June 11, 2025 • 24 mins
Sarah shares an eerie retelling of two supernatural encounters experienced by her family in Indonesia, one from their father’s side and one from their mother’s. These bring us into Indonesia’s violent colonial past and the lingering spirits that may be trying to tell us something.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Like one hand he was carrying his head and another
one he was holding a leash that tied to a
black dog. And when he turned around he saw that.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Goes Today, we have an account from Indonesia, where ghost
tales are steeped in history, tragedy, in the lingering presence
of colonial trauma. My name is Edwin and here is Sarah.
It's true scary story.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
In Indonesia. What makes the country unique is the fact
that their history also tiedened with mysticism, and the way
people remember also ties in with anything related to ghost spirits.
(00:58):
It's a country that is predominantly Muslims and also belief
in superstitions. Although these ghost stories are really sad, they're
also giving up a very creepy, non jump scary scene.
(01:18):
Then these all happen to my family members. Jakarta is
actually a very busy, bustling place. There's a lot of people,
it's highly populated, traffic everywhere. But ghosts still exists because
(01:44):
when it comes to ghost it doesn't matter where you
are in Indonesia. If there's a place that is dusty,
dark and moist, they will definitely be there. But also
Jakarta is like a rich history of being the city
where the Dutch government used to reside and now the
Indonesian government reside. It used to be the camel city
(02:07):
of Indonesia, but now they moved to Pontiana because the
Dutch government ruled the place. There will be mentions of executions,
there will be mentions of massacre. There will be mentioned
of anything that is a rural part of history that
(02:27):
ended up becoming ghost stories. This happened in nineteen eighties.
This was around the time when my father was in university.
This haunted siding occurred at an office house that one
(02:50):
of his brother in law owned. His brother in law
was a wealthy man and the son of a military general,
so happened to own factory in North Sumatra. This office
house was around the area of Sisingamagaraja, where in Indonesia
(03:12):
suchially as one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city
of Jakarta, there were old houses naturally, Essentially, this office
house was just a two floor home that was large
enough to fit in office space. In Indonesia, this is
(03:33):
very common. They would have office on the first floor
and then the second floor will be a house. All
the Mediti said, you have in a house. It's right there.
Some of my dad's friends stayed in there. You know,
(03:53):
when you're in university, right, especially like when you're about
to graduate, most of the times you pull an all
night and he essentially did your work at around the
devil's hour, as they say midnight, you know, from midnight
to three am, Like we're always around that time, and
that's exactly what he was doing. He was doing his
(04:14):
final paper. He was using the office portion of the house,
so it was the first floor. Because there were a
bunch of computers in this office. He went to use
one of these cubicles where they had the computer to
write his assignment. It was very dark, so the only
source of flight was just coming from the computer's screen.
(04:41):
He was very focused on this work he was typing in.
He didn't realized that time was going. When he turned around,
he saw a figure of a man dressed in traditional
Eastern outfit. He was just taken aback because wise there
(05:10):
an Arabic man standing in the house. The man was
just standing not far from him, but it was like
in a distance, like basically the end of the office
met the stairways. He saw this individual standing by the
stairs and then to continue to do his work. He
(05:34):
turned around, the man was still there. This individual did
not even look at him. He was just staring at
the stairs, and for some reason, he slowly started making
his way up, except he never seemed to reach the top.
(05:54):
At some point he would return back to the very
start of the stairs. My dad's friend was a little
bit taken aback, but at the stated that he was
curious because what was this man trying to do, so
he wanted to check on him. He walk up to
(06:17):
this person because maybe this person was lost, or maybe
he was one of the residents of the house that
he didn't even know about. So he approached this individual.
He looked all right, except when you notice he didn't
(06:40):
try to go upstairs, but he had no legs. It
was basically faded. So the entire time this figure was
just flowing because he had no legs. It was a ghost.
Everything was just blurry. The moment you reach his legs area,
(07:02):
this ghost he continued to float upstairs, never reached the end.
But as soon as his friend saw as I approached
it ghost he went upstairs and then slowly he faded
into the darkness. He almost disappeated. Then are gone, he
(07:23):
was gone. Obviously, that freaked the friend out. He ran
out of the the house and accidentally bump into a
security guard. Said, oh my god, oh my god, I
just saw a man floating up the stairs. And then
the security guard said it was the Middle Eastern or
(07:44):
at least dressed like a Middle Eastern man. And then
a friend it was like, yeah, how do you know that,
and so the security guard said, oh, yeah, let me explain.
