{"id":53115,"date":"2022-06-20T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogstaging.99.co\/yishun-terrifying-place-live-2\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:20:10","slug":"yishun-terrifying-place-live-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/yishun-terrifying-place-live-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why some folks still think Yishun is the most terrifying place to live"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every country has one: that spot where weird things keep happening, and every day feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone. In the United States, it\u2019s Florida. In Australia, it\u2019s everywhere outside a city. In Singapore, it\u2019s Yishun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why Yishun is so exciting and terrifying (along with some rationalisations).<\/p>\n

What strange things have happened in Yishun?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Some of the things that you find in Yishun are:<\/p>\n

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  • Cat killings<\/li>\n
  • Cat killing (singular)<\/li>\n
  • People with stun guns<\/li>\n
  • Rat problems<\/li>\n
  • Drug syndicates<\/li>\n
  • Someone who wants your children<\/li>\n
  • Numerous murders and suicides<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    And many, many more. But in case you\u2019ve forgotten, here\u2019s a rundown of those main ones.<\/p>\n

    1. Cat killings<\/b><\/h3>\n

    There has been a spate of cat killings in Yishun, most notably from September to December 2015. Within those four months, there were 17 reported<\/a> cases of cat abuse. Two suspects were later arrested<\/a>, with one of them eventually charged (more on this later).<\/p>\n

    More recently, within four days in April 2021, three kittens were found dead at the same block<\/a> in Yishun. What\u2019s more chilling is that dead cats have previously been found at the same block in January and October 2020.<\/p>\n

    Cats have been slit open, bludgeoned, thrown off high places, and so forth. And whatever your feelings about cats, here\u2019s why it\u2019s serious: many serial killers start by abusing defenceless animals<\/a>, eventually working their way up to\u2026well, people.<\/p>\n

    2. Cat killing (singular)<\/b><\/h3>\n

    What do you do when a cat meows a lot? Feed it? Pet it? How about pick it up, and throw it off the 13th storey? In October 2015, that\u2019s exactly what someone did. He chucked a male cat off the ledge because he felt it was being noisy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Now in his defence, the courts found him to have moderate intellectual disability, so he may not have understood what he was doing. But it didn\u2019t help that this occurred in a neighbourhood where people were already looking for a cat killer (and no, it\u2019s not him).<\/p>\n

    3. Police getting attacked with a stun gun<\/b><\/h3>\n

    In January 2017, two people were spotted by the police, in their attempt to steal something from a car. Now, here’s a pop quiz:<\/p>\n

    When someone who possess a loaded gun, and is trained to use it, approaches you, you should:<\/p>\n

    (a) Stop and do what he says<\/p>\n

    (b) \u00a0Attack the person with a real gun, using a stun gun<\/p>\n

    The two people in question chose option B, which promptly led to their arrest<\/a>. But that\u2019s not the big issue. The big issue is how they managed to get their hands on a stun gun, when most of us can\u2019t get a bigger laser pointer past customs.<\/p>\n

    Oh wait, there were another two guys<\/i> playing with a stun gun at Northpoint<\/a> in August 2016. Maybe they sell a much more exotic range of goods at Yishun pasar malams<\/em> or something.<\/p>\n

    4. Rat problems<\/b><\/h3>\n

    Yishun has on and off rat issues<\/a>. Nothing out of control, but enough to be an annoyance at times.<\/p>\n

    Maybe the cat killings explain this one.<\/p>\n

    5. Drug syndicates<\/b><\/h3>\n

    111 drug traffickers were nabbed in an operation in 2016. Guess where their leader was.<\/p>\n

    That\u2019s right, he was caught<\/a> with over S$62,000 worth of drugs at a suspected drug store in Yishun.<\/p>\n

    And more recently, in April 2020 (yes, you read that right, it’s during the Circuit Breaker), five people were arrested<\/a> in Yishun. Drugs worth at least S$360,000 were seized as well.<\/p>\n

    But these were comparatively small. The biggest drug dealer from Yishun may be Barry Zheng Chongde, who was involved in a S$64.6 million cocaine syndicate<\/a> in Australia. He was later charged in the Australian court in December 2016.<\/p>\n

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    Yishun MRT station and bus stop. Image credit: iShinora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Drugs may also have been involved in an accident<\/a> near Yishun MRT<\/a> station. Three people were injured when someone tried to drive through a police roadblock (the police were searching the car before it happened).<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s amazing no one is writing the script for CSI: Yishun (or even a Channel 5 or Channel 8 drama called Yishun) at this point.<\/p>\n

    6. Someone who wants your children<\/b><\/h3>\n

    Let’s not forget that in November 2016, we had reports of a mysterious man asking for any children<\/a>, via door-to-door knocking. Kind of like the most terrifying karang-guni<\/em> man you\u2019ve ever heard of.<\/p>\n

    This is really unfair, as any Yishun residents with pets or children now need to barricade their house. Maybe this is why so many of them have stun guns, is all we\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n

    7. Numerous murders and suicides<\/b><\/h3>\n

    Enter Yishun murders in Google, and you\u2019ll receive a whole slew of search results dedicated to the subject. Some examples are this case<\/a>, this other case<\/a> and the most notable is the triple murder case in 2008 committed at Blk 349 Yishun Street 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Here’s a Crimewatch episode on the brutal murder.<\/p>\n