Kellie's Castle is a mysterious mansion surrounded by river some kilometers out of Batu Gajah, commissioned in 1915 by a late Scottish Planter named William Kellie Smith. Smith left for England in the middle of the construction of the castle and dies soon after in England. The castle was thus never completed and stands today as an unfinished mansion. It has 14 rooms and a tall tower. The Castle is shrouded in mystery and it is widely believed that it has hidden rooms and a secret tunnel.
Smith also built a temple for a Hindu Goddess not too far away from the castle. As he was so fond of the Goddess that he wanted to have built a statue of him beside her. Therefore a statue of a white man can be seen on the roof of temple today, alongside statues of Hindu gods and goddesses. During a road widening exercise, road construction workers accidentally unearthed a section of a tunnel which is believed to lead from the castle to the Hindu temple nearby.
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Vivek Muniappan says:
Nice explanation of the castle..I wonder why no one continued with the construction. Misteri Nusantara la ini..;)
BMahendran says:
lovely placeeeeeeee