SINGAPORE — I whispered multiple sorrys under my breath as I stepped over graves strewn across overgrown grass.
Mr Pak and his crew began to snip away at the overgrown bushes with shears that they had carried along with them.The family of five was visibly overjoyed, and they whipped out some incense sticks to say a collective prayer for their ancestor. An avid birdwatcher, Mr Pak first started visiting the cemetery in 2010 on birdwatching trips with the Nature Society , posting pictures of birds on his blog.
I could tell from our Saturday jaunt that years of public tours had not diminished Mr Pak’s childlike fascination for the cemetery. For instance, if the departed’s death date is listed as 1930 but there are two newspaper articles — one in 1911 and one in 1933 — which mentions the name of the dead, then it is more likely that the person mentioned in the 1911 news article is the same as the person buried, explained Mr Pak.
And he had pretty much given up. None of his relatives could remember where his grandfather, Teo Geok Peck, was buried, only that it was somewhere in Kopi Sua near Bukit Brown. With a little help from Mr Pak, Mr Teo was able to finally find his grandfather’s resting place on May 21.Mr Pak, who is Catholic, attributed the reunions that he facilitates to “divine intervention”.
Most of the deceased whose tombs he documents also do not ever reconnect with their descendants, he added.Mr Peter Pak snipping away with shears at overgrown grass and roots over a tombstone in Bukit Brown Cemetery on June 18, 2022.When asked if he has ever had supernatural encounters during his grave hunts, he said: “I’ve not seen ghosts in Bukit Brown Cemetery yet, but there are instances where I am exploring and I felt that I wasn’t alone.
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