Old Changi Hospital
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Old Changi Hospital
History
Built in 1930's, together with an A/E opposite the road and several blocks of commando barracks cum Changi prison nearby, the Old Changi Hospital (OCH) is situated at Netheravon Road in Changi villages. It has quite a long and rich history for being the former hospital of today's modern Changi General Hospital in Simei and Toa Payoh Hospital equipped with world-class facilities.
With its classical design, one can see that OCH is a typical replica of buildings built by British Colonial architects in the early 20's. Surprisingly OCH was not meant to be a hospital when it was first built (same for the A/E). The British was planning to have a heavily guarded military location in the east of Singapore. The site was strategically selected for it is high on top of a hill overlooking the sea surrounding most of the east side and the south side of the island. For about 10 years before the war, this classical 7-storey high building compound was used as military command quarters and barracks.
During the assault of the Japanese aggression from Malaya in February 1942, Changi was targeted as one of the first attack points. In a day or two, it was occupied by the Japanese army moving from Puala Ubin. Soon after that OCH was converted to a military hospital where all the wounded soldiers and civilians were attended to. After the Japanese Occupation ended, it was converted back to its original self, as a public hospital and later with a Military ward on the third level.
From February 1997 onwards, OCH was closed for its hospital operations were replaced by the new Changi General Hospital. It got isolated and left vacant there since then. According to some insider sources, the abandoned OCH will remain as it is but it will be re-open for the 'public' soon during 2005 for the Army Camp or for the Officer Cadet School (OCS) Trainees.
However, stories about the building being haunted started in the early 40's. The Hospital itself had 70+ years of rich history when it survived from the dreadful World War II that took place from 1942 to 1945, witnessing the fall of Singapore and the brutal tortures towards the prisoners of war (POW) that happened there. Therefore, seeing spirits of all races and of different nationals wandering around in the compound would be a common sight.
If you are thinking of visiting the hospital in the hope of bumping into a spirit of any nature, go with 2 or 3 friends. If you go beyond that, you will never see it as they are all hiding behind the window pane or the back of the door WATCHING at you. But of course, you can go there alone, however you will never find yourself ALONE. -
One person cannot?
Walk until sian already leh this place...
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This is quite a good information you have... too bad now the place is gonna be into an army camp, or so i heard...
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Dun disturb the spirits there lah. The one at the entrance quite harmless and playful. But I still shudder at the sight. I havent seen the insight, but the playful one freaked me off liao.
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I'm not sure if the one you talking is the half body boy... meaning he is floating with just the upper side of his body. no legs, no abdomen...
no? oh ok...
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IWENT IN B4 LEH..NOTHING LEH...BUT SHADE343 SAW THE GHOST WAVE AT HIM FOR 30 MINUTES SIA..HES FACE TURN WHITE...
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ARE THEY GOING TO REMOVE THE TILES AND STUFF? Where got ghost hide and watch de...
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wah~ he stared at the ghost for 30 min & didnt run away?Originally posted by Quinsy:IWENT IN B4 LEH..NOTHING LEH...BUT SHADE343 SAW THE GHOST WAVE AT HIM FOR 30 MINUTES SIA..HES FACE TURN WHITE... -
no leh...just stare and stare sia...while he stare we go explore...nothing much leh...14 ppl go in 3 groups...lol
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hahaha.....seems like there more humans than ghosts............
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Originally posted by Quinsy:no leh...just stare and stare sia...while he stare we go explore...nothing much leh...14 ppl go in 3 groups...lol
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LOl...friend got lame party on...so sian, so we all organise and go together lor...at night 11pm plus go, come out, nothing much leh...climb to roof top oso nothing...BUUT mosquitoes...
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Well to answer you first part of the question, Sort off, The OCH is goin to be torn down soon. Goin to be a military area soon. Good luck for those construction workers. For your second part, Spirits do not need to hide to watch, they can see you but you may not necessarily see them.Originally posted by Quinsy:ARE THEY GOING TO REMOVE THE TILES AND STUFF? Where got ghost hide and watch de... -
I agreedd... you sure it not human?Originally posted by huiz:wah~ he stared at the ghost for 30 min & didnt run away? -
Its not human cuz nobody saw it but him...and um, the entrance had no one there...the 14 ppl where inside and on the rooftop.Originally posted by DeathScyth:I agreedd... you sure it not human?
But body ache like siao after teh adventure leh...headache sia -
cool... old guy?Originally posted by Quinsy:Its not human cuz nobody saw it but him...and um, the entrance had no one there...the 14 ppl where inside and on the rooftop.
