'Mass hysteria cases' in malaysian school leads to shut down.

[butchersapron]

When experiencing one of your previous lives, presumably

Sounds to me like these kids and their teachers have just been watching too many Japanese and other Asian horror films, where this sort of ghostly apperition business seems to be a common narrative device. Really don't think there's anything particularly relevant about the Malaysian aspect

There's a huge tradition of Malaysian ghost stories to draw on, they don't need Japanese or other Asian sources.

 

[Orang Utan]

The weirdest mass delusion I've read about are the Wollaton Park driving gnomes:
Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal

 

[The Pale King]

The anthropologist Aihwa Ong has written about spirit possession in Malaysian factories:

Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline

Review on JSTOR

 

[andysays]

There's a huge tradition of Malaysian ghost stories to draw on, they don't need Japanese or other Asian sources.

I'm sure there are. It seems a common theme in many Asian horror films I've seen, far more of which have been Japanese than Malaysian.

I was trying to suggest that the phenomonon is not specifically Malaysian, but rather can be found in various forms across many (not only Asian) cultures.

 

[Supine]

Malaysians believe in ghosts. Much more than people in europe do.