A 3 Year Old Stayed with her Mom’s Body for 3 Days

My sister told me the news about a 3 year old girl named nong Goryarh that stayed with her mom's body for 3 days.  She and her mom lived in a 3 story townhouse in Bangkok Thailand and her 35 year old mom died of seizure, heart failure around November 10th, 2012.  She didn't know…

Chasing after the past, as in past life

West Nile Papyrus by The Dejunair Project When it comes to a reincarnation story, I don’t have many to share, and some of you might have heard this one before. My mom told me this story when I was little. She was from Thailand, and didn’t move to Laos until she was in her late…

The Messenger of Death

Thoranee Kansaeung Since ancient times, it is believed that birds are a spiritual symbol of the divine because of the birds connection to the sky, they have been thought of as a supernatural link between the heavens and the earth. If that were the case, then who send the messenger of death, the bird that…

Be Careful if You Asked for a Child From a Sacred Place

I hope that the introduction post of May the Force be With You will give you a little insight that Animistic beliefs are still widely practiced in Laos.  As for our neighboring country Thailand, they also share this belief because Buddhism in Thailand is also closely tied to animist beliefs and belief in ancestral spirits. …

Naga Fireballs 2009

I was fascinated with Bang Fai Phaya Nark, also known as Naga Fireballs as long as I could remember, and last year I had a chance to stand at Wat Prabath Phonsanh looking out to the Mekong River, this is the Wat (Temple) that has the legend of Phraya Nark (Naga) to come up every…

Mike the Headless Chicken

This is not a ghost story, but a real life story of a headless chicken who had the will to live for another 18 months after his head got cut off, he made it on the Guinness book of world records. “I’ve been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off” is the…

Thai Talk Show Host Changed Name because of a Guest Speaker Part II

Continued from Thai Talk Show Host Changed Name because of a Guest Speaker Part I This is from Koosang Koosom Magazine, written in Thai language by Apreradee and translated by Nye. First one was Jorm, but p’Tang asked him why he had his interest in this name.  His replied was that since he was changing…

Thai Talk Show Host Changed Name because of a Guest Speaker Part I

It appears that name is very important in certain individual’s success, as this talk show host of ‘Sabud Show’ recently changed his name from Gamon Sirithanon to Sougon Sijounga .  What made me want to translate this article was the discussion that we had of Danny Bunyavong’s last name at Dirtii Laundry, he is claiming…

Dancing to The Spirits

I wrote a post on Different Types Of Prays And Rituals To The Ghost back in March 2007, when I was having a lot of problems posting my post, especially the posts on ghost story. Crazy as this may sound, I had to pray to the ghost spirits asking for permission before translating and writing…

The Strange Tradition, the day of Ghosts ‘n Globins…Halloween

Halloween made me think of Lao Boun Haw Khao Padap Din, which was a Lao somber festival in which the living pay respects to the dead. It was marked by a ceremony of exhuming previously buried bodies, cleaning the remains, and then cremation them on the night of the full moon. Halloween also made me…

Oscar, Cat Fortune Teller

My second sister told me over a month ago about a cat fortuneteller that can predict when death is near, I promised her then that I’d post the story, but it slipped my mind. When my sister told me the story, I thought it’s amazing because, if you’ve worked with sick patients, then you’d be…

Who’s There?

Have you ever seen strange people, they would appear all of a sudden and out of nowhere, pass you by but when you looked back and there was no one there. Sometimes you had to do a double take because they might be staring right at you, but at the blink of an eye there…