thing. It's cool to be a vampire. Oh, yeah.
- 5:59Speaker 1: Is it to be the agree? Yeah. But whereas like,
- 6:04Speaker 1: I think we are a bit more still real to
- 6:08Speaker 1: the source material in the sense whereby is still a
- 6:10Speaker 1: tragic tale of a woman losing her life while giving birth.
- 6:14Speaker 1: And then, you know, that's a, yeah, like the man Yeah, exactly. Like,
- 6:19Speaker 1: even though it's modernized but it doesn't really change the call. But, whereas, like,
- 6:23Speaker 1: vampires in Hollywood, it has changed a lot because it
- 6:27Speaker 1: came from, like, let the, in the story came from
- 6:30Speaker 1: the then Dracula, you know, like all this, like, castle
- 6:34Speaker 1: thing then now is, like, modernized for Hollywood.
- 6:38Speaker 2: I think it's, it's much more layer, there's more intricacies
- 6:42Speaker 2: with how we see spirits and energies because
- 6:46Speaker 2: we do things to appease them. We do merits, we
- 6:50Speaker 2: have a deeper understanding of the stories behind it. I
- 6:53Speaker 2: think with like uh in, with Western understanding, it's more
- 6:58Speaker 2: on the surface. So then that gets changed in terms
- 7:02Speaker 2: of like, you know, how people perceive the energies and
- 7:05Speaker 2: everything here. Um I do find that because they don't
- 7:10Speaker 2: because they don't understand like Westerners might,
- 7:13Speaker 2: I understand the intricacies for a lot of them. It
- 7:16Speaker 2: is fascinating but it's how to connect it to them slowly.
- 7:20Speaker 2: It's like kind of like food, you know, like what,
- 7:23Speaker 2: what I've realized is when I was growing up in
- 7:26Speaker 2: the US, that people's palette was quite bland
- 7:31Speaker 2: and then now it's like not bland. So, you know,
- 7:34Speaker 2: you got like uh cr I and like hamburgers and
- 7:37Speaker 2: uh which wouldn't have been the case, like maybe 1020
- 7:41Speaker 2: 20 years back. So it's, it's similar to what we're
- 7:46Speaker 2: talking about. I think
- 7:47Speaker 2: it just takes time for them to catch on to
- 7:49Speaker 2: the intricacies. And I think it slowly is like, for example,
- 7:53Speaker 2: the reenactment that we saw, I mean, that's an example of,
- 7:56Speaker 2: I think experiencing something out of the norm of what
- 7:59Speaker 2: a person a Westerner would experience and then coming to
- 8:03Speaker 2: terms with it, then
- 8:04Speaker 1: you will bring it back to his reverence and he'll
- 8:07Speaker 1: be like, don't do that
- 8:09Speaker 1: when you go to a foreign country, don't bring back bones.
- 8:13Speaker 1: I mean, to us is like common sense, right? We
- 8:15Speaker 1: grew with that. Our parents would never ever do that.
- 8:18Speaker 1: But I guess they will be more different in the
- 8:20Speaker 1: sense they didn't have that culture understanding. Like I'm pretty
- 8:25Speaker 1: sure like an Asian person who never go to Africa
- 8:28Speaker 1: is like, oh that's,
- 8:29Speaker 1: that's like a bone thing. I'm gonna bring it back.
- 8:31Speaker 1: We will be like, no, we get it, we get it.
- 8:34Speaker 1: But where I think the Westerners, they will be more
- 8:36Speaker 1: like like what you say surface level, then they're like,
- 8:38Speaker 1: maybe I'll bring it back as a gift
- 8:42Speaker 2: more in understanding things on the surface.
- 8:45Speaker 1: There was this very controversial thing that, you know, a
- 8:48Speaker 1: lot of the influencers, they
- 8:50Speaker 1: especially the Western influences, they travel all the way to
- 8:52Speaker 1: Bali and then they do like a whole bunch of
- 8:54Speaker 1: photo shoots like like near like a tree that is
- 8:58Speaker 1: an ancient tree that's supposedly like spiritual and they took
- 9:05Speaker 1: nude photos there. Then people are unhappy because you are
- 9:10Speaker 1: basically disturbing the spirits that are there and like the culture.
- 9:14Speaker 1: So they were made to apologize and I think do
- 9:17Speaker 1: some prayers over there. Yeah. So
- 9:19Speaker 2: it's become quite common because of the influencer culture and
- 9:23Speaker 2: the social media culture. So all these key traditional places,
- 9:27Speaker 2: especially in Asia, you have a lot of influencers just
- 9:29Speaker 2: like taking it one step further, you know, just to
- 9:32Speaker 2: get garner attention. So like that incident and there's a
- 9:35Speaker 2: lot of incidents like from Japan to Thailand to
- 9:39Speaker 2: you know, everywhere. So, but what's really good is on
- 9:44Speaker 2: the other side of social media, it's there's also a backlash,
- 9:48Speaker 1: there's an accountability from it who understand better, right? Then
- 9:52Speaker 1: that's why the other accountability where the spiritual accountability that
- 9:56Speaker 1: goes come and on you as I don't do that.
