Mystical Story

The sweet bridge Ancol and the Ghost Orange Purut

...The sweet Ancol Bridge version 1...

"Since the Dutch era on the Ancol highway, there have been frequent accidents that took casualties. So, near there was built a police post, also a mini temple south of the road," said Ridwan Saidi (65), said, betawi figures who conducted research on the Ariha legend of living witnesses in 1955-1960.

The Sweet Bridge of Ancol tells the tragic story of a woman named Ariah or Arie, later known as Mariam.

According to the legend circulating among the public, Mariam often appeared as a young woman with long hair near Ancol Bridge, North Jakarta. The appearance of Mariam's figure is often associated with traffic accidents to cause fatalities on the highway to Tanjung Priok.

Ariah is a Mak Emperor girl who lives in the emper (pavilion) house of a rich man in Sawah Paseban Village. In Ridwan Saidi's account, the story of Ariha was set in 1817.

When he was 16 years old, the owner of the house put his heart on Ariah and had the desire to marry him. However, Ariak rejected her because she did not want to be a concubine and her brother was not married.

To avoid the marriage, Ariah stopped and ran away from his home.

In his escape, Arih met Oey Tumbassia, a wealthy businessman in Batavia at that time who had a villa in the Bintang Mas area (currently named Ancol).

At that time, Oey was known as a "maniac" who liked to collect young women. When he saw Ariah, he was also interested in having it. Oey also sent two tiles, Pi'un and Surya, to hunt Ariha.

The young woman was captured by two Oey tiles at the Dempet Dam near Sunter Lake. However, Aria did not remain silent. He tried to fight Pi'un and Surya to cause himself to die at the hands of the two Oey tile.

Ariha's body was then left in the rice fields, about 400 meters from Ancol Bridge.

Since then the people who passed in the area, the dumping place of Ariah's body, claimed to often see the appearance of a beautiful girl with long hair.

The appearance of the figure is often associated with traffic accidents. Therefore, vehicles passing in the area must honk twice if they want to survive

"By honking, that means excuse me. Likewise, if fishing in the swamp area there, you must also excuse me. Otherwise, it can be lost for up to three days" said Ridwan Saidi.

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Meanwhile, according to the testimony of H Mohammad Husni (64), a resident of Kebon Jeruk, Jakarta, who painted the figure of Ariah in 2003, she called Ariha a simple female figure.

The figure about Ariah he got from a wangsit.

"Ariah is an ordinary girl. If you call it beautiful, it is relative. The skin is mature, about 160 cm high. Her hair was long, her clothes black and blue specks. His eyes are a little squint."

Through Husni's painting, Ariha wants to convey that she is an ordinary woman who is persecuted, not a demonic figure that must be feared by the community.

Ridwan Saidi also considered Husni's painting to be the closest image of Ariah aka The Sweet Ancol Bridge compared to paintings ever made by other painters.

so for the story of Ancol bridge someone entrusts it.

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...Ghost Orange Turtle...

The tomb keeper Jeruk Purut revealed that the figure of the priest was the victim of a wrong stab in the Dutch era. His impostor considers that he is an invader, which in fact he has become an Indonesian Citizen.

Not only the figure of the butt-headed priest who inhabits the cemetery of the shriveled lime shows its form, but other figures such as kuntilanak who inhabit the tree at the cemetery and a mustika snake that inhabits a well.

According to the myth anyone who wants to see the ghost figure of the butt-headed priest should come up with an odd number on Friday night.

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