Crying Kid Incident
Thomas Chong
is the oldest son (12 years old) with two younger brothers. They stay with
their mother at their rented flat in Perak. They recently lost their father
when he was killed in a tragic car accident.
One night
was cleaning the dirty dishes in the kitchen sink, he looked out of his kitchen
window at the other rows flat and he commented, “I wonder which parents would
allow the kids to play ball at such late hour”. There was a constant thok! thok!
thok! sound of someone playing ball. His mother who was drying the plates with
a cloth, silently look, through the kitchen window and peered the silent flat
in 7th floor apartment.
Bouncing Ball
Not only the sound of bouncing ball because at about that at 11pm the sound will stop and replace with the crying which last for a few hours. Thomas witnessed his mother, looking at the kitchen window, muttered, “This is our rented apartment, let us share with you”.
Thomas and
his brothers got used to the sound of bouncing ball and even the sad crying or
wailings during their 2 years there. One day, their mother was talking with the
neighboring housewives (…gossiping lah!) and she was some news of her previous tenants
of her apartment. The story was there were three of them, the young couple and
their son, who was only 5 years then. The boy was sickly and eventually passed
away unexpectedly. The young couple who was so heartbroken about the death of
their child that they left the apartment soon after that.
Thomas’s
mother and neighboring housewives were surprised with the sound of bouncing
ball and the wailings. They decided to
pool their meager savings to hire a Taoist priest. The Taoist priest said that
the young couple left in such a hurry that they give their kid a proper
farewell. In other words, the kid was busy looking for his parents!
Chanting,
prayers and the bells were conducted by the Taoist priest to appease the soul
of the little boy. After the ceremony was over, there was no unnatural sounds
of haunting. The good part of this is that Thomas and his brothers and their
mother eventually moved to a much better place…richer lah!
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