The Unseen Study Partners: 3 Most Haunted Schools in Penang

Have you had a biggest fear during the school time? Let me guess! You could be scared of that terrifying teachers, you might heberly rush in a fever at the thought of midterms or come to a pale thinking about the choice of subjects. But you probably have not much thing to worry about your life, unless you are studying in these schools in Malaysia.

Since the Hungry Ghost Festival of Chinese is around the corner, our editor’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of those unseen study partners in your schoolyard. Exactly what you are picturing in your mind! Amongst the schools in Malaysia, there have lots of tales of ghostly haunts and eerie sensations with their rich history at the back.

If you are one of the many looking for a fright to fresh your mind up, simply join us a tour to uncover the 3 most haunted schools in Penang. Just watch out for ghosts!

• Penang Free School

(Says, 2015) - Penang Free School received the honor of heritage status in time for its 200-year anniversary last year.

The Story: Known as the oldest school in the South-East Asia, which established since 1816. Being a school with ghastly over 200 years of history this old, haunted tales are come to surface with the fond of its alumni - ‘Old Frees’ and most of them are related to few of their headmasters, especially Pinhorn.

What You May Encounter: Flickering lights and rustling sounds presence during night time. Some students reported that they hear unexplained footsteps along the corridors which allegedly is belongs to Pinhorn when they stayed back late study into night. Sometimes, a woman’s scream can be heard in past midnight, which tends to believe is a tortured prisoner’s spirit during the Japanese Occupation.

• Chung Ling High School

(Samwise Music, n.d.): Chung Ling High School is one of the most haunted school that still operating today.

The Story: First established in 1923. Unfortunately, it was shifted to be used as military hospital by British Army in 1941. While under the term Sook Ching aka ‘purging of Chinese’ during the World War 2, this school has been painted a terrifying history with the massacre against the Chinese Malayan, in which part of the Chung Ling’s teachers and students were killed over there.

What You May Encounter: Plague by fear over its scary past, it caused a mass hysteria happened in the school. Moreover, the spirits of the massacred and students roaming around is a common tales and some people to this school would have found that street dogs occasionally howl and bark at thin air.

• Shih Chung Branch School

(Pinterest, n.d.): Shih Chung Branch School was buried in full forest bloom.

The Story: A decayed building located along Northam Road, which originally a five-storey mansion build in the 1880s. Abandoned since 2000s, this building was once served as school and it was taken over during the Japanese Occupation as a military administrative headquarter, a place where people were tortured to their deaths just like most other Japanese sites. Nowadays, its vast compound become a parking area of buses.

What You May Encounter: The sight of this school has been so creepy. Keen visitors to the place would face sudden and unexplained attacks of hysteria. With claims of hauntings of Japanese soldiers roaming the building, it is not one for the faint-hearted to explore.

From the horror tales at the back, all these haunted schools located in Penang are seems to share a similar trait - rich with bloody history during World War 2. Stepping foot in these haunted schools will send shivers down your spine and give you a pretty good scream, because you never know what terrifying creatures may be stalking at you. Maybe more than you think. It is time to check out your class photos carefully, beware there is any unseen caught on it!

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