i am currently going through psychiatric treatment to get over a horrifying experience i have a friend named vikram in college everyone used to call him vicky he was the first guy who came up and talked to me on my first day of college vicky was a fun loving happy person he made friends easily he was always laughing and joking around the college campus maybe that's why no one could tell he was hiding such a dark secret last year our final year of college we became a bit upset as the puja holidays were about to begin
and everyone will be leaving for their home soon one day i was going to the hostel after class when i saw vicky standing near the hostel gate smiling at me he came to me and we started to walk together i asked him hey what's the plans for this holiday he replied in an upset voice i will be so bored sitting at home don't know what to do man i agreed with him as i was going to do the same thing sitting at my house this holiday suddenly he looked at me and said hey you are
free during diwali right i nodded in a confused manner he became excited and said great why don't you come and spend diwali at my house it will be fun i thought this is not a bad idea anyway i am going to stay with my grandparents so spending diwali with vicky will be quite fun i immediately accepted his invitation vicky stayed in mumbai i on the other hand lived in delhi i told him i will do my bookings as soon as possible because it's hard to arrange tickets during the festival season i informed my parents about
this small trip and we left for the festivals vicky told me that he won't be able to attend me at the airport because he had to take care of some preparations for the diwali celebration so he will send his driver to pick me up from the airport the holidays came and we left i stayed for a while with my grandparents i took a flight on the morning of diwali and reached around 10 am i already informed vicki about my arrival before boarding the flight as i exited the airport premises i noticed a man wearing a
driver's outfit standing outside he had a placard on his hand with my name written on it i walked to him and introduced myself the man looked frail and weak he had dark circles under his eyes even though he smiled at me i felt there's something off about him anyway i sat in the car and he started to drive mumbai is known as a crowded city but after four and a half hours we arrived in a rural area i checked my gps and it showed we are in mokada mokada is a census town in the palgar
district of maharashtra state the view was breathtaking my mind got all refreshed seeing the vast green fields tall hills and blue lakes around me vicki told me about the long ride so i already ate at the airport it was 5 p.m when i reached the house vicky's house looked like an old mansion his family seemed to be very rich i was impressed with his down-to-earth attitude even though he belonged from such a wealthy family as i get out the car i saw vicky standing at the doorway with a big smile on his face he ordered
the driver to take my luggage inside and took me to the house the house looked even grander from the inside there was a long wooden stairway in the dining hall leading up to the bedrooms on the first floor a huge chandelier was hanging from the ceiling there were costly antiques all over the house big oil paintings were hanging on the wall with beautifully carved statues kept all over the hallway i was looking around just when i saw a woman coming down the stairs she was wearing costly jewelry and dressed in black vicky introduced me to
her saying it was his mother i paid my regards to her she raised her hand to bless me just when i noticed something weird she was wearing rings on her head each ring looked really odd one of it was a bird skull one had the face of a demon while the other one had some mysterious sign on it she saw me noticing her hand and creepily smirked at me she then looked at vicky and said take your friend upstairs we have arranged your brother's room for him it's been three years now since vicky and i
are studying together but he never told me about his brother i turned towards him and said oh you never said you had a brother wouldn't he mind if i captured his room vicky started to hesitate a bit this is the first time i saw him being nervous before he could come up with a reply his mother said in a firm voice his brother lives downstairs you have nothing to worry about i didn't say anything more and walked upstairs with vicky there were three rooms upstairs vicky took me to the last room of the long passage
as i entered the room i realized they have done remarkable arrangements for me the bed had a new silk sheet there were juices and fruits kept on the table clean towels and fresh sleepers were kept on the shelf for me i told vicki in a shy manner this is too much you didn't have to do all this for me he smiled uncomfortably and said well my mom insisted to make your stay as comfortable as possible she did everything actually he then told me to get freshened up and come downstairs to eat i closed the door
and went to take a shower i was enjoying all this luxury but somewhere deep down my heart i was having a weird feeling like something is very wrong about this house i thought i am just tired from the journey so i got freshened up and went downstairs to eat when i reached the dining area i saw a long wooden table lying in the middle of the room there were different dishes and each looked very delicious vicki was sitting right beside his mother on the opposite side i saw a man sitting with a very old face
