VIDEO: Haunted Changi Beach

We’ve all heard the stories about haunted mansions, hotels and forests, but how many of you know about the haunted beach from Singapore?

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Changi Beach has been creeping people out for decades and the story behind it is pretty interesting.

According to worlds-most-haunted.blogspot.ro, besides the continuous torturing, mutilating and killing, both of prisoners-of-war and civilian captives, which was carried out by the Kempetai throughout the war, at least several mass executions of Chinese took place shortly after the surrender of Singapore. One was on Changi beach, and the other one off-shore, the victims being taken out to sea in launches and then pushed overboard, to be machinegunned in the water.

This area is believed to be haunted by the ghosts of the executed chinese during the Japanese occupation. Passersby often report hearing strange crying and screamings. The heads of the chinese dead bodies are sometimes seen flying everywhere. Headless bodys walk around the beach as well. More scary cases include a passerby witnessing a ghostly execution leaving blood stains.

It is well-known that thousands of Chinese civilians were shot dead during the Sook Ching operation in February 1942. However, after the war and the Japanese surrender, Changi beach served too as an execution grounds for the culprits. It came the war crimes trials. The trials took a few years as many Japanese war criminals were put on trial. About 135 were executed, all of them at Changi.

Lieutenant-General S. Fukuyei, commander of the prisoners of war camp in 1942, was the first to be tried. He had ordered two Australian and two British soldiers to be shot. They were shot on the shore at Changi. Fukuyei was sentenced to be shot on the shore at Changi. Fukuyei was sentenced to be shot at the same place. Singapore newspapers published a photograph of the execution.

Next, Vice-Admiral T. Hara, the General Officer Comanding the Anadaman and Nicobar Islands, and five of his men were found guilty of murdering nine Burmese in July 1945. They were hanged on 19 June 1946 in Changi area. The two condemned men were reported to have composed a poem the night before the execution about their impending doom – their last thoughts – and requested to forward it to their families in Japan. The poem was something like this: ‘Now we climb the thirteen last steps and I shout Long live the Emperor!’ Vice-Admiral Hara, looked calm, resigned to his death the following morning.

Many families and relatives of victims of the Death Railway came from Australia and England, to attend the trial of officers and men accused of crimes in connection with that tragic page of history. They saw Lieutenant Ishida, the General Officer Commanding of the Thai end of the railway, sentenced to death together with many others including Colonel Nakamura, Colonel Yanagida, Lieutenant-Colonel Ishii and Major Senda. Many Japanese medical officers were sentenced to long terms in prison, some to life imprisonment. At the trial of prisoners of war camp personnel, Major-General Saito, Captain Suzuki and Tominaga, Kobayashi and Kawazoye were sentenced to death by hanging.