Hysteria victims claim to have seen ‘pontianak’ before fainting

Calm in prayer: A security guard closing the gate as SMK Kemumin students gather at the school surau to recite religious verses after the school was afflicted with mass hysteria.

KOTA BARU: Several students of a school in Kelantan, who claim to have been possessed during a hysteria attack, all said they saw a ghostly figure before passing out.

They claimed they saw an unsightly dark figure or female ghost known as a pontianak before they experienced paralysis and then fainted.