B11: A day with real life ghost stories (Paranormal Activities).

 “A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night.” — J.M. Barrie

A day with real life ghost stories (Paranormal Activities).

Halloween Special Part:2

(BASED ON TRUE REAL-LIFE EVENTS)

It is the evening of October 31^st, 2020. Just as we are all locked down at our houses similarly Jake and his friends are at their house. No trick or treat no Halloween costume party, and no pranks! Jake’s parents had to leave for their work, his mother to the hospital and his father to his patrolling job. Jake has no siblings so he was left alone at home. Alone on a Halloween. Poor Jake was so bored that he asked his friends to celebrate this Halloween through video call (our new normal). 

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Jake: Hey Guys! Thank you so much for joining this call. I was getting very bored. Anyways Happy Halloween!

David: Bored or Scared, you little boy? (scoffed)

Pearl: Don’t tease him, David! (in a commanding voice). Happy Halloween (in a sweet cheerful voice).

Jake: I am not scared! Nothing scares me.

Rosie: If that’s the case, then let’s share some real life ghost stories!

Jake: But… but I don’t have any. (in a soft voice)

Austin: Oh, I have many don’t worry! (proudly)

Katherine: I have a few as well. Now if we are doing this Halloween call, let’s make it scary and spooky.

David: Now that’s amazing. A real life ghost stories or Paranormal Activities Halloween Video Call (RLGSPAHVC).

Pearl: We are fine without the acronym, David. Jake, are you fine with it?

Jake: Oh, yes! Definitely, I am. So who is going first then?

Rosie: Me. I’ll go first…… So this happened to me when I was around 10 years old and lived in an old small apartment. It happened in the morning at around 4:30 am. I was sleepy and hungry but I had freshened up by then, I woke up early for some early morning event. I was sitting on the floor taking the support of the bed on which my uncle was already sleeping. My mother served me breakfast and sat beside me on the floor. I started eating slowly. As it was a very early morning there was complete silence, cold temperature, and still dark outside. In the beginning, nothing happened. Everyone and everything was just normal. (she stopped talking)

David: Then? Then what happened? (curiously)

Rosie: (slow and low voice) I saw someone standing on my right side, I could see its shadow, its legs, its white pants and I thought that must be my uncle, he wants to go across me in the direction of the bathroom. So I made space for him. I bent towards the floor, just like we do when we search for something on the ground, my legs on the floor and my belly touching my thighs and face almost a few inches away from my plate. I let my uncle go over me. And he did go, I felt him go, I felt him cross over my back. And then I turned to look at him, to see if he has crossed comfortably and now is going on his way properly. I saw I saw…… (she paused).

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Austin: What did you see?

Rosie: I saw no one, I saw nothing.

Katherine: No one? But you saw the legs, the cloth? The shadow? Where was your uncle?

Rosie: He was still on his bed, sleeping, not moving an inch. But I know, I remember very well, those legs, that white shadow, the feeling of someone crossing me. It is all true but then on the left side, I saw no one. I said this to my mother, she did not believe but my grandmother did, though.

Jake: It’s all your imagination, Rosie. You yourself said it was dark, cold, you were sleepy, it was just your pure imagination. You were dreaming.

Austin: I won’t say that…… I have felt the same way, Rosie…. I myself have also seen, legs, not just still but moving legs and their shadows. One day, I visited my Aunt’s house, so I had to take the stairs to reach her apartment. She lived on the second floor, I climbed the first floor successfully but then (a small pause)……. When I took a turn to take the second floor’s steps, I saw one pair of legs wearing brown paints stepping down…. I looked at it, to know who he is….but then I saw only legs and no upper body. As soon as I saw it unlike you Rosie, I screamed and ran into the house of someone from the first floor, and when I turned to check there was no one. No one at all. The neighbors were good, they dropped me to my Aunt’s house. But trust me it was scary, I still can feel that fear and heartbeats racing at 180 km/hr. speed or even more, I am bad at calculating speed. 

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Katherine: Now how will you justify this as imagination, Jake?

Jake: This is stupid. Seeing walking legs and shadows. It is just made up.

Katherine: Not every story is made up. I have two stories for you, apply your science as much as you can on it. So my first paranormal encounter was two years ago. I was having a shower in my bathroom, and the geyser’s switch is on the outside, so as I was done, I called out my mother to switch it off. Now there’s marble on the doors of the bathroom so you can actually see reflections of almost everything in it. I knew my mother was on the left side because that is where her room is so I looked at the right side’s marble to see if she is coming. But rather than coming towards the bathroom, I saw her roaming in the room, I called her again but she didn’t come. So I wrapped the towel and went out to scold her for not coming when I called her but…. The room.. her room was empty no one was in there. So I went searching for her. And I found her in the living room, I asked her, “Why didn’t you come and switched off the button if you were in the next room?”, her answer shocked me and scared me to my core, “I am here for past 30 minutes now. I wasn’t there in my room and I didn’t hear you”. If she was in the living room then who was there in her room walking, whose reflection I could see in the marble?

