Here's today Ghost Story. Seem to be the same person. (Previous ghost story)

It was months after the incident at the barracks that happened to me. I have duty on the 1st of Lunar 7th month with my buddy as the Guard Commander and me as the Guard 2IC. Side track a bit, both of us being a smoker, every time we have duty, we tend to smoke in front of the admin area at night and chitchatting away. In fact, smokers in my camp usually if spotted us together, will opt to do that duty as both of us can get real slack if the Duty Officer was good.

As it was the 1st day of lunar 7th month, my buddy, Eugene started to talk crap and suggested that we share some ghost stories we heard. But before that we were instructed by our DO to light the incense for the altar at the barracks. So both of us go and light the incense for the altar.

After ensuring everything is alright, we headed back to the front of the admin area to start the lame story sharing. As usual those slack prowlers would gather and we started sharing our encounters. Then that is also when i heard, after months in the camp, the ghostly encounters within the camp.

Some stories do freak me out, but some do make me laugh for the aftermath was rather comical. So we carried on until it was time I drive the orderly together for a vehicle prowl.

While we were driving, my orderly spotted flashes of blue lights at the darkest area in the storehouse areas, where all of us in the depot call it the DEAD SPOT, due to the story sharing session earlier on, plus the experience months back. I decided to just ensure its not intruder and quickly make our way back.

But just then, the flashes of light disappeared just when I was looking towards the direction of the blue lights my orderly had spotted. I joked with him that it could be his own imagination, and make our way back.

But back in admin area, me and my buddy decided that we shall make another vehicle prowl every 1/2 hour till 12 to ensure there was no intruder as we do not want to take any chances. DO approved and we start to delegate the timings.

As usual nothing was spotted and the dog prowlers too spotted nothing, so we decided to "turn in" early.

Dawn approaches soon and we have to off all the lights. We off all the lights in the admin and dinning area while the orderly off the barracks. From his statement after that, he took quick glance, the altar was still intact when he went to off the lights. As he was a christian and a non-believer with Chinese deities, he did not light the incense and expects any regular sergeant to do it later in the day.

But, the altar was found to be burnt when we make our way back to the barracks to keep our SBOs. And throughout the supposed burning, no one smell any burning and after putting out the fire, to everyone's surprise, the whole table including the deity was burnt beyond recognition. As we all know, for the whole table to be burn to that state, it has to be a big fire but the ash/black marks only surround a small area and the upper part of the wall. The table which was rest on do not show signs of burning, and the roof as well.

After cleaning up, 1 of our regular sergeant who knows a bit about the praying procedures and such did say that it could be the deity protecting us, or some of them say the deity actually "fought or subdued " it and leaves the clay figurine.