So this goes he was the patriarch of the family
(08:06):
who was the original owner of this house. So this
office house actually used to be a house that was
belonged to relatively well to do Middle Eastern family who
were also Indonesian citizens. This family, they were just like
(08:27):
a relatively well to do, unassuming family there, like they're
just mining their own business, just like a normal family would,
and everybody lived pretty normal lives until in nineteen forties,
so basically Indonesia and during the period of the Second
(08:48):
World War, we were invaded by the Japanese. The Japanese
took over because the Dutch was basically attacked by the Germans.
As we know, the Dutch power weakend. So the Japanese
were basically trying to invade the entire Southeast Asia. They
(09:10):
came in to other places because people heard about what
they did in the Philippines, but they also did the
same thing that they did in the Philippines to Indonesia.
It's no exception to what they did to this family
because when the Japanese arrived in Indonesia and invading the place,
they went to this family's home and start massacring the
(09:35):
entire family. It was a bloody mess. There were no survivors.
Everybody were brutally murdered. Because a lot of the people
in this family didn't die peacefully. There are always few
family members who were still around the house, haunting the place.
(10:00):
The thing is, they never disturbed anybody. They were just existing.
They were just existing. They appeared, but they never ever
interact with anybody. But after hearing that story, as scary
as the ghost presidence, it was also very horrible to
(10:25):
hear what happened to this family given the circumstances, because again,
they're just a normal well to do Arabic family who
unfortunately got entirely destroyed by the Japanese during this horrific
part in Indonesian history. This was happening around two thousand
(10:53):
and ten at my aunt's neighborhood. Now, my neighborhood is
very crowded yet haunted place, especially since it was not
far from a railway station and train tracks. There have
been instances of people seeing ghosts at the train tracks,
(11:15):
people getting killed at the train tracks by accident. There
will be people on their motorcycles going back and forth.
You could hear a rooster dueling from afar Oh. It
was like it was a caciphonia of noises basically, but
I love it anyway. As you can tell, very busy,
bustling place. This is Jakarta again. So you would cross
(11:41):
the train track and then you would enter a bunch
of convenience stores, general stores, and then you see bunch
of houses. In Indonesia, the houses tend to be much
smaller but stack Some of these houses have two floors,
(12:04):
a lot of them due to high crimes in the country.
They had high fences. It just so happened that my
aunt right across her residence was her in loast house.
He had pretty tall fences with jagged as that sort
(12:26):
of looked like the sharp part of a spare, just
to avoid bourglers from entering in in case they were
climbing the fence. They could get injured by these things.
This house had in the front yard there's the driveway
with a garage, and next to this driveway there was
(12:50):
the main entrance of the house and then there's another driveway.
But in between these two driveways was like a small
little garden where they had pebbles potted plants. In the
middle of it, there was a tall weeping fig tree.
(13:15):
If you look at it at night, it was actually
pretty spooky because when you think of like weeping big
especially in Indonesia, weeping fig was described as very haunted.
It looked like a normal tree. He had like the
attributes of a typical tree, one of those trees in Indonesia
(13:37):
that was described as a very bhysinicism elements to it,
because the only difference is that weeping figs would have
fines that were attached to the trees and they would
go downwards, so it's almost as if like the trees
have like strings and it would like just like gently
(14:03):
sway at night, it's just giving up like very creepy vibes.
It was sort of spread out almost like covering the
balcony part of the house. This Weeping Victory tend to
be associated with anything ghost related. There will be ghost
(14:28):
that is, for example, ghost would stay there is basically
like a like a very common ghost in Southeast Asia.
She would have long, dark hair that pretty much covered
her face. She would wear a white long sleeve dress.
And they're actually like signs where you know she's near.
(14:53):
If you hear weird animal noises, I mean she's there.
If you hear her laughing, she's there now. If you
hear like a fate laughter from her, like I said,
like she was like laughing from afar, that means she's
very close to you. But if you hear her very
clearly as if she was near you, that means she's
(15:15):
far away from me. That's kind of like how you
know this ghost exists. And usually this ghost is associated
with the Weeping Fig tree, and it just does so happened.
