There is a sequelae to the Kuala Brang episode.
 
    Kuala Brang is on the confluence of three rivers - the Terengganu, Brang, and Tersat. Old legend says that Kuala Brang was an emporium in those days.There is said to have been a kingdom around these parts. Further interiorly, there were at least two more.

    Across the river, from Kuala Brang, there is a certain Kampong Buloh.A kampong is a small village. For all practical purposes, this is a kampong allright and looks like one.

    Except for one thing. It is too large.

    In 1974, its population was 1400, being slightly more than Kuala Brang. It is also very large in area.

    Malaysian history has a prominent place for the famous 'Batu Bersurat' of Trengganu. Batu Bersurat means a stone inscription. It is from the 14th cantury. There is a sinister story about this batu bersurat. But that will be a different story. Perhaps Dr.Jaybee might tell it to us, one of these days. Well, it was found here in Kg.Buloh. It was, in fact, a stepping stone in front of a local Mesjid. The British noticed it in 1910, and soon afterwards, hoisted the stone onto a raft, and floated it along the Trengganu River. Half-way along, something happened, no-one knows what, and the stone broke in two. The top portion of the stone slid off into the river, causing frustration for history scholars for the next three quarters of a century.

    You can see the remaining portion in the Museum in K.L.

    So..... this kingdom we were talking about.

    It had its capital which was Kg.Buloh/Kl.Brang complex.

    Kingdom means civilisation; civilisation means wrong-doers. And according to laws of civilisation, wrong-doers means execution. And so, they executed in various ways; including
the "Bersula" method, so I was told. So it had its own execution grounds. The bersula method is a horrible way of torturing-cum-killing. The Maalys porbably learnt it from the Tamils who were doing it in their own way. The tamils had a different name for it - kalzhu ERRal.

    The execution grounds were just outside, towards the north. That was the site over which,
in later times, the Kuala Brang Hospital Desa was built(a Feng Shui-practioner's night-mare).
A hospital desa is a rural hospital.

    Dr.JayBee was once told by a Pathan teacher that there was well in that site. His mother
fell into the well when she was seven month's pregnant, and died. The well was subsequently filled-up.

    Soon after the Japanese occupation, a Malay district officer who was friendly with the Japanese, was tied to a tree in that area, and shot to death by the Communists. A district
officer is equal to a district collector.That tree was standing just on the spot where the porch
of the present Doctor's quarters is situated. (The house whereDr.JayBee had lived for over three years).

    All this story was told to Dr.JayBee, only after he had left on a transfer away from Kuala Brang, to Besut. During his stay in the house, he used to hear single, isolatd gun-shots, in the middle of he night. He always thought that people were shooting wild-boars or mouse-deers. Once he asked his trusted land-rover driver about it, and the driver described the incident. He said that after the execution of the district officer, it was customary to hear the single gun-shot in the middle of the night.

    There was also another funny noise that Dr.JayBee used to hear at nights. Something like "Uuunnngghh....Aaangghhh.... Uungghh...Aaangghhh". At first he thought that it might be some saw-mill oprating some distance away. But then why so infrequent and why so sporadic?

    The Doctor asked another driver about this. He told him that it was the tiger roaring in the distance. The Doctor told him that the sound is nothing like what we see and hear in the movies.

    He said, "But Sir! Dat kind noise all, you see in pictures oni-lah! Dis one, real real one, you know-ah!"('You can see such roaring/growling noises in movies only. From the sound track. But this sound is what you will hear under natural surroundigs).
And so!

    That's the back-ground to the story of the 'Hantu Raya' of Kuala Brang.

    But mind you, it might *NOT* afterall turn out to be any one of the executed victims, the pregnant lady, or the pro-Jap district officer.....or the mysterious fugitive contract doctor from Albania.