- 9:59Speaker 1: That's right. It doesn't matter how many hate comments you
- 10:01Speaker 1: get on social media, nothing's gonna beat the ghost coming
- 10:03Speaker 1: to you. Good luck, man. Yeah, good luck. You can't
- 10:08Speaker 1: block that.
- 10:09Speaker 1: I need to add on to that because like what
- 10:12Speaker 1: you say car where you know the Western culture, they,
- 10:15Speaker 1: they fantasize or they create a new character out of vampires.
- 10:20Speaker 1: So hence the cultural aspect of respecting vampires
- 10:25Speaker 1: is different than how we know about, let's say CP
- 10:28Speaker 1: because in movies, they always say cut people will always
- 10:31Speaker 1: appear if you don't do this. Is this the cultural
- 10:34Speaker 1: norms being instilled into movies? But in western western as
- 10:38Speaker 1: western movies, however, we don't hear much of that norm
- 10:42Speaker 1: or cultural, do this and do that. Yeah, I noticed
- 10:45Speaker 1: that as well. And like the movies that we have
- 10:47Speaker 1: down here, even the horror comedies,
- 10:50Speaker 1: like everything else would be a joke, but he will
- 10:52Speaker 1: always be played straight. So there's no, there's no making
- 10:57Speaker 1: fun of her. There's no, it's making fun of everybody
- 10:59Speaker 1: else around her, but there's no disrespect. You can try.
- 11:05Speaker 1: I am always respect. No. But like I'm curious, like,
- 11:08Speaker 1: as a filmmaker, I respectfully, I think it will be
- 11:11Speaker 1: quite interesting to see a Hollywood version of copy, like
- 11:16Speaker 1: a portrayal of copy. I'm curious of how would they
- 11:19Speaker 1: do it because we've always done it this way right?
- 11:21Speaker 1: Then how would they do it? But then I'm not
- 11:23Speaker 1: gonna try.
- 11:26Speaker 1: I think curious is the right word. I wouldn't look
- 11:28Speaker 1: forward to it. But I'll be very curious. Actually, I
- 11:32Speaker 1: was wondering as well because you mentioned in last season
- 11:35Speaker 1: as well that there is a community of fellow Buddhist
- 11:39Speaker 1: people in California. And you've been to some temples on
- 11:42Speaker 1: there when they talk about like mythology and folklore and
- 11:46Speaker 1: stuff like that? Is it, does it still feel like
- 11:49Speaker 1: Thailand or does it feel like there's a western lens
- 11:52Speaker 1: on
- 11:52Speaker 1: it?
- 11:52Speaker 2: It depends on what community if it's like,
- 11:56Speaker 2: I think this is across the line. Um For example,
- 11:59Speaker 2: if you have the Thai community here who immigrated there,
- 12:03Speaker 2: they're still going to think in a very Thai way.
- 12:06Speaker 2: But if you have like the Children who are Thai American,
- 12:08Speaker 2: they're going to be influenced by Western culture. So they're
- 12:10Speaker 2: going to not be as connected unless their parents, like,
- 12:13Speaker 2: you know, pass that down to them. And I think
- 12:16Speaker 2: that's across the line with whether you're Singaporean, Malaysian, Indonesian Filipino. So,
- 12:20Speaker 2: um and then you have the other side of it
- 12:22Speaker 2: where it's like you're fully Western. Yeah.
- 12:25Speaker 2: So um particular group of people that I see in
- 12:30Speaker 2: the Buddhist community, they're like, they're very Thai, you know,
- 12:34Speaker 2: they're still like the first generation and then passing it
- 12:37Speaker 2: down to the Children. It's more of like the people
- 12:40Speaker 2: who come in, who are foreign, who are learning, you know,
- 12:42Speaker 2: they're getting bits and pieces of things,
- 12:46Speaker 1: which brings me to the next question because um do
- 12:49Speaker 1: you think ghost, our ghost, our Southeast Asian ghosts and
- 12:52Speaker 1: creatures can actually travel to other countries? Like for example,
- 12:55Speaker 1: in the States, do the people there currently believes that,
- 12:58Speaker 1: you know, my neck is still existing there in California?
- 13:02Speaker 1: So
- 13:02Speaker 2: I feel once you're like in a different space and environment,
- 13:05Speaker 2: it might not necessarily be the same entity that we
- 13:10Speaker 2: term it here.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Um There might be termed differently because when you're in
- 13:17Speaker 2: different spaces, places, like, let's say, if you're in Australia,
- 13:20Speaker 2: you have the Aboriginals, they have their particular terms to
- 13:24Speaker 2: entities and spirits. If you're in the United States, the
- 13:28Speaker 2: lands before what it is today was deeply rooted with
- 13:33Speaker 2: American Indians.
