Earthquake
at the outer cost of Sumatera on December 26th, 2006 caused
catastrophic Tsunami to South India, Sumatera, west cost of Malaysia and
southwestern part of Thailand. Phuket Island was one of the areas badly hit by
the tidal wave and hence gave forth to many ghost stories. Below are some of
the ghost stories I heard from a taxi driver when I last visited Phuket Island
quite a while ago:
“Mister, do you believe it or not? I have
personally seen ghosts! A few weeks after the tsunami, when I was passing Patong
Street; I saw a group of foreigners singing and laughing by the roadside. When
I was driving pass them, I habitually pressed my car horn to attract their
attentions just in case they would like to have a ride. But when some of them
turned their heads, I got the shock out of my living daylight: their heads were
swelling as if being soaked in the water for a very long time with some of the
eye balls fallen off from their eye sockets!”
The driver’s
story intrigued me a lot, so I instigated him to tell me more. This gentleman
didn’t disappoint me so I asked him to pull over a Tomyam restaurant by the
roadside to fill his stomach while listening to his stories:
“There was a famous haunted hotel where all of
the people in the hotel died during the tsunami. The hotel is now being
reconstructed. One of my colleges who had fetched a male passenger to the
abandoned hotel but the passenger vanished into thin air on arrival. There was
no sign of door opening or closing; what was left was a pool of water at the
passenger seat!”
“There was another incident happened to another
driver at the same hotel: the driver went pass the hotel at midnight but
noticed a lady was waving her hands indicating she wanted a ride. But he remembered
the ghostly happenings and decided to step on his gas and speedily away. The
strange thing was that the lady seems to be always in front of the taxi waving
at him!”
Well, to
tell you the truth I was a little skeptical; but since the story teller was so convincing
himself, why not just sit back and enjoy the stories.
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