Pei Diary - SYOK Podcast [TM]

It is a typically Indian tradition to drop offerings into a flowing river for recently deceased family members to ease their ascent to heaven. But what happens when you dispose of the recently deceased’s belongings without their consent?

Shalu’s roommate, Rosita, is no ordinary girl. When Rosita departs from the hostel, leaving her personal belongings in her room, Shalu can’t help but feel that something is terrifyingly amiss behind the locked doors.

Childhood memories can still be hauntingly vivid, although much time has passed. Lingkesvaran retells a bedtime story he was told as a child of a dark goblin that lives in the depths of a fishing river.

When Lingkesvaran accepts his friend’s invitation to visit him in Perak, he doesn’t think his visit will be tainted by paranormal experiences. Late, sleepless nights turn for the worse in the farmhouse he stays in, as he faces the disturbing things that go bump in the night.

Lingkesvaran shares a gruesome story recounted by an anonymous listener whose husband dabbled in corrupt rituals to achieve lottery success without realising the price he would have to pay for it.

Rumour has it that some have witnessed burnt, headless soldiers, marching through the old Siam Colonial Motel in the dead of night. Lingkesvaran travels to Thailand to investigate this hearsay, only to find out that there may be some truth to it.

While working on Thigil, a TV program reenacting paranormal stories from the public, Lingeswaran and his crew had attracted many lingering spirits, one of which attached itself to a crew member.

During British rule, a member of the Kedah royal family who spoke out against colonial occupation was wrongfully-charged, arrested and put into a Singapore prison. When the royal finally passed away before Malaysia’s independence, arrangements were made for the body to be brought back to the palace from Singapore, and the haunting events that followed had been kept a secret… until now!

Sik, a beautiful district in Kedah close to the Malaysia-Thailand border, has a vast area of forests, which of course, is home to many species of flora and fauna. But over the years, as irresponsible parties started to exploit the natural resources Sik has to offer, “other” forest dwellers started to take revenge. Lingeswaran shares a disturbing story he heard from residents in the area.

After receiving word of paranormal sightings at an unnamed hotel, Lingeswaran and his crew set out to investigate. But they soon found out someone did not like that they were there, when a new crew member got possessed during the shoot.

Lingkesvaran shares a story he heard from a doctor at a mental institution, about a teenage male patient who talks to himself, and is believed to be possessed by the spirit of his grandmother – a story so chilling that the doctor asked Lingkesvaran, “Is being down syndrome a gift or a curse?”

A compilation of “Bunian” stories – stories of people who have been supposedly abducted by goblins in jungles.

In another story from Lingkesvaran’s hometown of Kuala Ketil, Kedah, a wealthy neighbour and his family’s lives took a turn for the worst, after a jealous friend got them to consult a fake black magic practitioner, who promised he could bring them more success and security. A ritual gone wrong soon came with haunting consequences for this family.

During his childhood, Lingkesvaran and his family were close to their Malay neighbours at the estate they lived at in Kuala Ketil, Kedah. But when the Malay family had to move away due to unforeseen circumstances, they had left something behind containing an unnatural presence that began to disturb Linkes and his family.

Lingkesvaran shares a story from his college days, when a girl in his hostel collapsed in the shower after a long drive, purportedly from heatstroke, and died on the way to hospital. Strange things started to happen at the hostel over the following weeks, one of which Lingkes experienced in his own room.

While out jungle trekking on vacation with a group of friends, two sisters bring home an unexpected guest following their trip, after one of them unknowingly disturbed the peace at a restricted area on the trail.

I started having visions and dreams of an unknown figure, and when I asked Abang Wan about it, he said that this figure might be a genie or an evil spirit. Abang Wan and Abang Amir prayed over me to neutralize my energy. Abang Amir then told me there’s two probabilities: If my dream is calm and positive, I'm fine. And if it’s the other way around, I need to be careful and might need assistance fro...

The scary back-story of a haunted house gave few of us a warning sign to not enter or disturb "her" residency and graveyard. And the house was exactly what had been warned in our dreams before we entered the house. This is the first time I saw Abang Amir scared to enter a haunted house. Why? And what happened to Abang Amir's brother when he decided to challenge the spirit?

There is abandoned property where it’s been said an old man’s spirit still haunts and roams the property. Medium, Abang Wan had a vision and drew what he thought the entity looks like. And later, a drone shot revealed in post-production that the image was exactly as what was drawn by Abang Wan.

A Chinese-owned shop lot with many hunting-stories. I experienced two different temperatures at the same spot, a corpse smell and also breathing noises close to my ears.

In Bukit Damansara – the 'Englishman Cottage'. There were rumours of a dead white man riding a horse. We took almost nine hours to find the haunting, but the entire crew failed to spot the area.

A well-known British Colonial mansion. The shoot was done safely and It was around 3:30 to 4:00 in the morning, as we were packing up we experienced some supernatural occurring, doors were closing by itself - the entire building has no tenants or visitors.

The abandoned, State Reserved Property, it was operated as a hotel for the military during Japanese occupation. Speaking through Abang Wan, the paranormal intermediate, the entities warned and didn’t allow the crew to enter.

The Town of Ghosts. We randomly chose an abandoned house in a development area, with many rumours and real testimony of paranormal activities.

A well-known horror tale in Taiping, Perak, where the crew experienced the crying women during the encounter. Personally, I experienced two types of smells in the same house, same spot.