- 13:36Speaker 2: So they have terms for their spirits and their entities
- 13:40Speaker 2: and if we were to like just place it on
- 13:43Speaker 2: this table and this have all every indigenous tribes and
- 13:49Speaker 2: people sit down and talk. It might be the same entity,
- 13:53Speaker 2: but it might be the same entities and energies and
- 13:56Speaker 2: spirits and ka, but they just have different names.
- 14:00Speaker 1: That's
- 14:00Speaker 2: true.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:01Speaker 1: Is that how like the banana spirit, the CB
- 14:05Speaker 1: and then they are like quite similar in that sense,
- 14:09Speaker 1: different origin stories, but quite similar in terms of how
- 14:11Speaker 1: they look, how they kill that kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah.
- 14:15Speaker 1: Actually that's a very good point. Yeah, it's a good
- 14:17Speaker 1: point because for me when I travel. So this is
- 14:20Speaker 1: funny because when I'm in Southeast Asia
- 14:22Speaker 1: at night, I always think of the Southeast Asian hunters
- 14:26Speaker 1: coming up, you know, at night. But when I was
- 14:29Speaker 1: in UK for a holiday, I wasn't thinking about all
- 14:32Speaker 1: those Southeast Asian, I was thinking about pages. I was
- 14:36Speaker 1: thinking about, you know, spirits that I cannot see. I've
- 14:38Speaker 1: never heard of. So I've had hauntings when I was
- 14:40Speaker 1: in UK, you mentioned the last year. So it's like,
- 14:45Speaker 1: is it the same entity or is this totally different entity?
- 14:47Speaker 1: Because I was, I mean, the differently. So that's a
- 14:49Speaker 1: good point that you brought up.
- 14:50Speaker 2: I
- 14:50Speaker 2: think the methods of handling the entities are different and
- 14:55Speaker 2: then when it's handled differently, then what becomes of the
- 15:00Speaker 2: energy becomes different, I think with the poltergeist and the
- 15:05Speaker 2: exorcism it exists here in Asia. But I think it's
- 15:08Speaker 2: more tamed because of the different religions we have across
- 15:13Speaker 2: the line.
- 15:13Speaker 2: So our, our different religions have certain methods to tame
- 15:18Speaker 2: the spirits there. It's like, it's, it's more like this,
- 15:21Speaker 2: you have the, the priests and then, you know, the
- 15:24Speaker 2: holy water and then, you know, it's like you,
- 15:27Speaker 2: you have the caricature of what poltergeist or exorcism looks like.
- 15:31Speaker 2: And that's what we see in movies and everything and,
- 15:33Speaker 2: but we handle it very much differently here. Like we
- 15:36Speaker 2: have bos we have doctor like spiritual doctors and everything
- 15:40Speaker 2: that have these techniques and methods
- 15:43Speaker 1: to, to actually add on to your point, right? Like
- 15:45Speaker 1: basically your brain code switches for the spiritual world.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Say that again, code switch for spiritual. So it's like,
- 15:54Speaker 1: oh I'm in the UK switch no more, no more
- 15:58Speaker 1: days than that is. All the guys go like demons.
- 16:02Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But for me, it's
- 16:04Speaker 1: a little bit different. So when I went to the
- 16:06Speaker 1: went to Europe, I was like, no, no, your hunt
- 16:09Speaker 1: to cannot be my
- 16:12Speaker 1: can like claw out your genitals. What can you do?
- 16:15Speaker 1: You move a chair,
- 16:17Speaker 1: right? You move a check. That's it. That's for me.
- 16:21Speaker 1: And then I also felt that they, they're very good
- 16:24Speaker 1: at capitalizing horror. So I've seen like walks for like
- 16:28Speaker 1: Hitler's horseman, that kind of thing. It's quite common. And
- 16:31Speaker 1: then people are like, oh, yeah, this is part, there
- 16:33Speaker 1: used to be a Hitler's ghost and I think they
- 16:34Speaker 1: still roam around it but here's like €20. Then you
- 16:37Speaker 1: go for the walk when people travel there and they
- 16:39Speaker 1: bring the myths, the myths that they, that they bring,
- 16:42Speaker 1: they get code switched in that sense to fit the environment.
- 16:45Speaker 1: But I always wonder would the, the way to the priest,
- 16:50Speaker 1: the pastor, the bo does it work interchangeably?
- 16:56Speaker 1: So
- 16:56Speaker 2: I think if it's like between western and eastern, it's
- 16:58Speaker 2: like probably bigger hurdle. But I think if it's amongst
- 17:02Speaker 2: our nearby countries, it's not as much like the story
- 17:07Speaker 2: that I shared with you guys, how one of my
- 17:10Speaker 2: producers brought entity back to Singapore from Thailand and then,
- 17:15Speaker 2: and Amo told him to bring the spirit back to Phuket.
