Malaysia Urban Legends - Haunted Karak Highway
I know I’ve blogged about an incident about the infamous haunted Karak Highway but this one is a story that has been told to me over numerous times by different people of different background levels. Most of the time the stories about Karak Highway varies, afterall, its an urban legend! But this is one story that I find creepy but at the same time hard to believe. You be the judge.
It was late at night when a young couple and their baby was travelling in a car along the Karak Highway. They were trying to get home, like the rest of the other Malaysians because it was nearing festive season. And like the many other Malaysians, they choose to travel at night to avoid the traffic jam and also the heat of the sun when noon gets in the way.
As they were travelling along the lonely stretch of Karak Highway, suddenly, the car gave a sudden jerk and started making weird noises. The husband was fairly surprised because he remembered to check the car before travelling long distance to ensure the safety of his family. Soon, they had no choice but to stop by the roadside. The husband got out of the car to check the car engine while his wife and baby was waiting in the car. After a few minutes, he came back and reported that he could not see anything wrong and tried starting the car again. However, the car just would not budge. At loss, the husband made a difficult decision to either wait until another car comes along or walk to the nearest phone booth.
Not wanting to leave his family behind, they waited. After some 20 minutes or so, the highway remained quiet. The husband wondered why was there such calmity on the highway when festive celebrations are just around the corner. Perhaps it was due to the late night, he thought to himself. After what seemed like eternity, the husband decided to take the second option.
Advising his wife to lock the doors and take care, he left them behind with a heavy heart. His wife, on the other hand, watched her husband walk away with worries on her mind. She prayed hard that someone would eventually notice their stalled car and offer help. She was also worried that accidents might happen.
Hours passed by and soon she started getting even more worried. She was worried something might happen to her husband. Worried, she fought with herself over if she should just keep on waiting or leave the car behind and look for her husband. But where should she start looking? In the end, she decided to get out of the car to stretch her legs. As soon as she came out of the car, she realized that something was staring at her from behind. As she turned, she saw the bodiless head of her husband with his eyes and mouth wide open as if in shock staring back at her. Til this day, no one has found the remains of his body.
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March 6th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
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March 7th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
hmmmm the one i heard has a diff ending ….
as the women waited, for kinda long time edy, suddenly there was the red and blue light from a patrol car, then he saw this policemen walking to their car, and lay low while signalling her to open the car door, then asked to walk out and not look up, and remind her all the time not to look back or up the car … just walk …
as she reached the safety distance of the police car, she looked back and saw this thing on top of her car munching on her husband …
March 8th, 2007 at 12:45 am
I never heard about these urban legends in karak highway. But from both of the stories, really scary.
March 8th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Scariest yet!
March 8th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Sounds like jack ripper movies. :p
March 8th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
earl-ku, yes! I’ve heard of this ending as well!!! That’s a pretty freaky one also.
jenny, well, we will never know if this is a true story or not
dd, this is just one of the endings.
moo_t, unfortunately, we will never know if its really jack that did this.
March 11th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Karak Highway really got lots of ‘weird’ story. But this story quite different from what I heard.
March 12th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
kenny, care to share your version?
March 13th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
First off i love this site and its effort to compile people’s experiences with the paranormal, or the not easily explained happenings, great work!