There's particular afternoon where one of the housemates that will
(15:35):
belong to the in laws god possessed by one of
the ghosts who reside in that tree. I think she
was just doing like her daily chores when she fainted
and people found out she got possessed by her ghost
of the Weeping Fig tree, and then they found out
(15:55):
there was an old woman. There are a bunch of
elderly women spirits residing in that house by one of them,
in particular, possess one of my in lost housemaids were
working around the house front yard at the time. They
(16:17):
ended up calling people from the nearby mosque to exercise her. Basically,
they went pretty well. I think the saddest part sort
of come when they told the story about who this
(16:37):
post was and the history of the area where this
situation occurred. I've seen people getting possessed and stuff like
it's like this another Tuesday. The neighborhood where my aunt
(16:59):
and her and lost live it used to be an
area where during the Dutch colonial times they used this
place to execute people. They did public executions here, this
Weeping Victory in particular, was used for public hangings. The
(17:25):
ghosts who resided in this tree, some of them were
victims of this horrible execution method. The people who are
hung there, there's still residing in that tree. They were
not rest easy. They didn't die like the peaceful way,
(17:46):
they didn't go into another life gently. So essentially they
stayed in that in that tree for so long. And
who told this story none other but the people who
exercised their So anything that you're hearing Indonesia that is
creepy and scary, usually there are horrific historical connotations to them.
(18:13):
Our ghosts are tightened with our brutal past because one
is basically a victim of a massacre and the other
one was a victim of a public hanging. Now, these
people were like executed because of the crimes that they deserved,
(18:34):
like some of them were just hung because again colonialism
was evil, right, so they basically were unjustly executed, unjustly
tried and executed. And that's where it landed. This particular
(19:02):
ghost inspired like a really not so good horror movie
in my in my country. But when you look at
again this this ghost was a tight end it with
Indonesian history too. There's a public cemetery Indonnetia called there
was a graves keeper who was overseeing the cemetery when
(19:25):
he encountered the ghost of a Catholic priest. But this
Catholic priest was headless, like one hand he was carrying
his head and another one he was holding a leashte
tied to a black dog. And this grave keeper said
that like the moment I know that this ghost was there,
(19:47):
it was basically when I heard the sound of a
dog howling or barking like that, and when he turned around,
he saw that ghost. And this story ended up spreading
throughout the country and it got hold into a bunch
of curious high school kids, and so they're like, hey,
(20:09):
you know, let's check this ghost out. Let's do some
kind of like a horror truth or their type of
movement where we will find this ghost. And it didn't
end up encountering this ghost, and they also reported it
that it was there, but it didn't do anything. It
didn't possess them, it didn't hurt them. It's just apparently
like people suspect that this ghost was just trying to
(20:30):
find his way to his own grave, which is in
another cemetery called Anakos. She's like way far away from
this cemetery. He uses dog as a way to guide
him there. Not many people knew the like the history
(20:52):
of the man who's who ended up becoming this particular ghost.
But the most common stories that this man was when
he was alive, he was a Dutch Catholic priest who
ended up becoming an Indonesian citizen after you know, the
country became independent. This was like around the time where
(21:14):
Indonesia was in the process of deporting a lot of
Dutch people back to the Netherlands after century of colonialism.
There are a lot of people that every time there
are you know, a lot of people that every time
they see Dutch people, they start having this like fight
or fight response and they would get really agitated and
(21:36):
angry because of those years of oppression. So he was
just you know, minding his own business, was just walking
the street, wind his own business when people attacked them
because they thought like he was one of those Dutch
people who were like still living in the country and
like trying to basically invade Indonesia again. Like it ended
(21:59):
up like a him using a sight and this site
sort of like chop off his head. They were attacking
him so hard, they were like basically just like hacking
into him to the point that his head just just
detached from his body and he obviously he passed away.
And that's why how he became a headless ghost. He
(22:19):
was like like a Dutch Catholic priest who did nothing.
That's the thing about Indonesian ghost or some of them
are actually related to colonialism and just our brutal past.
When I think of these stories like they are scary,
but they're also sad. Don't get me wrong, I'm afraid
(22:41):
of ghosts. But whenever I heard the origins of these ghosts,
that's the part where I'm like, stuff was like, it
was like very very sad. It was also very brutal.
When you think of like these ghost stories like they
like they don't just come up nowhere. Ghost stories in
(23:02):
Indonesia always involved dark magic, mysticism, and colonialism.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Thank you Sarah for sharing your experiences with us. I
learned a lot about Indonesia and it's haunting past. And
if you have a true scary story that you want
to share, funder form over at true scarystory dot com.
Scheduling for this episode was domed by Bianca Chavis, Editing
and sound design by Sarah Vorhez Wendel a VW Sound.
Additional production by me Edwin Klorubaz and the Scary fmteam.
