Happy Ghost Month!

No one is more afraid of ghosts than those that don't believe in them-Chinese Proverb-

Once a pon a time, a long long time ago, during the time when the Japanese occupied whats today known as Seri Kembangan or Serdang, there used to a hill. The story goes that during the hard times of war and brutality, some of the local villages were captured and taken into captivity on this hill. The Japanese were not interested in keeping the poor villages as hostages and they mercilessly cut their heads off. Now the bodies were never claimed for who would dare to go up into the hills for fear of losing their own heads. So over time, the skeletons of those unjustly murdered became one with the land on which they found their fate.

The ending of the war saw the Japanese returning to their home country.The hill, having seen so much bloodshed, became a home of sorts for snakes. Beautiful ferns and greens grew at the foot of hill, beckoning the villagers to come and pick them. But it was almost impossible to get atop the hill with the Cobras, Vipers, Adders, Boa, living on the trees and grassland of the hill. The hill came to be known to the locals as the Matterhorn Hill. The tallest hill in the region, with the coldest history, as cold as the hill in switzerland, which it was named after.

Time moved on, winds blew over the trees, rain washed over the hill, pushing the long forgotten bones of the dead deeper into its belly. The stories of the deceased became forgotten with the onslaught of modernisation.

Development, mankind's both friend and enemy, ensued a highway to be build over the hill. The slope was flattened with tractors, tar splayed and blackened the swamp of ferns. And not long after, people of the modern world would use the road that ran over the 'grave' of the hill.

As some stories are, they do not wish to be forgotten. It is said that the spirits of those dead and buried  would rise every now and then, standing on the highway to mislead the living.


P.S RIP to Jamuna from HP who passed away on a dry Wednesday on the MEX highway. And for those who told of numerous accident cases on the same stretch..drive safe, and keep to the speed limit!