A playful ghost keeps knocking on their door.
Penang, Sun. – A playful ghost has been harassing an old Malay couple in Bukit Glugor, about five miles from here, giving them sleepless nights. “This ghost has been playing pranks on us for the last six months and I am at my wit’s end trying to find a solution,” Inche Ali bin Abdul Hamid, an office peon, said today.
It all started one night when he and his wife heard knocks on the front door. “Thinking we had some callers, I opened the door, but there was nobody,” Inche Ali said. “I thought some children were trying to be mischievous. So my wife, Jamaliah and our three children helped me to keep vigil. But each time the knocks were heard we saw nobody.” The knockings went on nightly between 9 and midnight. “It has been playing on our nerves,” Inche Ali said. “I have engaged ‘bomohs’ (medicine men) to appease the ghost, but to no avail. The knockings went on as usual, and I have spent about $200 of my savings without being able to find peace.”
His wife has suggested the family moved out. But they were unable to find alternative accommodation.
The Straits Times, 19th August 1963.