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This essay explores the spectral presence ofSi Pai, a colonial figure from the Ottoman Empire, during postconflict research in Aceh, Indonesia. I found the uncanny in the emergences over time of the spectral presence ofSi Pai, linked to the presence of my friend Begoña Aretxaga, who had written aboutcipayoin a book we dedicated to her memory. The meanings ofSi Paiare analyzed, using Bakhtin's writing on the history of language and Aretxaga's analysis drawing on Abraham and Torok. The meanings ofsipahiflow across centuries of Ottoman and Persian and colonial military histories, and through webs of emotion and experiences of violence, where soldiers employed or enslaved by Empires, including those from afar, British and Dutch, wreak havoc on civilian life, plundering and committing evil, before finding their way in Aceh. Research in postconflict Aceh provides the ethnographic core; yet, this essay weaves a tale of the uncanny through a journey of anthropological and historical inquiry and uncanny appearances.

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