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During the ordeal, the boy reassured his sisters with ghost stories. However, he was also strict with them, at one stage telling his younger sister that if she didn't stop complaining she could "swim home". ... On the first night, Bala comforted his sisters as the trio tried to sleep, cold and wet, on the rock. He told them tales he had learned from his uncles and from the kids at school. "He told us beware of the 'red ghoul' because he will come and kill us," Ellis said. "But if you see the blue ghoul (the sea), he will take us home and rescue us".