KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 23): Less than a month after the much-hyped announcement from Genting Group that it was investing RM400 million to build a 20th Century Fox theme park in Genting Highlands, the well-known resort is facing one of its greatest public crisis ever.

In one of Malaysia's deadliest road accidents to date, 37 out of 53 passengers were killed on Wednesday, when an overloaded bus crashed into a 200-feet deep ravine at KM3.5 Jalan Genting Highlands-Kuala Lumpur as it made its way down from the resort.

For many years, cyberspace has been filled with rife rumours of the resort being haunted, or gamblers choosing to take their lives after losing their stakes at the gaming tables.

While these spooky accounts have always been hard to verify but one thing is sure, that is Genting will have much work to do to restore public confidence that it is a safe place to travel for families when the Fox theme park opens in 2016.

FZ.com revisits some of the ghastly unfortunate events at Genting. All these accounts have been reported by the media.

>> June 26, 2013 – Police find the charred remains of a decapitated female body, near the Genting Skyway roundabout.

A man relieving himself in the bushes some 250 metres away from Taman Gohtong Jaya made the grisly discovery at 5.15pm before alerting the police.

The young woman whose hands, feet and head were missing, had fair skin but her identity was never confirmed. Her body was wrapped in plastic sheets and newspapers before kerosene was splashed on her remains, to set it on fire.

>> March 5, 2012 – A bus carrying 24 Indian tourists pass by Genting's Chin Swee Caves Temple before the vehicle lost control and bumped into the divider and then rolling over to the opposite lane.

Sin Chew Daily reported that the bus roof was seriously damaged leaving two dead and 22 injured, giving the perception that road travellers did not get much protection from the deities at the Taoist temple.

Chin Swee Caves has a statue of 'Qingshui' – a Buddhist monk referred to as a deity in Fujian province in China, for his supernatural abilities to summon rains and drive away evil spirits.

The temple – situated on a 28-acre plot of rocky, forested land which was donated by Genting Group's founder the late Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, is reported to attract local and foreign devotees from Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and China.

Located 4,600 feet above sea level, it is some five to 10 minutes drive descending from the peak of the mountain.

>> Sept 25, 2010 – The remains of a finance clerk, 36, and her four-year-old daughter are found in a hotel room in Gohtong Jaya, Genting.

The Chinese woman was believed to have killed her daughter before committing suicide in the 6pm discovery.

A suicide note, found in the room read: "I can no longer go on with this life. Thank you to you, as a husband and for elder sister, mother is old, take good care of her."

Bernama reported police found ashes from burnt paper and charcoal in the bathroom of the hotel room, where the woman had stayed with her daughter.

The ventilation openings of the bathroom were covered with newspapers. She had locked her daughter in the bathroom until the child suffocated in the smoke, then placed her lifeless daughter on the bed before taking her own life.

>> April 8, 2008 – A Chinese man from Johor, aged over 20, jumped off the top floor of Genting Skyway.

His attempt on his life, was foiled by the safety net at the cable car’s entrance.

The man remained on the net for some five hours before he was successfully persuaded to come down, Sin Chew Daily wrote.

He was later rushed to hospital to treat his fractured leg. The reason for his suicide attempt was never known.