Late Night Mysteries

They have been playing with it almost every day.  Fika and her twin sister Nina cannot seemed to get enough of playing with the congkak.  Ever since their aunt brought back the wooden mahogany board with the elaborate design from her overseas trip, the girls have been attracted to the game as soon as they figure out how to play with it.  From the kitchen, Lina can hear the seven-year olds dropping...

Imran sighed and threw the magazine he had been reading aside.  He looked across the room at two of his station mates, Alex and Ravi who were busy trying to outdo each other, lost in their world of make-belief provided by the gaming console between them.   He looked at the clock.  Remy should be on his way back with the food by now.  Grumbling to himself on why Remy was taking his own sweet time t...

Mary wanted to purchase a blouse for her date that weekend while Wendy decided to head to the pawnshop to buy back her gold ring that she had traded for cash 2 months ago.   The ring was a gift from her grandmother and she had used it as collateral to pay for the registration fee of her part-time night classes.  Now that she have enough money to buy it back, she wanted nothing more than to get bac...

It is a good night to go fishing.  That is what Zul insisted when Mona, his wife asked why they had to go this very night.   Zul had a good mind to just went ahead with his best friend Jimie and leave Mona behind but hearing that Jimie wanted to bring his wife, Tiara along made Zul insists that Mona tagged along as well.  Upon hearing that she will not be the only female, Mona stood up to change,...

It was like any ordinary day in the warehouse.  Workers busy sorting and stacking up supplies, forklifts lifting and extracting crates, supply vehicles coming and going.  Ben found himself swarmed with work that day.   As head of the facilities unit, he has to ensure that everything is in place and all workers are observing the safety rules.  His team has just reported a defective shelving unit ne...

“Are you sure this is the right way?” Kyle asked.   He looked up from his mobile phone with the application directing them towards their destination.  The smooth tarred road had long given way to a rough uneven track that made them bounce in their seats.  Tiny rocks would occasionally hit the screen and Lucas gripped the steering wheel tighter, a tiny trickle of sweat rolled down his temple.   One...

Guntur lived alone at the edge of a remote village in Indonesia.  He had no family, had never been married and worked odd jobs to support himself.   Generally, he was quite content with life in the quiet village.  In his free time, he will sit outside his house and work on his carvings.   Guntur was gifted. He would make little toys, trinkets and anything he fancied out of wood.  He would spend ho...

The following story was told by Wanda, a young housewife who had a very creepy experience living in an apartment for eleven years. Eleven years.  That was how long Wanda and her family lasted in that apartment.  She figured that if they ignore the signs and little incidents, it would eventually go away.   It did not. Join Wraith in this paranormal mystery journey where you will think and find whet...

Like other couples living in the city, Julia and Herman reside in a high-rise 4- room apartment.  They have been married for a few years and purchased the house with the intention to start a family.  Herman works in shifts and Julia was in-between careers.   As there are three bedrooms in the apartment, they love to room-hop and sleep in different rooms every night.  They felt that if each room we...

Swanky, mega-hotels are not just for visitors and tourists to have a good rest and provide a home away from home.  They also provide a common space for big group events like seminars, end-of-year parties, dinner & dance celebrations, corporate lunches and wedding banquets to name a few.   Big ballrooms can host a graduation party on a scheduled night and quickly partitioned off and turned into...

The hotel industry has seen its fair share of strange encounters in its dealings with visitors.  Human interaction is an integral part of their business and providing the best service is what every hotel strives to offer.  However, there are times when hotel staff themselves will chance upon an incident that not only scares them but also made them leave their jobs because of the impact it has on t...

The funeral arrangement was settled immediately.  By noon, the body had been safely buried and the few attendees have made their way home.  No tears were shed as her death was expected by everyone around her.  For a year, she was just lying there, comatose, life slowly seeping out of her and death eventually brought her away.   Among those in attendance was Lily, a five-year-old girl whose parents...

