Ghost runs amok when told to get out.
Kuala Lumpur, Thurs. A ghost ran amok in Kuala Lumpur last night when the occupants of a house tried to drive him out. In a mad rush down the stairs of a Klang Road house, the ghost kicked tins, tables, doors and windows.
The house is occupied by a Government clerk, Mr Khaw Chong Kee, and his family. Mr Khaw told the Straits Times that when he moved into the house in 1952 everything was quiet. But six months later stones started coming down from the roof, sometimes hitting his children. A devout Buddhist, Mr Khaw said prayers daily, and for nearly a year the ghost was pacified.
“But early this month the ghost became restless again,” Mr Khaw said. “Every night it ran down the stairs, striking the steps, and caused doors and windows to open and shut by themselves. Blood chilling sounds came from the roof and walls.” Mr Khaw consulted a Penang Buddhist deity and was told what to do to drive the ghost from the house. Last night he conducted the prescribed ceremony, and the ghost then went berserk. Mr Khaw today consulted another Buddhist devotee and was advised to “declare war” against the ghost.
The Straits Times, 26th March 1954.
Ghost Agrees To ‘Armistice.’
Pact sealed by prayers, candle wax and penknife stuck in wall.
Kuala Lumpur, Friday. Mediums of a boy “heavenly courier” and a “general from hades” may be invited from a Penang temple to exorcise a male ghost haunting a Klang Road house here. Mr Khaw Chong Kee, a Government clerk, and his family live in the house. If the ghost cannot be driven out, they intend to leave the house at the end of the month.
Last night a spiritualist stuck a penknife into a wall of the dimly-lit house and an “armistice” was declared between the family and the ghost. Later Mr Khaw, his wife and three children heard two knocks on the wall. The ghost had acknowledged the “armistice.” It will not disturb the family so long as the penknife remains stuck in the wall. The pact was made after the family declared war against the ghost on Sunday. The ghost then ran amok, kicking tins, tables, doors and windows.
A spiritualist, experienced ghost hunter, Mr Kah Leng, contacted the ghost last night. Mr Kah Leng muttered incantations, made mystical signs, lit two candles and dipped them into a bowl of clear water. Droplets of wax from the candles which fell into the bowl were collected with the sharp end of a penknife. Then the knife was stuck into the wall outside one of the three upstairs rooms.
Mr Khaw came on transfer to Kuala Lumpur with his family 1 1/2 years ago. For the first six months, the ghost caused no trouble. Then it started pelting stones from the roof and causing other mischief.
The Straits Times, 27th March 1954.