In 2007, the purchase of the former Farrer Court at S$1.34 billion by a Capitaland-led consortium in 2007 still holds the record for a successful en bloc tender. The site has been redeveloped into the 1,715-unit d’Leedon condominium.
It was believed that many suicides occurred at Farrer Court and there were even sightings of a lady in red lingering in the vicinity.
Even after the redevelopment of D’Leedon condominium, a Belgian pleaded guilty to killing his own 5-year-old son in 2015. It was stated that the man was facing mounting pressure in a battle with his French wife over custody of their young son, so he decided to kill him by pressing a cushion over the boy’s head. After killing his son, he then tried to kill himself by deliberately crashing his car into the wall of the tunnel in the Marina Coastal Expressway.
Singaporean Irma posted her experience after living at Farrer Court for a long period of time.
Block H was the innermost block in Farrer Court and is full of trees, that place was always shaded. Every other day coming back from school, even from a distance I would see someone in a red dress at the pillars.
This can happen even in broad daylight. Many times, it would be me walking under the block and seeing some lady in red walking diagonally but when I pass the spot, there is no one on the other side of the pillar. This was a common occurrence all my life so I have learned to identify what’s a ghost and what’s not.
I checked with another friend of mine, Maya, who lived in Block G, a 25 story point-block on a hill that’s adjacent to ours. Her family has stayed there since like forever and when I told her that I kept seeing this woman in red lingering under my block, she said, “oh, a few years back there was a suicide at my block. A lady dressed in full red outfit had committed suicide by jumping off the balcony. The apartment belonged to her boyfriend and people suspected their relationship had gone sour and this was her way of getting back at him.”
[Editor’s note: In Asian folklore, we believe that taking your life while dressed in red will cause your soul to return as a vengeful spirit to haunt the person who did you wrong.]
Every night without fail, when everything was extremely extremely quiet, I would hear a ball bouncing at the basketball court. My room window was overlooking the tennis and basketball court and it is quite clear that there was absolutely no one there but yet u can hear the ball bouncing, just bounce bounce bounce…..
I strongly believe that that place makan* people every few years. It must be the land because for some weird reason people are attracted to go there to commit suicide. The place just attracts death.
[Makan* literally means “to eat” but in this context it means “to claim the lives of”]
There was a murder that happened at Block F, I remember, which is a block I would have to walk under to get to my own block. A maid went berserk inside one of the units in and stabbed the employer multiple times. The employer died from the injuries and it was a bloody scene. My friend who lived in Block G was gave me live commentary as the struggle was happening because she could see everything as it was unfolding. The police eventually managed to apprehend the maid after kicking the door open, and reaching through the gates but it was all too late. The resident of the property could not be saved.
There were many other murders; murders and suicides. It didn’t happen all the time, of course, but it happened frequent enough for it to be peculiar, and not all of them were reported in the papers.
Another Singaporean, Dian, confirmed the sighting of the spirit dressed in a red cheongsam and shared a detailed experience she had at Farrer Court as well.
I was about 9 yrs old when this incident happened but till today whenever I retell this story it makes me skin crawl. (I’m typing this at midnight right now and my hubs is working night ).
There was a Chinese lady standing outside our house. And I presumed Chinese because she was wearing a red cheongsam (a traditional Chinese outfit that was popular with the ladies from the 20s to the 60s). She had medium length hair which fell just below her shoulders. Her face was turned to her right but her eyes were downcast and her hair was partially covering her face. What was fking creepy was, she had a fking smirk on her face and she was slowly turning her head, presumably to look at me.
This was when i noticed that her skin was bluish. At that instant I knew I was not looking at something human. I knew that “she” knew I was looking at her through the peephole. I fking ran back to the room terrified but sadly I didn’t breathe a word about what I saw to my sisters, even when they asked me if it was my mum at the door. I couldn’t sleep properly for many days after because the image of that lady flashed my head. I was so scared to even look at the direction of the main door whenever i walked to the kitchen at night for fear of seeing feet under the door again.
It was ONLY about 10 years LATER, I related the incident to my sisters and mum and we then found out why my mum always made us wait for her downstairs whenever she worked nights.
She told us that she would ALWAYS see a lady in red downstairs in between the pillars when she came home late.
But she never told us why she wanted us to fetch her as she didn’t want us to be scared! But she herself was terrified laaaah! Imagine making your 3 young latchkey kids wait for you bawah (below) block in a secluded apartment block! And worst still, my sisters also said that they would always catch glimpses of someone in red behind the pillars too while we waited for my mum! Found out all this only 10 years later!
According to my mum , one of the estate cleaners told her that the lady used to live in the neighboring block and had jumped off from her block in red after finding out that her husband had been cheating on her! The cleaner was a middle aged Malaysian lady who had been working in our estate for quite a while.
Source: Supernatural confessions via Irma Huth