00:00Before it became Sentosa, this island was feared across Singapore.
00:05The Melays called it Pulau Blecang Mati, the island behind death.
00:10In 1942, after Singapore fell to the Japanese Imperial Army,
00:16the island's British artillery barracks became prison camps for captured Allied soldiers.
00:23Hundreds entered the jungle compound alive.
00:25Many never came back out, but among the prisoners,
00:30one man secretly built a forbidden radio from scraps stolen around the camp.
00:36And according to surviving witnesses, strange things began happening after the broadcast started.
00:44The British believed Singapore was impossible to conquer.
00:48Its coastal defenses, artillery batteries, and island fortresses were designed to stop any naval invasion.
00:55But in February 1942, Japanese forces attacked from the north through Malaya.
01:03Within weeks, British defenses collapsed.
01:06Thousands of British and Australian troops were captured.
01:10On Pulau Blecang Mati, military barracks meant for soldiers were transformed into prison compounds.
01:18The prisoners housed at Fort Siloso and the Blacang Mati barracks suffered under brutal conditions.
01:25Food was scarce.
01:27Water was contaminated.
01:29Disease spread rapidly through the overcrowded buildings.
01:33Survivors later described men collapsing during forced labor,
01:37and guards beating prisoners for hiding scraps of food.
01:41Some prisoners reportedly survived by catching insects, rats, and jungle plants growing near drainage trenches.
01:50At night, the camps became unnaturally silent.
01:54Witnesses claimed the jungle around the barracks felt wrong.
02:00Among the prisoners was an Australian radio enthusiast.
02:04Using scavenged wires, broken components, and hidden batteries,
02:09he began assembling a secret radio receiver beneath the barracks' floorboards.
02:14Discovery meant execution.
02:17Every broadcast had to remain silent from the guards.
02:21Late at night, prisoners gathered in darkness,
02:25while the operator tuned weak-allied transmissions through static
02:29for starving men trapped on an island prison camp.
02:33Hearing news of Allied victories became the only hope they had left.
02:39After the radio broadcasts began,
02:42prisoners reportedly noticed strange disturbances inside the barracks.
02:47Footsteps echoed through empty corridors after midnight.
02:50Some claimed they heard coughing from rooms where prisoners had already died.
02:56One witness later described seeing a wet figure standing near the barracks' doorway during heavy rain,
03:03before disappearing into darkness.
03:06Others believed the island itself had become haunted by the suffering inside the camps.
03:13Beneath Fort Siloso,
03:15underground tunnels connected ammunition storage rooms
03:19and military positions across the island.
03:22During the occupation,
03:24prisoners were allegedly interrogated inside these concrete chambers.
03:29Years after the war ended,
03:32maintenance workers reportedly refused to enter certain tunnel sections alone.
03:36Several claimed they heard voices speaking English from empty corridors underground.
03:43Today, Pulau Blakangmadi is known by another name, Sentosa.
03:50Millions visit the island every year for beaches, resorts, and attractions.
03:54But hidden beyond the tourist areas,
03:57remnants of the wartime prison camps still remain.
04:02Rusted bunkers,
04:04empty corridors,
04:06forgotten tunnels swallowed by jungle growth,
04:08and according to some workers,
04:10the old barracks are still avoided after dark.
04:15One former prisoner later recalled that even after liberation,
04:19the island never felt normal again.
04:22He described an overwhelming silence inside the old barracks after midnight,
04:28as if the buildings themselves remembered what happened there.
04:32Many of the dead were buried anonymously.
04:35Some bodies were never recovered at all.
04:39Pulau Blakangmadi means
04:41the island behind death.
04:43Long before luxury resorts and beaches
04:46covered the shoreline,
04:48men suffered, starved,
04:50and disappeared inside those barracks.
04:53And according to those who still work near the old tunnels,
04:57some nights,
04:58the island sounds exactly the same as it did in 1942.
05:03Would you enter the tunnels after midnight?
05:11What is that?
05:11The airот Oh man,
05:11are you right?
05:12Theрист поставочек in emergency.
05:12Time is a massive shock.
05:12It is not a mass,
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