Comments on: Strange experiences and mystical belief of Mount Kinabalu?

By: Benazir Japiril Bandaran

Benazir Japiril Bandaran — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:07:33 +0000

Once I climbed Mount Kinabalu for the third time, 24th December 2008, I was climbing down the mountain with my high-school friends and two guides, I experienced something that made me believe that Mount Kinabalu is a place where we should not mess around.

While I was climbing down, I was really tired and kept on asking the guides how many hours till we reach Timpohon Gate. One of the guides told me to think of anything else to kill time. Then I thought about snakes.

After a few minutes of walking, one of my friends told me to walk quickly. I did and as I turned back, I saw a snake walked passed behind me. I was shocked and my friend told me that the snake was about to bit my leg as it has already lifted its head. Fortunately, I had walked quickly when my friend asked me too.

From that incident, I started to believe that Mount Kinabalu is a place where you should not mess around.

By: Rakib

Rakib — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:46:24 +0000

Yup… we are living with other God creations… not to disturb them. As a Muslim, we must believe in that….

By: tanagnes

tanagnes — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:53:50 +0000

hi Doctor,
we have been to Gung KK 4 times, twice the occasions the pictures we downloaded from the camera into our PC, some showed faces on the rock.
Mysterious, but we take it as what the local mountain guide tolsd us, Gunung KK is their ancestors’ resting place and we must respect it.

How true it is to take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprint when we deal with ” natures”

Of course we must take out the rubbish and not litters on mountains & the jungles

By: Esther

Esther — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:28:07 +0000

Hi there Dr Rizad. Like your blog. Thought I’d share my experience. It was in Aug 2007. You can say I have a pretty sensitive spirit (grandma was a bobohizan) and I felt the presence of a being beside me during my climb. Not till the peak but the first part . Maybe not as dramatic as the experience of the others but it was pretty eerie to have an invisible climbing partner!

Have a great week!

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:53:41 +0000

Interesting read indeed which reminds me of an experience back in Dec 2007. I was with my students (16-17 years – old), young, excited and loud. Well what do you expect of youth when they are together. They were reminded by the guides at the beginning of the climb to respect the mountain and whatever that is there. In Islam it is even mentioned in Surah Al-Jinn about the presence of such beings and we are in cooexistence with them. respect is the only way to ensure harmony while believing in Allah that anything happens is his will. Anyway back to the experience, well at one of the resthouse in Laban Rata, I shall not mention which one for fear of frightening future climbers, the students were a bit noisy, laughing their heart out and making fun of one another. must have blatantly disregard the reminder. Well at night, the girls in this particular room couldn’t sleep as they were disturbed by a black figure and whisperings on their ears. Scared they moved into another room and bunked in there. Incidentally one of them came down with fever and could not complete the climb to the peak. I had to stay with her and accompany her all the way down to Timpohan. The story did not stop there. She was exceptionally quiet all the way down and all the way back home to Singapore. we informed her parents about her conditions and they took note thinking that it was just a normal fever due to exhaustion. Her uncle however noticed the drastic change in her behaviour and suspected something else. They brought her to see an ‘Uztaz’ and true enough he said ‘the thing’ which she might have offended must have followed her all the way home. With some prayers and the help of the ‘uztaz’ she recovered. She couldn’t really tell what happened but all she knew is that she felt she was not alone and that’s what made her afraid and quiet.

Moral of the story:
Yes, There are other beings in the mountain and anywhere else for that matter. It is always good to respect and be watchful of what we do and say in particular not only in social setting but also any other settings -alone or among crowd. We never know what we can offend in the process. Most importantly to me respect and understanding and praise God for all that exist and his creation. Subhanallah

I am not really perturbed by this experience. I am going back there this June. Wiser hopefully by this experience and hopefully will be able to reach the peak this time round. Wish me luck!!