I have been reading the stories here, and decided to tell the stories which I have witnessed myself.
I am an atheist since I was 14–15 years old, I am 29 now. So, I never believed on any positive or negative god, paranormal spirits etc. I still don’t believe and I am always skeptical about it, but there are few incidents which I can’t explain or understand in natural way. I will be narrating 3 – 4 incidents which I witnessed personally. It might be little long to read.
Incident 1
Background: I was in high school. We used to live in a small town in MP, India. Ours was a small family of 4 members – father, mom, me and my younger brother.
The building in which we were living was having 2 floors. Ground floor was having a main channel gate and then the stairs. Our house was on 1st floor, and the house on second floor was empty and then the terrace. There were other houses around, and just opposite to our house there was a big playground and on right side there was a ruined house of bricks. Below is a schematic representation.
Image of ruined brick house (Source Google Images)
The ruined house was almost 90% like the above image. Completely ruined, only broken walls and no roof.
We use to play cricket and other games in that playground during daytime. Many times our ball went inside ruins and we used to get that easily. There was nothing scary or abnormal. In-fact we used the bricks of ruined house as cricket stumps.
Now the creepy part. We used to lock our main channel gate from inside by 9 or 9:30 pm. After one or two months in that house we noticed something.
When you open a channel door, it makes a distinct loud enough sound which can be heard easily.
Image for representation purpose only. Source – Google images.
One day me and my family were watching a movie on TV, so we were all awake. At 11 pm we heard a sound as if someone has opened the channel gate with force. But, we thought that it was locked, how can someone open it. May be a neighbor or some person is there outside and trying to call us, as the doorbell was not working.
Me and my father looked through balcony and there was no one. No lights coming from neighbors house means they were sleeping. We went to ground floor to check the lock on gate. It was perfectly fine. We took it very casually, watched the movie and slept.
After 2 – 3 days, we again heard a sound of opening a channel gate at 11 pm. Checked again, and there was no one. Me and my father decided that if tomorrow the sound will again, we will go and look silently, so that we can catch the person who is disturbing us.
Next day, we switched off all the lights as if all of us are sleeping and were waiting for the sound so that we can catch the person. As we expected, there was a loud sound of opening a channel gate at 11 pm. We remained silent inside house, and me and my father silently opened the door and looked through balcony. There was no one.
We thought that the person who was disturbing us ran away, and we cam inside house and closed door. But this day was not normal. So, After 5 minutes we heard the footsteps on our stairs. The sound was as if two different individuals are climbing the stairs. The footsteps of those two persons coming from ground floor, to first floor. The sound was loud when the footsteps crossed the first floor in front of our house door. Then proceeded to second floor towards terrace. We clearly heard the footsteps. It was clear that someone is climbing. My father gathered courage and went to terrace to check. It was all empty.
Then it became a daily episode. Everyday at 11 pm, opening of channel gate, footsteps on stairs, as if two individuals are going from ground floor to terrace, then no sound. If you move out and check there would be no one.
One day we asked our neighbor to stay in our house till 11:30 pm. As expected he also heard the channel gate and footsteps. We all were really scared.
Incident 2: same house
My father was out of town for 2 days due to his work. So, me, my brother and mom were sleeping together in one bedroom. At midnight, I didn’t see time, but I guess it was around 3 am, I heard the sound of an anklet falling from bed. I thought my mom’s anklet has slipped from her ankle and fallen down from bed. I thought its no big deal, we will pick it up in the morning and went to sleep again.
In morning the anklet was not there on floor. We searched entire house, the anklet was no where. We searched everywhere in house, terrace but it was no where to be found. The anklet was there when my mom went to sleep, but in morning it was no where. Vanished. Even today I don’t know where the anklet vanished.
Moved out
Later on we came to know that there was a couple living in those ruined brick house. During one Diwali night, their house caught fire and they died in that fire accident. I still don’t know what was the reason or source of those footsteps sound or where the anklet vanished. We vacated the house in 5 – 6 months of staying there.
Incident 3
This incident didn’t happen with me, but I witnessed it happening.
My maternal aunt and her husband use to live in a town. It was a very spacious place. Lots of open space around the house and in between other houses. Very peaceful and calm environment, open space, trees of mango and neem. It was a fun place.
My maternal aunt’s husband was a very fit person. No critical illness or medical history. No major hereditary health issues like heart attacks or diabetes etc.
But, one day he suddenly fell ill. High fever, loss of diet and weakness. We took him to doctors, did several medical tests, but nothing came out in those reports. Doctors had given some antibiotics and other medicines related to fever. He was sick for almost a week, with no improvements. We switched doctors, went to big hospitals but nothing was proving fruitful.
After 2 weeks, he started saying that he is seeing weird things around him. Like he told that he is seeing lots of insects around him, but actually there was nothing. He saw something like 3 – 4 men of short height are holding each other hands and dancing in a circular form in front of him. And other such weird things. We thought he was hallucinating due to weakness. After 2 days, he died.
It shattered all of us and we all were in a shock that how a healthy person who never had any medical record, suddenly fall ill and die in 2 – 3 weeks.
In Hindu religion post cremation rituals goes on till 13th day, so many relatives were gathered and living together.