- 17:20Speaker 2: So I mean, like if it's a cross because we
- 17:22Speaker 2: have similar beliefs and similar methods and techniques. But I
- 17:25Speaker 2: think it's, I think for western eastern, it's like, you know,
- 17:29Speaker 2: um
- 17:31Speaker 2: it's like a much bigger hurdle, I guess,
- 17:34Speaker 1: I think to add on to that. I, I did
- 17:37Speaker 1: ask like spiritual masters about that recently and then they
- 17:40Speaker 1: say that it depends, but for certain religions, right? It
- 17:45Speaker 1: doesn't matter what's your religion, you come to them for help,
- 17:48Speaker 1: for exorcism, they will help and they say that the
- 17:50Speaker 1: power is still the same because essentially you're being in,
- 17:53Speaker 1: you believing in light. So light will always fight darkness.
- 17:56Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter what
- 17:57Speaker 1: your religion is, they are able to solve the issue.
- 18:00Speaker 1: It just depends on how evil the entity is. So
- 18:03Speaker 1: they say like you could be raised a certain religion
- 18:06Speaker 1: and not the same religion as the spiritual master, but
- 18:09Speaker 1: you can still go to him for help and he
- 18:10Speaker 1: will still help and the deity that or the God
- 18:13Speaker 1: that they believe in will help you. Yeah, because still
- 18:16Speaker 1: fighting evil.
- 18:17Speaker 2: That's a good point. It's like it's the source is
- 18:20Speaker 2: the same. So I'm gonna throw this little story and
- 18:23Speaker 2: flight that crashed.
- 18:26Speaker 2: I forgot where like Kathmandu or like I have to
- 18:29Speaker 2: look it up. But um
- 18:31Speaker 2: uh basically the next flight leaving it's the same airlines,
- 18:36Speaker 2: there were stewardess who were on that airline asking to
- 18:41Speaker 2: go back home. Yeah, the spirits of the um the crew,
- 18:46Speaker 2: the crew that had passed away. So some of them
- 18:49Speaker 2: had asked to catch
- 18:52Speaker 1: that flight,
- 18:53Speaker 2: another flight back home.
- 18:57Speaker 1: That's really sad.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. But it's quite a common knowledge that sometimes
- 19:03Speaker 1: the commercial flights that we take, right? They do carry
- 19:06Speaker 1: this is like bodies, the repatriation flights. So it's underneath
- 19:13Speaker 1: the cargo space because they do carry cargo. So sometimes
- 19:16Speaker 1: this is, do we think that people are more understanding
- 19:20Speaker 1: of other cultures, supernatural beliefs now?
- 19:23Speaker 2: Oh, definitely. Yeah, because I think on the flip side
- 19:25Speaker 2: of the
- 19:26Speaker 2: social media is that everything's well connected now and then
- 19:30Speaker 2: um like what we mentioned about disrespecting um key places
- 19:35Speaker 2: and the backlash is very fast. So um that's like,
- 19:39Speaker 2: that's key to not having that repeat itself. I think
- 19:41Speaker 2: it's the same when it comes to disrespecting, like, you know,
- 19:43Speaker 2: the spiritual world as well and people are more worldly,
- 19:47Speaker 2: they travel a lot more now. So I think there's
- 19:50Speaker 2: uh there's more of an understanding.
- 19:52Speaker 1: I recently saw this video. All my friends sent me.
- 19:56Speaker 1: It is quite funny. It's a Tik Tok or basically
- 19:59Speaker 1: more in Singapore and he's just walking around at night
- 20:02Speaker 1: and he's like,
- 20:03Speaker 1: why my apartment outside? I got the French Penny smell. Wow.
- 20:07Speaker 1: I love that smell. Wow. And then in the comments
- 20:10Speaker 1: you can see, right? People like Singaporeans are basically, do
- 20:13Speaker 1: we tell him
- 20:15Speaker 1: do that?
- 20:16Speaker 1: Good luck man.
- 20:18Speaker 1: That actually reminds me of a story that a friend
- 20:22Speaker 1: told me and I won't mention the name of the place,
- 20:27Speaker 1: but it's outdoors and you can visit at night. Um
- 20:33Speaker 1: So it's an attraction in Singapore. I'm quite sure you
- 20:35Speaker 1: can guess which one it is. But and there was
- 20:37Speaker 1: this lady from, I think America who he was and
- 20:41Speaker 1: he was working at this place and he heard this
- 20:44Speaker 1: lady from America just going on like you've got to
- 20:46Speaker 1: help her, that poor woman stuck in a tree. You've
- 20:48Speaker 1: got to help her, get somebody, help her and she's
- 20:51Speaker 1: pointing to a tree and she's like,
- 20:54Speaker 1: she basically goes, that poor woman in white in the
- 20:56Speaker 1: tree is stuck on that. Can somebody please go up
- 20:58Speaker 1: there and help her? And she's like asking all the
- 20:59Speaker 1: staff and every one of the staff. I was like, no, no,
- 21:04Speaker 1: she's fine. No, it's ok. And nobody wanted to tell
- 21:08Speaker 1: her,
- 21:08Speaker 2: I was asked the lady to, for her to go
- 21:10Speaker 2: help instead.
