Apparitions From The
Underworld
When Anna
Ching was a teenager, she and her mother visited her aunty and her family at Jerantut
in Pahang. Anna’s aunty has been hospitalized and they have to bring food for her
everyday. She and her mom also had take care of her young cousins and her uncle in their house.
Jerantut in Pahang
After
spending almost the whole day visiting her aunty in the hospital they went home,
where Anna’s mother cooked for her young cousins and her uncle. After dinner,
her mother asked Anna to feed the family black mongrel dog, named Trotter.
It was a
moonless night with little light from the lamp posts as Anna walked to the
little garden at the front house. Trotter was not at front garden when she
heard the mongrel at the fence of the garden whining. Trotter’s face was
looking outwards and whining but Anna cannot see anything….the road by the terrace
houses was covered with bushes and trees beside the lane…nothing…nada! There was no one around.
Anna rubbed
her eyes with her hands in an attempt to see better…but there were nobody
around..except for the dog's whining, she noticed a small shrine around the bushes and the trees but
there were no offerings like joss sticks or local fruits. She remembered that
her aunt used to do the rituals and the offerings before she was hospitalized.
She did not give it further thought to it but went back to the house to play with her
cousins.