he wasn't old by age but his face appeared very unusual his eyes were dropping down with heavy wrinkles all over the forehead and cheek i sat next to him and vicki told me this is his father he had a stroke a few years back so he is not in good health i smiled and introduced myself but a vicky's father didn't even look at me he just kept staring at the plate vicky's mother told me to excuse him as he barely speaks or recognizes people these days it felt very surprising to me that all these years
vicky never talked about his family we started to eat just when something caught my eye there was another chair at the table but it was empty i looked at vicky and said hey where's your brother vicky's mom quickly replied my son is sick that's why we keep him downstairs we have arranged a 24 7 medical observation in the house for him hence he can't come and eat with us but don't worry you will see him soon when she said i will see vicky's brother soon i noticed vicky's face turning pale everything was feeling very disturbing
to me i could see there was something they aren't telling me after finishing dinner vicky's mother told me you better go and rest our diwali rituals will begin at dawn so if you don't rest you won't be able to enjoy i didn't say anything and went to my room quietly vicki told me he will come to get me at 3am before the rituals begin diwali is celebrated at night but i never heard about any diwali ritual that begins at 3 am i lied on my bed thinking about the sudden change in vicky's behavior i couldn't
shake off the feeling about his brother's sickness also the house and its people were being very creepy to me around 1am at night i woke up hearing a sound from downstairs i heard someone talking in a very low voice i get up from my bed and tiptoed into the passage i peeked from the wall downstairs and saw the driver carrying a man into his arms vicky was with him too both of them disappeared behind the stairs i couldn't bear the mystery anymore so i walked down the stairs to check what the hell is going on
with these people after coming downstairs i saw lights coming behind a door under the stairs this area under the stairs was so dark earlier that i could hardly notice the door i reached the door and heard vicky's mother's voice she was chuckling in a very spooky manner i put my eye opening the door slightly to look at what's happening inside the room what i saw vicky was standing near a wooden slab and his mother was standing next to it she was dressed horrifyingly a garland made of small animal skulls were hanging from her neck the
room was filled with candles there were huge satanic symbols painted all over the walls probably with blood and on that wooden slab lied a rotten dead body i could tell from the decomposition of the body that this person had been dead for a long time a foul rancid smell made the air of the room heavy and hard to breathe suddenly vicky's mother turned to the driver and said you will go to the boy's room and inject him with this high dose sedative in his sleep then bring him to us i have waited so long for
this moment it is time to make my son alive again at 3 am sharp i will begin the rituals and the boy's soul will inherit my son's body oh vicky you don't know what that means you will get your loving brother back we will all be a happy family again your father will get well as well when he will see his dead son come to life i couldn't believe what i was hearing i wasn't able to accept that vicky lured me to his house so that his sick mother can perform some demonic ritual on me
i thought he was my one true friend oh god what will i do now these people are psycho they are planning to kill me tonight i was sweating like hell my hands were shaking my legs feeling numb i had no idea how i will get out of here where will i go in the middle of the night the entire area is filled with forests and heels i was in tears and sweat just when i felt a pat on my back i would have screamed right then but vicki's father gestured me to be quiet by putting
his finger on his lips he held my hand and silently took me upstairs i was out of my mind i couldn't do anything but follow him we got into my room and he calmed me down he gave me the car keys and said you must leave immediately my wife has gone insane after my elder son committed suicide i had a stroke out of the same shock but somehow accepted our fate but she still believes dark magic can bring our son back she brainwashed vicky saying if he brings a boy to our house they can put
his soul into my dead son's body and make him alive again the man started to cry in front of me it was probably heartbreaking for him to see his entire family falling apart but this was my only chance to get out of this creep show i quickly packed my bags and came out of the house as i started the car engine i heard vicky's mother shouting out loud vicky stop him he is running away but there was nothing in the world that could stop me then i pressed the accelerator real hard and with a loud
