Yep, those two spots you nominated were the ones most of us avoided going near. I remember it was the 2nd cubicle nearest the wall in the primary school toilet block that we shunned. It had the number 5 scratched on the door. As for the sewing room, I didn't do Home Science. Phew!

The other really spooky place we used to avoid like the plague (after one girl ran out of the cubicle screaming hysterically before passing out) was the toilet block adjacent to the lower secondary science labs, just behind the primary school quandrangle. If we were really desperate, we would always have another student stand just outside the door to 'jaga' because we were too petrified to latch the door from inside.

The spookiest of all was the upstairs toilet block just between the Std 4 and Std 5 classrooms. No one would use it unless it was during recess time and hordes of us would mill around outside, talking very loudly (and nervously), to lend Dutch courage and moral support to the ones inside.

In '74, a Form 1 student actually gave birth to a live baby in one of the toilets adjacent to the Form 1 classrooms. Another student passing by heard the infant's cries which were nearly drowned out by the frantic flushing of the toilet so she ran to the nearest classroom to raise the alarm. I vividly remember a very distraught Miss Hew making an emotional but vague announcement about "a most unfortunate incident" at a rare impromptu assembly in the middle of the day, just before cops were seen swarming all over that toilet block and cordoning it off for a few days. The newspapers had a field day with the scandal, especially since it involved an elite missionary school like ours.