Pogunon Community Museum () is a

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located at Pogunon Village in

Penampang District The Penampang District () is an Districts of Malaysia#Sabah, administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the West Coast Division which includes the districts of Kota Belud District, Kota Belud, Kota Kinabalu District, Kota ...

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah has land borders with the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and Indonesia's North Kalima ...

, Malaysia.

History

During the construction of a village

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building in Pogunon in 2000, several ancient artefacts comprising three whole

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s, pieces of four jars of blue and white plates including bowls were accidentally unearthed. Inside the three jars were human remains with

ceramic A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcela ...

s found in the site were originated from

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and made between the 16th to 19th centuries. A further thirteen ancient burial jars were also unearthed from an old

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in front of a St Joseph Chapel in the same village. One of the broken jars consisted of human bones and various artefacts such as coins dating back to 1885, a bangle and belt made from ancient

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s were also found in the jar which however was broken by an

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during the discovery. The area with stone markers (

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s) is located in the front site of the recent museum which established in 2004.

Haunted reputation

Many strange phenomena occur at the museum site, with a visitor who was led by the museum supervisor during a visit saying that "someone" was following behind throughout their walk, although there were actually none. A daughter of a family from

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who came to visit also began yelling in

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after seeing apparition figures from centuries ago, while other group of visitors also felt the presence of some

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wandering around when they toured the site.

Features

Three large pots with human skeletal remains are being showcased inside the museum to visitors. Several other potteries discovered on Pogunon were kept by

Sabah Museum The Sabah Museum (Malay language, Malay: ''Muzium Sabah'') is the state museum of Sabah, Malaysia. It is sited on of land at Bukit Istana Lama in Kota Kinabalu, the state capital. History The original Sabah Museum location was established on ...

due to size constraints at the community museum. The

jars displayed inside the museum are believed to be the burial jars of people who once hold high status in Kadazan society while located near the museum are cemetery with vertical stones as grave markers with some of the deceased were ''

bobohizan A ''Bobohizan'' ( Tangaa' Kadazan term) or ''Bobolian'' ( Bundu Liwan Dusun term) is a high priestess, a ritual specialist and a spirit medium in the pagan rites of the Kadazan-Dusun in Sabah, Malaysia. The head of ''bobohizan'' or ''bobolian' ...

's''. File:Pogunon Sabah Pogunon-Community-Museum-06.jpg, Decoration at the entrance of the museum. File:Pogunon Sabah Pogunon-Community-Museum-03.jpg, Inside the museum. File:Pogunon Sabah Pogunon-Community-Museum-05.jpg, Human remains found in the jars. File:Pogunon Sabah Pogunon-Community-Museum-02.jpg, Stone

s in front of the museum.

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* {{Malaysian historical architectures and sites Museums established in 2004 Museums in Sabah Penampang District

History

Haunted reputation

Features

See also

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