sound of tires creaking i drove away i noticed the house entrance in the car rear view mirror and i saw vicki standing there with a sad face vicki didn't come back for the last semester and i have no idea what happened to him or his family i didn't keep any contact with him after this horrifying incident not every school is the same not every student is the same some people might find my words a bit clumsy but this experience is as such which makes me stutter i lost my parents in a car crash so after
months of therapy and motivation to get back to normal life when i attended my school again things were a lot different as i entered the school gate i could see people looking at me with sympathy in their eyes i chose to sit in the corner of my class but i could feel all their eyes on me my teachers made empathetic faces when they saw me my only way out from this constant reminder of how sorrowful my life is is to eat my lunch sitting in our library no one came to the library during recess so
i enjoyed my alone time there i always sat near the fiction section so that i could read a bit while having my lunch weeks passed and this is how things were going in school until one day i met sam sam was a tall lean guy he had hair so long that it almost covered his half face unlike me sam was too introvert he joined our school in the middle of the term as his parents got divorced and he shifted to live with his dad he came to me during lunch time at the library and said
would you mind if i join you i didn't deny it because he was the new guy who barely knew about my past we started to become friends we often talked about books and films his company was refreshing for me i liked sam because he always respected my privacy he was a less talking guy hence people at school hardly noticed him one day while we were eating lunch at the library something bizarre happened like every other school we too had bullies there was a boy named travis who often picked at students and humiliated them just for
fun that afternoon travis came to the library and saw us eating lunch in the corner he came to our table and said what a bunch of douche bags who eats lunch in the library and started laughing at us i didn't pay attention to him neither did sam but travis was going on with his stupid hurtful ranting you two make a good couple both with family troubles [ __ ] weirdos i was thinking to get up and leave but what sam did next was beyond my expectations he stood up and grabbed travis by his collar and
smashed him hard on the wall travis hit the wall so hard that a few books fell from the shelf beside it on the ground for a second i didn't know what to do but then something really weird happened sam took his mouth close to travis's ear and bit his ears so hard that he fell on the ground bleeding and became unconscious in pain sam wiped the blood from his lips with the sleeves of his hoodie he looked at me and said let's leave before anyone sees us with him needless to say i was [ __
] scared with what just happened but i left immediately with sam surprisingly travis never picked on anyone in school and he never even complained about this isn't it to the school authority either few more weeks passed i somehow let this incident fade away thinking travis had it coming i thought to check on travis so i went to his house one day as i knocked on his door he came out and seemed scared to see me at his doorstep i asked him hey are you all right travis nodded his head and asked me did you come
alone i was really shocked this time i asked him of course you don't look alright is everything okay travis told me i think you should leave i don't want any more troubles and shut the door on my face the next day at school i confronted sam about travis acting weird he replied in a stone cold voice you didn't need to go see him but yeah i have taught that son of a [ __ ] quite a lesson you know i got really pissed off this time and said sam did you threaten him sam smirked at
me and walked away i stood there in the hallway watching him walk away and thought to myself how much i failed to recognize this guy after that day i decided to avoid sam a bit i started to eat my lunch in the cafeteria and some of my old friends approached me i thought to ease myself a bit to avoid sam's company but sam didn't take that well either i was packing my bags after the last class when he almost sprinted towards me he thumped loudly on the desk with his wrist and said in an angry
voice i didn't know you were such a coward how can you be friends with these people again i thought you felt disgusted with their pitiful eyes just like me i was a bit terrified being honest i remember what he did to travis so i didn't want to do anything rash to make him angrier just then one of my friends came in and said hey you leave him alone or i will go to the principal sam turned towards my friend stacy and said you know small girls like you often get missing these days you better watch
your step dial i knew what he meant i knew it was a threat as soon as sam left the classroom i told stacey to avoid him i told her it is not right to mess with a guy like him stacy seemed really shocked to see me scared she asked me what's going on between the two of us so i told her everything about the incident with travis stacy immediately went to travis's house and told his parents about what sam did to their son as usual his parents went to the school and sam was suspended from
