If you don't believe that ghosts exists then the following story is not meant for you.
For those of you who are going to be living it up in Upper Penang Road this Halloween and have got no place left to park please heed the following.
Of late I have noticed many brave souls trampling grass in a place no Penangite in their right mind would go and rustle the wind.Add to that are what I call foolish for a new subject to shoot shutterbugs who come here to snap the majestic building even though they are fully aware of the history behind it.
I am talking about the Shih Chung building grounds just across the road from 32 at the Mansion restaurant.
For years talk of it being haunted has made its rounds,later someone tried to develop it but things came to a standstill.
Now horror to horrors,someone has turned it into an overnight parking lot for tour buses.Then,when revellers see tour buses there,they too begin to park their cars there.
What's so wrong with that you say?Well in the first place this building is associated with some pretty gruesome tortures during the Japanese occupation.The spooky goings on here have been so hard to shake off that after consulting a medium,someone actually brought in a BUS,had it parked OVERNIGHT before having the driver(unsuspecting I guess?)start the bus the next morning in order to DROP OFF its " INVISIBLE PASSENGERS" in the middle of a jungle hoping that those restless spirits could find a new place to latch onto and abandon their old resting place once and for all.
My point is this,don't look for trouble because after driving your car out from this place you probably won't be expecting to carpool or ferry 'passengers' right to the doorstep of the Belum Forest right?You will probably be heading right home or to the next petrol station.
Just what are you going to do if you are on the Penang Bridge when all of a sudden you see a couple of green coloured headless schoolchildren in your rear view mirror saying "Trick or Treat?" to you?Show them your Freddy Kruger mask and say "Happy Halloween?"
Nope didn't think you would be respond positively either.You'd probably be on Georgetown facebook with a picture of your car smashed up like a potato with tons of comments at the bottom speculating that you were either too drunk or too fast or too young or too furious.
So unless you are a punter out for that lucky strike, why be a free of charge Ah Mat the drebar for the lost wandering souls?
Be like us,don't number your days by parking there.If you really insist and don't believe in such hocus pocus you can always take up their offer of a season pass.
