Haunted places in Singapore Part 2

When Ford Motor Works decided to build a new factory at Bukit Timah to replace their old premises on Anson Road, they were making history. The new Art Deco factory was the first car assembly plant in Southeast Asia. But History of a less salubrious kind was also made at the Ford Factory – on 15 February 1942, the Head of the Allied forces, Lt General A. E. Percival, surrendered to general Yamashita of the Japanese Forces there, who made Ford factory their HQ during WW2. Great battles were fought around the areas of the Ford Factory. Of the battles fought in Bukit Panjang, Choa Chu Kang, Bukit Batok and Bukit Timah, the Ford factory remains the one place untouched by the advancement of Time & Civilization.

Legend has it that most patriotic Japanese soldiers and high rank officers 'martyred' themselves upon the moment of Japan losing the war. Under the greatest grief when Japan finally surrounded after the atomic bombs were dropped, the imperialism collapsed and their dream of a world empire shattered, many killed themselves. Such is an honorable act of Bushido to the Japanese warriors. They pulled out their samurai, pierced straight through their abdomen, and steadily sliced open the belly in a "L" shape. It took great determination and courage by engrossing oneself into this unimaginable pain.

According to the stone-tape theory of ghost appearance, such severe experience that the suicides gone through would turn them into very fierce ghosts. The ghosts will keep reenacting the suicide scene as if a tape recorded in the event and being playback forever. The abhorrence, vengeance, and martyr spirits would blended in the timeless atmosphere. Surely this kind of atmosphere filled Ford Factory for many many years.