Friday, February 29, 2008
Paranormal.
Not long ago I was rifling through some 200 year-old maps in a private library when I chanced upon this letter, from this ang moh lady who grew up in Singapore more than half a century ago, to the library's owner. All names changed! Amazing stuff!:May 18, 1989
Dear Mr Lin Hong Joo,
Thank you very much indeed for sending me a copy of your book, Traditional Houses in Singapore. We are delighted to have it and I am so pleased that my
[illegible]. My mother is the woman in white on p. 130 & 195, and my father is also just visible. My mother on p. 195 sits surrounded by furniture which I now have in my drawing room. On this page you can just see me in the
[illegible] which took me to the excellent little school at the Tanglin Club grounds. We also had an Arrol Johnston car and I had a pony.
When showing me over Glencaird
(name of her estate in Singapore) in 1985, Mrs Hudson told me that the house is haunted by the ghost of a woman in white, seen by many people over the years. I said in my day, I am sure there was no ghost. Mrs Hudson said one of her staff often heard a voice calling 'Jenny'. They had no previous knowledge that my name is Jenny!. When this Chinese woman brought in the
[illegible], she copied this call and it sounded exactly like my mother calling me! I was ASTONISHED! Told them that if it were my mother's ghost, it must be a very happy ghost, as we were all so happy in Glencaird. I asked them to tell 'the voice' that I had come back, but that I was not able to stay.
Is it possible for me to buy two more copies of the book? I have also in a letter asked Mrs Lin about this. With many more thanks,
Yours Sincerely,
Jenny Benn
jOhn thought at 2:46 PM