GCEK Horror Stories CASE-1

The sky had a vast sea of clouds floating in it with the rays of sunbeams traversing in distinguished harmony through them. Me and my roommates, were having a casual walk around the campus. It was in the fresher year when people try hard to make selections for their life partners or friends with similar interests. We three belonged to the normal community of nothingness and mostly remained within our circle. It was around six in the evening and my roommates, both belonging to the same section, were reminded of the need to buy some stationery material from the town. They boarded the bus and I was left all alone. 

Thinking about the lake behind the hostel, I made a quick decision to go to the spot. I had been there once before, for taking bath with my friends but in the evening, nobody would go there without purpose. So I made way through the little gap beneath the campus boundary and climbed upwards to the railway tracks and began walking slowly enjoying every charm of the beautiful nature.

The view from the tracks are quite beautiful, within nothing blocking the sight of the hills and sunset. Soothing breeze made their way gently hitting as I walk against their direction.

After walking for about 5 minutes or so, I stood over a kind of what can be called a bridge on which the tracks were paved and underneath lied a huge pond with muddy water.

There I was standing calmly, fixing my gaze on the unending beauty of nature, breeze and everything altogether. My face was turned towards the solitary lake and it was slightly near getting dark that time. All of a sudden, I started hearing the sound of something burning, like dry leaves make when put on fire. From the corner of my right eye, I felt the happening taking place there. Few feet to my right but diagonally behind me.

A pile of wood-logs stood upto about four feet from the ground. On it a body lay, fully covered with a white sheet from top to bottom. All those feelings of scenic beauty faded from my mind and were filled with questions:

'Where did this come from?'

'How come there be a funeral and I not see from far?'

'Where are people who came from cremation?'

With the last question, I looked all around and to my dismay nobody was there nearby, nor could be seen from far. Chills started gripping my spine and when I looked back at the body, it had turned! The initially upward placed head was now turned towards me and the very thought of someone looking at me from behind those white sheets was enough to scare the hell out of me.

Without a second thought, I started running. Despite gasping for breath, I couldn't dare to turn back and just kept moving forward until I reached my room. I narrated the ordeal to my friends and roommate all of whom listened with great interest; as if another source of entertainment. Though it is much apt that most people wont believe that paranormal power exists. But few who believed said an aromatic fragrance of jasmine comes from in the ground floor and even near the toilet at ground floor in VHR hostel during 3-4 a.m., despite the all time foul smell throughout the day. Rumors have it that the villagers who live in front of our college campus, earlier used to do funerals here, on which the foundation of both the boys hostel lie. Nobody really knows what happened and whether if the claims(including mine) were true. But they had to believe... For it was just the beginning of a deadening fear!