The Smiling Figure in White

But the everything. They have fruits, vegetables and during the seventh month of know, Louis Vuitton, Christy Dior, paper clothes. handbags, the shoes and then sometimes they throw in the Rolex watches. I know I tend to make a bigger fuss about the seventh month because the Hungry Ghost Festival always intrigues me. I know it's not technically a PH that recognized here. And there are bigger festivals that last pret long as well you know like Chinese typically for fifteen days.

Something about the seventh month especially now that it has ended this makes me feel a little different. For me it feels like this huge rock, this really heavy rock be lifted my shoulders. I don't know why I get this crazy paranoia during the seventh month. I get this crazy paranoia that something out there is trying to get to me. So, every year when I thankfully make it out in one piece, it's like thank God because you know, there

are too many goals nowadays. You see we have seven billion people at this place in this in this space right now. But you thought about bilion. So today, I'm gonna share with you a story and it is a real life recent encounter that one of my friends experienced. So jumping right in let's just call my friend Jonathan, he lives in HDB flat somewhere in the north side of Singapore and his story happens on a regular weekday night when he was alone with his four year old son at home.

So, his wife was not back from work yet. Jonathan his son to sleep in his room. So, he went out and was just gonna chill in the other room waiting for his wife to come home from work. And it was just a very peaceful, slow and easy night. So John was just taking his time slowly folding the clothes. His son had just fall asleep, his wife was gonna come home soon and he was just taking his time doing his chores. It was just like the perfect weekday night.

It was like the last night you would expect anything to happen. But then he did, from the bedroom where he was folding the clothes, he heard a very unexpected banging on the dining table. It was rhythmic and honestly a bit tall. So he listened more attentively. It stopped on its own after five six bangs and that was when he started hearing muffled footsteps. Like someone slowly dragging their feet around the living room. So,

his first thought was, is my wife back? Maybe she had just came home from work because it really didn't sound like it was just him and his son in the apartment that night. But wait. He didn't wife's open en house wife's greeting every night. Whenever comes home work, entry back home or she would immediately go to her husband, John, and let him know that she is back. Also John

is a house husband. He is always at home. He is very used to the routine at home and because he is at home so much, he can tell, he can recognize if the footsteps were his wife or not. And the problem we have now is that the other thing in the living room was not his wife. So clearly he was not comfortable with the noises he was hearing from outside. In fact, he was feeling a bit anxious even you know his heart was like racing a bit. And because he didn't know what was out there, his

fatherly instincts kicked in almost immediately after that realization. All he could think of in that moment was his son and he dashed to his son's room to check. He swang the door open and he was just praying so hard that nothing should ever happened to his son. But his son wasn't in bed. He felt heart burning the panichout hesitation scrambled out of the room for his. Heading closer and closer to the living room. And that was when some movement in the

kitchen caught eye. He whipped his head around and thank goodness he saw his son there. So, finally found his son. But it was pitch black. The light switched off in the kitchen and his son. Hm. So that was just having his own relief. Maybe he was at the start. You know because didn't anyone his house keys, no one entered the house, then there will be no reason rationally for any other stranger to be in his house, right? Because he lived

on the fifteenth floor. So, even if he had the windows open, no one would be crazy enough to scale fifteen floors just to get into his house to break in. So, he called out to his son, Adam, what are you still doing in the kitchen? It's so dark. Why don't you? Suddenly, he stopped mid sentence. Because from the corner of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of a white figure just behind his son. Adam, come here now. He immediately called his son over.

He didn't get a very good look at what the white figure was and he had very much preferred stay that way. All he could remember that the figure seemed to be in white cloth and for some reason just felt like that thing was just staring very intensely at his son. So John scooped his son up and brought him to his room. While waiting for his wife to get back. His wife came home shortly after and when he told her about

what he saw, she just laugh at him. you expect that his wife would be equally afraid or even more afraid than him right? but not really there because he always laugh at his wife about her phobia, because she has this which means she is just scared of clowns. and you know speaking, I recently online and I don't think it is watching you like a duck, animal. I don't know why people are scared of that I find it.

but my friend's wife doesn't have. So, you know after told his wife about what happened She felt like it's my turn to laugh at you now right now you scared of ghost you scared of clowns but you also scared of ghost and then okay lah John also didn't want to argue with his wife over whether this really happened or not. He didn't even bother trying to rebut when his wife clearly didn't believe in him. So he just let the whole thing go

and just didn't want to think about it anymore. But in the next few days, maybe it was the paranoia from that event. Or maybe there was really something there because he always felt like there was someone watching him. You know sometimes when something slightly traumatic happens to you. You get very paranoid about it like super hyper paranoid. Like you know for example just a few months ago, I was being stupid okay. I had my earphones in

belting in my ears. So, I was just walking out of the office and I really don't know what I was thinking if I was thinking at all and I just walked straight into the glass. Like there was this loud. and then the security guard had to come out to check idiot walked into the door and luckily the glass wasn't hurt but I was. And you know from that day onwards, I just very consciously don't listen to music or use my phone when I'm walking in and out

of the office building. So, it seems like I'm just more on my guard or maybe you could say I'm just being a bit hyper conscious of this event. transpiring again. So you know it could be the same thing for John because after whatever thing he saw, maybe it was a bit traumatic for him. He was just super conscious of this thing happening again so he was always kept on his guard when he was doing a at home. Maybe he just felt like there might be something there you know just got to keep an eye out.

