A group of netizen came together and shared their creepiest ghost stories during their time serving national service at Pulau Tekong over the years.
Followed ghost into toilet
I woke up wanting to go to the toilet at 2am. Tried to shake my buddy to wake up but seems like he’s too tired. No response from him.
So I thought I should wait for someone from my bunk to wake up or someone walking past the bunk and then join them to go pee.
15 mins later, I saw someone walking past. So I quickly jumped out of my bed and sprinted to the door When I opened the door, I see no one along the corridor, but saw the toilet light was switched on from its total darkness (it happened at the moment I turned my head towards the toilet to find where the fella was, because he ‘walked’ so fast).
Yup, he just went into the toilet I told myself, so I brisk walked into the well lit toilet. But heck, I saw no one in the urinals.
Thought he went to take a dump or late night shower, but nope, toilet cubicles were all empty, there’s no one in the shower cubicles too, as I walked to check every cubicle.
Wonder who I actually saw that day.
Found talisman paper inside cupboard
I’ve experienced one and heard of another from some coymates during BMT. This was ~10 years ago in School 4.
First Incident:
During our first ever area cleaning, in our bunk we were dutifully cleaning it when one of our bunkmates saw that inside his locker there was like a talisman looking paper pasted (on the inside). Curious, he removed it since he thought it was the previous batch who kept it inside.
That very night, I heard a loud knock – as though something inside the cupboard fell or someone knocking on it from the inside. It came from a few beds away but I presumed maybe one of the items did fall so thought nothing of it. The next day, during our downtime, I brought it up and surprisingly all of us on the same side as that cupboard heard it & yep it was that exact cupboard with the talisman in it.
The bunkmate pasted it back and it stopped but this was only done on day 3 because we initially thought it to be wind or maybe the cupboard creaking so decided to wait one more day.
Second (unrelated) Incident:
This was something we all learnt about in our Company as it happened to one of our company mates. We were the PTP batch so some of us had the opportunity to do Guard Duty. Mine was uneventful in school 4 itself.
The one that was eventful was in Ammo Dump. Apparently, in the guard room the story goes (allegedly) that one of the cameras is off and covered with a cloth because there are always sightings. Anyway, what happened was the prowlers on patrol suddenly heard some children’s laughter – sounds of kids playing and all.
This happened out of nowhere and they were both frozen. They were brought back by the Duty Spec who had come looking for them because they were not checking in or something.
Another case from a friend in a separate batch/intake:
He was doing Guard duty at Ladang. I think you all know about the altar with toys behind guard room? Apparently he decided to go peek in and he saw some of the toys moving by themselves despite the windows not being open and no air draft there.
When the cold wind blows~
It was around 4 am I was doing guard duty at the tekong ferry terminal with a malay bunkmate. He needed to use the restroom so I stood guard alone. Around a couple mins in I rested my eyes suddenly the air froze. It was cold already but it became air con cold like you just entered in an air conditioned room from a humid place. And a voice that I will never forget til this day.
你不想活了吗? (You don’t want to live anymore?)
Knn I ran as fast I could to the restroom to find my malay buddy n stick as close to him. I didn’t tell him the incident as I need to borrow his ‘fire’ after our duty I stayed in the bunk and couldn’t sleep the whole night.
That was just 1 of 2 encounter I kenna in my army days.
Ghost also need to shower
I was in one of the companies in school 1 and I was from the enhanced batch. This means that the day was full of activities from the moment you get up and spare time was very infrequent.
Because of that, I usually wait until lights out then bathe so that there’s no queue. After awhile I noticed that a certain cubicle would always be locked and the shower will be running. I knew that nobody else was in the toilet but once in awhile I’ll bathe a little longer to see if that person in the cubicle comes out but he never did.
In the end on one of those nights, curiosity got the better of me and I looked beneath the door to see if anybody was inside but there was nobody at all even though the door was locked and the shower was running.
I just brushed it off and resumed doing my own stuff. Apparently the sergeants were also aware of it but they didn’t acknowledge it.
Coincidentally after quite a number of years, my cousin was enlisted into the same company and same level I was. I asked him about the toilet and he said that it’s still locked and the shower still on. Guess we’ll never know
Night navigation at Tekong
We were doing night navigation in the jungles of Tekong. It was so dark, you can hardly see your own hands. We were using the dim luminous leaves on the jungle floor to find our way.
As the section moved, the whole section was in a straight line with hands on the shoulder of the soldier in front of you. Along the way, a soldier move out of the bushes and took the lead. Thinking that he was one of the soldiers in the platoon, the section followed this soldier.
After some time, the whole section felt something was wrong. The second man in the line stopped and asked, “where are you going?”.
The first soldier merely turned around and used hand signals in the dark. One of the man in the section got impatient and screamed, “KNN, do you know how dark it is a not. You are using hand signals, who the F can see. Who the F are you?” The SGT at the checkpoint some distance away heard the commotion and started scolding.
It was at this point the whole section realized that our destination was right behind us. The first soldier was leading us deeper into the jungle, away from the meeting point. The section got triggered now. The men are demanding to know who is this first soldier. The first soldier did not say a word. He merely turned around and walked deeper into the jungle. None of the members of the section followed him.
We turned around and walked towards our SGT. Did a head count and everyone was accounted for. After checking with every section, there was no one walking alone by himself in the jungle.
Everybody stuck to his section. The superstitious men in the platoon believed that it was something dirty trying to lure the section to its death.