school for a month though everyone thought things will rest here i knew sam is a vengeful guy i knew he will take revenge on all of us after a week when things got all normal and we all were chilling in the cafeteria during lunch our school suddenly rang the emergency bed the alarms were all on and before we could realize what's going on we saw cops rushing into the cafeteria and telling everyone to return to our class as soon as possible within a minute the entire school went into lockdown the gates were closed cops were
standing armed at the gates it came to know that our football coach saw sam walking towards the school with an ak-47 so he immediately called the cops no one has the least idea of how he got that gun after a cat and mouse chase of a long one hour the cops finally arrested sam from the school gym he jumped the school wall and got into the gym somehow they took him into custody before he could hurt anyone while the cops were taking him away from the hallway we all heard loud screams and curse words coming
out of his mouth he was behaving like an injured wolf caught by hunters in the jungle god knows what would have happened if sam wasn't taken away at the right time a massive incident of school shooting might have taken place sam would have been rotting in jail for his entire life last time i heard from his dad he told me sam was in a mental institution undergoing treatment i joined therapy too for my own mental peace it was a full year of too much for me to take sam was a lost cause he got into
serious trouble for channeling out his emotional outburst in the wrong way he got mixed with a drug dealing gang from which he got hold of that gun i didn't want to turn out like him so i decided to ask for help i request everyone to raise your voice and ask for help before it's too late mental health is as important as physical health repressed emotion can make us do things we will never dream of doing otherwise i studied in a convent school my father was in the army hence he was away from us most of
the time i stayed in the school hostel during holidays i used to go back home and stay with my family though our family lived distantly we were very much connected to each other i loved my school as i made some really good friends there i had three roommates and we all stuck together in every class and each activity being a christian foundation our school had a strict time schedule we had to wake up at 6 am and get ready for our morning prayers and breakfast after then our classes took place the time to go to
bed was 8 p.m that too strictly wandering in the school building or hostile corridors after bedtime carried serious punishments needless to say no girl dared to break these rules honestly after a towering day full of activities none of us had the energy to sneak around at night there was another reason we were all scared of the white-haired woman let me stop you right there if you are thinking this is some spooky ghost rumor made by some bunch of young girls this woman was real we heard from our teachers that this woman worked as our school
gardener she was kind to the children and polite to the teachers she had a little daughter after her husband's death her daughter became everything to her one day when she was working in the garden her daughter was playing with some school kids it was the last day of school before the winter holidays all the kids were returning home with their parents hence the school ground was pretty crowded after 20 minutes when the woman called out her daughter's name the girl didn't answer the woman got scared and started to search for her frantically the school was
almost empty by then as everyone left for their home closing the rooms she called and called but her daughter didn't come back the school authority logged a missing person report in the local police station but even after searching for a year the police couldn't find anything some said the girl was kidnapped whereas others say the woman herself killed her daughter and turned into a mad woman out of that guilt there was not much evidence to support the second accusation but after the school reopened she sneaked aside the hostel one night and terrified the girl so
much that the girl fainted on the ground floor bathroom since then a separate gateway has been constructed near the ground floor stairs to keep her going up to the girls hostel's rooms also the ground floor bathroom has been abandoned as the school authority made it out of use but many girls kept saying no gates or doors can stop her she manages to get inside the hostel every night and searches for her missing daughter a mad woman roaming in the hallways of our school was enough to put everyone behind closed doors after dark no matter how
much the authority tried to keep her away from this property they failed every time she never came near the school during daylight and before anyone could catch her she always managed to run away as she never harmed anyone physically the cops were reluctant to arrest her the weekends were fun after a long week we used to play almost the entire day and secretly stay awake at night chatting for hours similarly one weekend my roommates decided to stay up late as the next day was sunday after finishing our dinner we get back to our room and
started chatting as usual suddenly one friend came up with the idea of playing truth or dare all of us agreed as we had nothing else to do and no one was ready to go to bed yet the game started as we gathered in a circle on the room floor and my friend spun the water bottle after a bunch of silly and embarrassing questions when my turn came my friend asked me truth or dare like everyone else before i too said truth but my friends started to boo me and challenged me to take a dare if
