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Why Yishun is the most terrifying place to live in Singapore​

Updated: December 6, 2024·8 min read·by Ryan Ong


Every country has one: that spot where weird things keep happening, and every day feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone. In the United States, it’s Florida. In Australia, it’s everywhere outside a city. In Singapore, it’s Yishun.


Here’s why Yishun is so exciting and terrifying (along with some rationalisations).

What strange things have happened in Yishun?​

Some of the things that you find in Yishun are:

• Cat killings
• Cat killing (singular)
• People with stun guns
• Rat problems
• Drug syndicates
• Someone who wants your children
• Numerous murders and suicides

And many, many more. But in case you’ve forgotten, here’s a rundown of those main ones.

1. Cat killings​

There has been a spate of cat killings in Yishun, most notably from September to December 2015. Within those four months, there were 17 reported cases of cat abuse. Two suspects were arrested, with one eventually charged (more later).

More recently, within four days in April 2021, three kittens died on the same blockin Yishun. What’s more chilling is that dead cats have previously been found at the same block in January and October 2020.

Cats have been slit open, bludgeoned, thrown off high places, and so forth. And whatever your feelings about cats, here’s why it’s serious: many serial killers start by abusing defenceless animals, eventually working their way up to…well, people.

2. Cat killing (singular)​

What do you do when a cat meows a lot? Feed it? Pet it? How about pick it up and throw it off the 13th storey? In October 2015, that’s exactly what someone did. He chucked a male cat off the ledge because he felt it was being noisy.

Now in his defence, the courts found him to have moderate intellectual disability, so he may not have understood what he was doing. But it didn’t help that this occurred in a neighbourhood where people were already looking for a cat killer (and no, it’s not him).

3. Police getting attacked with a stun gun​

In January 2017, two people were spotted by the police in their attempt to steal something from a car. Now, here’s a pop quiz:

When someone who possesses a loaded gun and is trained to use it approaches you, you should:

(a) Stop and do what he says

(b) Attack the person with a real gun, using a stun gun

The two people chose option B, which promptly led to their arrest. But that’s not the big issue. The big issue is how they managed to get a stun gun when most of us can’t get a bigger laser pointer past customs.

Oh, wait, another two guys were playingwith a stun gun at Northpoint in August 2016. Maybe they sell a much more exotic range of goods at Yishun pasar malams or something.

4. Rat problems​

Yishun has on-and-off rat issues. Nothing out of control, but enough to be an annoyance at times.

Maybe the cat killings explain this one.

5. Drug syndicates​

111 drug traffickers were nabbed in an operation in 2016. Guess where their leader was.

That’s right, he was caught with over S$62,000 worth of drugs at a suspected drug store in Yishun.

And more recently, in April 2020 (yes, you read that right, during the Circuit Breaker), five people were arrested in Yishun. Drugs worth at least S$360,000 were seized as well.

But these were comparatively small. The biggest drug dealer from Yishun maybe Barry Zheng Chongde, who was involved in a S$64.6 million cocaine syndicate in Australia. He was later charged in the Australian court in December 2016.

Yishun MRT station and bus stop. Image credit: iShinora
Drugs may also have been involved in an accident near Yishun MRT station. Three people were injured when someone tried to drive through a police roadblock (the police were searching the car before it happened).

It’s amazing no one is writing the script for CSI: Yishun (or even a Channel 5 or Channel 8 drama called Yishun) at this point.

6. Someone who wants your children​

Let’s not forget that in November 2016, we had reports of a mysterious man asking for any children via door-to-door knocking. It’s like the most terrifying karang-guni man you’ve ever heard of.

This is unfair, as any Yishun residents with pets or children now need to barricade their houses. Maybe this is why so many of them have stun guns, is all we’re saying.

7. Numerous murders and suicides​

Enter Yishun murders in Google, and you’ll receive many search results dedicated to the subject. Some examples are this case, this other case and the most notable is the triple murder case in 2008 committed at Blk 349 Yishun Street 11.

 

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