GHOST STORIES
I have always been interested in ghost stories. They
somehow intimidate me, make me engrossed in them. When i was a kid, I used to
read a lot of Goosebumps books by R.L.Stine which then moved to Fear Street.
These books always fascinated me. As I grew up & bordered my teens, I read
the Twilight Saga & each vampire book I could lay my hands onto. Ghost
stories- there is definitely something intriguing about them.
Thankfully, I have never experienced anything ghostly
or paranormal. But I have heard stories. Since I was a child, I have heard a
lot of stories evidencing the existence of ghosts in this world. I have seen a
lot of movies portraying the power of the paranormal.
Once my Maasi
told me a story. She had visited her native place & had gotten this
third-person experience of a ghost. The story went by that in the village,
there was a "Peepal ka Ped",
where there was supposedly a spirit or what I would prefer calling an "aatma". One evening, Maasi heard someone crying out loudly.
She went outside the house & checked everywhere but couldn't see anybody.
But she could still hear the sobs. She checked the entire veranda, failing to
spot anybody. As she was still investigating the source of the loud wails, her
neighbor came out angrily & started saying, "this is an everyday
course. I am so fed up of this woman. The moment the sun goes down, she starts
with her sobs!". Saying which she stormed out towards the "Peepal ka Ped", & sternly said,
"Stop it now. Told you so many times to not come & cry here. Still you
do every single evening. Just go away now. Go from here. Otherwise you know
whom I'll be calling to get rid of you!". & surprisingly, the sobs
stopped. Maasi not once again did
hear any sobs the entire evening or night.
We all know how its said usually that "Peepal ka Ped" is a tree upon which
there are the most number of "bhoots" wandering. "Peepal ka Ped" also being the tree
that gives the most oxygen, is another scientific fact which is better ignored
as we are talking about ghosts, something that science does not belive in. In
fact, it is also said that one should not utter the words, "C'mon, lets go
(chalo, chalte hai) or come with me,
beneath a "Peepal ka Ped"
at evening, as it is said that this phrase attracts the free spirits residing
on the "Peepal ka Ped",
& you get possessed by a spirit. I do not know if that's true or how true
it is, but I would want to know that do these spirits like have a small talk as
to which one of them shall go & possess the poor person or is it
pre-decided amongst them? OK jokes apart- my mom would kill me if she knows I
am making fun of "ghosts". Shush!
Once a friend of mine had told me another such eerie
ghost story. The story went on that one evening, she was alone at her house,
doing random stuff. That is when she heard some noise. She checked the entire
house but could not find the source of the noise. As she settled down again,
she heard a sound of a door squeaking open. It was the bathroom door, which she
got up & closed, thinking the wind must have opened it. She closed all the
windows- it was anyways the season of winter. As she settled down again, she
once again heard the door creaking open. Now she got scared. She once again got
up & closed the door. After a minute of nothing, the door again creaked
open. My friend, being scared out of her bones, just walked into another room
& locked herself in, until her family came back home. Though that was it,
& she never experienced anything weird again.
When I was in school, a friend told me a story she had heard from her other set of friends. She went on to recite that, there is a game called "Bloody Mary". Once it had so happened that few girl friends decided to play this game. The story revolved around the fact that there actually existed a girl named "Mary", who had died and it was said that if you call out her name thrice, looking into the mirror at night, saying "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary", she would appear in the mirror, and take you inside with her, in the process strangling the person or stealing her soul. I do not know how true that is, but none of us had the guts to try it out.
One of my colleague once recited me her personal
experience with "ghosts". She told me her story which went by that
once, as she & her brother were sleeping in their room, her brother saw
somebody at the window. As he got up & went out to check, he could see no
one & hence thinking of it as a hallucination, he returned back to his bed.
Just to once again find someone staring at him. He got up & went out -
& started screaming. His sister got up & asked him why was he screaming,
upon which he answered that he couldn't move, that someone had gotten hold of
him & wasn't leaving him. However, his sister could not see anybody. The
same incident occurred again one night, where her mother experienced somebody
pulling at her hair, however when she got up & checked, there was nobody to
be seen. The same night as the brother saw that somebody again, & he went
out in the balcony to check, when the windows just slam shut & he couldn't
get inside the house.
There are many more such stories that I have heard of,
which if I start writing, would be never ending.
All this makes me think about the existence of
"ghosts" or "spirits". Do they really exist? Are there
really spirits moving around us, that we are unaware of? Is there really such a
thing as "bhatakti aatma"?
If we go by the stories, then yes there is. Because
most of the stories we hear are such of which no logical or scientific
explanation can be given. These paranormal activities just happen without any
reasonability, neither with any factual base. & people do experience them.
To be honest, I am a very timid person, you can call
me a fattu when it comes to such
things, but I do believe in ghosts- my line of thought being, why take risk?
What if I say I don't believe in them, but they do exist & some "bhoot" feels obligated that he
should show me that he exists? Better to believe instead! Though it sounds
lame, but for me its reason enough.
However I also feel, logically, ghosts must be
existing. Agreed their existence has not been proved scientifically, but so is
not the existence of God proved by science. But we still believe in His
existence. We believe that He is there. We worship Him. Why? Just because he is
the "good" force? So when there is "good", shouldn't there
be a bad too?
In fact, scientifically speaking, though the existence
of God hasn't been proved, but science does believe in the concept of what it
calls as "good energy". So similarly, there must be a "bad
energy" too, & who knows, that's what might be ghosts?!
The world does not exist one sided. For every good,
there is a bad; for every bad, there is a good. For every positive,there is a
negative. With heaven, there is hell. With right there is wrong. With electron there
is proton. Which only proves that nothing one sided exists. Like every action
has a reaction, every word has an opposite. Hell, even a pencil cell has a
positive & a negative, without which it won’t work.
So I guess, even the world has a good energy & a
bad energy to it. The good one we believe in as God. Maybe the bad ones are the
spirits.
Maybe while I am typing this right now, the God is
looking onto me from above and as you are reading this, a spirit is reading it
too, standing right beside you.
Happy Halloween!
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