Penang War Museum, on Penang Island, Malayasia sits on a site known to locals as Bukit Hantu, or "Ghost Hill." Even before the horrors of World War II, the area was known for its supernatural residents. As the world marched to war in the 1930s, British colonists in Malaysia built a fortress on Ghost Hill, which quickly fell to the Japanese. The fortress became an prison camp, where hundreds were tortured and executed by Japanese forces.According to eyewitness accounts, the camp was run by sadistic Japanese officer Tadashi Suzuki, known as the "hippy executioner" on account of his unusually long hair. Suzuki beheaded prisoners and ordered their heads paraded around town as a warning. Others were locked in small wooden crates and left to bake in the jungle sun without water. Rooms in the museum have walls pocked with bullet holes, a byproduct of bloody executions. There's also a hangman's noose and a tree labeled "guillotine," the base of which was supposedly Suzuki's favorite spot for decapitations. It's said the ghosts of many of those the Japanese murdered still walk the museum grounds.
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