Now, let me tell you my grandmother’s coin sword…
My grandma was living in a rubber plantation about 40 years
back in Kuala Kangsar. It was believed that a room in her old house was haunted
and at nights footstep sounds can be heard walking in the house and at times on
the roof too.
My uncle’s friend known as Mr. Lim was posted to Kuala
Kangsar for a few days and this gentleman was said to be interested in
supernatural things. So, he volunteered himself to put up with my grandma for a
few days…
When my uncle put forward his idea, grandma said:
“Please don’t let your friend stay there, it is NOT clean!”
However, Mr. Lim insisted:
“No worries grandma! I don’t believe in supernatural things…”
As I was told that grandma kept refusing but Mr. Lim kept on
insisting until grandma finally said:
“Alright, you have to be careful young man. If you feel
something is not right, just shout!”
Mr. Lim acknowledged with an okay.
Rubber tappers used to sleep early as they need to wake up
at about 4am or when the sun rises, the latex would freeze. Frozen latex worth
much less than the liquid form. So, grandma and my uncle went to bed as early
as 8pm. That leaves behind Mr. Lim alone in his room.
Somehow Mr. Lim dozed off too as the surrounding was quiet
and pleasant…
It was somewhere around midnight or so as recalled by Mr.
Lim that he was suddenly awoken by a series of footstep sounds in the room.
Well, the sounds were more like someone was dragging his feet against the
ground.
As the dragging sound approached Mr. Lim’s bed, he peeped
through his blanket but he saw nothing was there. Mr. Lim then decided to
disregard the noise and continue to sleep; but not long after that the sound of
dragging continued and Mr. Lim felt that this someone was just beside his bed
as he can feel the heavy panting sounds of a creature or animal. Mr. Lim
started to panic and shiver, he could only cover his head with the blanket but
he was too egoistic to call for help still.
Not long after that, Mr. Lim felt something was pulling his
blanket and at the same time, a gust of cold wind penetrated under his blanket.
Now Mr. Lim felt that his life was in real danger and he started to yell but
not a sound came out from Mr. Lim’s throat! Even though Mr. Lim was a freethinker, in his
heart he started to call upon names of gods and goddesses and even Buddha was
called but of no avail…
No one knows for how long Mr. Lim has struggled to produce a
scream but my grandma was awakened by the sound of something dropping onto the
floor making a ‘thub’ sound followed by an unearthly shriek. At the same time,
Mr. Lim’s window was forcefully blown open by strong wind.
When everyone rushed to Mr. Lim’s room, they found an old
coin sword fell onto the ground with some black liquid stain at its tips… It
was really strange as the string used to hang the coin sword was not broken in
anyway.
I was interested in my grandma’s old coin sword but as she
told me that her old sword was nowhere to be found since the incident. It was
quite a pity as this type of authentic item is getting very difficult to come
by these days.
What is a coin sword?
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