PROJECT KEPPEL HILL RESERVOIR
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN HCI AND NHB
Story 2- Haunted story composed based on interview and NHB
Haunted Story 1 ( based on Mohamed Sukiman Bin Bakar)
1) The place was also very haunted. His grandfather told him there was a malay boy who wore a green shirt and shouted at the reservoir. (his grandmother always said not to wear green) The next morning, he was on top of the tree.
2) At Morse Road, there was a tree with green branches and thorns. It is said that every Monday from 12 - 1am, there would be someone clad in white standing there. The inhabitants said it was a ‘pontianak’ (vampiric ghost in Malay and Indonesian mythology) . People then told Mohamed Sukiman Bin Bakar's grandfather and he told them not to worry. He didn’t cause any trouble but many were scared.
3) There was also once when something terrifying occurred to Mohamed Sukiman Bin Bakar. At Morse Road, when he was walking back home, someone threw sand at him. As he thought it was his friend, I shouted vulgarities.However, when he returned home, my friends were there. He felt something was amiss.
Haunted Story 2
On 17 April 1936, the local press reported a double drowning tragedy that took place a day earlier. Two soldiers from the Middlesex Regiment drowned in the reservoir. At the time the site was described as a “pool on Keppel Hill” and the area was private property. The two soldiers arrived five days earlier with their regiment from Egypt. They drowned in the pool when one of them who could not swim dived into the waters. The other soldier was dragged to the bottom during an effort to save him. Both soldiers drowned as a result.
Haunted Story 3
On 26 March 1948, a 17 year old boy drowned in Keppel Hill Reservoir when he went there for a swim with two other boys. He dived into the reservoir and got into difficulty. He sank and drowned. His body was recovered a day later. The Singapore Coroner issued a finding of death by misadventure.