3 – 4 days after the death of aunt’s husband, at around 1 am midnight, one of the relative got up to answer a nature call. He saw that my maternal aunt who just lost her husband, was not in her bed. The relative switched on the light and asked others where did she go. She was not there in house.
4 – 5 relatives went outside to check, remember I told you it was a place with lots of open space. They found the aunt around 100 meters away from house on ground.
She told that her dead husband was calling her, and he came to take her away with him. She followed his voice and came till here, but suddenly man in completely white dress came on white horse and pushed her, and she fell on the ground. You can imagine the figure was like Gandalf from LOR.
Some old people said that the white man on white horse was a noble soul or a pir baba who came to rescue the aunt from going away and death.
I don’t believe on white man riding a white horse, as I have not seen it. It might be the imagination or illusion of my aunt’s mind. But she was there lying on ground.
Later on one priest told that someone did a black magic on her husband because of which he suddenly fell ill and died. And indeed it was her husband’s soul which came to take the aunt along with him. I don’t believe on priest either.
Incident 4
Year 2009, I was in Hyderabad at that time. So, me along with my friends decided to go on a trip from Hyderabad to Nagarjuna Sagar, Sri Sailam and other nearby places. We asked our other friends also to join us. So, we were a mixed group of boys and girls, around 18 in total.
We booked a small private bus for our trip. The trip went excellent. We had lots of fun. This incident happened when we were returning back to Hyderabad.
It was around 12 midnight, and it would still take bus around 2 – 3 hours to reach Hyd. All of us were very much tired, so lights were off and everyone was fallen asleep in bus. Suddenly one girl screamed that, some one is pulling her leg below her seat. We asked driver to switch on the lights, there was nothing. We told her it was her dream and all of us again went to sleep.
After sometime, another girl besides first one also screamed, that someone is pulling her leg. This time we took it seriously, because 2 different girls can’t have same dream. We assured that there is nothing, it was just the tiredness because of which your mind might be playing games with you. This time we kept the lights on inside bus and went to sleep.
After 15 – 20 minutes, time was around 12:30 midnight, there was lots of smoke inside bus, as if something is burning. It turned out that the engine of the bus failed, and coolant didn’t do its job I guess. So, the bus came to halt on road. It was a dense forest on both sides of the road. Traffic on road was almost nil, so we couldn’t ask someone for any help. Cellular signals were also very less, I guess only Reliance and BSNL mobile signals were there. We all had SIM card of Vodafone, Airtel, Idea or Docomo. Thankfully driver had a BSNL number and he was able to call his transport company and asked them to send another bus to pick all of us.
It would take atleast 2 hours for another bus to reach from Hyd to our location to pick us. So, we thought that we will wait inside our broken bus and sleep for 2 hours.
Inside the bus there was still lot of smoke, but somehow we were trying to sleep. After some time, again the girl shouted that someone is pulling her leg under the seat, and this time she was not sleeping so it cannot be a dream.
Few of us were scared of this chain of events. Legs of two different girls getting pulled, engine failure at midnight in between dense forest.
We all decided that we will all step out from the bus, for some fresh air and everyone will be awake that way, so there would be nothing to fear from anything.
The forest was dense, no traffic on road, it was very dark and only half moon was our source for light. We thought that it wont be safe for us to be on road for 2 hours, as there could be the danger from wild animals as well.
One of my friend spotted a small white colored milestone, on which the name of some village was written and it’s distance. It’s just 1 kilometer from where our bus broke down. We all decided that we will stick together, walk and go to village. We thought that we might get some help, shelter or at least some ‘dhaba’ where we can get refreshments. We told driver that we are going to village and when another bus comes, you pick us from that village.
It was already around 1 – 1:15 am in night. We started walking towards village in moon light and light from our mobile phone’s torch, we were not much scared as we were a group of 18, mostly boys.
We reached village, everyone was sleeping. Only street dogs were there sitting with their gangs. There was no ‘dhaba’ as well. At-least there was a handpump, which quenched our thirst. There was no one outside, so we were just exploring the houses and other things on either side of the road in that village. We were in a hope if someone is awake we can ask for help. There were few light bulbs on some poles, so it was not completely dark.
After some time few of us sat in an open porch of one house, and few other sat on other side of road, below the shade of a closed shop. Then, 3 – 4 guys suddenly saw a man running and coming towards us, from the same direction where we came. We thought it might be the driver who might be coming to join us.
But, suddenly all the street dogs who were around, they started barking together continuously towards that running man. Suddenly the man disappeared in thin air. It was not the driver, it was not human. Dogs were still barking furiously. We all gathered together and luckily found the village temple. Though the temple was closed, but we sat in the temple varandah. Dogs were still barking, and we were just praying for the bus to arrive. At 3:30, the bus came and we hurriedly boarded the bus, and left the place. No one pulled the leg of anyone in new bus. We reached Hyd early morning, slept till afternoon, and were just finding the explanation for what happened previous night. Still we don’t have any explanation.
I really don’t know what were the real reasons behind these events, and I am still skeptical and do not believe in ghosts, but believe that there is lot for science to find out.
Woah ….. Tie last one was the most adventurous