absolutelyBangkok archive · Being farang
Originally published Oct. 29, 2009
It’s one of those nights I try to avoid.
Halloween. Why celebrate death and the macabre when the non-Halloween world got enough of death and the macabre already.
What a nerd. Because the supernatural, ghosts, ghost hunters and such are very Thai and therefore real. That’s what we’re told by this TV report Destination Truth: Ghosts in Thailand further below.
Ghost hunters, ghost traps, headless freaked out ghosts… it’s all here. The trip starts in Khon Kaen and yes, you’ll learn the truth about the legendary Naga serpent. Legend?
If I believe in ghosts? Thai ghosts? Is that a question of belief? A Google search for Thai ghosts spits out some 1,420,000 results. They can’t all be wrong, can they. Even mighty CNNGo dedicates the Thai superstitions a feature.
There’s everywhere so much more than meets the eye around here. Like this huge, cloth draped tree in the middle of Ratchadapisek with hundreds of zebras around. Or black magic politics.
“Thai politics today is not only about political one-upmanship through money, power and guns. It is also about the battle of black magic,” we’re told by a must-read feature of the Bangkok Post.
And you you’re mostly in white magic? Taking good care of your spirit house? What if… you’re not alone. Just in case you’re not sure better get this Thai ghost repeller:
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