Scary Dairy

If you’ve read the local news in recent weeks, you’d have noticed that there were a few mentions of a hairless pontianak roaming the area around Tudan in the evenings.

There are a couple of versions. Like the female pontianak died during childbirth and is now looking for her baby. Apparently, she’ll knock on your doors and ask if you’ve seen her baby. Or the version where a black cat jumped over her corpse and woke her up and she’s now a restless wandering ghost.

Living just three minutes from the cursed place, I’ve been quite jumpy at nights.

Anyway, my father thinks it’s absolute bull crap. In harsh Catholic voice, he asked me to use my brain.

So I’m going to reason the whole pontianak news as a conspiracy.

A public relations nightmare set up by some business rivals of E-mart, the largest warehouse supermarket in this area. The streets in this area clear off before 6 in the evenings so you hardly see anyone grocery shopping at all at night.

Pretty niffy eh? Local superstition abused as a competitive advantage technique.

But just to be safe, I’ve brought The Boyfriend over for sleepovers. Even made a few requests to my mother to stay the night. Keeping all the lights in the house switched on at night.

Hardly feed my dogs at night anymore just to avoid coming out of the house in case I spot her walking down the street.

Eek!

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Published:
8.7.07 / 11pm
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