supposed sightings

early saturday morning [6am] a colleague asked me along for a smoke outside the office building. what started off as a conversation about wild chickens in the oil palm plantation around us ended up about spirits and ghosts. he told me that there have been more sightings lately - an old man in the control room [he asked the guy who works in there why he's hiding up in our department when he could ask the old man for help with his work] and a little kid playing in the office on the second floor where apparently one of the managers stayed back late to work and he heard a kid playing outside his office about 1 am and called the security room asking who the heck brought their kids up to the office and that they should get the kid back home now. ah but another colleague comes up to us and told us the story of the month. our colleague, the resident clown was in the prayer room at the far end of the building that looks out on to the highway. one early morning, after he was done with his prayers, he heard a car honking. thinking it odd that there would be cars around much less hoking at that time of day, he decided to open the windows to look out. and lo and behold, he saw something white in the middle of the highway. he started to panic because it looked like a hantu pochong [Hantu Pochong or Pochong– this is a Malay ghost, which is commonly seen wrapped up in its ‘kain kapan’ or white burial cloth. When a Malay dies he or she is wrapped up in three layers of white sheet, the end being tied in a knot.] a car approaches the alleged ghost and slows down to start honking since it's blocking up the road. and according to the clown, the ghost started to moo. turned out it was a white cow that wandered onto the highway. -_- pfft

perhaps they don't tell you things anymore because you don't deserve to know anything.