Is Desa Rejang flats
really haunted?
An old woman
was surprised at the sound of mysterious crying at their flat….
Desa Rejang flats in
Setapak
Madam Ting
lives with her husband in an upper unit there, now that her children are
married and lived with their own families in their suburbs. One of the
neighbours, Chu Yoke, her mother and her brother live just beside the Tings. Chu
Yoke, a mid-30s, used to work as a helper for a poultry market stall nearby. Madam
Ting knows the whole family but not so well as they were neighbours even in
their previous flats.
Chu Yoke’s
mother died a couple of years ago and Chu Yoke seemed to take her mother’s death
very badly. She lost her job and she spent her time inside their flat. Madam
Ting and other neighbours used to bring her some simple food (left on her
doorstep}.
One day Madam
Ting overheard Chu Yoke’s brother shouting and complaining at Chu Yoke for
taking the neighbours food. Chu Yoke countered that she has no food to eat and
her brother was not around much. After the angry spat between her brother and
Chu Yoke, she refused the little food from the neighbours and simply locked
herself in the little flat.
One night,
Madam Ting was washing the dishes in the small adjacent kitchen (which was
beside Chu Yoke’s flat) when she heard loud crying and mourning sound (as if
someone was crying). There was also a strong smell of rotting food or maybe a
dead rat in block in the flat. She quickly got out of their unit and looked
around the neighbours’ flats. Then she looked at Chu Yoke’s flat with the window
and door firmly which were closed shut with the food left in her door. Yet she
was quiet sure that it was probably Chu Yoke crying.
Madam Ting’s
husband got out of the flat and angrily ushered Madam Ting back into their unit
asking her not to be so busy-body or nosey. Madam Ting’s husband then firmly shut
the window and the front door of their flat.
