Shortly after midnight, the phone rang in the cramped radio station where Kapol Thongplub hosts a nightly call-in show dedicated to the supernatural.
The caller had recently encountered a ghost in a Bangkok hotel room.
“I saw someone standing in my room, a woman,” she said.
“Did you see her face?” Mr. Kapol asked over the air.
“I heard some sort of Indian noises, some sort of Indian praying,” the woman said. “I felt heavy pressure on my body.”
Mr. Kapol has been listening to ghost stories like this for more than two decades as host of “The Shock,” which from midnight to 3 a.m. broadcasts tales of apparitions recounted by his listeners — taxi drivers, security guards, students and anyone else who is up at that hour.
In the process, Mr. Kapol, better known by his nickname, Pong, has become the leading ghost expert in a country that takes ghosts quite seriously and is apparently full of them.
Source: The New York Times
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