The Old Lady of Halifax Road

Confession by WQ

I was stationed at Tanglin HQ. Tanglin HQ isn’t anywhere near Tanglin Road but opposite KK Women and Children's Hospital. Back then there was this huge car park behind the station where Halifax road was. Today if you go there, you will see major construction going on.

Tanglin station has many stories but since I never actually encountered any myself, I can only regard them as hearsay. One of the urban legends that made its rounds is that there is a pontianak haunting the car park beside the station. The car park was a popular haunt for couples to make out. It’s isolated and quite dark. There’s only the police station, a row of old colonial houses, and the central expressway running past. 

The story goes that couples who park in that car park for some hanky panky time will be visited by an old lady staring at them from outside the window. Based on their description, it was an old lady with rotten teeth. 

I think what I encountered inside the station might be the same entity. This one is very interesting.

So I was on prowling duty at night around 04:00. A.m. The prowling is hourly and we take turns. We have to actually go up and down the building, and all the checkpoints to teet with our checker device. Level four is the library, one of the spots that… is the most interesting. You will need to walk right to the end by the glass panel which is the entrance into the library, and on the left is a wall. This area is very dimly lit. Many people have reported this place to be quite keras (supernaturally active). 

The spot to teet was all the way at the end of the corridor. As I was walking back out, suddenly my left side didn't feel so good. After the library is an office with a small glass window and a door. From the corner of my eyes I looked inside the office and saw an old macik (elderly malay lady). I panicked and ran to the lift. The lift came but wouldn’t go down. The door would close, and then open on its own again. I kept pressing on the buttons to close the door and to go to level one but the door just kept opening up. So I closed my eyes and started praying. Now the whole lift started smelling of something sweet.

Thankfully, after I was not sure how long, the smell went away and the lift started moving down. After that encounter, I was sick for weeks.

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