Unusual Short Story – Do Ghost’s Exist ?
Unusual Short Story – Do Ghost’s Exist ?
I am sharing a real experience through which my mother underwent when I wasn’t even born & she used to live in some hostel with my elder sister Manoo.
She lived a hectic life over there. She was a working lady then & the room where her bed was kept had feelings of somebody else or some other unknown entity being present over there. In front of her bed there was a window & a guava tree which can be seen outside the window. However she had friends over there but in her room she used to be afraid. Also Manoo had the same fear.
One night when Manoo & my mom were sleeping she felt that somebody had thrown her out of the bed. She got up weeping and my mother consoled her & they both went to sleep thinking that it was just an accident. After 2 to 3 days my mother & Manoo both went sick & the surroundings were full of uneasiness for both of them. Each day was difficult to pass over there.
My mother believes in God but she is not a superstitious person. One night around 2 to 3 pm late at night she had some bad dreams & she woke up suddenly. She went to drink water & when suddenly she turned around she saw someone some girl peeping through the window of the room. She however ignored it & somehow went to sleep. However that weird scene was haunting her since her room was on third floor & barely leaves of that tree can be seen through the window & it was impossible for a person to climb up to that tree & peep through the window.
Later on she shared that strange incident with her friends & she came to know that the room where she was currently living belonged to a girl previously who was a destitute saved by the warden of that hostel when she saw her committing suicide since her family was troubling her for marriage & she doesn’t wanted to marry.
The warden gave her that room & some days passed happily & she started working somewhere. But fate has its own destiny. The warden was bribed by a man who was some minister’s son , he gave money to warden & at night the warden gave him entry through a back door whose keys were with her. He entered her room , raped her & outraged her modesty with the warden enjoying the whole drama. After he went, that girl committed suicide by drinking poison & died on the bed looking outside the window. In a country like India where culture is given more importance than it’s people & little or no place for women is the most common scenario with men dominating & blaming women for their own deeds. Nobody can dare challenge this system & no one wants to change. They love living in their own cooked up worlds with no place for extra ordinary people. Those who do want to change are suppressed by the fact that majority wins & right or wrong doesn’t even matter.
It was an unnatural death & according to the Hindu Mythology any person who dies unnaturally or accidentally leads a ghostly life after death. Whatever the reasons may be my mother spent barely a few days after hearing about it & during these days she saw that spirit peeping through the window in the same position as if asking to give her back her life which she had lost due to some dirty people. Manoo also saw her during these days. She was about 9 years old & too immature to understand difference between ghosts & people.
This story ends over here with my mother leaving that hostel & recovering through her sickness after she left from that hostel with all well wishers around. I don’t know whether that girl peeping was a ghost or a shadow but one thing I know people fear ghosts who are dead but these live ghosts which reside in us in the form of evil are never dealt with nor we are afraid of them. Why? Can anyone answer?
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