DARO, SARAWAK,MALAYSIA: Friday.
The people of this town was shocked as they tried to dig a grave to bury a grandfather who had just died that afternoon. The deceased was known as Danial.
It was indeed a rare phenomenon. After digging for about an hour the grave diggers were tired and tried to flee the scene.
However they were confronted by several village elders who did not want a scandal. After lengthy persuasion they relented. Shaking his head and downcast, Marley, one of the diggers, told the elders that they have never came across such creepy happening.
After more pleadings, this time from family members of the dead man, the three of them stepped into the hole again. Slowly but barefully they tried to scoop out the bubbling water.
While they tried to scoop out the water by way of three buckets, an in-law of the old man negotiated a water pump from a friend. Having succeeded he brought it to the grave yard.
After half an hour of pumping, finally the hole is cleared. The dead body is lowered down rather hastily, I might say, into the hole. The rites are then said and done. After filling the hole the villagers were again alarmed as water started to ooze out again.
Finally more buckets of earth was added and left as it was. The next day the faily of the deceased brought one lorry full of sand and dumped it on top of the grave.
What was interesting here? According to the elders since it was low tide when they performed the burial, one may not attribute the bubbling water to the nearest river. It was whispered then that this particular man had indeed been quite greedy when he was alive. Among the infamous deeds that he had done was to grab his family member’s land. Now such deed, if it really had happened, can cause nature to revolt and oozed water even if there si no source.