Legend of The Highland Towers
Horror Stories - Legend of The Highland Towers
A taxi driver, in the night at 1994 when heavy rain is being flushed the way, he transporting a young female passenger which was standing beside the road. She waved and luckily seen by a taxi driver through his windshield which covered with heavy rainfall. She opened the door and sat in a chair behind him. When the taxi started goes, the driver looked over the glance behind and ask. "Where are you going?".
"Hillview" replied the young woman.
When the driver felt a shudder when he heard the name, but he tried to ignore it. Grateful to still get the passengers on this long night. As they drove, the driver tried to start a conversation, but was disappointed with the response he gets. If there is, only a piece. She seemed preoccupied, even as a little anxious. They continued the course of that night, and the only sound that comes just a roar of the engine, as well as windshield wipers dismissed the rigors of the rain that obscuring the view of the driver.
On arrival at Hillview, she was directing the taxi to the side street. The driver is then aware of where they are now in the area Highland Towers in one building the tower that collapsed a few years ago. The remains of the tower is intentionally left blank for fear of the next ruins.
"Why do you want to come to a place like this in the middle of the night, in weather like this?" Asked the driver.
The woman then turned to him. "I left some of belong to me are here. Something that is very important for me. "
The atmosphere inside the taxi suddenly changed. An eerie feeling swarm the driver. The woman came out, the wind and a rainy was blowing straight into the car. The driver was also curious, he had to know what was so important to her brought it here.
"What, what is very important for you so that could not be wait for tomorrow?"
"The body and the rest of my life. I was died here last year. "
And then began the legend which haunted the Highland Towers in Selangor, Malaysia. The ghost stories appear with a variety of grooves, usually tell the same thing, but a different ending. "The arms and legs." Is the other end, when the taxi driver asking his final question. On another occasion, a young lady was paying the taxi driver services with 'The money of the Afterlife' covered in blood.
Although there were no victims in the story or the legend that is hideous, but the background of the collapse of the Highland Towers apartment buildings are at least taking the lives of 48 people. Most victims came from the citizens of Malaysian, and some of foreigners, including a British citizen, a Japanese, two Indians, three Korean, three Filipinos and three Indonesian.
At that time, the crew helper even heard a knock and the sounds came out from the ruins until the seventh day. Only three people, including an infant, that is successfully pulled out. But upon arrival at the hospital, one of them passed away.
At about 1975 to 1982, the apartment construction site in the highlands of at this flow of river water flowing above it, the river is known by the name 'East River'. East River flow then created a series of pipes to divert its direction until the construction can begin.
Three blocks of 12 floored building of Highland Towers was finally built and intended for middle-class citizens, and a number of foreign expatriates. The blocks are very close to each other, on the ground who include a swimming pool between the two blocks. In the 1980s up to the early 1990s, with the number of rich people and foreigners who live there, the apartment was already well known as a favorite place to hide their affair.
In 1991, an other development projects under the name 'Project Developer Bukit Antarabangsa' begins, just behind the Highland Towers. As a result, the trees are cleared in the plateau, making increasingly high risk of erosion. East River water flow is diverted using the same pipe circuit. Did not take long, until the finally the pipes excess of water pressure. The flow is also filled with soil and mud from the East River. Leakage occurs everywhere, and the land is not able to stem the flow of water.
The water content in the soil has reached the point of being dangerous, and the land has now become the mud. In October 1992, the slopes of the plateau was almost drowned by the water. A report also appears to preach the flow of water already flowing down the slopes. A month before the incident the Highland Towers apartment building collapse, precisely in November 1993, the residents have already seen the crack in the surrounding streets. But unfortunately there is no further investigation is taken. The heavy rains in December 1993 further compound that plateau.
At 1:35 pm, on December 11, 1993, after 10 consecutive days of rain, the ground behind the first block of the Highland Towers collapsed and crashed into the foundation of the building. Shortly afterwards the state of soil that underlies the building was made twelfth floor apartment collapsed, destroying all that was in it. The military is directed to disaster area for rescue the lives be at risk from the ruins.
Around hundreds of personnel deployed helping on that winter night, up to 11 days to search for people buried under the rubble, before finally terminated on December 22. 48 lives were lost, although several sources say at 53 or 55 people.
After the collapse of the Highland Towers, the building was left abandoned. Some small ruins still occur during a bad weather since the building collapsed. The rest of the other buildings are still standing, surrounded by the forests that grew around it.
Since then, several people who live around there claimed to have seen the ghost from people who died in the ruins of Highland Towers. Lurking among the trees in a location that was once the apartment was standing. Even so, it seems the taxi drivers most knowledgeable a creepy stories from the legend of Highland Towers.