Following this incident, it was pretty peaceful Anything that happened to them within this week. It was just that my friend feeling a bit. But other than that again it was another weekday night. John was in his son's bedroom with his son and he was just reading a story which was really cute and he says he still remember it was the princess and the P. And even remember that they were at the part where the queen ordering the servants to put the underneath the layers of mattresses.

When he looked out of the window. and saw a figure dripped in white cloth staring at his son. Yes, the same white figure and this time John managed to get a proper look. It had dark freezy hair that seemed to be shooting out in all directions and it wasn't very long the hair. He said it kind of reminded him of popcorn, but what was supposed to be a face, didn't look like

there were any blood or flesh underneath the skin. Even then he couldn't really quite call whatever was clinging onto the face, skin. Because the texture was really weird like burnt wood and the colour was like a very very dark greyish black. The two black short eyes were white and nearly popping out of the sockets. Edged on its face was a huge unsettling grin. It was just greening at the both of them. And that grin got wider and wider as the two

boys continued staring in fear. His son was screaming at the top of his lungs, pointing frantically in the direction of the window. He was crying like there was no tomorrow, but John, he immediately brought his son to his room, took out all his amulets, started chanting any and every prayer he knew. One hand was gripping tightly his son's hand, all his son continue to cry.

While his other hand was just holding all his amulets and he was praying as hard as he could for that thing to just leave the both of them alone, never come back, never come into the house, outside the house, whatever. And as he was praying, he was closing his eyes tightly, he didn't dare to open his eyes because you know he was afraid that the thing might just jump scare him right in front of his face.

So when his wife finally got back, she saw that both her boys were so visibly shaken by whatever has happened because the son also saw the same thing. So this time John's wife finally believed him and agreed that yes, they definitely need to find help to settle this. Because this definitely should not and cannot continue being a long term chronic issue in the house. Because clearly it was terrorizing and traumatizing for their son. Well,

okay this is where our story stops. I have not heard from my friends since but the last I heard from him, John had already made arrangements with his wife. He agreed to get a master to come and get rid of this entity that somehow has just always been

creepy watching them for the past week. And you know really I think it's a good thing that decided to take prompt action to this issue because it's really good to have this kind of things around especially if you know that there are things like that in close proximity of you and your family. And if you want to take the spiritual point of view, definitely this kind of things have a lot of negative energy bring a lot of to the terms of relationship relationships relationships

very very bad energy. Sometimes we might evening our lives. And I've heard of this. I've heard of this kind of things happening. And then on the other hand if you want to move away from the spiritual, of course it is not good for kids especially if they are so young to be exposed to this kind of things

because you can leave them. That experience definitely traumatic for John's because the next night Adam refused to sleep in his own room, which is of course very valid because if you have seen something so scary, especially when you are such a young boy, right outside your window, can you really feel at is going to sleep? Because I know I wouldn't be able to. Even at this age, I definitely would still be scared. And I think it's This is not very good. If he can't even feel

safe in his own house. You know because people always say home is very hard is, if you can't even feel like you are protected in your own home, then there is no point. And what more he is just a young kid. He still has many years to learn. Okay, so before we endorf our episode, we still have time for one more short story. And this story was contributed by one of our listeners, Terence,

thank you so much for your contribution. So, Terrence said that he doesn't really have a lot of experiences with the supernatural. And this is the only experience that he has ever had so far and it's been more than ten years, but thankfully nothing else has happened to him. So here goes Terence's side of the story. driving license he thought that it would be such a idea friends out at night you know many cars on the road. So that's what he did. father's of his

best friends house. Both of them were living very close of them were living around the same neighborhood. So, he picked the both of them and then the them just drove off. It was like ten thirty PM and Terence drove the three of them to get supper somewhere a bit further away from their neighborhood. And then after supper, they were gonna head back home. So the three of them went back into the car and then Terence drove them back.

So on the way back they were driving down this pretty small and a bit narrow road that they don't usually go to or pass by. And by then it was already past midnight. So it was dark and there were many cars on the road. But when they were driving along the road, they saw there was this guy wearing a hoodie and some kind of jeans pants long pants, he was just walking in front of them.

So was along the side of the road. So, the three of them were curious as to why there was this guy walking along the side of the road past midnight. Furthermore he was walking very slowly like one small step at a time. So, the three of them thought like maybe this guy was injured or he needed a ride somewhere so they drove past him.

Slowly, Terence already wded down the window because he wanted to ask, you know if he needed a ride somewhere, when they drove past this guy, he turned to look at them. When they caught a glimpse of his face, the three boys started screaming and his two friends was just telling him, Terence drive off as fast as you can right now just drive drive drive drive, go, go, go. So, Terrence just took off off without looking back. So what was that that that that that could never

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