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I love spooky stories but only this special story was captured inside my mind for long time after hearing it from a close friend. He is called *Daren and he is a Singaporean who is living in Changi. He is currently staying with his family except his beloved departed father. Well, Daren‘s father passed away due to heart- attacked. According to Daren, his father was a very fierce man who would not hesitate to slap, punch or beat if Daren and his siblings were wrong or disobedient and the whole family really terrified of him. Whenever we spoke about his beloved father whom he often called “Pa”, Daren would shake his head and commented;- “Well, my pa wasn’t a bad father after all. He just had foul temper and was real domineering, so it was hard for him to put up with any challenge to his absolute authority. Most probably it was because my mum left us since we were young. I do totally agree sometime his dad was slightly over protective”. Daren once told me his elder bro was caught smoking in school and he was beaten silly. When he, himself forged his father‘s signature in his report book (where we used to do this silly act together), then next day I saw Daren bruises all over his arms and legs. He was belted from head to toe. But after a cup of “teh tarik’ with him at mamak stall then his emotion will be fully recover and Daren really can forget those unpleasant incident fast. At that teenage‘s moment, we never regret what we did actually. The only person who escape from any form punishment from his pa was his beloved sister named *Dolly. Yes…his father did adore Dolly very much. In my opinion, most probably, she is the youngest in the family. Daren told me in his e-mail a few weeks ago, “Eleena, anyway, what I ‘m going to tell you is that ever since my father died, I believe in ghosts because my fathers come to visit us a plenty. “ Of course, I thought Daren was kidding me. He used to play prank on me so I did not believe him at first but after finished reading his story and know his family pretty well then I began to trust his story. He began his story by picturing his father at the balcony, brooding, reading, watching TV or simply tinkering with his digital diary. Daren said his father death was so unexpected because he had been so fit and larger than life. Daren and his siblings hadn’t seen him sick or feeble so it didn’t feel as if he had died. It was as if he had merely gone away for vacation. One night, Daren was left home alone because his sister went for a holiday at Thailand with relatives and his elder brother was in National service. For once, he had free reign of the house and no one to be afraid of. Or so he thought. Daren went to the shop and bought a pack of Marlboros and went to the balcony to smoke. He did this because he did not want to stink his room. Daren ashamed to admit this but he had few dirty magazine to read on. He dragged on the cigarette, lost in steamy and sexy stories in the magazine. Out of sudden, he felt a hard slap across hid face, stinging his cheek and causing his eyes to water. BUT THERE WAS NO ONE THERE! The cigarette was pulled out of his mouth and flew out of the balcony window. And then his father‘s voice rang out “if you ever do that again, I will kill you!” He was panicked and ran out of the house, leaving the door open and sat below the block for hours and his heart was beating rapidly. When he finally gathered enough courage to go up again, he didn’t dare to look at the balcony where the strange incident happened. He locked his room and he didn’t get to sleep the whole night. When his sister, Dolly finally arrived home from her vacation, Daren told her about the incident. Dolly replied and told her that she had the similar experienced too. One night after her tuition class, she was returning home very late and was walking up to the path when she heard some weird noise behind. She turned behind and he saw a naked man was standing behind her. At first the flasher was grinning in sick sort of way at her. Then his eyes looked up past her and before Dolly knew what was happening, the flasher was so terrified and run away leaving her alone. Dolly rushed home and called the police immediately. The neighborhood police managed to catch the flasher who was running down the street naked. Dolly then learned that this pervert had been doing this for some time-lurking around the blocked naked waiting for women and exposing himself and even molesting some of them. The police had given up capturing him but this time he didn’t get away. According to the molester, he had seen a man ‘s face outside the third story balcony which was Dolly ‘s house- and the man just jumped and flew at him with arm outstretched as if to rip his heart out. The molester was sure the ‘evil’ apparition would kill him. Dolly was pretty sure that the apparition was’ ah pa ‘because he used to wait for her at balcony whenever she had late night. This was his way of protecting her. Finally, Daren ended his story by concluding, “I guess my dad being a stubborn man he was, just didn’t see why death should stop him from looking out for his children.”