THE JERUK PURUT CEMETERY
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If you like graveyard walking tour,
you may go to visit Jeruk Purut Cemetery
in South Jakarta. It is not difficult to find
the location. The locals know this place very well and you can also use Google
maps to guide you to this site.
Jeruk Purut Cemetery has become well known since 2006. Koya
Pagayo, the film director successfully introduced Jeruk Purut Ghost, which
tells us that a headless pastor and his dog often walk around the cemetery at
night. The poor beheaded pastor is unable to find his tomb, causing him to roam
everywhere at midnight.
The popularity of this movie has
promoted such area to be a night tour location. Young people like going there
to test how brave they are and see whether their friends have enough guts to stay
there in the evening.
Some of them go to that place to
find the headless pastor and others just like to feel the sensation of goosebumps
growing on the skin.
Many years ago, I usually took the
shortcut after I finished teaching a Dutch woman Mandarin language. One afternoon
while I was riding my motorbike on the way through the cemetery, it began to
rain. As I didn’t bring my raincoat, I had to stop at the coffee kiosk till the
rain subsided.
I met an old man who worked as the
janitor. He told me a lot of stories about that burial ground. He was a good
story teller and what he mentioned impressed me so much. He said he was
often visited by journalists or film makers who wanted to know more about the
cemetery. It was of course a great pleasure to him to explain everything he
knew that could be helpful to other people.
Jeruk Purut Cemetery was founded in 1978. It covers an
area of 13 hectares and is considered a very spooky and mystical spot.
“If you want to see a ghost, you
just need to sit there at nighttime and it won’t let you down,” said the janitor.
A woman ghost with a hole on her
back can be seen under a kaffir lime tree. This ghost likes wearing white
clothes. She has tousled hair, pale face and dark circles around her eyes as if
she had been struck by heavy blows.
It is said that an apelike spirit
often reveals itself at the old well. He has green face with two glowing red
eyes and a mouthful of sharp teeth, but he is used to walking slowly. People
call this awful spirit genderawo.
The headless pastor and his dog is
the most popular horror story of Jerut
Purut Cemetery.
In 1986, Supri (the caretaker) who took care of the graveyard saw a headless
pastor walking his dog at midnight. Among all the horror stories, the headless pastor and his dog is the
most well-known. If you have the guts, you may go there with some of your
friends. Remember, the number of your friends should be odd. It should be 3, 5,
7 or 9 people.
Hantu Jeruk Purut Reborn 2017
The Hantu Jeruk Purut Reborn 2017 is
the second successful horror movie directed by Koya Pagayo. It tells us that
the incident happened after Jenny’s father was buried in that cemetery. Problems
occurred when the family members and friends reached home after the funeral.
Farah perceived that a ghost was going
to harm her, so she went to tell Reno.
Reno didn’t believe
what she said; however, the ghost came to intimidate him one evening. Jenny
experienced the same thing too.
Jenny and Farah were at a loss, they
tried to find out how to make peace with that ethereal being. They spent a lot
of time surfing the Web for helpful information and asked people how to solve
the problem.
Airin was also terrified by ghosts
from that cemetery ten years ago, so that Reno
went to seek help from her. Though it had already been ten years since that
unpleasant happening, Airin still owned an unforgettable trauma. She was sorry
that she didn’t have enough courage to help her friends.
As they were too anxious to find a way
out, Reno asked Farah and Jenny to visit Jeruk Purut
Cemetery directly. On the
way, Farah couldn’t overcome the fear and died after being hit by a car.
After hearing Farah’s death, Airin
came to meet Reno
and Jenny to give them the information of the beheaded pastor. The ghost was
upset because a pair of rings kept by his decendant was separated. After knowing this
matter, Reno and Jenny intended to help the headless pastor bring the separated
rings to unity.
Their friend, Airin, who refused to help
came back to give them helpful information after Farah’s death. Then why did
she come back to help?
Perhaps someday, there will be the Hantu
Jeruk Nipis Horror entertaining us at the movie theaters.
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