When I was putting together the manuscript for The World’s Most Haunted Hospitals this time last year, I wrote extensively about the dark and disturbing stories of paranormal activity that surrounded the old Changi hospital in Singapore. Unlike many of the other hospitals and asylums that I covered in the book, I could find absolutely no anecdotes surrounding the Changi facility that were anything other than downright terrifying…which is hardly surprising, given the former RAF hospital’s history as a base of operations for the Japanese military’s secret police force during World War II, when brutal torture and physical abuse were the order of the day. A found-footage horror movie called Haunted Changi was made about the place, back when it was still dilapidated and in dire need of repair.
I had the opportunity to catch up with my friend and paranormal investigator Noel Boyd, star of the web-based documentary series Ghost Files Singapore. Noel is one of the few researchers who has actually set foot inside the old Changi hospital in person, and after we had completed our interview for an upcoming book project, I seized the chance to ask him for an update on Singapore’s most haunted hospital.
As it turns out, the old Changi compound is now a place of residence and commerce; one of the blocks serves as student housing accommodation, whereas other buildings have been renovated and function as store and retail outlets. Noel relates that it is now next-to-impossible for the would-be paranormal investigator to obtain a permit for investigation there, although he has heard from a number of reliable sources that the ghostly activity has not abated in the slightest. One has to wonder just how many sleepless nights are being had in the student accommodation block, and how many of the shadowy figures that eyewitnesses have reported are still lurking there.
Somehow, I suspect that we haven’t heard the last ghost story out of old Changi yet.
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