OLEH: MOHD ISKANDAR OTHMAN

Tarikh: February 4, 2014

Keadaan mayat mangsa yang terputus dua ditemui orang ramai.GEORGETOWN - Mayat seorang lelaki ditemui reput dan terputus dua dalam belukar Hutan Simpan Bukit Gedong disini petang tadi.Mayat lelaki tanpa identiti itu dipercayai mati sejak sebulan lalu ditemui penduduk tempatan kira-kira jam 5 petang.Ketua Polis Daerah Barat Daya, Superintendan Lai Fah Hin berkata, kepala mayat berkenaan ditemui tergantung manakala badannya yang  sudah  terputus ditemui tidak jauh dari kepalanya.

Menurutnya,pemeriksaan awal mendapati kepala mangsa diikat menggunakan akar pokok.Beliau berkata, mayat berkenaan memakai baju berwarna kelabu dan berseluar hitam.Turut ditemui sepasang selipar yang dipercayai miliknya."Mayat berkenaan dianggarkan berketinggian dua meter tetapi identitinya masih belum dapat dikenal pasti.

"Buat masa ini, kita klasifikasikan nya  sebagai mati mengejut dan siasatan lanjut akan dijalankan," katanya ketika dihubungi.Fah Hin berkata, polis akan melakukan pemeriksaan untuk mengesan kemungkinan ada individu yang membuat laporan kehilangan ahli keluarga.

30 January 2014 02:40 PM By Chris Bradley Mum-of-three Latoya Ammons, from Indiana, told police her children could walk up walls, levitate and speak to ghosts

 A police captain has said he believes the story of a woman who claimed her children were being attacked and possessed by DEMONS.Charles Austin, an experienced cop with more than 35 years experience, is convinced a spooky haunting in Indiana is true.Mum-of-three Latoya Ammons, told police that all her children walked up walls, levitated and spoke in different voices.

When two psychics visited the terrified mother they told her there were more than 200 demons haunting the house.Even official reports from 2012 document paranormal activity with psychologists stating they witnessed a nine year-old child speak in "different voices" and walk "up the wall backwards".They added: "He flipped over and landed on his feet"After visiting the house and interviewing Ms Ammons, Captain Austin admitted he was a "believer", according to the Indianapolis Star.

State documents filed by the Department of Children Services detail further strange events at the house, often witnessed by medical experts and people outside the family.But some witnesses to the eerie behaviour, like Hospital Chaplain Rev. Mike Maginot, was sceptic that demons had possessed the children.He told the newspaper that after carrying out an exorcism on the children and her mother, they only reacted when he spoke about demons.Rev. Mike said: "Whenever you would praise God in Latin, no reaction."But you start condemning the demon, condemning the evil spirit, all of a sudden she [the child] is reacting to that."Their names were removed to protect their identity from the official papers on the haunting in Gary, Indiana.

Soon after the family moved into the three bedroom rented property on March 10 2012, Ms Ammons claimed she saw her daughter levitating above her bed.In another incident the mother found her seven-year-old son inside a closet allegedly talking to another boy only he could see.When asked what they were talking about, his mother claimed he told her the unseen presence was describing what it felt like to be killed.The young boy also reportedly THROWN by a malevolent spirit out of a bathroom and Ms Ammons 12-year-old daughter required stitches to her head after an attack.But new tenants now live in the property - and there have been no complaints of ghostly goings on. 

New Straits TimesTuesday, Oct 04, 2011TUMPAT, Malaysia -

Pandemonium broke out in a school hall when 10 out of 200 pupils taking their year-end examinations yesterday were hit by a bout of hysteria.The incident at SK Pengkalan Kubor 1, came on the back of a similar hysteria attack in the school on Wednesday, which also involved 10 pupils.All the victims in the co-education school were girls.The hysteria yesterday is believed to have broken out at 10am as the pupils were answering their question papers in the school hall.

Most of the victims who fell unconscious were rushed to the school's surau by their teachers, who later got two bomoh to help them.Rozali Abdul Rahman, 46, the father of one of the victims, said his 11-year-old daughter had been attacked by hysteria three times, including the incident on Wednesday."I was driving in Pengkalan Kubor when I received a call from the school."When I arrived, I saw several pupils sprawled on the ground while others were being carried into the surau."When I was told that my daughter got into an hysteria today, the first thing that crossed my mind was that a huge and ugly apparition had scared her again... this was what she had told me when she had her hysteria attacks previously," said the father of two.Rozali, a taxi driver, said his daughter had told him that she had seen the phantom while she was walking at the back of her classroom after she regained consciousness during the attack on Wednesday.

"A similar incident had occurred to her several weeks earlier and I believe the same object had disturbed her and her friends yesterday."Rozali had earlier watched the bomoh giving treatment to his daughter, who was brought back to consciousness in 10 minutes.The two bomoh refused to be interviewed or have their pictures taken."We do not want the public to misunderstand us and our treatment. Let us do our job with Allah's blessings," one said.

The victims, mostly from Pengkalan Kubor, were allowed to return home after receiving treatment.Kelantan education director Hussain Awang confirmed receiving a report on the incident and said he had sent his officers to investigate.Mass hysteria happens when one loses coordination, consciousness of identity, feeling and body movement.According to Wikipedia, hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable emotional excesses due to an overwhelming fear.