Penang War Museum
British coastal fortress turned wartime interrogation site, its ghost stories still disputed by historians today.
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This guide traces the British fortress on Batu Maung hill, built through the 1930s to watch the Malacca Strait, and the local legend that Japanese executioner Tadashi Suzuki used it to behead prisoners during the occupation, washing his blade in whiskey between killings. The fort's guns pointed south, aimed at a fleet that never came from that direction, and historians still dispute basic facts of the story you're standing inside.
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