St Paul’s Church · The People Buried Under the Floor

St Paul’s Church in Malacca was built by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century. The Dutch took it over and used it as a burial ground and a fortification; today only the four walls remain, with a group of tombstones cut with Latin.

On the hill behind the church is an empty grave. It is said to have held a stone statue of a priest; the statue later disappeared and only a pit was left.

Down in the town they say that on rainy nights there is singing in the church. There has been no choir here for more than two hundred years.

Historical Mysteries / Malacca · Malaysia / 1521