Close encounter of the eerie kind....wooooo...

Aha !.. think I'll watch a scary movie tonite. This started me thinking ... "why the obsession with cerita hantu? When and how did it began? Imagine if this was a movie... Here's when the music will start and you will see me staring into space.... Then you'll get close up scenes of trees / flowers and the words "33 years ago" or something to that effect, appearing on the screen, bringing us to a scene of a young me sitting and dreaming in class - Std 6A , St. Anne's Convent. Obviously 'A' class was the smartest class ... but then again, there were only 2 classes, A & B, so really, it's nothing to be proud of-lah. But please don't go telling everybody!

Ok, ok , I was just being dramatic... but for those who really,really hailed from St. Anne's, you would know that the school was rumoured to be haunted! While the entire grounds of the school was well tended, right behind the canteen there was a patch of thicket where bamboos, weeds and god-knows-what grew. Now this growth is where the haunting allegedly began.

The rumour goes that years ago, a group of brownies (junior Guides) supposedly held a camping holiday in school. One of them was supposed to have been murdered by some maniac who held a pillow to her face and snuffed the life out of her. Why anybody would bring a pillow on a camping trip, I would never understand but then again, our M brings along a pillow on her trips too...hmmm.. So, as the story goes, the killer supposedly threw the murder weapon, ie. the pillow into the bamboo growth. Ever since then, the school was haunted by, of all things, a 'flying pillow'. The school's jagas vouched that this story is true and that on certain nights they will see this pillow flitting about but I, of course, never saw it nor did I want to. Years later, I figured out that perhaps the school jagas made up this story, in an attempt to get us to leave school immediately after classes as some of us tended to stay back for games etc... But then again, why was it that the gardeners neglected to trim this bushy growth which was really an eyesore? cheng.. cheng.. cheng.. cheng... (sang to the tune of 5th of Beethoven ...!!) ... think about it...
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