A friend known as Mariam told me that when she was staying
in Victoria, Canada some 30 years ago; she had seen herself the figure of a
headless horseman.
At that time, Mariam was studying in a high school in
Victoria. Mariam stayed in the school hostel together with her other foreign
school mates. One day, a friend; Mary and Mariam fallen sick after one’s night’s
sleepless party so they decided to be absent from class the next day. They
slept in their beds until way past lunch. Since both of them have missed the
lunch provided by the hostel, they decided to go down to the street to get some
hamburgers.
After visiting a snack shop at the end of a street just some
walking distance from their school hostel, Mariam and Mary walked slowly along
their most familiar street. As the ladies were slowly walking enjoying the
autumn afternoon, suddenly Mariam heard noises similar to ‘crock, crock crock…”
came from the further end of the street. She instinctively thought someone was
riding a horse on the street. So, she turned her head and looked around while
asking Mary: “Did you hear what I heard?”
Mary laughed at Mariam and said perhaps it was the hangover
of last night’s booze. So, Mariam just brushed aside what she thought she heard
and the ladies continued to walk and chat. A few minutes later, Mariam heard the
familiar crocking noise again; this time Mary heard it too… Before anyone of
them opened her mouth; there they saw a ‘headless’ cowboy with a cowboy’s hat
and wearing grey suit riding on a horse galloping towards them.
Perhaps it was ‘inappropriate’ to say that the cowboy was ‘headless’
because as recalled by Mariam later, between the hat and the grey suit, she saw
a blob of greenish gaseous substances instead of the normal head. It was an
unexpected sighting and the ladies certainly weren’t expected to see apparition
during daytime. Finally, panic broke between the two ladies and they ran with
their record fast into their hostel and then jumped straight into their beds.
This was their first time see a ‘gui lou’ (鬼佬/foreigner) who was an
authentic ‘gui’ (ghost)!
Years later, the ladies returned to Malaysia. Mariam got a
new boyfriend and on their first date, they somehow chatted about ghostly
happenings. And, after her boyfriend heard Mariam’s strange encounter with the
headless cowboy; the first question he asked Mariam was: “Was the cowboy
headless, instead a blob of greenish smoke?”
“Yes. But how did you know?” Mariam asked bewilderedly.
“Well, I was in Vancouver and staying in a hotel some years
ago. I saw this headless horseman after returning from a pub one night…
If you are in
Victoria, perhaps you have seen this headless one too.
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