Karak highway has its fair share of stories, two of those stories i know of happened to two close friends of mine, but that is for another time to share. (floating head anyone? yes both are regarding a floating head and totally different settings)
For those who are not to sure of this story, this one is a lovely variation of a common urban legend. (you got to love those urban legends) Its setting has been altered to fit a more local flavour but a few key concepts are still there, car stalling, lonely walk to get help, and gruesome ending on the roof of the car. I have heard both the US setting and a few local variations as you all have heard, with/without the police. I finally found the link for the story http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/boyfriend.asp
While its highly unlikely it happened, it still makes an excellent story to tell.=]
November 18th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
is it true?…..muhahahahhahaa…since i 8 years old my father use karak highway until now i’m already have 2 children and often used this highway to back our home town nothing freaky thing happen to us…muhahahahahhaha…maybe not karak highway kut,maybe north south highway..muhahahhaha…
December 14th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
yeah~~ earl-ku, i’ve readed that!! i have the book but too bad my uncle borrowed it and never return it~
December 14th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
well a good story then..but if i told you mine would it be ok?..it’s a real life experience from my dad hassan momong who is a GM (kesihatan dan paramedic) in yayasan sabah in kota kinabalu. well for sure i am not telling lies because this are the story that blurted out when he “accidentally”spoken about his eerie encounters when traveling ‘out station’ to visit the pedalaman people in sabah. ok to cut story short he was from an area called ’sungai-sungai in sabah’ wanted to go home to our house in menggatal.. so he has to pass through kudat telupid and ranau (district or kampungs.) lucky for kl highway user got sos telephone booth to call for help is a break down occurs..but at sabah theres no such things as sos phone booth..all you rely is your hp (if got signals) and the car (4×4) to be exact. ok he was going home traveling from telupid to ranau (along the way theres no habitual place or ppl living there due to dense jungle) gaung and mountainous area..quite straight road and a bit hilly road (near kaki gunung kinabalu) along the way when he was climbing the last hill that supposed to took hin arround 15min at speeds of 80-90kmj (tared road)using 4th or the 5th gear to reach the top(usual). mysteriously his 4×4 become so buredned or heavy like bearing heavy laden equiptment he is resulted to climb the not so steep hill at 10-20kmj using his 2nd and 1st gear all the way to the top(a km or so) he told me..in a jocking way he say to me his diesel is still half full so what the hell is he’s gona climb the hill using all 4 wheels that guzzels more than driving with normal transmission. ok funny thing is he’s driving alone and he think mybe his engine is playing on him so he tries again 1st gear then 2nd but when entering the 3rd gear it’s just going to stall.. the hill isn’t so steep like 10-20 degrees maybe.. so he turned to the radio staton with the ppl reading quran.. not much diffrence happened..now he says this not usual to him been traveling that same road for almost 15yrs evry time he’s out station.. when he reached the top of the hill and start descending down he taught he could picked up speed but same thing happened.. this “drag” continues untill he reach near pekan ranau wher habitual of human could be found then tis 4×4 could roll on normal speed again..he told his experience to his lower staff what happen the day after and cracked a joke that mybe all the “datuk’nenek,moyang,cucu etc of a jin” is hitch hiking his 4×4 all the way to ranau and got off near the pekan..although no sightings by him but the feeling of your suddenly being heavy forcing you to use 1st gear while decending a hill is not in the law of physic (yes he checked the brakes and hand brakes and no theres nothing wrong with the transmission of the 4×4 its a company car so all service is burdened by his company after all travelling 10-15km with 1st and 2nd gear would make you checked with the gear box being damaged isn’t? ) he’s still didnt talk much buut ghost sightings or spooky things to us he rather keep the secrets to himself though..
February 4th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
ooh i heard the same stiry too… the policeman came to bring out the lady..
May 14th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
yeah, i heard the same story as well but i heard it differently.
The woman was waiting in the car when she her some banging on the top of the car. as her husband told her to stay put, she remained in the car. then the police came. they told her to come out and to remain calm of wat she will see. what she saw was her husband’s head on the top of the car. apparently it was banged onto the roof a couple of times.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Obviously, some clever malaysian have change this story and make up an Karak Highway Joke.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
So yeah I was once on the Karak Highway too, and I saw a Ghost! What did it look like? I don’t know! I don’t care! It was a ghost!
The End
August 26th, 2008 at 10:39 am
The version i heard say the wife and police sees a pontianak eating the flesh of the husband at the end
October 18th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
man……… luckily, i’m staying in sabah…….. and i’ve never travelled from ranau or telupid or kudat in the middle of the night…….