my city is literally named after a vampire ghost (Pontianak)

people from outside always go 'wait your CITY is called Pontianak? like the ghost??' yes. yes it is. and the founding story is wild. 1771, Syarif Abdurrahman Alkadrie, Arab navigator, comes up the river and the trading spot hes trying to settle is supposedly crawling with kuntilanak, the spirits of ……