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Malaysian island of Borneo and the nearby peninsula Malacca inhabits, according to local legends, an amazing people, not quite belonging to our world. These creatures are named differently: hidden people, people of light or whistling people. Orang bunian in translated from the local language means “people who make sounds.”
Indeed, nobody saw these creatures personally (according to at least from living people), but many have heard frightening screams, whistles and singing coming from the jungle. All this completely unlike the sounds that dwell in tropical wilds animals and birds. However, from the stories of ancestors, extant, locals know a lot about their ghostly “neighbors”.
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Legends tell of unnaturally pale and fragile creatures, which are similar to people, but at the same time very beautiful and according to descriptions surprisingly reminiscent of elves – characters of western folklore.
Local residents endow whistling people with such supernatural abilities like teleportation, reading thoughts, the ability to fly and become invisible. Live these amazing creatures on trees in the alpine jungle.
In their fairly developed class society, there are kings and queens, princes and princesses, as well as all other hierarchical a staircase, at the lower level of which there are peasants. Whistling people live in a different – etheric – space that borders on our gross material world. They are indifferent to human cases, however, may, according to legend, abduct people. To them attributed abductions of villagers when they suddenly and disappear without a trace.
Interestingly, often whistling people act directly in the opposite way and help locals find lost children and other relatives. Sometimes they can also help in finding treasures, however severely punish those who arbitrarily dares to steal the treasures in their possessions.
Meetings with Orang Bunian: Grandfather’s Story
Scientists consider all these stories ordinary folklore. Is it so on really? There is evidence of a man whose grandfather in the 70s years of the last century collided with Orang Bunian. Then the man bought a small farm in neighboring Sumatra, south of Lake Toba. Thereafter something strange started. From the jungle they began to come regularly unusual sounds similar to a drum roll, although no other There were no settlements nearby. Then the farmer decided accompanied his assistant go to the jungle when they beat him again drums. However, no matter how hard they tried, the men failed to see whistling people, although drumming all the time surrounded them, then approaching, then moving away.
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And here is another story told by a man whom whistling people were abducted, and then safely returned to their parents. As a baby, he disappeared right from his crib. Search the boys were unsuccessful. His mother wept bitterly for missing first-born, when suddenly in the twilight that came before her some translucent figure and said: “Take it back his son, he does not fit us: he has a mole on his hip. “And before than a tearful mother asked where is the child, a ghostly figure has disappeared. And the child at that time was already lying in the crib, as if not disappeared from her …
Such disappearances occurred quite often, with Orang Bunian subsequently helped families from which children were taken.
Disappearing and returning people
In 1979 Azmi Ahmad, 28-year-old farmer, resident missing the city of Sungai Petani. One evening, a man told his wife that goes to the river to swim, but never returned. On the his neatly folded clothes remained on the shore, which is why decided that Azmi Ahmad drowned. It was not possible to find his body in the river. However, the next day, a man was found alive on the shore, although in a weird state. The farmer, as if half asleep, told that Orang Bunian took him to his magic hill. When a man fully came to his senses, he was full of desire find this fabulous place.
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A sad case occurred in the 80s of the last century. Whistling people appeared in one of the villages and wandered at dusk among the houses. Nobody bothered them, because the residents understood who these are these evening guests. However then a company of teenagers managed to pester one, who seemed a very strange girl … this hour of impudent youths no one else saw.
Not so long ago in the state of Terengganu (Gunung Tebu town) missing 15-year-old Mohammad Khairi Abdul Ghani disappeared during the campaign. Five days he was searched in every possible way, in particular with service dogs and search helicopters, however, everything was in vain. A a few days later the teenager himself suddenly appeared as if from out of nowhere and said that during the whole search was literally nearby and shouted, but no one heard or saw him. Locals they immediately started talking about the fact that the boy was abducted by whistling people. True, he somehow did not fit them, and therefore returned.
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Is not it, these stories are surprisingly reminiscent of European legends of elves and fairies, who have a similar appearance, also kidnap people, and in some cases help them ?.
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