- 21:11Speaker 1: That's true. I'll get you a letter,
- 21:16Speaker 1: There's a letter for
- 21:17Speaker 1: you. I do imagine that would have been a little
- 21:20Speaker 1: bit more forgiving to, to that lady who's trying to
- 21:23Speaker 1: help her. Honestly, I don't think it's disrespectful. I think
- 21:25Speaker 1: she genuinely wants to. I think if she knew what
- 21:30Speaker 1: it was, she probably would keep quiet as well. But yeah,
- 21:33Speaker 1: I think, I think
- 21:34Speaker 1: it was our disrespect. I think she just was like,
- 21:36Speaker 1: oh no, there's a poor woman stuck in a tree. Yeah.
- 21:38Speaker 1: It's like you just don't know. Right. It could be,
- 21:40Speaker 1: it could be us on the flip side that we
- 21:42Speaker 1: could be going to some western country and then we would,
- 21:44Speaker 1: I have, I don't know, like here some sound that,
- 21:47Speaker 1: what's that? But for the locals they are like, I
- 21:49Speaker 1: know you hear how you run this.
- 21:51Speaker 2: True. I'm wondering like on the flip side of it, how,
- 21:54Speaker 2: how it is for the spirit world
- 21:57Speaker 2: I'm thinking,
- 22:00Speaker 1: why is that woman pointing to? Exactly. I live here. Stop,
- 22:05Speaker 1: stop telling her, get out.
- 22:07Speaker 1: It's like they are
- 22:09Speaker 1: like, really,
- 22:10Speaker 2: I wonder if they have, like, their own Google translate
- 22:14Speaker 1: translator, ghostly translator.
- 22:17Speaker 1: You get a translator to translate it. Right. Yeah, that
- 22:20Speaker 1: would be fantastic. It's like, so I need to get
- 22:23Speaker 1: my friend Dracula. It's on the other side of the world.
- 22:25Speaker 1: But I think eventually what's important is for us because
- 22:28Speaker 1: we love to travel, we travel all the time is to,
- 22:31Speaker 1: before we hit
- 22:32Speaker 1: over to that particular country is to understand their culture,
- 22:36Speaker 1: especially if it's supernatural culture. Because I mean, we want
- 22:39Speaker 1: to respect their culture as well. And likewise, for anyone
- 22:42Speaker 1: who's coming to our countries to respect our supernatural beliefs
- 22:47Speaker 1: as well. So that, you know, eventually both side wins. Yeah. Yeah.
- 22:53Speaker 1: I mean, I'm going to Japan soon so
- 22:59Speaker 1: give him a look. Yeah, I like, I mean, I,
- 23:01Speaker 1: I will be fine. I'm honestly, I don't want anything
- 23:05Speaker 1: to happen to me, but at the same time, I
- 23:07Speaker 1: kind of want something to happen so that I got
- 23:09Speaker 1: stories to tell. But I mean, Japan has been very
- 23:12Speaker 1: kind to me thus far. I have not gotten anything
- 23:16Speaker 1: like happened to me in Japan. So chill, the spirits
- 23:19Speaker 1: are pretty chill
- 23:22Speaker 1: can be fine. You will be OK. All right. So
- 23:24Speaker 1: this question is for everyone which Southeast Asian supernatural entity
- 23:30Speaker 1: do you think would be the most popular outside the region?
- 23:33Speaker 1: I will go first. OK. OK. I will say because
- 23:40Speaker 1: of all the filthy pirates. That's out there on the internet.
- 23:43Speaker 1: I think people will love to.
- 23:46Speaker 1: Wow. Right. Is the ghost with the big breasts? They will,
- 23:51Speaker 1: they will suffocate you to death. Right. That's how they
- 23:54Speaker 1: kill you. Right. They suffocate you to death.
- 23:56Speaker 2: Like a Japanese.
- 23:57Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 23:58Speaker 1: But Japan is very,
- 24:01Speaker 1: actually. Yes, it is. Southeast Asian. For sure. I didn't
- 24:07Speaker 1: expect that answer. I didn't expect the answer. Would you
- 24:10Speaker 1: remind me? She's such a, she's such an underrepresented entity
- 24:15Speaker 1: I like,
- 24:18Speaker 1: but like, you hardly hear people talk about it. That's a,
- 24:20Speaker 1: that's a very good one because my initial thought would
- 24:26Speaker 1: have been.
