Long time back, when I was an engineering student, a funny thing happened. I never thought I would write anything about the incident. However, after almost10 years, when I look back at that crazy night, I still feel the goosebumps.
My dad had been transferred to "Maihar", a sweet religious town in MP and my family had shifted there, leaving me alone. As we had a big house, it was decided that the drawing room will be packed with all the furniture and I can use the other rooms.
Suddenly, the house started to seem like a dungeon, with I being a lonely warrior prince. Well, I still have that new ambience phobia and it takes me a day or two to adjust to the new conditions. So, for a first few days, I slept with all the lights on as it made me feel that there are others in the house.
Oh wait, Did I just say "The Others"? Well, I came back from college at around 5 pm, dozed off at the bed for a while. After that I didn't kept track of time, I was lying amid a mess of magzines and novels. I kept reading till I fell asleep, got up at around 9 , ate my not so finger-licking tiffin and then started to feel bore. So, I picked up a novel and kept reading for a long time. I am not sure of the exact time when my eyes pulled on the shutter.
As I was asleep, suddenly I heard a strange sound. The sounds was so clear that I cannot deny hearing it and jumped awake in my bed. The sound was certainly familiar. No, it wasn't the voice of any person I knew but it was the sound that an ornament makes. The ornament which is so dear to gals and ghosts!!
Yes, I am talking about Payal, the sound I heard, was certainly a Payal's sonorous sound. However, at these late hours, this sonorous sound made me sweat. However, I decided to act brave, took up the torch and looked beneath my bed.
My braveness set new records when I decided to open the locked room with all the furniture stuffed into it. Certainly reminded me of the Ramsay movies and I never thought, I would be in the same situation.
With Hanuman Chalisa on my lips, I unlocked the room and opened the light. My clenched fists were relaxed when I found no one there. I came back to my study cum dining cum leaving cum bedroom and looked at the clock. It was 4 am. I felt further relaxed that with in couple of hours, it will be dawn and no ghost can dare to fight with me in the daylight. On a more practical note, I had a tution at 6 am which I loved to attend. So, with just 2 more hours to go, I decided not to sleep again and keep the ghosts at bay.
Those unlucky souls got a tough customer that night!! I still laugh at the stupidity of my thoughts but the sounds of that payal was clear that I can still feel it ringing in my ears
2 comments:
This reminds me of something.....i was alone @home and dared to watch ring around midnight with all lights off...there is a scene in the movie in which a fly keeping sitting on the TV screen....but then it looked so real to me that my hand went on the computer screen towards the fly....and to my surprise....ther was a real fly sitting on my computer screen exactly overlapping the one in the movie......and i was like ...aaaaaaaaa wtf.... i ran out of that room :P
@Genie,
Aww!! That's scary... I had some hallucinations after watching Grudge2.
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