Haunting news from Balai Berita

cmf_wombat

By Marc Lourdes | Yahoo Newsroom – 20 hours ago

Alarmed over otherworldly sightings and demonic possessions within its office building, the New Straits Times recently took the drastic step of calling in a team of bomoh to 'cleanse' its headoffice at Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur.

Several bomoh (shaman) were called in at about 9pm last Saturday after a staff member was reportedly possessed by a spirit while working out in the company gym on the second floor of the building.

All staff members in the NST newsroom, located on the same floor, were told to vacate the premises for about half-an-hour while the bomoh ‘cleansed’ the building.

A staff member said the woman who had been allegedly possessed was behaving ‘like a tiger’ adding that she roared when the bomoh entered the gym.

The 'cleansing' exercise temporarily halted production of the New Sunday Times, at an hour when operations are usually at a peak. However, the staff managed to meet their production deadline, despite the delay.

The reportedly haunted Balai Berita (Yahoo! Newsroom photo)

When contacted, several NST staff who declined to be named said the company’s Jalan Riong premises has been plagued by ghostly apparitions for years. They claim that people have seen the ghost of a girl with long black hair, a jinn, a headless man and a being with no face.

“The worst affected parts of the building are the rear lifts, toilet and car park,” said one staff, adding that the company's security guards are among those who’ve seen the ghosts.

The employee also claimed that the sightings has increased after an unoccupied part of the complex’s older block was refurbished and re-tenanted.

Red-eyed jinn

Another staff member claimed that an employee working for Berita Harian - the sister publication of the NST which shares the same premises - saw a red-eyed jinn sitting on a car as she entered the 21-storey car park late one night.

Asked if there had been any deaths on the premises, an NST editor said a construction worker had once been found hanged in the building sometime during the 1990s.

“He either committed suicide or was murdered. Nobody knows exactly,” the editor said. “After that, people began seeing things and lots of rumours began floating around. But no one ever came to any harm,”
adding that the ‘disturbances’ had never been on the scale of Saturday’s events.

However, retired New Straits Times associate editor Rehman Rashid pooh-poohed the alleged hauntings.

“I’m not denigrating the problem at all, but the concern should be more for disturbed people than the disturbed premises,” he said.

Rehman said there was nothing inexplicable about the situation.

Another view of Balai Berita (Yahoo! Newsroom photo).

“People work strange hours and the office is full of long corridors. People are bound to see strange shadows,” he said.

No comment

When contacted by Yahoo! Malaysia, New Straits Times Press Bhd chief executive officer Anthony Bujang declined to comment.

“I don’t have anything to say about that,” he said.


The story of Saturday’s exorcism was first brought to light by blogger 'uppercaise' who, quoting company insiders, claimed that most of the ghostly sightings occured in the car-park late at night and that the apparitions were usually seen perched on ledges.

Balai Berita has been home to the New Straits Times since 1967. The sprawling office complex also houses Berita Harian and Harian Metro, another vernacular newspaper in the NSTP stable, as well as the company’s corporate and administrative offices.

Omong

antu kak limah

momomikomiki

what can ia say...

cmf_wombat

sarang hantu... ce tgk jenis2 mahluk halus dorang jumpa

journalist harian metro byk kena rasuk kot

True-X

A staff member said the woman who had been allegedly possessed was behaving ‘like a tiger’ adding that she roared when the bomoh entered the gym.

meroyan sbb harimau malaya kalah kot..

wekwek1

red eye jin

zizadin

menakutkan....

mierrr

Agak2 kalau ditempat yang asyik berperang/jenayah mana kita lebih takut. Hantu ke manusia?

cmf_wombat

uols dah tgk cite Insidious?

ifanonline

setahu aku, jin dan hantu suka kacau kalau berita2 palsu di keluarkan oleh akbar2 mainstream...jin dan hantu tak puas hati juga kerajaan menyekat 'suara' mereka...



Gambar hiasan

niceghost2005

By Marc Lourdes | A staff member said the woman who had been allegedly possessed was behaving ‘like a tiger’ adding that she roared when the bomoh entered the gym.
cmf_wombat Post at 29-7-2011 16:16

Ini HANTU HARIMAU MALAYA yg KALAH semalam tu......................
Dier mengamuk laaaaa................
Malu weh.........

Yang belum jadi HANTU lagi adalah coach nya yg tak tahu malu!!!

Vokuro

saya juga pernah dengar daripada kawan saya tentang proses pembersihan bangunan promenade yg ada office MMC oil & gas itu, kawan saya bekerja di sana.

sebelum itu beliau pernah bercerita tentang beliau selalu mimpi ngeri ada wanita seperti ponti merenung beliau di hujung katil semasa beliau tidur.

namun selepas beliau balik outstation pada satu kali itu, nightmare itu sudah tiada.


lama kemudian selepas peristiwa nightmare ponti renung di hujung katil itu beliau cerita pula tentang di office building beliau selalu orang nampak ponti itu, ada jumpa di dalam lift dan sebagai nya sehinggakan pihak pentadbir terpaksa  memanggil bomoh untuk bersih.

selepas itu sudah tiada kot penampakan.

walaupun beliau tiada langsung kaitkan antara peristiwa nightmare beliau itu dengan penampakan di building office beliau itu namun saya merasakan yg haunted beliau dahulu adalah ponti yg sama from building beliau.

dahulu beliau cerita tentang nightmare ponti itu sebab beliau merasakan kolig beliau bomoh kan beliau, biasalah kan orang melayu tidak boleh pisah dengan bomoh.

mamaque

saya juga pernah dengar daripada kawan saya tentang proses pembersihan bangunan promenade yg ada off ...
Vokuro Post at 29-7-2011 17:12

ada tak orang jumpa pontianak pandai cakap keling?

cmf_wombat

opis sebelah dang wangi LRT stesen tu...building color putih skang show room tok kete apa nama ntah...

situ kawan selalu jumpa kat server room
yg rambut panjang la
budak kecik la...
dulu2 by kol 6 je server asyik hang... last2 bos panggil ghostbuster suh tgk... die kata budak kecik tu p kacau server

BENTARA

ada tak orang jumpa pontianak pandai cakap keling?
mamaque Post at 29-7-2011 17:15

dalam grop ini ada banyak ....

R2D2

boleh masuk siri kat TV3 ni

Vokuro

opis sebelah dang wangi LRT stesen tu...building color putih skang show room tok kete apa nama ntah. ...
cmf_wombat Post at 29-7-2011 17:19

   pandai lah pula beliau kacau server.
so tech savvy sebegitu

cmf_wombat

pandai lah pula beliau kacau server.
so tech savvy sebegitu
Vokuro Post at 29-7-2011 17:45

curious kot
well kids will always be kids

TulenBang

banyak sangat maksiat dalam bangunan tu.. dari bumbung sampai ke bawah...

harimau76

agak scarry kalau macam tu...