Latest Stories

The Last Compass of Kampong Kallang

A forgotten feng shui master wakes with no memory, tasked by a ghost to realign the soullines of a dying kampong—before the HDB bulldozers erase it forever.
Author: Ang Hui Ting 3286 words

The Boy Who Fed the HDB Ghost

A scholarship student from a kampong backwater survives a haunted HDB block’s supernatural trial by feeding its hunger—not with offerings, but with memory. His act rewires the building’s curse into something shared, something human.
Author: Yeo Teck Meng 2687 words

The Last Stolen Kueh

A young NS recruit steals a family heirloom kueh from a haunted HDB kitchen to prove he’s not a coward — but the thing remembers who cooked it.
Author: Wong Han Ming 2320 words

The Ghost Who Took My NS Draft Number

A superstitious auntie steals a conscript’s draft number to break his family’s cycle of poverty—only for the HDB flat above to start whispering back in Malay and Mandarin, and the ghost of a Japanese officer to demand its return before conscription day.
Author: Ananya Das 2069 words

The Ghost Who Taught Me to Code

A polytechnic student haunted by her grandmother’s spirit learns to rebuild a lost kampong’s digital archive — but only if she breaks the law that forbids coding on ancestral land.
Author: Wong Li Ling 1909 words

The Ghost Who Signed My NS Form

A conscripted boy in 1963 Singapore discovers his late uncle’s ghost haunts the army barracks—not to scare, but to correct paperwork. When the military’s new ID scanner starts erasing names of the dead, he must choose between obeying orders or letting his uncle vanish forever.
Author: Zhang Kai Wen 2562 words

Ah Beng’s Tiger Mum Taught Him to Burn Down HDB Blocks

A exgangster turned hawker stall owner must torch his own HDB flat to prove he’s not a failure—after his tiger mum bets her life savings on his NS failure. The twist? The flat’s haunted by a ghost who only laughs when someone fails their parents.
Author: Tan Ah Kow 2484 words

Mama’s Tiger, the Ghost, and the Scholarship That Broke the HDB

A scholarship girl hides in a haunted HDB flat after her father’s secret testimony topples a colonialera syndicate—only to find her mother’s tiger parenting is the real supernatural force.
Author: Low Siew Eng 2988 words

The Ghost Who Paid My Mother’s Debts

A girl in a Tampines HDB flat uncovers her late grandmother’s pact with a spirit that feeds on debt — but when the debt collector comes for her, the rules change.
Author: Chloe Sim 2980 words

Grandma’s Last Dowry

A grandmother hides a forbidden land deed in her HDB flat to break her granddaughter’s arranged engagement — but the law now forbids ancestral claims after the 1961 Land Acquisition Act. When the groom’s family demands proof of lineage, the deed becomes a weapon — and the old woman’s silence, a countdown.
Author: Sarah Ng 2783 words

The Ghost Who Taught Me to Share

A kiasu NS recruit discovers his unit’s haunted latrine is haunted by a ghost who only appears when someone shares food — forcing him to break his lonewolf habits to survive the night.
Author: Sim Guo Liang 2915 words

The Lady Who Fed the HDB Ghosts

A retired civil servant who once enforced colonial land records now feeds phantom children in an HDB block where the walls remember the Occupation — until the night she realises the ghosts weren’t lost kids, but the ones who betrayed her.
Author: Foo Shi Yun 1851 words

The Last Tuition Lesson at Bukit Timah

A retired tuition teacher returns to his old HDB flat to collect unpaid fees from an expat family, only to find the house haunted by memories of colonialera displacement — and a rule no one dares break after midnight.
Author: Wong Han Ming 2001 words

Mother’s Ghosts in Block 43

A young woman working nights at a HDB estate’s last remaining night market must outlast her mother’s ancestral demands — or become the next spirit bound to the stairwell’s third landing.
Author: Leong Jia Wen 2702 words

The Lady Who Forgot Her Name at Tiong Bahru Temple

A temple volunteer wakes with no memory of her past, but the shrine she tends begins whispering secrets only a colonialera ghost would know — and the rules of the place demand she forgets again, or her family pays the price.
Author: Ng Geok Hua 2242 words

The Last Kueh Lapis Heist

A disgraced exNS conscript turns ghosthaunted HDB stairwell into a smuggling route to steal colonialera wealth hidden beneath a kampong shrine — but the real treasure is the trust of five broken families who dare to believe in something better.
Author: Chen Wei Jie 2882 words

The Ghost Who Ran the HDB Block

After surviving the 1965 blackout that erased her memory, a former colonial clerk turns grassroots leader in a haunted HDB block—only to discover the building’s cursed elevator runs on the unpaid wages of the dead.
Author: Chen Li Wei 2380 words

The Ghost Who Filed the Complaint

A retired neighbourhood watch uncle uncovers a colonialera ghost haunting an HDB block — not to scare, but to settle a 1947 land deed fraud. When the spirit’s revenge hinges on a forgotten rule buried in British land records, he must outlast bureaucracy longer than he outlived his wife.
Author: Tan Si Qi 3143 words

The Ghost Who Took My NS Pay

A young clerk in a 1950s HDB outpost discovers the building’s ghost isn’t a superstition—it’s a colonialera clerk who still collects pay, and only stops when the last British officer’s name is erased from the ledger. His ambition to climb the ranks forces him to choose between truth and survival.
Author: Goh Chin Aik 2424 words

The Last Kueh Lapis of Tiong Bahru

A former HDB clerk turns scavenger after the Great Blackout, hunting for his father’s hidden recipe in a city where electricity no longer powers homes—only memory. His ambition to rebuild a legacy clashes with the rule: no food may be cooked without state permit. He pays the price.
Author: Kumar Rajan 1709 words