This happened in the mid 2000s. When Alan was doing overnight shore duty in one of the Naval bases.  It happened on board a ship, which makes it more interesting as most of the stories were about doors, cams and landed stuff. But the ship for this story was tied alongside one of the harbour quays. Join Wraith in this paranormal mystery journey where you will think and find whether which are fact a...

Adam’s house was built in 1904. It is a single family home, wood frame setting on a concrete block foundation.  He had been living there for about 12 years. Of all the weird things that he and his siblings have seen or heard in the house, there was one Adam could not forget. Join Wraith in this paranormal mystery journey where you will think and find whether which are fact and which are fiction......

Marlene settled onto her side of the bed and patted Jack’s pillow beside her. A year had gone by, but Marlene was still adjusting to widowhood. Maybe it was crazy to think that after 40 years of marriage, she would ever adjust.  Elmer the golden retriever seemed to understand this from the very first. That cold, moonless night when Marlene returned, alone, from the hospital, Elmer did something he...

Huntingdon College is just one of many haunted colleges in America, each with its own ghost stories. This next true tale comes from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The haunting happened in 1972, at a party hosted by University of Michigan students living on Ashley Street. A 15-year-old girl, who probably had no business being there in the first place, suddenly felt a “strange, bone-chilli...

A few years ago, Tommy moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Melbourne, Australia. It was his first time living on his own.  The apartment block had been built in the 1930s. He’d been there for a few months when he came home from work one day and went into the bathroom.  He saw something strange: A wooden board, which had covered a hole in the ceiling that led to a small attic space, lay fractured...

Clarita Villanueva was an orphan from Bacolod. Her mother made money out of witchcraft and fortune-telling until she died when she was still young. Clarita felt unloved and decided to work in Manila as a maid in 1950. She eloped with a man who turned out to be married. She left him and became a club dancer. Clarita decided to watch a late-night movie, and to walk home alone, police saw and arreste...

The Yamamba In Japanese mythology, the Yamamba look like harmless old women, but are actually terrifying mountain ghost that consume human flesh. Let’s get to know the Yamamba in the following story. Join Wraith in this paranormal mystery journey where you will think and find whether which are fact and which are fiction.... If you have any stories of your own and want Wraith to share to all our li...

Yūrei Yūrei   is a ghost in the Japanese folklore comparable to the Western model of ghosts . Like their Chinese and Western counterparts, they are thought to be spirits barred from a peaceful afterlife . Ubume This is the tragic ghost of a woman who has died during childbirth—with or without her baby. She returns to the living as she still cares about her children. She is usually depicted as a ba...

Orang Bunians are  supernatural beings, said to be invisible to most humans, except those with spiritual sight.  Supposedly, Orang Bunians resemble human beings and live differently from us. The term "Orang Bunian"  literally translates to "the hidden people". Orang Bunians are said to inhabit deep forests, woods, hills, or high mountains. However, they live on different dimens...

The Hantu Raya is a well-known entity that is famous among the Malay community.  It is actually a demon and many people believed that black magic practitioners usually keep the hantu raya and is supposed to bestow great powers onto its master.  Because the Hantu Raya always takes on its owner's appearance, its true form is unknown. Modern urban legends typically describe it as a large, imposi...

Tok Moh was a well-known Bomoh in Kampung Malu.   He was not that old to begin with as he was only in his 40s, but because of his religious nature and expertise in healing the sick, everyone in the village began to call him “Tok Moh”. Join Wraith in this paranormal mystery journey where you will think and find whether which are fact and which are fiction.... If you have any stories of your own and...

The Pocong is the well-known ghost in the folklores known among the peoples from the malay archipelago. It is said to appear in the form of a body and a shrout it in white coffin cloth or "kain kafan". During a muslim funeral, a body has to be tied at several places to keep the cloth in place. When the body is later laid into the grave, the knot keeping the coffin cloth in place is remov...

This story is about Ali, whose job as a survey officer requires him to visit various villages in the early 70’s.   His posting stint per village can last from a few weeks to a few months, depending on the size of the population and the amount of data to be collected.   This incident happened, when he was posted to Kampong Malu. Join Wraith in this paranormal mystery journey where you will think an...