(23:43):
If you're following the show, we'll be back next week
with another story. Thank you very much for listening. Keep
it scary everyone, See you soon.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
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Like one hand he was carrying his head and another
one he was holding a leash that tied to a
black dog. And when he turned around he saw that.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Goes Today, we have an account from Indonesia, where ghost
tales are steeped in history, tragedy, in the lingering presence
of colonial trauma. My name is Edwin and here is Sarah.
It's true scary story.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
In Indonesia. What makes the country unique is the fact
that their history also tiedened with mysticism, and the way
people remember also ties in with anything related to ghost spirits.
(00:58):
It's a country that is predominantly Muslims and also belief
in superstitions. Although these ghost stories are really sad, they're
also giving up a very creepy, non jump scary scene.
(01:18):
Then these all happen to my family members. Jakarta is
actually a very busy, bustling place. There's a lot of people,
it's highly populated, traffic everywhere. But ghosts still exists because
(01:44):
when it comes to ghost it doesn't matter where you
are in Indonesia. If there's a place that is dusty,
dark and moist, they will definitely be there. But also
Jakarta is like a rich history of being the city
where the Dutch government used to reside and now the
Indonesian government reside. It used to be the camel city
(02:07):
of Indonesia, but now they moved to Pontiana because the
Dutch government ruled the place. There will be mentions of executions,
there will be mentions of massacre. There will be mentioned
of anything that is a rural part of history that
(02:27):
ended up becoming ghost stories. This happened in nineteen eighties.
This was around the time when my father was in university.
This haunted siding occurred at an office house that one
(02:50):
of his brother in law owned. His brother in law
was a wealthy man and the son of a military general,
so happened to own factory in North Sumatra. This office
house was around the area of Sisingamagaraja, where in Indonesia
(03:12):
suchially as one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city
of Jakarta, there were old houses naturally, Essentially, this office
house was just a two floor home that was large
enough to fit in office space. In Indonesia, this is
(03:33):
very common. They would have office on the first floor
and then the second floor will be a house. All
the Mediti said, you have in a house. It's right there.
Some of my dad's friends stayed in there. You know,
(03:53):
when you're in university, right, especially like when you're about
to graduate, most of the times you pull an all
night and he essentially did your work at around the
devil's hour, as they say midnight, you know, from midnight
to three am, Like we're always around that time, and
that's exactly what he was doing. He was doing his
(04:14):
final paper. He was using the office portion of the house,
so it was the first floor. Because there were a
bunch of computers in this office. He went to use
one of these cubicles where they had the computer to
write his assignment. It was very dark, so the only
source of flight was just coming from the computer's screen.
(04:41):
He was very focused on this work he was typing in.
He didn't realized that time was going. When he turned around,
he saw a figure of a man dressed in traditional
Eastern outfit. He was just taken aback because wise there
(05:10):
an Arabic man standing in the house. The man was
just standing not far from him, but it was like
in a distance, like basically the end of the office
met the stairways. He saw this individual standing by the
stairs and then to continue to do his work. He
(05:34):
turned around, the man was still there. This individual did
not even look at him. He was just staring at
the stairs, and for some reason, he slowly started making
his way up, except he never seemed to reach the top.
(05:54):
At some point he would return back to the very
start of the stairs. My dad's friend was a little
bit taken aback, but at the stated that he was
curious because what was this man trying to do, so
he wanted to check on him. He walk up to
(06:17):
this person because maybe this person was lost, or maybe
he was one of the residents of the house that
he didn't even know about. So he approached this individual.
He looked all right, except when you notice he didn't
(06:40):
try to go upstairs, but he had no legs. It
was basically faded. So the entire time this figure was
just flowing because he had no legs. It was a ghost.
Everything was just blurry. The moment you reach his legs area,
(07:02):
this ghost he continued to float upstairs, never reached the end.
But as soon as his friend saw as I approached
it ghost he went upstairs and then slowly he faded
into the darkness. He almost disappeated. Then are gone, he
(07:23):
was gone. Obviously, that freaked the friend out. He ran
out of the the house and accidentally bump into a
security guard. Said, oh my god, oh my god, I
just saw a man floating up the stairs. And then
the security guard said it was the Middle Eastern or
(07:44):
at least dressed like a Middle Eastern man. And then
a friend it was like, yeah, how do you know that,
and so the security guard said, oh, yeah, let me explain.
