Perhaps you
would agree with me that the best time in one’s life is when a person earns
his/her first pay; perhaps in his/her early 20’s. This is the period when one
can really happy go lucky with parents around. I am of no exception. But in my
early 20’s, I was engrossed with lower Mao Shan type of Taoist magic together
with a few friends. In case you are not familiar, lower Mao Shan type of magic
deals mainly with ghosts. So performing ghost hunting became our favorite pass
times.
For those
who live around Taiping, you would be familiar with the Burmese Pool situated at
the foothill of Maxwell Hill. The entrance to Burmese Pool is from a T-junction
opposite to the Taiping War Cemetery. There is a camp where school uniform
units used to camp during school holidays.
The said
Burmese Pool is believed to be haunted so it is best not to visit the area
after sunsets. My friend, James who was a scout said that he has seen a figure
believed to be a woman in red sat on a boulder near a bridge during one evening
walk along the pool. When James tried to approach the figure, it suddenly
disappeared. On hearing James’s strange story, I begun intrigued and wished to
visit the place during sunset.
My pal,
Henry was also practising Mao Shan was also interested, so I invited him to join
the expedition to hunt for this mysterious woman in red. Another reason that I
wanted Henry to join is because he had a car and that ease the transportation
of things; further Henry has psychic eyes as he can see spiritual world. It was
an asset indeed.
So
preparations were made for the big day without first notifying our master for
the fear that he would stop our naïve move.
We were at
the bridge that runs across the Burmese Pool river at half passed six in the
evening. So according to Henry’s intuition, we burnt some incense and talismans
to call up the spirit or whatever it might be. Or course, our effort might not
be fruitful if the figure James saw was indeed a tourist who happened to be
there. Anyway, just for the fun of it; we pressed on with our ritual.
After a
round of chanting, Henry and I sat on a boulder facing the river to meditate.
The environment at the pool started to darken and around 8pm or so; Henry and I
suddenly saw a red orb hovering about 10m away from us. So we tried to
communicate with it hopefully to make it materialize itself. After some trying,
the orb disappeared behind trees opposite the river. We decided to call it a
day as we had another meeting with James to report our success.
Though we
didn’t manage to see the woman in red, at least we managed to attract an orb
which Henry thought to be the manifestation of the woman in red. So we returned
to the car and Henry drove to James’s house to fetch him.
Soon we
arrived at James’s place and Henry honked his car as usual. James was seen
exited his house but he only managed to walk a few steps and then he stopped as
if trying to peep into the car for something. After some effort, James finally
shouted:
“Hey! Guys,
who is our lady guest tonight?”
Both of us
thought James was joking as he likes to joke a lot. So Henry who was a little
impatient and he shouted:
“Are you
kidding? Hop on…”
When James
got closer, he shouted as if he had seen a ghost:
“Waaaalauuuu!”
As soon as
he screamed, James retreated into his house and shut the door. Both of us felt
very strange, so we stepped out from the car and went to knock at James’s door
to ask what had happened.
We only
managed to walk a few steps before our intuition told us to look into the car…
“Waaaalauuu!”
Both of us
screamed out almost simultaneously. There in the back seat was a figure of a
woman whose face was covered with long hair though we were not very sure of the
color of her clothing.
What else?
We ran frantically and rammed into James’s house there we stayed for the whole
night. Luckily the ‘thing’ was nowhere to be seen in the car. And we had to
seek our master’s help which is another long story.
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