Most Haunted Places On Earth

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City-state Singapore is a global financial center in the 21st century, but its violent past has led to a haunted present. The Old Changi Hospital, for instance, is haunted by the victims of Japanese war crimes. Built by the British as the Royal Air Force Hospital, the compound was used as a prison camp for the Japanese secret police (Kempeitai) during WW2. Some rooms were converted into torture chambers. One Australian prisoner recalls histreatment at the hands of the Kempeitai:The interviewer produced a small piece of wood like a meat skewer, pushed that into my left ear, and tapped it with a small hammer. I think I fainted some time after it went through the drum. I remember the last excruciating sort of pain, and I must have gone out for some time because I was revived with a bucket of water. The hospital was shut down in 1997, and has remained vacant since. At one point there were plans to turn it into a resort, but financing supposedly fell through. Numerous people who wandered the grounds report ghostly phenomena, including disembodied screams, spectral shadows, lights turning off, and phantom scents. Some even claim to have been been touched by ghostly hands.