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00:00You've probably seen the movie Menak Prakanon, but did you know that it's based on a true story?
00:05There's even a temple in Prakanon where people go to pray
00:09to Menak hoping that she'll protect them from being drafted into being a soldier.
00:14Mak and Nak were a young couple when she became pregnant.
00:17Mak was drafted leaving her behind.
00:20Tragically, Nak and her baby died during childbirth.
00:23When Mak returned home, he didn't know that his wife had passed.
00:27Nak's ghost greeted him as if nothing had changed.
00:30But one night, Mak witnessed something chilling.
00:34Nak's arms stretched unnaturally long to pick up a fallen lime.
00:38That's when he realized his wife wasn't human anymore.
00:41Terrified, Mak fled to a temple and in the end,
00:44a shaman trapped her spirit in a jar and submerged it in the river.
00:50Yet legend says that Menak's spirit still lingers.
00:53Her love for Mak too powerful to die even in death.