Wednesday, August 23, 2006
FavFred All,
Theres something interesting I feel like updating today..
Actually, I was planning for a day getaway with my cousins, his friends and my hubby and a few of our friends..mayb max of 10 people.. by end of September..
It was just a day trip to KL Museum.
Why the trip?? ~
We would like to check out these ghostly phenomenon..D interesting part bout it all is because of the ghostly thingy that they were showcasing..kept in the museum..such as the langsuir, pochong, toyol and many more( the malay ghost)..
It was believed that all these things that they were showing in the museum are real… that they actually freeze it using their own techniques to avoid the spririts to wander around..
It was located in Sultan Alam Shah Museum in central Selangor.
Here are some cuts from the net stating that the Malaysian’s wrote a letter to the US research team to conduct scientific test to the paranormal items displayed in the museum’s exhibition..check this out!!...
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A Malaysian museum will let a US research team from Ripley's Believe It or Not! conduct scientific tests on genies, ghouls and other paranormal items on display in an exhibition to determine whether they are real.
The three-month Mysteries, Genies, Ghosts and Coffins exhibition at the Sultan Alam Shah Museum in central Selangor state has drawn criticism since it began in July 4. Some accuse it of being un-Islamic, while others have denounced the items as fakes.
The exhibition has drawn tens of thousands of visitors. Officials say the approximately 100 items on display include a preserved mermaid; the shrivelled skeletal remains of a half-woman, half snake; a goblin trapped in a bottle; and other creatures from Malay folklore.
Amzah Umar, chairman of the Selangor Museum Board, said on Friday the organisers and the owner of the exhibits have agreed to Ripley's request to examine the items. Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a franchise which deals in bizarre events, having started in 1918 as a newspaper cartoon panel featuring unusual and startling facts from around the world.”Umar said: "They have written to us for permission to analyse the items. A team from US will be coming to conduct scientific tests.
"This will put to rest any allegations that the exhibits are fake."He did not say when the tests would be conducted.
Ghostly Affair At Shah Alam Museum SHAH ALAM, July 10 -- "The fishy stench was so unbearable!" That was how acting director of the Selangor Museum Board, Mohd Lotfi Nazar, described his experience opening a box containing a preserved "mermaid." That was not all.
Besides the "mermaid", he also received a collection of ghosts and "genies" for the exhibition entitled "Mysteries, Genies, Ghosts, Coffins" now being held at Muzium Sultan Alam Shah.
The three-month exhibition is scheduled to end on Oct 4.
According to Mohd Lotfi, when a thermometer is placed near the preserved mermaid, its body temperature changes.
"These things have energy. When I touched the mermaid with my hands, I could feel the energy generating from it. Seems like it's not one hundred percent dead."
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REAL GHOSTS
This exhibition is said to be different from previous exhibitions, especially in terms of the materials and mediums used.
"Almost 90 per cent of the exhibits are real and in their original form. Apart from the ghosts, we also have exhibits related to offerings and sacrifices. These artefacts are loaned from Muzium Nurul A'la in Kuang, Selangor," said Mohd Lotfi.
In total, there are 100 artefacts related to ghosts and genies exhibited at the museum with 13 ghost artefacts in their original form.Among the ghosts displayed are "Jenglot", "Nyi Blorong", "Langsuir", "Toyol", "Anak Kerak" and "Pocong".
The exhibition hall has been turned into a scene from a horror movie, with a "stretch of lonely road" as its backdrop.Imagine walking on this dimly-lit lonely road covered with a thin mist ...an old car stranded by the road side with gravestones on the front seats!
The graveyard is filled with more gravestones and the smell of camphor fills the cold night air .... All these are enough to give visitors the creeps!At one corner of the hall is a glass room partly closed with a black curtain. Through the glass, you can see a coffin, half-opened with a figure wrapped in a white shroud lying in it. Many visitors flock to the glass room to have a glimpse of the "Pocong".
EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION
Mohd Lotfi said he came up with the idea of exhibiting the ghost collection when he was involved in a project in Kuala Selangor. As he had a deep interest in the mystical world, several villagers who were also involved in the project convinced him to visit the Muzium Nurul A'la owned by Safuan Abu Bakar and which has rare items including a ghost collection.
"I went to his (Safuan's) house and I was amazed with what he had. I had never seen such a collection. Those artefacts are unique and rare. In my 20 years of working with the museum, that was the first time I saw such a spectacular collection.
"Then I came up with the idea of exhibiting them to give the public useful information and insight into the world of spirits and ghosts which have always mystified them.The organisers expect about a million people to visit the exhibition.
"We want to create awareness on the devils' and genies' deception which can swerve our faith. We also want to expose the negative impact of black magic practises, the importance to stay true to our religion and to rid our fear of ghosts," Mohd Lotfi said.
OWNER'S STORY
However, Safuan declined to reveal how he got those items but said his collection proved the existence of some weird things that were seldom seen by man.
"The artefacts in my collection prove that man has certain capabilities to catch them (the spirits/ghosts). We are created much higher than them as we are the caliphs of Allah to look after this world," he said. Safuan and his staff are prepared for any untoward incident with a special treatment room set up at the museum.
Commenting on the establishment of his Nurul A'la museum, Safuan said the first item he received was a keris, inherited from his descendants, in 1986. He said he was chosen to look after the keris through a dream.Other items that came into his possession were a twin sea-coconut shells originating from Istana Cempaka Sari in Pulau Tiga, Perak and a walking stick called Saiful Rijal.
From then on, he started collecting items of mystic and set up the museum.
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Interesting?? Read on.... The mermaid’s owner, Safuan Abu Bakar, is adamant that the exhibit is real. He told The Star that he and a group of bomoh (mediums) took months to locate the mermaid “in a secret location in a neighbouring country.” “After locating it, we performed special prayers, including throwing yellow rice into the sea, to entice the creature out,” he said. The mermaid died when it surfaced. A visitor, Mohd Rafi Osman, 35, said he came out of the exhibition with mixed feelings. “I don’t know whether to believe it or not,” he said. Azmi Baharin, 37, said it was not logical for mermaids to exist. “If there is a female specimen, where is the male?” he asked. Souaud, 61, was so curious of the exhibition that he brought his wife, daughter and grandchildren all the way from Kota Kinabalu. “I’ve not seen a live one. Hearing all about them makes me want to see the real one,” said the farmer. But the large crowd left many people disappointed. “When there are too many people, I don’t get to see the exhibits properly,” said Chong Moon Har, 23. Arifin Shamsudin, 40, said: “My family and I came purely for the entertainment.” Will Redsky, 36, from the United States, who did not get to go in, said he wanted to know more of the Malaysian culture and folklores. “In America, we have our own folklores too like (those on) Bigfoot and werewolves,” he said. Selangor Museum Board acting director Mohd Lotfi Nazar said the exhibition, ending on Oct 4, received an overwhelming response and the museum was looking for a bigger hall to display the mermaid.
Hundreds turn up to see mummified mermaid
SHAH ALAM: They came by the hundreds to the small hall wanting to see for themselves what they had read in books and seen in movies.
At the “Genies, Ghost, Coffin?” exhibition at Museum Sultan Alam Shah, a mummified mermaid has caught the imagination of the visitors.
Encased in glass, the exhibit is half-a-metre long with hair and scales on its body and the tail of a fish.
IS IT REAL?: A visitor admiring what is said to be the mummified mermaid at an exhibition held at the Museum Sultan Abdul Alam Shah in Selangor.
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