Paranormal helps woman find remains of husband

Paranormal helps woman find remains of husband

Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan

As relatives scrambled to find the remains of their loved ones
among the charred bodies of Mandala aircraft crash victims,
before the unidentified bodies were to be sent for mass burial on
Wednesday, Eng Ae Hua turned to a paranormal for help.

And just minutes before the 11 a.m. deadline to identify their
relatives, Eng Ae Hua, 46, found the remains of her husband, Oei
Cekia, 53.

The paranormal, who declined to be named but was a distant
relative of the family, was specially brought in from Jakarta for
the job.

Without much fuss, and without performing a single ritual, the
paranormal went to Adam Malik Hospital where the crash victims'
remains were gathered.

Casually, he approached each of the neatly arranged coffins
outside the hospital. At each coffin, he would stop and be still
for a moment.

Before long, he found Oei Cekia's coffin. Eng Ae Hua and her
family, who were at the paranormal's side, immediately opened the
coffin and broke into tears.

The mother of two said the paranormal confirmed that the
remains inside the coffin were those of her husband after he had
conducted a mystical conversation with him. In the conversation,
her late husband said that before he boarded the aircraft, he
asked his brother-in-law Ai Loan in Medan to look after his
children.

Ai Loan, who came along for the identification process,
confirmed that Oei Cekia did in fact ask him to look after his
children before leaving for Jakarta. He was in Medan to pay
homage at his grandmother's grave.

Apart from the mystical conversation, Eng Ae Hua also believed
that she found her husband upon seeing the remains of his hair,
the shape of his forehead and his overall posture.

"I'm sure that I'm not mistaken. I recognize the GT Man
underwear he's still wearing," Eng told The Jakarta Post.

Prayers in accordance to Buddhist teachings were held for Oei
Cekia at the Adam Malik Hospital before his remains were brought
by his family to Angsa Pura Buddhist Temple in Medan on Wednesday
and then taken to East Jakarta on Thursday.

Oei's eldest child, Fenny, 22, felt sad upon learning that her
father had died in the Monday's crash.

"My father had just returned home after working for three
years in Korea. He's only been with us for three weeks and now
God has called him," she said.