Strangled by a ghost

In 1989 I was in my late twenties and was traveling often. One afternoon a group of us , made a trip to Golok , a small town in Thailand close to the border of Kelantan. When we reached the border we were pressed for time as the immigration office was due to shut for the day. To our relief we managed to go through . Since it was late and we were tired so we checked into the nearest hotel.
That was a fateful choice.

We took five rooms. The rooms were randomly assigned and I got the last room at the end of the corridor next to the emergency exit leading to a stairway. All of us walked to our rooms but mine was the farthest so I was the last. I took out the room key and was about to open the door when I noticed something or someone out of the corner of my right eye. It was eerie.

She stood there motionless rather pale looking with shoulder length black hair and in a white dress, facing me. My curiosity aroused I turned my gaze slightly to the right to get a clearer view and there she was , expressionless without sparkle or life almost like a corpse, looking intently at me . A cold shiver ran down my spine. With lightning speed I shot into the room. What a weird...thing or person if it is indeed human, I thought to myself.

Well I double locked the room quickly. I felt safe . Suddenly there came a loud knock. My heart skipped a beat. Oh ....what a relief, it was my friend . He wanted to exchange rooms as he wanted my room which has an adjoining door to the next room where his best friend stayed. Well I said no problem it is just another room. Little did I know I would soon be proven wrong.

It was almost 8:30 pm so we decided to go for some food and perhaps some drinks.
But the guy who took over my room and his friend next door were not interested to eat and remained to rest or sleep.

The food was cheap and delicious and the Thai brewery chalked up some impressive sales figures. Close to 1:00 am we strolled or staggered [depending on your point of view] back to the hotel feeling rather jovial and cheerful after a fun night out. Our festive mood turned sombre and we sobered up the instant we saw our friend [the guy who took over my room]sitting at the lobby. He was apparently waiting for us.

He looked ill and pale like coming down with a fever. " What's wrong ...are you sick?" I asked him. His face grew strange and his eyes seemed frightened. For a few seconds he did not speak as if he could not. He was trying to retrieve some energy or strength that he had lost. He took a deep breath and finally spoke. "I was..a a a.. attacked ...by something" he said , his voice shaking. He then related to us that he fell asleep soon after we left and about 10 pm he woke up abruptly . Yes, he was awakened but he could not get up off the bed. He tried and tried but it was getting worse. He felt some weight pressing upon him and he soon saw, in the dim light, a woman in a white dress , hands outstretched just about to strangle him. He mustered all his strength and might to fight for his life. Kicking , punching ...he did whatever he could to free himself. After like struggling for eternity he got lucky and somehow got up , ran out of the room and straight into the lobby . He has waiting for us since. You could tell from his tone of voice and the body signals he did not have a bad dream but met the nightmare of his life!

He stayed in my room until daybreak, though I cannot remember whether he slept or not. The first thing in the morning we checked out and wanted to run away from this spooky place. We met a local Thai friend for breakfast and we told him everything including the woman at the exit door. He then gave us some history of the scary sort, of the hotel or rather the room. According to the local history a lady some years back was brutally murdered in that room. Since then there were many stories of scary encounters with her ghost!

We were at least relived that no physical harm came to our friend albeit a little shaken up emotionally.

Story told by Loo Laik Keong, Ipoh