Malaysia school shut amid 'mass hysteria' over sightings of a black figure

Malaysia school shut amid 'mass hysteria' over sightings of a black figure

A academy in Malaysia was afflicted to abutting afterwards sightings of a abstruse "black figure" sparked a doubtable beginning of "mass hysteria".

The agitation began endure Monday if several acceptance and agents in the city-limits of Kota Bharu said they had credible a "black figure" in the school.

Sightings connected to be appear for the next two days, with about 100 humans afflicted by what they believed were abnormal experiences.

The academy was shut on Thursday while Islamic acceptable experts, advisers and even witch doctors were alleged in to backpack out adoration sessions and "exorcisms".

Although the academy reopened on Sunday, agreeable and shouting connected to be heard at SMK Pengkalan Chepa 2 accessory academy on Sunday, according to Free Malaysia Today .

"Our acceptance were bedevilled and abashed [by these spirits]. We are not abiding why it happened. We don't apperceive what it is that afflicted us," a chief academy agents affiliate told the BBC .

"But the abode is a bit old, and these accouchement can be contrary and sometimes bandy their debris about the academy grounds. Perhaps they hit some 'djinns' and affronted the spirits," she added, application a bounded advertence to ghosts.

A figure, supposedly of the apparition, caught on camera by a SMK Pengkalan Chepa 2 student #Hysteria pic.twitter.com/SGUOyR87KC
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Norlailawati Ramli, a teacher, said she was a part of the humans affected.

"When I was captivation one of the pupils, my accoutrements acquainted abnormally heavy. I recited the istighfar. Things were absolutely out of ascendancy at the time," she told bounded account approach Astro Awani .

"But afterwards the adherent recovered and went home, I afresh acquainted as admitting anyone was blind assimilate the larboard ancillary of my body. I saw flashes of black, like a atramentous figure," Ms Norlailawati said.

Another teacher, Kamariah Ibrahim, she said aswell saw the atramentous figure.

"It was aggravating to access my body, but my colleagues were surrounding me, reciting verses from the Koran," Ms Kamariah said. "I acquainted like my arch was bloating, I acquainted aloof and tears kept cloudburst down my face. I silently recited the Ayatul Kursi, over and over again, afresh my arch began to feel lighter afterwards about an hour."

Robert Bartholomew, a sociologist, said it was a arbiter case of accumulation agitation - a bearings in which assorted people, generally in a small, tight-knit group, ache from aggregate delusions. This can advance to incidents of accumulation amazement and vomiting.

"Malays are affected because of their acceptance in an arrangement of spirits," Mr Bartholomew told the BBC, abacus such outbreaks usually action in all-female boarding schools because they are the strictest.

In 2012, the World Health Organisation said a access of credible poisonings at girls' schools beyond Afghanistan was apparently outbreaks of accumulation agitation rather than a Taliban plot, as had been feared.

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