A Bunch of Horror Stories
episode 10 (The Ghost Girl of the Melegendous Youth Hunter )
EVERY city and region almost certainly has its own urban legend story. Urban legend is usually a myth or contemporary legend that is often widely believed to be the truth.
Most have to do with mystery, horror, fear, humor, or even moral stories. And usually urban legend is the story there is continuous to cross generations.
As in Makassar City, South Sulawesi. For the people of Makassar certainly no stranger to the ghost story of Sumiati which is known to be very scary.
Reporting from YouTube Snap Movie, the legend of this Sumiati ghost has been around since the 90s. The Sumiati came from a place called Karaenta.
Karaenta is a forest area in Cenrana District, Maros Regency, South Sulawesi.
Karaenta is a protected forest area because of the habitation of various species of flora and fauna, as well as a variety of biodiversity that is usually used for scientific training. In addition, this place is also used as a place to maintain underground water reserves.
The appearance of the ghost Sumiati started from a schoolgirl who was suddenly possessed by a subtle creature. The students pointed to a place. People who tried to calm the schoolgirl also obeyed her will to go to the designated place.
It was in a protected forest in Karaenta, on a huge old banyan tree. Since then the ghost of Sumiati often appeared in that place. Some people also claimed to see the ghost of Sumiati in the park in the center of Makassar City to the side of the road.
Wearing a red shirt
According to the news that circulated, this Sumiati ghost is actually harmless, as long as he appeared in all white clothes. The myth is that he just wants to tell me where he is.
Another story is that he was wearing a red shirt. That said, if he appeared in red clothes, indicating there will be victims targeted. Humans who see the figure of Sumiati with a red shirt will get calamities, such as death, accidents or misfortune or other calamities.
Sumiati is said to be a woman who wants to complain about her fate and work in Makassar City. The city of Makassar at that time the atmosphere of the road was still very quiet and not many street lights like today.
When he wanted to go home after working at the Makassar Central Market, Sumiati suffered bad luck. He was held captive by a herd of young men he met on the street. The desolate and silent atmosphere made Sumaiti helpless against.
That night her virginity was taken in turn by the depraved youths. After being forced, the poor woman was taken into a car to be moved to another place so that the trail was not sniffed by the community.
During the trip, Sumiati learned that the young man was a pedicab, truck driver to city transportation (angkot).
In the car Sumiati did a lot of resistance, but accidentally one of the men killed him. Finally his body was buried
Meeting death in an unnatural state makes the spirit of Sumiati become unsettled. His spirit was said to be haunted and became the most frightening ghost.
Sumiati ghosts have sprung up in Makassar City and target young men who work as rickshawmen and city transport truck drivers who have similar professions with the perpetrator of the murder. Since then the city of Makassar became an uproar.
It is said that again, Sumiati terrorized many men in red. The man who raped her was wearing a red shirt.
Although already in modern times today, the story of the Sumiati ghost is still legendary and many still believe it. That is the story of urban legend of the most famous Sumiati ghost in the Land of Daeng. It's scary too!
