I've never actually
seen a ghost, but have felt them several times. But there are two incidents in
particular that I'm quite confident that the encounter was real. I'm a resident
of Himachal Pradesh (a state in India) and presently doing my 10th class.
When I was in 6th class, I went to a boarding military
school at Sujanpur in Himachal itself. When I came for vacations to my house in
December, my naani (Grandmother) was diagnosed with cancer. I was only 10 years
old and was not to bothered by her illness (I'm seriously sorry for that as she
loved me a lot) and I only paid one visit to the hospital. 2-3 days after my
visit she passed away. I was such a fool that I didn't pay much attention to
her death also. Everything was normal for me.
Well, December passed and I was back to the hostel in
January, completely unbothered that my naani was no more. Dad left and I
started engaging
With my roommates in all kinds of hostel mischief's
like always. The day went as any other day. However, the night was very unusual.
At about 10. 30 pm when everybody was getting ready to
sleep, I got this urgent urge to peeing. There was a common toilet for the
floor and although I had been there several times during night, today something
was scaring me deeply and I was afraid to go to the toilet. I wanted to ask
someone to accompany me but I had never done so before, so I didn't. I knew
something was wrong but didn't know what it was.
This feeling of fear was engulfing me completely. So I
left the idea of going to pee and I don't know why, but lay in my bed upside
down (meaning kept my head where my feet should be and kept my feet on the
place where I was supposed to keep my head) and tried to sleep. The feeling
soon wore away and I fell into a long, Sound, dreamless sleep. But not peeing
before proved fatal for me and I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. I
didn't get up, but only kept my eyes half open. Suddenly I got that strange
feeling of fear again like someone was watching me. Almost in a fraction of a
Second, I had a vision of a dark figure standing by my bedside. Somehow, I came
to know that it was an old female figure and immediately related it to my
naani. I still think it was her. She just stood in the same spot while I lay
awake. I didn't move a muscle and kept still and quiet. Although I started to
completely believe it was naani, the fear still engulfed me. I was dead sacred
at that time and started wholeheartedly praying to Lord Hanuman, to make the
night over and make the day appear. But still the night seemed to stretch on.
That figure still stood by my bedside. After what
seemed like hours, I fell asleep. When I woke up again early next morning at
4:00 am, the fear was still engulfing me, but I didn't feel any entity beside my
bed. I opened my eyes and started calling my neighbor's name, the boy who slept
in the bed next to mine. He answered in a frail yes and I soon got him awake
and we started Chatting but I didn't mention the incident to him. We just kept
talking until 5:00 am when the siren rang and everyone woke up. I was safe and
sound and never mentioned the incident to anyone in that hostel, and it didn't
happen again. But there's one thing that still puzzles me to this day.
Something that I should've noticed when I woke up the Next morning:
I mentioned that I had slept upside down that night
and I'm sure about it. But my neighbor was sleeping straight with his Head in
the direction of my feet. When I had woken up next morning I Had talked to him.
But that was impossible unless I would have been Sleeping straight too. And I
had indeed woken up straight, with my
Head now facing the same direction of my friend's
which enabled the Communication between us. But this a rises a question: How
did I get to that position when I was sleeping in the opposite one? Moreover, why
was the figure making me sacred? What did it want for me, or was it Just
naani's goodbye to me?
I'll remember this event for the rest of my life...
