Unseen realm of the hungry ghosts


(From left) During Hungry Ghost month, small communities like this group of Star Media Group Berhad employees in Penang will form Phor Thor committees to hold their own do; biscuits are tossed to the ground for child ghosts who cannot reach the food offered on the table; joss paper money is burned so netherworld beings can receive them.

LET me tell you a ghost story. Long ago in a small town in Perak, a woman and her young son died in a car accident and were reborn as hungry ghosts.

In unspeakable suffering, they returned to their home and found that they could not go in.

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