So this goes he was the patriarch of the family
(08:06):
who was the original owner of this house. So this
office house actually used to be a house that was
belonged to relatively well to do Middle Eastern family who
were also Indonesian citizens. This family, they were just like
(08:27):
a relatively well to do, unassuming family there, like they're
just mining their own business, just like a normal family would,
and everybody lived pretty normal lives until in nineteen forties,
so basically Indonesia and during the period of the Second
(08:48):
World War, we were invaded by the Japanese. The Japanese
took over because the Dutch was basically attacked by the Germans.
As we know, the Dutch power weakend. So the Japanese
were basically trying to invade the entire Southeast Asia. They
(09:10):
came in to other places because people heard about what
they did in the Philippines, but they also did the
same thing that they did in the Philippines to Indonesia.
It's no exception to what they did to this family
because when the Japanese arrived in Indonesia and invading the place,
they went to this family's home and start massacring the
(09:35):
entire family. It was a bloody mess. There were no survivors.
Everybody were brutally murdered. Because a lot of the people
in this family didn't die peacefully. There are always few
family members who were still around the house, haunting the place.
(10:00):
The thing is, they never disturbed anybody. They were just existing.
They were just existing. They appeared, but they never ever
interact with anybody. But after hearing that story, as scary
as the ghost presidence, it was also very horrible to
(10:25):
hear what happened to this family given the circumstances, because again,
they're just a normal well to do Arabic family who
unfortunately got entirely destroyed by the Japanese during this horrific
part in Indonesian history. This was happening around two thousand
(10:53):
and ten at my aunt's neighborhood. Now, my neighborhood is
very crowded yet haunted place, especially since it was not
far from a railway station and train tracks. There have
been instances of people seeing ghosts at the train tracks,
(11:15):
people getting killed at the train tracks by accident. There
will be people on their motorcycles going back and forth.
You could hear a rooster dueling from afar Oh. It
was like it was a caciphonia of noises basically, but
I love it anyway. As you can tell, very busy,
bustling place. This is Jakarta again. So you would cross
(11:41):
the train track and then you would enter a bunch
of convenience stores, general stores, and then you see bunch
of houses. In Indonesia, the houses tend to be much
smaller but stack Some of these houses have two floors,
(12:04):
a lot of them due to high crimes in the country.
They had high fences. It just so happened that my
aunt right across her residence was her in loast house.
He had pretty tall fences with jagged as that sort
(12:26):
of looked like the sharp part of a spare, just
to avoid bourglers from entering in in case they were
climbing the fence. They could get injured by these things.
This house had in the front yard there's the driveway
with a garage, and next to this driveway there was
(12:50):
the main entrance of the house and then there's another driveway.
But in between these two driveways was like a small
little garden where they had pebbles potted plants. In the
middle of it, there was a tall weeping fig tree.
(13:15):
If you look at it at night, it was actually
pretty spooky because when you think of like weeping big
especially in Indonesia, weeping fig was described as very haunted.
It looked like a normal tree. He had like the
attributes of a typical tree, one of those trees in Indonesia
(13:37):
that was described as a very bhysinicism elements to it,
because the only difference is that weeping figs would have
fines that were attached to the trees and they would
go downwards, so it's almost as if like the trees
have like strings and it would like just like gently
(14:03):
sway at night, it's just giving up like very creepy vibes.
It was sort of spread out almost like covering the
balcony part of the house. This Weeping Victory tend to
be associated with anything ghost related. There will be ghost
(14:28):
that is, for example, ghost would stay there is basically
like a like a very common ghost in Southeast Asia.
She would have long, dark hair that pretty much covered
her face. She would wear a white long sleeve dress.
And they're actually like signs where you know she's near.
(14:53):
If you hear weird animal noises, I mean she's there.
If you hear her laughing, she's there now. If you
hear like a fate laughter from her, like I said,
like she was like laughing from afar, that means she's
very close to you. But if you hear her very
clearly as if she was near you, that means she's
(15:15):
far away from me. That's kind of like how you
know this ghost exists. And usually this ghost is associated
with the Weeping Fig tree, and it just does so happened.
