Just days after an article about Villa Nabila in Danga Bay Johor, (which US-based travel portal Expedia had listed as one of the five most haunted places in Malaysia.), it has attracted many attentions over the weekend following widespread rumours about a 16-year-old boy named Mohammad Izzat Izzudin Hussin had gone missing after entering the ruins of the villa.
The four others in the list of most haunted places are Kellie’s Castle in Perak, Jalan Turi bungalow in Bangsar, colonial bungalows at Bukit Tunku in Kuala Lumpur and Ria Apartment in Genting Highlands as among the other venues for ghost hunting. You see, we have plenty of our own haunted locations which is good for paranormal tourism business but apart from Ria Apartment I’m not sure why the rest considered as top haunted place?
In my opinion, a haunted place is a building inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have died in agony.
Others top haunted locations worth mentioning:
1- Highland Towers, Bukit Antarabangsa - The famous Highland Towers. In 1993, a whole block collapsed after landslide, leading to 48 people had died tragically.
2- St. Michael’s Institution, Ipoh
A school built in 1912 by Catholic missionaries, St. Michael’s Institution was used as a base for the Japanese in WWII, and was also reported a torture chamber.Till this day, it’s said the spirit of a monk can be seen praying in the fourth floor chapel headless.
3- Penang War Museum
It is listed in Top Ten Most Haunted Sites in Asia by National Geographic Channel. Now it is a private museum complex. It served as a British stronghold hill fort in the 1930's till it fell to the Japanese invasion during World War II in 1941.
After British surrendered, their fort became a Japanese garrison and internment camp for World War 2 prisoners of war. Hundreds of P.O.W were cruely tortured and beheaded at the camp.
No wonder it is often nicknamed by the local as “Bukit Hantu” or Ghost Hill due to the bitter and angry souls have never left this site.
4. Pudu Jail
Pudu Prison, or better known as Pudu Jail, was built in phases by the British colonial government between 1891 and 1895, on the site of a former Chinese burial ground. Pudu was by then a dense jungle area, with tigers occasionally roaming around. It stood on Jalan Shaw (now Jalan Hang Tuah).
The prison wall had once set a record for the longest mural in the world (384m), painted by the prisoners, led by an inmate, Khong Yen Chong.
No doubt that the Pudu Jail used to be one of the most haunted places in Malaysia. Many people met with violent deaths in one area, it will tend to naturally draw ghosts simply because of what they are.
This place hold some tormented souls range from tortured prisoners of war to hard core criminals sentenced to death by hanging.
In December 2012, the prison complex was largely demolished. The site is now undergoing a redevelopment plans for the former prison soon but I doubt whether the restless spirit has left the building even if the building has been demolished.
Before this, me and many others have not heard of the abandoned 40-year-old bungalow except more well known locally. Only when rumours started spreading on the Internet of a missing boy in the haunted house then there was an extra surge of interest into the history of the old bungalow.
Days before the event, newspaper reporter found a group of children playing in the compound despite knowing that the house may be haunted.
One of them, Azmirul Syafiq Azmadi, 12, said he and his friends came to the premises to see for themselves if there were really ghosts in the house.
“I’ve been hearing it from my friends and the older folk that the house is haunted,” he said, adding that they saw nothing.
“We may come back later at night to try our luck.”
There are many other ways to see Ghost but they cannot easily make themselves available for human to see. Only when you're having recent run of misfortune or bad luck streak, chances are you'll see a ghost.
Hey, I'm not sure if you know this or not. You don’t need to go at night to a haunted house for paranormal ghost hunting caused ghosts will appear during the day as well as at night, except they tend to be more active at night.
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| Ghost hunters junior’s inspect the ruins at the villa along Jalan Skudai in Johor Baru. |
After a couple of days, on Tuesday, Nov 19, 2013- Local breaking news and newspapers headlines all over the country was featuring stories about a group of boys and girls venturing inside this bungalow at midnight. Only to found out that one of them were nowhere to be found after the group has left the building.
I wonder if they are the same group from this picture. Nah, there are plenty of fools in the world out there trying to display their courage by doing something insanity.
They could have been inspired after watching the television show Ghost Hunters or ntv7-Seekers quest for paranormal activity research.
He and his friends entered the bungalow compound at around 12.30am on Monday just to look at the villa.
“At first everything was quite normal but things turned eerie after we spent more than half an hour there.
