MICA Building a sinister history

[Watchman]

MICA building
Another user, Kidd, talked about the
bloodstained history of the MICA building.

“My grandpa used to worked in the old Hill Street Police Station before the occupation. He said there was a flight of stairs in the basement that led to a large storeroom. When the Japanese took over, they converted it into a torture chamber. My grandpa still remembers the day his friend was accused of being a British spy by the kempeitai (the Japanese secret police) and was hauled to their HQ, from where he never came out alive,” he said.

Yahoo! user, Ong, agreed that the now-colourful building has a sinister reputation, saying “I got the creeps when I worked overnight in MICA building… (it) is indeed haunted.”

The many victims who died at what was then the headquarters of the Kempeitai have given the MICA Building a sinister history. (Image courtesy of Singapore Tourism Board)

 

[Screwball]

When the Japanese took over, they converted it into a torture chamber. My grandpa still remembers the day his friend was accused of being a British spy by the kempeitai (the Japanese secret police) and was hauled to their HQ, from where he never came out alive,” he said.

The many victims who died at what was then the headquarters of the Kempeitai have given the MICA Building a sinister history.

The corpses were kept in the nearby bunkers of Fort Canning.
Hundreds of skeletal remains had to be removed from there after the war.