Ghost throws stones in hut.
Sunday Times correspondent, Ipoh, Saturday.
For the past three days a poltergeist has been throwing stones and pebbles from the attap roof of a hut in Kampong Kepayang, near Ipoh, where a mine labourer died ten days ago, but so far, according to reports from people living there, not one of the ten occupants has been hit.
I visited the hut myself today and was astounded when small stones and pebbles fell from time to time. I counted five in half an hour. Nobody, not even those living in the hut, has actually seen the stones falling until they hit the cement floor.
The Straits Times, 13th July 1947.
Press party stoned – by a ghost!
Ipoh, Sat. – The activities of a poltergeist hit Ipoh with a bang and has become the talk of the town. Rumours of continuous “stone-throwing” in a couple of wood and attap houses in Fair Park by a “ghost” eventually led to the Public Relations Officer taking a Press party to th ehouses concerned. According to the tales circulating, a Chinese was recently taken seriously ill in one of the two houses concerned. He died after being removed to town… and stones started to fall on the cement floor, seven days after the man’s death.
The stones were stated to fall at intervals from dawn until about 10 o’clock in the night. The largest number which fell in a single day was said to be one hundred. The stones vary in size with the biggest being about three inches in diameter.
The Chinese families, who occupied the houses, told the Press when we visited the scene that they were annoyed and nervous about the mysterious stone-throwing at first, but now take it as a common occurrence and pay no attention to it as no one has been hurt by the stones.
After the Press party arrived at the houses, three stones fell. All possible steps were taken to check up if the stones were thrown by children or if it was the result of pranks of neighbours… but the stones continued to fall. None of the party saw the stones actually falling however.
Hard objects were heard dropping on the cement floor while the doors and windows of the houses were shut. A search conducted immediately after the noise was heard resulted in the finding of stones on the floor.
Sunday Tribune (Singapore), 13th July 1947.