- 24:28Speaker 1: But I realize that that's a local bias. That's a
- 24:30Speaker 1: regional bias because we all love her. But that doesn't
- 24:33Speaker 1: mean that she's going to translate well, in, say the
- 24:36Speaker 1: States or Australia or somewhere like that. But is my
- 24:39Speaker 1: answer because just visually, she's terrifying. Yeah, you've got the wings,
- 24:45Speaker 1: you've got the guts, you've got the head. Yeah.
- 24:50Speaker 1: One or the Filipino version of man. Wow. Yeah. My
- 24:55Speaker 1: answer would be Toyo because Toyo is almost as similar
- 24:59Speaker 1: as a Harry Potter character that we all know. So,
- 25:03Speaker 1: I mean, even, I mean, it's a friendly character in
- 25:05Speaker 1: Harry Potter, but if only that character becomes evil and
- 25:10Speaker 1: it starts to steal from people's houses, I think it
- 25:13Speaker 1: would be quite an interesting movie
- 25:14Speaker 1: watch. Just imagine, like, you know, conjuring number, I don't know.
- 25:21Speaker 1: And then there's that character appearing out of nowhere, hiding
- 25:24Speaker 1: in rooms and then, you know, going houses to houses
- 25:28Speaker 1: that would be interesting to catch. I would love to
- 25:30Speaker 1: see the cinematic at Warren try to stop a toy
- 25:34Speaker 1: running after during five to your mayhem in New York.
- 25:41Speaker 1: Oh, yes. There was, there was a novel in Malaysia
- 25:47Speaker 1: called Toys R US Corporation started if I remember they
- 25:53Speaker 1: started Franchising toys within Malaysia. So you're not, you're probably
- 25:58Speaker 1: not wrong. It's probably got like the best chance of
- 26:01Speaker 1: having international appeal, profitable business.
- 26:08Speaker 2: Um I would do a double collaboration, but one with
- 26:12Speaker 2: Kyle and one with you. So the one with Kyle is,
- 26:15Speaker 2: is interesting because it's just recently probably this past two weeks,
- 26:20Speaker 2: like my auntie was telling me more about uh
- 26:23Speaker 2: it has to do with the PP is this pa that,
- 26:27Speaker 2: that people pray to? And then like she was telling
- 26:30Speaker 2: me that it originates from a God and like two gods.
- 26:35Speaker 2: And um I don't remember the um the details of it,
- 26:39Speaker 2: but like that particular God collaborating with your
- 26:46Speaker 2: would be quite interesting. Um Are you looking it up
- 26:50Speaker 2: right now?
- 26:52Speaker 1: How do you spell it pal? Yeah.
- 26:54Speaker 2: Well, he finds that I'll talk about our collab, collab
- 26:58Speaker 2: will be Toyos and Guman Tong. I think it would
- 27:01Speaker 2: be really cool. It would be really cool to have like,
- 27:05Speaker 2: you know, you have like the playful and then you
- 27:08Speaker 2: have the evil, you kind of like the more dark
- 27:12Speaker 2: you have the dark
- 27:12Speaker 2: version of the girl spirits and then the children's spirits
- 27:16Speaker 2: and then you have the light side of it.
- 27:19Speaker 1: Oh my God.
- 27:19Speaker 2: It's like home alone.
- 27:21Speaker 1: Oh
- 27:22Speaker 1: my God. It is home alone. But you done it.
- 27:24Speaker 1: You do it in a body cop style. Yeah. Yeah.
- 27:28Speaker 1: Just imagine. I mean, a girl walk in the Toyo
- 27:31Speaker 1: holding hands and after that thing is like
- 27:33Speaker 1: at the door not letting you in. So you like vision?
- 27:36Speaker 2: No, I visioned it as like more like you have
- 27:41Speaker 2: maybe one house, having Theman Tong and another house not
- 27:46Speaker 2: knowing that they have the toils. So it's kind of like,
- 27:49Speaker 2: you know,
- 27:51Speaker 2: wow.
- 27:52Speaker 1: Rival houses from across the street. Ok.
- 27:53Speaker 1: Let's write this
- 27:56Speaker 2: director
- 27:56Speaker 1: right
- 27:57Speaker 1: now. Right now there's a producer out there somewhere who's
- 27:59Speaker 1: watching this episode. Come on, let's go, come on, let's go.
- 28:02Speaker 1: We have the, we have the, if we were doing
- 28:04Speaker 1: in the Hollywood version version can have like Kevin Hart
- 28:08Speaker 1: as
- 28:10Speaker 1: very hard voicing the toy. I think that will be
- 28:14Speaker 1: quite hilarious. I could imagine. Actually, I would say goodbye
- 28:17Speaker 1: to watch that. I feel.
- 28:23Speaker 2: Did you find it,
- 28:24Speaker 1: Kyle? Yeah, I found it is a flic shape.
- 28:27Speaker 1: The pet is basically a flic shaped amulet is for charisma.
- 28:35Speaker 1: I have friends who have it also. It really is
- 28:38Speaker 1: a ph shape. I believe you. I just love that.
