2 Haunted Places in Brunei

Every case file on record in Brunei — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.

1. Jong Batu — The Cursed Ship of the Unfilial Son

   B · Brunei River, Brunei-Muara, Brunei — The black rock that rides the Brunei River like a ship going down by the bow is, by the legend Brunei tells of its own river, the petrified vessel of Nakhoda Manis — the son who cursed his mother, and…

2. Makam di Luba — The Tomb on the Ghost Island

   C · Pulau Luba, Brunei-Muara, Brunei — On the wooded island where the Brunei and Damuan rivers part stands the mausoleum of the sixteenth Sultan — and, by the local ghost-hunting tradition of the 2000s, the island is 'karas': a place whose…