i think i am brave enough i was young hence stupid so i felt i must prove that i am no coward without thinking much about the upcoming i agreed to take dare my friend gave me a task as a dare she told me to go to the ground floor bathroom and write my name with chalk on the door the next morning they will all go to the ground floor bathroom to check if i had actually did it or not i knew very well that if i don't do it they will make fun of me for
the entire session so i gathered all my courage and said i will do it i looked at the clock it was 11 p.m the entire hostel corridor was empty everyone was asleep there was dead silence around me i took my small flashlight in one hand and white chalk in the other i silently opened the door of my room and tiptoed into the balcony my heart was beating fast as i was really scared i kept walking down the stairs while praying to the lord that for one night spare me from the white woman under no circumstances
i wanted to face her in the middle of the night that too alone every step i took i kept cheering myself saying i can do this even though it was a chilly winter night i could feel drops of sweat all over my forehead after reaching the ground floor the long corridor lied in front of me at the end of it stood the iron gate that was closed from the inside on the other side of the iron gate the abandoned girls bathroom stood on its left the corridor was dark as there was no light at all
i flashed my light on the gate the gate was completely covered with iron plates hence it was impossible to open it from the outside the school authority didn't put locks on it for emergency situations i slowly crossed the corridor there was no sound except the whooshing sound of the wind roaming all over the empty hostile passage i pulled the door harsh making the least sound possible first i peeked behind the gate to see if there's anyone there all i could see was the empty hallway leading to the main gate of our school i flashed my
light all over the hallway and as far as my eyes went i saw no one there i heaved a sigh of relief thinking i can finish my dare quickly and get back to my room i flashed my light on the bathroom door and started to write my name on it though it took me a second i kept blaming my parents for keeping my name christine which seemed like a really long word to me at the moment i was almost finished writing the last letter e just when i heard a chuckling sound coming from a distance
the hairs on the back of my neck stood up like sharp needles my hand was shaking like a leaf as i knew what to expect when i will turn around i looked at the gate which was about seven to eight hands distance from me i turned around gathering all the courage i had and what i witnessed still scares me to sleep a horrifying figure was standing ten hands distance from me a woman with big white eyes that haven't slept in decades with her gray dirty hair standing in front of me what was more terrifying was
the expression on her face she had an elated face as her smile stretched from one ear to the other i was stone cold and couldn't move my eyes got fixed on her she stood there for a few minutes then her expression started to change slowly but i couldn't understand anything anymore she made a spine chilling growl from her mouth it started to run towards me with her arms wide open in my direction as if she will choke me to death if she catches me i screamed at the top of my lungs and ran for my
life i almost smashed myself over the iron gate to get in my hands got severely cut and i was bleeding from my knees too i ran up the stairs calling out for help and all i could hear was her heavy footsteps chasing me the hostile matron woke up hearing my screams the next thing i remember was i fainted on the balcony near my room my father filed a complaint to the school authority questioning their safety measures due to every other parent's outrage the school authority had to act this time for sending the woman away from
the school property the next morning the cops were called and they arrested the woman she was taken to a mental hospital the story does not end here few months after this incident the school authority decided to renovate the ground floor bathroom into a small storeroom to keep medical supplies workers came to clear the area and to change the flooring as they opened the door and started to work they made a horrible discovery there were six small bathrooms on the left when a worker opened the door of the last bathroom they saw a tiny skeleton lying
on the corner of that bathroom the door had scratches of nails on it from the inside little nails were still stuck to the wooden door we came to know that it was the gartner's daughter the girl somehow came to pee here and got locked inside as the school closed for an entire month she couldn't come out the school arranged a funeral paying for her soul everyone was out of words my father got transferred to a different country so my entire family had to shift with him i had to change schools obviously it's been five years
now i left the convent but i can't help feeling scared and sad at the same time when i think of this incident you