- 28:41Speaker 1: I could see you going through all the different words
- 28:42Speaker 1: you could use it.
- 28:44Speaker 2: Wait. So this collaboration would be if you are haunted by,
- 28:49Speaker 2: what's the, how to take? So if how to take
- 28:53Speaker 2: that comes to you, then you have to go to
- 28:56Speaker 2: the
- 28:58Speaker 1: for
- 28:59Speaker 2: help,
- 28:59Speaker 1: help. Oh no, the
- 29:01Speaker 1: kid will reverse the charm here.
- 29:05Speaker 1: Wow,
- 29:06Speaker 1: that's a, that's a horror, romantic comedy. I heard one.
- 29:11Speaker 1: All right. So we're almost done and you know what
- 29:13Speaker 1: that means, Carl, please share with us our morbid fact
- 29:17Speaker 1: of the day. So on the other side that we
- 29:19Speaker 1: are talking about, right,
- 29:21Speaker 1: there's a shrine on Pulau itself that is dedicated to
- 29:25Speaker 1: a German girl who died during world war two. And
- 29:29Speaker 1: there is a rumor that her goal supposedly still haunts
- 29:33Speaker 1: the island. A lot of documented cases of paranormal investigators
- 29:37Speaker 1: going even as, as recent as 2024.
- 29:42Speaker 1: So I've been there myself. Actually, that place is sitting
- 29:46Speaker 1: on the like this kind of cliffside area of being
- 29:50Speaker 1: where you can overlook the sea. It's pretty creepy. So
- 29:54Speaker 1: I say that the urban legend is that she died
- 29:57Speaker 1: of very tragic causes and it was like they were
- 30:00Speaker 1: German family staying in in the 19 hundreds. I don't
- 30:04Speaker 1: know why they just stay there
- 30:06Speaker 1: and then she died and her rest spirit haunted the villages.
- 30:12Speaker 1: And then the villages basically erected a shrine for her
- 30:16Speaker 1: to calm her spirit. Apparently she's like super, she's super active.
- 30:22Speaker 1: She will give out like, you know, numbers to punters
- 30:26Speaker 1: are people who buy for these. So a lot of
- 30:28Speaker 1: people will be there and pray for good luck.
- 30:31Speaker 1: But there's also a lot of cases of hauntings are
- 30:33Speaker 1: not necessarily by her, but perhaps like by other spirits
- 30:38Speaker 1: that's around the temple. Because when I went to the temple,
- 30:40Speaker 1: the temple is a relatively small one, but it has
- 30:43Speaker 1: a lot of other deities. But hers is the main thing.
- 30:48Speaker 1: I wouldn't say she's a deity. She's more like
- 30:50Speaker 1: guardian spirit of the area. Then I think it used
- 30:53Speaker 1: to be a Barbie doll. And then I think they
- 30:55Speaker 1: made an actual duty, like carving for her. I would one,
- 31:02Speaker 1: the reason why I feel that it's very creepy is
- 31:05Speaker 1: because many years ago when I was still dating my wife,
- 31:10Speaker 1: then we went there for a picnic and then we
- 31:12Speaker 1: just walked around the area and then we chanced upon
- 31:14Speaker 1: that shrine and went in just to know for prayers.
- 31:17Speaker 1: I just pray on it.
- 31:18Speaker 1: And then for some reason. Right. She felt really sick, like,
- 31:21Speaker 1: for like, two weeks. Yeah. And like, we just couldn't
- 31:25Speaker 1: solve it. And then we found out there was shingles. Yeah.
- 31:29Speaker 1: But the thing is that Western medicine couldn't solve it, really,
- 31:33Speaker 1: couldn't solve it. It's like they keep giving her like
- 31:37Speaker 1: medicine and then she couldn't get, well, it's like, I mean,
- 31:40Speaker 1: it wasn't like she wasn't like dying when she was just, like, sick. LA.
- 31:44Speaker 1: So it's just in pain. Now, then after that we
- 31:47Speaker 1: went to a shingle specialist, like a little bit like
- 31:51Speaker 1: Chinese medicine kind, but also with a little spiritual thing.
- 31:55Speaker 1: So apparently like in Mandarin we call
- 31:59Speaker 1: so it's like catching the snake inside. So the shingle,
- 32:02Speaker 1: it looks like a she was snake, right? So then
- 32:06Speaker 1: the person was like,
- 32:08Speaker 1: you all cannot see. People who have come here cannot
- 32:11Speaker 1: see because you know, you might spread to you. And
- 32:13Speaker 1: she then specifically, I think the master was saying this
- 32:16Speaker 1: is a water snake.
- 32:18Speaker 1: So have you been to somewhere near water before? Recently?
- 32:21Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, so yeah, you came from there.
