Uncle Kentang Claims Eerie Noises From Morgue Stopped After Wig Returned To Deceased Woman
"Each time the staff was on duty, the sounds would emit from this special compartment of the deceased," Kuan wrote.
Cover image via Chee Heng Kuan (Facebook)In a chilling post, a funeral volunteer claimed that unexplained noises had been coming from a deceased woman's body in a morgue, sounds that stopped only after she was reunited with her missing "crown"
Kuan Chee Heng, a social activist better known as Uncle Kentang, who regularly assists with funeral arrangements for unclaimed bodies, recounted the strange experience in a Facebook post on 17 May.
The case involved a woman who passed away on 21 March, whose remains were held at the hospital while police attempted to trace her next of kin for nearly two months without success.
Kuan was eventually asked to handle her final rites, but what began as a routine assignment soon took a strange turn. As he was doing the paperworks, the morgue staff warned him to "put back her crown".
According to Kuan, the forensic staff had been hearing disturbing noises, described as "knocking or ruffling", coming specifically from the woman's body storage compartment in the morgue.
"Each time he was on duty, the sounds will emit from this special compartment of this said deceased," Kuan wrote, adding that the forensic staff felt disturbed and grew worried.
"In his experience, he felt that the deceased wanted to send some special signals to him," he wrote, claiming that it only occurred when certain staff were on duty, and persisted over a period of time.
Feeling unsettled, the staff reviewed the woman's hospital admission records and discovered a clue that seemed to explain the odd occurrences.
It turns out, when she was alive, the woman had a big disagreement with the staff at the emergency department for touching her "crown"
Her "crown"?
It was actually a wig she wore due to hair loss from cancer treatment.
A nurse in the emergency department recalled that the deceased had warned all staff to take good care of her "crown". She wore the wig to continue feeling beautiful when her real hair fell off.
The wig had been left behind in the hospital ward and wasn't with the body when it was transferred to the morgue. After the revelation, the staff retrieved the wig, placed it in a box, and laid it beside her body.
Image via Chee Heng Kuan (Facebook)
What happened next was nothing less than chilling
That very night, all sounds of someone "kicking" at her compartment stopped.
"No more ruffling sounds from that compartment," Kuan noted.
He said he was warned by the staff to put the wig back on the deceased's head when placing her inside the coffin or "face the consequences". Taking no chances, Kuan instructed the funeral parlour's cosmetologist to style her with the wig for her wake at the Jinjang Funeral Parlour in Kuala Lumpur.
"Since she wanted to be beautiful, I requested two bouquets of beautiful flowers for her wake… I believe she was a prim and proper person, taking care of her personality even after she is dead," he wrote.
Image via Chee Heng Kuan (Facebook)
Kuan said that the woman's body was cremated at Cheras Crematorium on 16 May, and a wake was conducted for her the next day in Jalan Kepong with last rites and chanting performed by monks
Kuan, who has been handling funerals since 1991, said this was the first time he had ever received such a case and described the experience as one that shook him despite years of dealing with tragic deaths.
"I never in my life received a special case from this hospital and this is the first one that was entrusted to me. I think everything is fated. I believe she chose who to do her last rites.
"Maybe or not, I believe I was chosen to handle it delicately," he wrote, adding that he will personally scatter her ashes at the Pulau Ketam jetty, and will be doing everything he can to track down her next of kin.
"A promise to the dead must be fulfilled," he pledged.
Image via Chee Heng Kuan (Facebook)
While noting that it is up to each person to decide whether to believe him, he advised everyone to not have evil intentions in their lives
"My advice: do good. Never do bad things and have evil intention in your daily life. I believe this deceased has done good merits in her life and she was destined to meet me," he said while ending his post.
Uncle Kentang (in white shirt) seen paying his last respects to the deceased woman.
Image via Chee Heng Kuan
