Last Wednesday night at about late 10-ish, a relative which consists of a whole family from my hubby’s side was disturbed by this so called nenek keropok. They are staying in Jurong West street 81 which is opposite Gek Poh nearer to the old SCDF camp which has already been remodeled to be a housing estate for foreigners.
Some details and history, there are 3 sisters in the family, the eldest is ‘N’, 2nd is ‘Y’ followed by ‘A’. Y & A are not married while N is married with 3 small children. As much as I try not to believe in the mystic and unknown, this particular family has been a target of black magic, especially N.
The story I heard is that a few years back, N was introduced to an Indonesian divorcee who was left by her husband for unknown reasons. I would say that the family is very pious compared to the majority of muslims in Singapore. N took pity on the divorcee and brought her to the gatherings which are often held by the family which consists of reciting the al-quran and other religion related affairs.
However, the divorcee had other plans. She took a liking to N’s husband and casted a spell on N first. As N and her were quite close, N would spend some of the afternoon at the woman’s house where she cooked lunch and serve it to N and her husband. Day by day, N and her husband quarreled for no reasons, she began to be short tempered and at one point she started to hear voices in her head which keeps on telling her to kill or throw her children from the flat. N’s parents decided that enough was enough and consulted a pious man. N got better after she was given some holy water to consume daily and through her prayers and faith she steadily got back her strength to fight the evil being. While all this was going on, the woman still was not giving up. She presented a set of underwear to N’s hubby on his birthday that year, and the hubby refuses to wear any other undies except that particular one every day. Until one day, N cut it up and threw it away. That was when they found out that the woman is not what they perceive.
Back to the nenek keropok story, so as N has not recovered fully, she sees and feels the supernatural now and then and she gets disturbed by the unknown whenever she is by herself. That night, last Wednesday Y was with her fiancé sitting under her void deck talking abt their future plans, from afar she saw an old lady wearing the traditional baju kurong carrying a plastic back approaching them. She could see under the street lamps that this lady was hunching and had a peculiar radiant on her face, it was glowing. She was quite skeptical about the nenek keropok rumour when she first heard of it, but at this point, she decided not to take chances. She looked away from the old lady’s direction.
Before she knew it, the woman was just next to her!! She said in malay, “Anak nak beli keropok?” (Do you want to buy some keropok child) At this point, Y was frozen and hold her fiance’s hands tightly .. and the old lady spoke again, “ Apasal tak tengok saya.. awak takottt ehh?” (why are you not looking at me.. are you scared...) Y couldn’t take it anymore she quickly ran to the lift with her fiancé in tow. When the lift reached the 6th floor she ran out and quickly ran to her room to tell her sisters wat happened. While all this was going on, N who had been eating her supper had a premonition as her pointing finger keeps on shivering and pointing to the door.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, N’s children are so used to opening the door as they though that it was their grandparents who came back. There at the door stood the same old lady, Y was still in her room with her sisters shivering not aware that the old lady was now in front of the door. N’s husband was the one who greeted the old lady, she asked him,” Nak belik keropok?”(do you want to buy keropok?) As if hypnotized, he said, “ Taklar rumah saya banyak keropok kita baru belik”.(No, we have already just bought some) The old woman said “ iyer? Nak tengok boleh?” (issit? can i see?) At this stage N overheard the conversation and ran out only to see.. Not an old woman.. but a creature with long hair covering the face in white standing at the door. She screamed at the top of her voice and started to curse and swear at the creature. The creature moved away from the door but N was not satisfied.. she shouted “ Aku tau kau masih ada kat sini.. Apasal kau nak kacau kita.. Keluar lar kalau kau berani” (I know you are still here.. why are you disturbing us? Come out if you dare) During the commotion, N’s parents returned home and seeing their child in that state.. they called the pious man again to help the family.
I have heard rumours about this so called nenek keropok and I would very much like to believe that it does not exist. But when it happens to a whole family whom to me are trustworthy, I have to think twice.. and goddamnit.. I stay nearby. Pfft.