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Jake: Again an imagination, maybe something was flying because of the strong wind and that would have caused a moving reflection in the marble, the marble could be wrong, or maybe you expected her to be there and hence imagined her approaching.

Katherine: Alright Jake, don’t trust me. Listen to this another paranormal encounter then. It was 8pm, late evening. I was in my living room standing in front of a mirror, combing my hair. While I was doing that, looking straight in the mirror, I felt someone run behind me, from inside of the house towards the main door. I saw the swift in the mirror and also felt a movement. I thought that was my younger brother running, so I turned and saw no one, just like Rosie. So I went inside to see if he is there, but I only saw my parents. I asked them, “Where’s our little brat and why is he running and hiding?”, they replied, “Who? Abram? He already left for his friend’s house a long time ago”.

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Austin: Dude that is scary. Change your haunted house as soon as possible before that running ghost runs away with you.

David: Haha! What a kiddish encounter! Listen to my Uncle’s real life ghost story….. He shared this story with us, “This happened during the Year 1999. I was sent to deputation at an isolated site away from my home place. My guest house was a few kilometers away from the airport. A cab was sent for me. It was sharp at 8pm, in those times cellphones weren’t a thing and I wanted to call my family that I have reached safely. So when I asked the cab driver he said that the PCO is 1km before the Guest House (G.H.) and I can use it. The reason a cab had been sent to pick me up for a short distance was making me curious and when I asked he replied, “It is because of the cemetery and the ghosts on the road to the G.H.” The whole journey he told me his various stories and encounters with ghosts. We reached the PCO and I made a call, I saw a holy place nearby and decided to visit it. After a lot of convincing, the cab driver agreed to let me go alone to the holy place and then back to the G.H. I did not realize it was late until the caretaker informed me. He too warned me to be safe. I kept walking alone on the dark roads, various noises following me. The intensity of the scary noises just kept increasing and it started scaring me. Spooky voices of bells, and animals, the barking of dogs, and the complete silence and no sign of any human being started to scare me. I increased my pace, and almost started running with a fear of facing a ghost! And then out of nowhere, I saw the cab driver coming back to pick me as I was late and that worried him. In the morning when I shared this story with my colleagues they assured me that it was nothing but just some animals making noise in the nearby cattle and that I shouldn’t fall for the cab driver’s stories”.

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Jake: Well this story, itself says that it is all fake! Now who is next? Pearl? Do you too have a story?

Pearl: (hesitated) Yes I too…… When I was about eight and my family decided to take me to my ancestral village in November 2008. We had 2 mansions one of which was made entirely of bricks and mud and the other one was a regular house. On the night of our arrival as everyone had dinner and we were about to sleep something caught my eye, the bricks and mud house which was entirely locked for ages had a window open on the first floor. I was warned not to think about it but I couldn't keep my curious mind off it. At around 2 a.m. when everyone was deeply asleep, I sneaked out from the back door to investigate it, as I moved towards the house whistling sound emerged from a corner. It was pitch dark and I could not properly see things but I'm pretty sure I saw an apparition of a woman dressed in a black shawl wrenched over her head... I looked over and in a jiffy, she was gone! I thought it was just my imagination but I was really scared so I decided to go back in and say about the window in the morning but as I turned I completely blacked out and collapsed to the ground. I could faintly see myself being dragged as and when I open my eyes. Luckily my aunt saw this from the kitchen as she was quenching her thirst. She ran quickly down and followed me to a pond where I was suspiciously taken to without even realizing it. She …caught me…. walking down…. the ice cold…. water and …attempting to drown…. myself……. (voice started breaking, the screen became unclear).

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Jake: And then? How did they save you? Hello? Hello!!!! Pearl? (he frantically started pressing buttons and tapping the screen) David? Austin? Can anybody hear me? I cannot hear anyone! (the screen collapsed and the lights went off. It was completely dark) what is happening? Who is doing this? This is not funny?

A human-like shadow appeared on the screen. The shadow kept growing bigger and bigger as it was coming nearer and nearer. “Who is it?”, Jake demanded, scared and curious. He turned behind to see who it is and……

Staring in the dark corners,

Searching for the spirits of the dead,

I asked, ‘Is there anyone lurking in the shadows?’

Little did I know,

Of the presence of one behind,

Should I get scared or scream,

Or the evil inside me will fight,

So petrified that I won’t deny,

My life at still and my future bright apart.

 

[Special thanks to you Mr. Arif Kazi for his story (David’s Uncle) and Ms. Nymphia Chatterjee for her story (Pearl’s story) ] And the rest stories you all know whose it is🤫

-By,

Humaira Kazi