Old Upper Thomson Road Full of stories. This road leads to a now ruined village that was once part of the Singapore Grand Prix circuit and may be inhabited by a ghost or two.
This road used to connect to Lol Perta and Jalan Belan, the lanes leading to Hainan village. Although Hainan Village has been abandoned, remnants of the community can be found through Thomson Nature Park, especially the Rambutan Trail.village known as kampung In Southeast Asia, they were built in the 1960s as housing, rambutan plantations, factories, warehouses, and fish ponds for breeding purposes.
From 1961 to 1973, the Thomson Road Circuit hosted the Singapore Grand Prix and other car and motorcycle races. One of the most difficult parts of the course was his V-turn, called “Devil’s Bend,” which tested the limits of the driver. Other parts of the circuit had their challenges, but none compared to Devil’s Bend. It was not only a difficult turn, but also a dangerous one. Over 11 years of racing he was responsible for the deaths of seven drivers. In the end, the Grand Prix circuit was canceled due to its dangerous nature. It was renewed in 2008 with a different circuit.
Although no longer associated with the Grand Prix, this road is still used today. Due to the high number of deaths, the aptly named Devil’s Bend is considered a haunted road. There have been numerous reports of ghost sightings, the most notorious being a young woman in white who hailed a taxi. The taxi driver said that if he dropped this creepy figure at her place, she would pay with her hell money. (In many East Asian cultures, hell money is paper printed like banknotes that loved ones burn to obtain currency to use in the afterlife.)
Old Upper Thomson Road still bears the legacy of a dangerous past, but now borders Thomson Nature Park and is a popular path for cyclists, pedestrians and Singaporean history buffs.