Latest on Kellie's Castle - Batu Gajah,Perak, Malaysia
Batu Gajah -Kellie’s Castle — known as one of the top few most haunted buildings in Malaysia — has announced it is set to launch night tours for those eager to experience supernatural activities at the unfinished Moorish-styled mansion from the end of January.
General manager for Le Shuttle, the management company running the castle, Zamari Muhyi, said the tour would be the first of its kind in the country.
“Kellie’s Castle is known as a haunted mansion, therefore having such tours will attract many international and local paranormal research groups,” he said.
Zamari said he had experienced the supernatural when he listened, through ultrasound equipment, to the sound of a woman crying somewhere in the castle and it gave him the shivers.
“The paranormal tour will add to the mansion’s tourism potential, which is well known for its colonial-era history and architecture.
“Safety will be a top priority and each tour will be accompanied by our guides, including an ustaz (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law), in case of something ‛unexpected’,” he said.
Each tour will have a maximum of eight persons, and will only be conducted on four nights in a month.
He added that visitors would also have the chance to use special equipment used by paranormal researchers.
The mansion was built — at the cost of many workers’ lives — in the 1900s on the bank of the Kinta River here by William Kellie Smith, a wealthy Scottish planter who prospered after coming to Malaya.