There's particular afternoon where one of the housemates that will
(15:35):
belong to the in laws god possessed by one of
the ghosts who reside in that tree. I think she
was just doing like her daily chores when she fainted
and people found out she got possessed by her ghost
of the Weeping Fig tree, and then they found out
(15:55):
there was an old woman. There are a bunch of
elderly women spirits residing in that house by one of them,
in particular, possess one of my in lost housemaids were
working around the house front yard at the time. They
(16:17):
ended up calling people from the nearby mosque to exercise her. Basically,
they went pretty well. I think the saddest part sort
of come when they told the story about who this
(16:37):
post was and the history of the area where this
situation occurred. I've seen people getting possessed and stuff like
it's like this another Tuesday. The neighborhood where my aunt
(16:59):
and her and lost live it used to be an
area where during the Dutch colonial times they used this
place to execute people. They did public executions here, this
Weeping Victory in particular, was used for public hangings. The
(17:25):
ghosts who resided in this tree, some of them were
victims of this horrible execution method. The people who are
hung there, there's still residing in that tree. They were
not rest easy. They didn't die like the peaceful way,
(17:46):
they didn't go into another life gently. So essentially they
stayed in that in that tree for so long. And
who told this story none other but the people who
exercised their So anything that you're hearing Indonesia that is
creepy and scary, usually there are horrific historical connotations to them.
(18:13):
Our ghosts are tightened with our brutal past because one
is basically a victim of a massacre and the other
one was a victim of a public hanging. Now, these
people were like executed because of the crimes that they deserved,
(18:34):
like some of them were just hung because again colonialism
was evil, right, so they basically were unjustly executed, unjustly
tried and executed. And that's where it landed. This particular
(19:02):
ghost inspired like a really not so good horror movie
in my in my country. But when you look at
again this this ghost was a tight end it with
Indonesian history too. There's a public cemetery Indonnetia called there
was a graves keeper who was overseeing the cemetery when
(19:25):
he encountered the ghost of a Catholic priest. But this
Catholic priest was headless, like one hand he was carrying
his head and another one he was holding a leashte
tied to a black dog. And this grave keeper said
that like the moment I know that this ghost was there,
(19:47):
it was basically when I heard the sound of a
dog howling or barking like that, and when he turned around,
he saw that ghost. And this story ended up spreading
throughout the country and it got hold into a bunch
of curious high school kids, and so they're like, hey,
(20:09):
you know, let's check this ghost out. Let's do some
kind of like a horror truth or their type of
movement where we will find this ghost. And it didn't
end up encountering this ghost, and they also reported it
that it was there, but it didn't do anything. It
didn't possess them, it didn't hurt them. It's just apparently
like people suspect that this ghost was just trying to
(20:30):
find his way to his own grave, which is in
another cemetery called Anakos. She's like way far away from
this cemetery. He uses dog as a way to guide
him there. Not many people knew the like the history
(20:52):
of the man who's who ended up becoming this particular ghost.
But the most common stories that this man was when
he was alive, he was a Dutch Catholic priest who
ended up becoming an Indonesian citizen after you know, the
country became independent. This was like around the time where
(21:14):
Indonesia was in the process of deporting a lot of
Dutch people back to the Netherlands after century of colonialism.
There are a lot of people that every time there
are you know, a lot of people that every time
they see Dutch people, they start having this like fight
or fight response and they would get really agitated and
(21:36):
angry because of those years of oppression. So he was
just you know, minding his own business, was just walking
the street, wind his own business when people attacked them
because they thought like he was one of those Dutch
people who were like still living in the country and
like trying to basically invade Indonesia again. Like it ended
(21:59):
up like a him using a sight and this site
sort of like chop off his head. They were attacking
him so hard, they were like basically just like hacking
into him to the point that his head just just
detached from his body and he obviously he passed away.
And that's why how he became a headless ghost. He
(22:19):
was like like a Dutch Catholic priest who did nothing.
That's the thing about Indonesian ghost or some of them
are actually related to colonialism and just our brutal past.
When I think of these stories like they are scary,
but they're also sad. Don't get me wrong, I'm afraid
(22:41):
of ghosts. But whenever I heard the origins of these ghosts,
that's the part where I'm like, stuff was like, it
was like very very sad. It was also very brutal.
When you think of like these ghost stories like they
like they don't just come up nowhere. Ghost stories in
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Indonesia always involved dark magic, mysticism, and colonialism.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Thank you Sarah for sharing your experiences with us. I
learned a lot about Indonesia and it's haunting past. And
if you have a true scary story that you want
to share, funder form over at true scarystory dot com.
Scheduling for this episode was domed by Bianca Chavis, Editing
and sound design by Sarah Vorhez Wendel a VW Sound.
Additional production by me Edwin Klorubaz and the Scary fmteam.
(23:43):
If you're following the show, we'll be back next week
with another story. Thank you very much for listening. Keep
it scary everyone, See you soon.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
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