title: Ghost story
date: Senin, 09 Agustus 2010
time:14.10 Is anyone up for a ghost story ? Teehee, coz i'm gonna share u one. Listen well.
I was a freelancer reporter and my job was to fill in a column in a magazine about horror stories. So i drop by a house which my friend informed me that it was haunted. There were stories about that house; people being sacrificed, screams in the middle of the night, unsettled spirits roaming around the house.
When i first step into the front yard, i found the house very empty and there was an eerie silence. The walls were bricks, there are barely windows, only 2 entrance into the house. One main entrance and a back door. It's as if the house is telling a message: No one gets in and no one gets out.
"Well, here goes nothing." I took a step forward and snoop around the house. A peek inside the house revealed the back kitchen empty. I could make out traces of red paint and the garbage stanked, as if the house had been deserted for years.
Circulating the house, the back door opened and i jumped back in surprise, not because i was scared, but because i wasn't expecting anyone to live in such a place that was even unsuitable to be called home. The lady who came out was unnaturally very white. No, it wasn't albino, it was as if she was almost transparent. It freaked me out.
"Do you live here, miss ?"
"Noo.. You shouldn't be here. Your kind do not belong here."
Her curt reply confused me and as soon as she replied, she walked back inside the house, leaving the back door opened. I was of course, curious. My adventurous spirit as a reporter told me to go in and investigate. My conscious wasn't very happy though,"This is not right, there is something very wrong going inside that house. Turn back now!" Another small voice spoke inside me. "Don't be a coward and pull yourself together! You have yourself a juicy story right? are you just gonna let it off your grasp?"
Amazingly, i found the courage to sneak inside the house. I tip-toed my way in, staying alert in case the lady came out again. I walked pass a hall and inside a room where there was nothing else but an empty chair and a staircase at the corner. "Ah, so this house has two floors". From the room i could see eveything that is happening inside the living room. What i saw horrified me. There were people, old people to be exact, wearing mask, walking back and forth, staring back at each other, but still as white as possible.
A man walking down the stairs distracted me, and i quickly hid myself under the stairs. "What was that? I could have sworn the living room was empty." However, even as i hid myself under the stairs, strangely, i could feel a cool, weird stare emanating from the man. I felt no point of hiding myself anymore. "I might as well come out and apologize for trespassing his property," was what i thought.
But i shouldn't have come out. When i crawled out from under the stairs, i saw those figures from the front passing by and making their way towards upstairs, following the man. That was when i realized, their legs were not touching the ground! My feet felt like it was glued to the ground. I know these are spirits and whatever is waiting them upstairs, i dare not find out.
At the end of the group, i saw a pale young boy, maybe around his teen years. He looked at me, and i know he was as frightened as i was. For the sake of the boy, i picked up my courage, pulled him out of the pack and ran out through the back door.
Before i escaped, i saw one of the old lady staring back, reaching out her hand, as if asking for help. Her lips were moving but i couldn't make out what she was trying to say. I should have realized, she wasn't calling for help, but she was warning me.
However, I didn't have time to go back. I just wanted to get out of this cursed place as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, the back door was closed. I didn't realize it until i went past the door and reached the yard outside. I found the sun peculiarly bright, and as i lifted my hands, those solid-hardened hands of mine were semi-transparent and i realize, my body was left inside the building.
I have become one of them, a wandering spirit, trapped for eternity.
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