Mr Wisdom meets a poltergeist.
Sunday Times Correspondent, Malacca, Sat.
A stone hurled supposedly by a poltergeist fell with tremendous force inches away from the Resident Commissioner, Malacca, Mr G.E.C. Wisdom, when he visited a house at Kampong Ujong Pasir last night. The house is the one from which mysterious stones have been thrown. As Mr Wisdom was about to leave the house another stone fell. Among the eye witnesses were Mr A.K. Nair, Malacca’s first trade unionist to become a Settlement Councillor, and a Sunday Times reporter.
Mr Wisdom remarked on leaving the house: “This is indeed an experience.
Because of the mysterious stones thrown with great force from the home, the Indian family living there has removed. They are now putting up with friends. Huge crowds gather nightly about the house.
The Straits Times, 18th February 1951.
Ghosts have been blamed for stones mysteriously thrown into a Malay house occupied by an Indian family at Kampong Ujong-Pasir in Malacca. People who picked up the stones said they were warm. The stones were specially marked and thrown into a well. They came back again. A Malay “Pawang” (medicine man), who claimed to have once driven away a ghost, has given up hope of stopping the nuisance this time. He thinks the ghost’s abode has been disturbed. Other causes of the trouble might be “unfulfilled vows” or “infidelity to parents,” he added.
Advocate (Tasmania), 24th March 1951.
Poltergeist stops act.
Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. Malacca, Saturday.
With faces beaming with joy, the Indian occupants of the house in Kampong Ujong Pasir, at which a poltergeist has been throwing stones, told the Sunday Times that peace and order had returned to their humble dwelling. For the past six weeks, the antics of the poltergeist had brought thousands of sightseers to the hut.
The Straits Times, 25th March 1951.
They watch for ghost that throws stones.
Curious crowd waiting at night to hear and see stones falling on a Malay house at Kampong Ujong Pasir, Malacca, occupied by an Indian family. Ten years ago similar events, attributed to a poltergeist, occurred at a Eurasian’s house in the kampong. – Yong Heng picture.
The Straits Times, 14th February 1951.