But body ache like siao after teh adventure leh...headache sia -
Actually i also heard from my friend that once a group pf them went into OCH to explore. Their purpse is to go to the third level and look for the door that have a brigde that link the 2 building together. Upon looking for sometime they still unable to find it, then they realise that they have been walking the same route all the time.
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Hmm, a lot of people have experienced the same thing, whereby they go around in circles in OCH, and end up at the same place over and over again...Originally posted by faith_09:Actually i also heard from my friend that once a group pf them went into OCH to explore. Their purpse is to go to the third level and look for the door that have a brigde that link the 2 building together. Upon looking for sometime they still unable to find it, then they realise that they have been walking the same route all the time.
Finally they were too scare so they left the place.
The chinese call this experience "Gui3 Zhe1 Yan3" - loosely translated as the eyes being covered by ghosts... -
my friend knew he way around... we link from one building to another, got so sian we went around scaring other ppl around who didn't know we were there. HAHAAHAHAOriginally posted by faith_09:Actually i also heard from my friend that once a group pf them went into OCH to explore. Their purpse is to go to the third level and look for the door that have a brigde that link the 2 building together. Upon looking for sometime they still unable to find it, then they realise that they have been walking the same route all the time.
Finally they were too scare so they left the place.
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And here's something about OCH that I found in SFOGS.com :
Submitted by: Linkin And PaPaRoach
E-Mail: none
Age: 13/14
From: Tampines
Title: The man at Old Changi Hospital
"My Story: On 23rd August..... I & my cousins decided to have a bicycle trip around Changi Beach. While cycling...my cousin Ady Burn the one who also wrote about the story called'The Very old hospital', decided that we go to the Old Changi Hospital in search of unusual phoenomena......All of us go there with our bikes.
As we reach there....we locked our bikes outside. At 1st..we felt a little scared...but when we want to enter the hospital..we heard a man voice only to know it was the security guard. But then we decided we have a chat with him of his experiences at the Old Changi Hospital....We had a very long talk with him...By then, it was already becoming dark. We decided to go home...we 1st shake hand with him and went to unlock our bikes...While we are locking our bike....we realised that the security guard is not there...we were scared.
Then....another voice called us. We realised it was a malay security guard...but it was the one whom we had a chat with.....When asked whether he had seen another security guard that we had just describe to him.....he look confused.......and told us that he was the only security guard left guarding the Old Changi Hospital..we look confused and ask him again...only to get an answer from the guard..that we just had a talk with the ex security guard that guard the Old Changi Hospital 30 years ago.....We were scared to death and flee with our bikes home....
After the incident...the five of us dare not go back to the Old Changi Hospital again...that was only at the outside of the hospital but not inside..so beware to all those whom had read this.
THE OLD CHANGI HOSPITAL IS HAUNTED!" -
Evil fellas...Originally posted by kopiosatu:my friend knew he way around... we link from one building to another, got so sian we went around scaring other ppl around who didn't know we were there. HAHAAHAHA
Heard you talk about this before...
The "banging doors" thingy right? -
how come i never see things like this one... even at my unit, supposedly haunted, i walk around in darkness alone... nothing
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oooh ooh, no no we never bang doors... they were coming down the steps as we were going up... we saw the torchlights hit the wall...Originally posted by PaJeRoMiNi Ver 1.0:Evil fellas...
Heard you talk about this before...
The "banging doors" thingy right?
well tactically went back down and hid behind a wall... when they came down my friend made a "wooooooo" ghostly sound, then the torch shine in our direction... when they turned their back on us, my friend did that sound again.
after that we followed them at a distance, we moved the doors, like someone is opening and closing them... then we moved the chairs and made dragging noises...
that was FUN! somemore all finish army or in army, we just wanted to see ghosts, in the end we went to the roof, saw the night skyline...
the attic had nothing leh, we opened it and found nothing there, except the roof was slightly wrecked... we went there with cigarette lighters, not torches, hahahhaha!!!
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MuhahahahaOriginally posted by kopiosatu:well tactically went back down and hid behind a wall... when they came down my friend made a "wooooooo" ghostly sound, then the torch shine in our direction... when they turned their back on us, my friend did that sound again.
You guys are like the Ghost Recon team sia....(pun intended) -
muahahahh that was what we were whispering to each otherOriginally posted by PaJeRoMiNi Ver 1.0:Muhahahaha
You guys are like the Ghost Recon team sia....(pun intended)
tactical tactical!!!! What to do... army guys.