“Suddenly a few of our friends started screaming hysterically while shouting at us. We then ran out of the place to a nearby mosque to seek help,” as reported.
A team of officers, along with the K9 team and Fire Department personnel went on a manhunt the same night after receiving a missing person's report from the boy's mother.
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| Main entrance to spooky Villa Nabila |
The history behind this haunted mansion, built on 2.6 hectares of land...
There are several versions of how the 40-year-old building earned its reputation, including one about murder in a wealthy Caucasian family that once lived there.
Another version tells of how the maid killed the family, including a little girl named Nabila, and buried their bodies in the compound.
Yet another tale is that the family was killed by two hit men, hired by a relative because of greed.
According to Urban Legend or superstition surrounding the place is that visitors should enter the house in even numbers. Non-compliance with this rule can result an extra entity accompanying them upon leaving the bungalow.
Let's do a head count here. 1,2,3.....22?
So did the group of 23 children had some kind of dark entity attached to the group and follow them out? Nah, instead of having an extra 'person' they found out having one less.
Urban Legends and Myths Busted!!
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| Not a place for playing hide-and-seek. No, I'm not chicken, "buck buck buck" I'm perfectly sane! Not to go inside at night. There would be no need to have a double dose of adrenaline rush . |
One could assume that something horrible happened to the boy. What Might Happen to Him?
I reckon your imagination go wild. What would it be?
1- Unearthly being 'held' him, so Nabilla can have somebody to play with?
2- A time warp portal open so he could have travel through time and other dimensions alike Bermuda Triangle or Twilight Zone?
3- Being kept by “Orang Bunian"? Orang Bunian are supernatural beings in Malay legends, similar to Elves.
4- Fell into one trap door, underneath the ground?
5- Fell into a sinkhole that opened suddenly?
Boy, after watching the DVD movie on ' The Conjuring', chances of you having a nightmare like me. You started to think something like that in fact happens in the movie would happen in real life.
I am not ashamed to tell I was left with sleeping with the night light on after watching the movie on the same night.
The Villa Nabila mystery has been solved. The truth hurts. ... somewhat of an anticlimax turned out.
Shortly after his disappeared, the case received national attention. However we would breathe a sigh of relief when the danger ended and everything turned out fine after all. Everything after that is a bit of let-down after all the hype.
In truth, there is no prospect of danger, there was no real or immediate danger whatever. The boy missing was found after leading police to a wild goose chase. Police said he was found with his girlfriend’s house in Taman Mutiara here around early Tuesday.
Oh, No! The whole nation was left waited waiting anxiously for news. Many people even gathered outside the villa but all much ado about nothing. Young man you have wasted the police time and the whole nation was worried sick about your safety. Just because you're late and you're afraid to tell my mother? At least be more responsible by informed another person of your whereabouts.
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| It was a futile wait for curious onlookers gathered at the main gate |
Why is our brain gives more attention to negative aspects to most situations over positive ones? How many of us get the right answer on what is the logic turn out to be? As it turned out, I can be sure none of us got it right?
Sherlock Holmes will say "Elementary, my dear Watson" when when solving a crime. It is always up to us whether we look on the bright side or the dark side.
The Aftermath.
The state government had found the owner of the abandoned bungalow which perched on top of a hill overlooking the Straits of Johor. For the time being the council had put up barriers at the entrance of the villa to stop folks from visiting the unkempt Villa Nabila to prevent untoward incidents.
A notice has been issued to the owner, a Singaporean, to clean up the area within seven days, or have the cleaning fee charged with the property’s quit rent.
After this incident I don’t think the law enforcement authority would want to entertain anyone who found lost in this building. Well now at least 24 hours must pass before missing person report.
This conclude the Nabila villa should no longer suitable to include in the list of the most haunted places here but perhaps Malaysian-Australian movie director James Wan should take a look at this place for his next movie shooting – 'The Conjuring' sequel cause the surrounding areas looks very spooky and creepy. This is the perfect place to film a horror movie!
| I'm confident with the setting of Nabilla Villa you'll experience the far more fear and horror than 'The Conjuring' |
Do you want to go for something adventurous like venturing to this spooky place since it’s safe to tell there is no existence of Ghost in there or maybe the hauntings still exist? Even it is not the intended Ghost we have in mind but if old building like that being left for a long time, it will have a tendency to be haunted by other supernatural entities.
Right now, the Ghost is trying to keep a low profile till all the mambo jumbo event has passed.
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