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Mother’s Curse and the HDB Stairwell
A conscript’s silence breaks when his mother’s ghost haunts their HDB stairwell — not to warn, but to demand he climb to the top floor and burn her wedding photo before dawn, or their block will vanish like the kampong it replaced.
The Ghost Who Got Promoted
A temple volunteer in 1957 Singapore gets shoved into a colonial civil service post — but the promotion only sticks if he outlasts the ghost haunting the office. The rules don’t care if he’s Chinese, if he’s poor, or if the building still smells of burnt joss paper.
The Ghost Who Paid My NS Fees
A boy trapped in 1963 must impersonate his dead uncle to pay off his father’s debt — but the colonial curfew, the hawker stall ledger, and the ghost’s unfinished duty won’t let him go back.
Tuition Teacher’s Ghost Class
A broke exNSman tutors rich kids in a 1980s HDB block, but his students’ scores rise too fast—because he’s channeling the dead tutor who once taught here, and the building’s rules don’t allow two teachers in one room.
Ghost in the HDB
A Grab driver uncovers a hidden talent during Singapore’s postapocalyptic blackout, using it to survive a city ruled by academic terror—where every child’s grades dictate their fate, and silence is the only way to stay alive.
The Scholar and the Spirit
A student unravels a hidden world beneath the HDB flats, where ancestral spirits demand sacrifice for academic success, forcing him to choose between tradition and modernity.
The HDB Ghost and the Merdeka Feast
A young man returns to his family’s HDB flat for a reunion, only to find his overbearing mother has awakened a forgotten spirit tied to Singapore’s colonial past.
The Ghost Who Stole My HDB Bonus
A returned overseas Chinese exaccountant turns spirit medium to expose a scammer who faked ancestral blessings to swindle HDB applicants—until the ghost he’s channeling starts laughing at his own funeral.
The Barista Who Forgot 1965
A café barista in Tiong Bahru starts seeing ghosts of kampong neighbours who vanish when the clock strikes 4. 15pm — but the world remembers them only when he does.
The Exam That Broke the Wall
A boy’s final school exam becomes a silent war against his father’s rigid expectations, revealing a hidden betrayal that cracks open a family’s truth — and reshapes their future in a Singapore still learning to breathe after the past.
The Ghost of Kallang Road
A retired civil servant is forced into a supernatural witness protection scheme after uncovering a hawkercentre curse tied to Singapore’s colonial past.
The Last Kueh Lapis of Kampong Gelam
A former Ah Beng enforces a banned colonial curfew to protect a MalayChinese baker’s last batch of kueh lapis — until the recipe becomes the only thing holding his community together.
The Healer Who Fed the HDB Ghosts
A quiet herbalist by day secretly feeds cursed rice balls to the spirits haunting his HDB block—until the government’s new antisuperstition drive turns his quiet sin into a death sentence.
The Last Feng Shui Master of Kampong Tiong Bahru
A disgraced geomancer must break a curse tied to British colonial land theft — or watch his grandson vanish into the HDB ghost stories no one dares name.
The Ghost Code of Block 43
A tech founder’s AI prototype starts speaking in ancestral prayers — and the HDB block it’s installed in begins rewiring itself to remember the dead.
The Kaya Toast That Remembered
A lonely NS conscript fakes a relationship with his grandmother’s ghost to survive his HDB flat’s cursed kitchen — but the ghost only eats when the family’s food rituals are performed, and the last recipe is missing.
The HDB Lottery Ghost
A retired fisherman wins a postapocalyptic lottery in a crumbling Singapore, only to find the prize forces him to confront a ghostly debt from the kampong days — and the city’s new rules demand he vanish before sunrise.
HDB Shadows
A café barista uncovers a hidden layer of Singapore’s past while navigating the pressures of career and cultural identity.
The Ghost Who Signed My Promotion
A young clerk in a 1950s colonial office survives Japanese occupation only to be blocked from promotion by his own father’s rigid code — until a whispering shadow in the records room starts signing his name on forms no one else can touch.
Uncle Tan’s Last Rent Collection
A neighbourhood watch uncle hunts a ghost tenant who stopped paying rent—only to find the flat’s emptiness is no accident, but a pact made when the HDB blocks first rose.