- 32:23Speaker 1: They were like,
- 32:24Speaker 1: so I'm very curious about the aspect like experts in
- 32:27Speaker 1: the comment section. Please let me know like if this
- 32:29Speaker 1: is spiritual or not because I'm not sure to this day,
- 32:32Speaker 1: I'm still, we are still puzzled. Like then after that,
- 32:34Speaker 1: she went for that thing, right? And then she recovered
- 32:36Speaker 1: within 23 days. I know there is a lot of
- 32:39Speaker 1: debate between in the medical community that this draw a thing, right?
- 32:43Speaker 1: It doesn't work. It's like kind of like, you know,
- 32:45Speaker 1: a bit of like spirit healing kind of thing, but
- 32:47Speaker 1: there's some medical backing to this to it. It's really weird.
- 32:53Speaker 1: And then she said it was fine after that and
- 32:55Speaker 1: my wife is the she's a non believer she don't
- 32:58Speaker 1: get on, you can also stay alone in a very
- 33:02Speaker 1: creepy place. Should be fine. But a lot of times
- 33:05Speaker 1: when we stay in creepy places or we, like, go
- 33:08Speaker 1: to these kind of places. Right. She'll force it, like,
- 33:12Speaker 1: just like that. Wow. Yeah. So that was like, quite creepy. You,
- 33:19Speaker 1: have you been to that place?
- 33:21Speaker 2: P A win?
- 33:22Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 33:23Speaker 2: I, I'm not sure if I have, I might have,
- 33:27Speaker 2: but I've heard a lot of stories about then and
- 33:31Speaker 2: I met someone who lives in b, but I find
- 33:33Speaker 2: this story very interesting because it shows that like
- 33:38Speaker 2: spirits in the end, they there the spirits and no
- 33:42Speaker 2: matter like, you know what background you come come come from.
- 33:47Speaker 2: But I do feel um yeah, sometimes when you're in
- 33:50Speaker 2: certain places and you don't know, sometimes you take something
- 33:53Speaker 2: with you that's very unexplainable. Like what Kyle just shared
- 33:57Speaker 2: and thank you for sharing that, by the way. I mean,
- 33:59Speaker 2: that was um something personal. But um yeah, II I
- 34:03Speaker 2: would be keen to know if there's any advice out
- 34:06Speaker 2: there as to like, how, you know, what are people's
- 34:10Speaker 2: um
- 34:11Speaker 2: sort of um perception on that because like given, like
- 34:15Speaker 2: if your wife's a non-believer and, and it's interesting because
- 34:19Speaker 2: I think because she's a non-believer. So with nonbelievers, sometimes
- 34:23Speaker 2: they take the energy in a different way. So like,
- 34:26Speaker 2: um I think for your wife, the way she takes
- 34:27Speaker 2: in energy is affects her physically. Yeah, whereas for you,
- 34:32Speaker 2: which makes you to the perfect match. It's like your
- 34:36Speaker 2: outwards So you sense everything outwards and then she senses
- 34:40Speaker 2: everything physically inwards. That's so interesting.
- 34:43Speaker 1: Have you guys heard about the German girls? Right. No, never.
- 34:46Speaker 1: First time you never, never heard of it. This is
- 34:48Speaker 1: my first time. You know about it. I know about it.
- 34:51Speaker 1: I completely forgot that people ask her for 40 numbers,
- 34:55Speaker 1: very Singaporean. And I know that's the thing I was
- 34:57Speaker 1: about to say. It sounds like I'm making a joke
- 34:59Speaker 1: out of it. But we talk about how
- 35:02Speaker 1: spirits from elsewhere they adapt to the local culture. That's
- 35:06Speaker 1: a really good example of a western spirit adapting to
- 35:10Speaker 1: local culture. Agree. Agree. I mean, I don't know, I
- 35:14Speaker 1: wouldn't go there now now loud whenever I got it.
- 35:17Speaker 1: I was like, no, like I, even though I didn't
- 35:20Speaker 1: get the shingles but I experienced it through her. I
- 35:23Speaker 1: was like, what I Yeah. No, no, no. Yeah.
- 35:26Speaker 2: I would be interested to know how it might have
- 35:31Speaker 2: been because of both of you together. Yeah. Yeah, because I,
- 35:34Speaker 2: I've had that experience where I've experienced something with my
- 35:39Speaker 2: brother who is a non-believer, but it's, but we were
- 35:43Speaker 2: tied together and connected because after we went to a project,
- 35:47Speaker 2: it's like, oh, what's led to this is because of
- 35:51Speaker 2: you and you and him.
- 35:52Speaker 2: Yeah. So
- 35:52Speaker 1: you
- 35:53Speaker 1: are a conduit. Yeah, we are the Conduits. Oh my God.
- 35:56Speaker 1: Actually a lot of her sickness right around like weird
- 36:01Speaker 1: and supposedly haunted places is because she was with me. Exactly.
- 36:07Speaker 1: Sorry.
- 36:10Speaker 2: You're married to me. Sorry.
- 36:17Speaker 1: Ok. So thank you again for joining us today. And
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