PATTERNS
Phenomena happen. And they happen in Yishun, stranger than fiction. These are the recurring stories the archive keeps surfacing — each one backed by the incidents underneath it.
The Devil's Ring: Yishun Ring Road
One circular stretch of tarmac shows up in this archive more than anywhere else in the estate. We call it the Devil's Ring, and we did not name it that to be dr…
8 incidents · 02 Feb 1989 — 11 Jul 2026
The Yishun Cat Killings
If one place seeded Yishun's national reputation, it was the cats. Since 2015 the estate has produced a grim, recurring genre of its own: community cats found s…
5 incidents · 30 Oct 2015 — 10 May 2026
Yishun Street 81
Most Yishun patterns sprawl across the whole town. This one fits inside a few blocks. Yishun Street 81 — Blocks 839, 844, 874 and the courts and schools around…
5 incidents · 29 Mar 2018 — 18 Jun 2026
Kurt Tay, Superstar
Every estate has a character. Yishun has Kurt Tay. He first entered this archive in 2015 not as a culprit but as a victim — the neighbour three men papered a bl…
4 incidents · 22 Dec 2015 — 27 Oct 2023