Thursday, October 1, 2009 Horny Oily Man Terrorizes Nation

And it ain't me! From the Malaysian Star:

Horny orang minyak on the prowl

Friday September 18, 2009

A HORNY orang minyak is on the prowl in Sungai Petani, terrorising about 300 families as the apparition seemed to pick on homes where young women are staying in.

A teenager known just as Nurshahirah, 17, told Kosmo! that she was awakened at about 5.40am on Monday as she felt a warm sensation on her left ear.

She opened her eyes only to discover an apparition with curly hair and thick moustache standing by her bed.

“I was even more shocked when the ghost took off his kain pelikat and started to fondle himself,” she said.

Nurshahirah, who lives in Taman Keladi, said she felt powerless to ward off the apparition who started to grope her body.

It was as though a charm had been placed on her, she added.

As for housewife Fatimah, 42 , she said two of her daughters cried when they were woken up by dark apparitions that molested them at about 5am on Monday.

Her 15-year-old daughter told her that she had been “violated” by a ghost.

“At first I thought she was talking in her sleep but she insisted that she was molested by a ghost before it moved to the kitchen,” Fatimah said.

She said her 14-year-old, too, cried and ran from the living room, saying she had been molested by a dark apparition.

“My 14-year-old daughter said she managed to kick the ghost who wore a kain pelikat and black singlet when she felt her body being touched.

“She screamed and the ghost ran out of her room.”

Fatimah said she gave chase with a parang but the apparition disappeared.

She said the apparition could have placed a charm on her family because none of the neighbours heard their daughters’ screams.

I guess "ghost" is a poor translation of a Malay word that covers a gamut of supernatural critters. "Orang Minyak" means "oily man"; the entity is supposed to take the form of a man covered in black grease that renders him nearly invisible in the dark and too slippery to capture. As far as I can tell, that's the extent of the creature's powers, though the movies might say otherwise.

It's rather difficult to see this as anything other than a mundane rapist using a spooky disguise to help commit his crimes. It's like a Scooby-Doo villain gone really, really wrong.