My Story: This happened when in 1999 when my father sent me, my cousin and 3 friends to Kelantan, Malaysia to study some religious stuffs for about a month. The place was called 'Pondok', meaning 'hut' in English, why it was called Pondok was because everyone lived in pondoks there, and it was like a very big community of pondoks.

After 1 week staying there, strange things started to happen. For your information, my cousin shared a pondok together and my other 3 friends in another. Then one nite, around 2 plus in the morning, i and my cousin was about to go back to our pondok after chatting with some of our newly made friends in the their pondoks. My cousin was beside me as i was unlocking the door, then we heard a sound, like a sound of a beast or some wild animal or some unknown creature, i can't exactly describe how the sound went but it was somehow like "Hhhharrrrhhh...". The sound came right behind us. I look at my cousin, and he looked back at me and we quickly got into the hut as quickly as possible, lock the doors and went straight into our sleeping bags.

Later that nite, my cousin told me he heard a loud banging on our door (bear in mind we were sleeping just beside the door), like as if someone was trying to break down the hut and kill us or something and he was so terrified that he hug me. Well i was sleeping like a dead person.. and coudn't hear anything. And that particular day he decided that he wanted to go back to Singapore straight away.

Later the next nite, i slept alone and made sure the door and the window was tightly shut. Fortunately nothing happened that nite. Though i felt restless and decided to join my other 3 friends in the pondok.

The first nite in my friends' pondok didn't turn out too well, at about 3 am in the morning, it was raining heavily outside, i woke up cos my nose was getting stuffy and i need to blow it a bit to make myself comfortable, after i was done, and was about to go back to sleep, i heard a very loud banging from the outside wall of the pondok, it sounded like a someone or something was trying very hard to make the hut go down. I thought that this might have happen the other nite in my own pondok. It went banging "TUDD, TUDD, TUDD, TUDD"...a few seconds of silence..then again..."TUDD, TUDD, TUDD, TUDD"...then again...a few seconds of silence.. this happened 4 time consecutively at that very moment... at that moment, my friend beside me woke up too because of the noise it made, he turn to me and asked "is it the normal 'Subuh prayer'(Subuh prayer, is one of the five prayers that is the morning at about 6+) knockings on the door?" Then i told him, "I don't think so, it can't be, it's so early, it's only 3 am, and the knockings are too loud and it's a lot of time.. and i dun hear any knockings done on other's huts" then i told him just to go back to sleep. While i coudn't sleep, i was terrified, all the time i was muttering prayers.. hoping it'd go away..i was afraid cos our pondok windows were open and the thing might just go inside or climb inside or our pondok... i coudn't sleep till 6+ when i could hear the normal subuh knockings and people's footsteps walking to the mosque.

The following nite not as horrifying... but strange things happened.. again at about 3+ am in the morning .. i was awaken by the sounds coming from the behind of my pondok door..

This was what i observe after few long hours of hearing it..

First came the creaking sound someone walking on the wooden platform just beside the door for people to put the sleepers or shoes outside before entering "eeeek..eeekk...eeek.." then the creaking sound of the door opening "EeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeK...." the after 5 seconds the sounds would go again.. The sounds came just right outside of the pondok behind the door ( i was sleeping just right beside it, with my legs pointing towards the door, and the head on the other side)... i coudn't sleep the whole nite man...

The next nite.. at about the same time, 3+ am that is.... i heard sounds again too.. but not the same one.. i heard knockings on other peoples' pondok.. going like this "knock, knock, knock, knock"... after 5 seconds it goes off again.. the sound sometimes become very faint and like as it was very far.. and then slowly became louder.. then going back to faint.. then to loud again.. the sound didn't stop till around 5+ am...

After the incident happenned, i ask my teacher there about it.. he told me that there were no such things going around at the village.. maybe people were playing pranks or someting.. but i think that there still is some 'things' there.. maybe he lied to us.. cos he didn't wanted us to be afraid or anything.. but then he continued to tell us about the "Hantu Monyet"... which happened about a 5-6 years ago.. where during the fasting month, the most of students would go back to thier hometowns.. In the nite.. there would be sounds of scratching on the Zinc roof top and the wooden walls... He believe that there was something 'thing's trying to disturb them..

Well that's about all that happened to me... i can never ever forget the experience.. that i had.. sorry if the story was too long..

The end..