Story - Tales from the darkside

The tourists can still be heard on this Thai paradise isle, only now local people say they are voices from beyond the grave. Devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami, Koh Phi Phi, a holiday mecca typified in the Leonardo DiCaprio film "The Beach", has become an island inhabited mainly by rescue workers and ghosts. "I heard some foreigners calling out to me last night, saying 'Come on, come on, come and join our party'," said Prajit Sumta, a carpenter who is one of the few Thais to have stayed on the tiny island since the killer waves. "But then I looked round and realised I was all on my own."



Holidaymakers are not the only ones whose spirits are said to be haunting Phi Phi's palm-fringed beaches. "One of the women who worked in the bank came to me in a dream telling me that her body had not yet been found. She wanted to show me where it was," Prajit said.



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Source: Reuters Alertnet