#4208 THE HAPPENING I was the month of January, 2006...It was around 1am and I was preparing for my HSLC exams when suddenly I heard somone knocking on the door. I opened it to find that it was Ratul, an 18 year fruit seller at Uzanbazar who was staying as a tenant at our place since the last 1 year. For some reason, he had left behind his crate of Pomegranates at his stall and wanted me to accompany him to retrieve that as he was fearful of going there at that hour of the night. My mother wasnt pretty impressed with the idea of me going with him but nevertheless she gave in to my request and there we were, walking through the streets of the main Uzanbazar market with some dogs following us. We found the crate and as we were returning back we heard some rustling sound near the Shiv mandir (opposite to the Chicken market in present day Uzanbazar). Ratul was following me with the crate in his hand but as soon as I turned back to enquire about the sound, suddenly I saw him drop his crate and yell out loud, “Baba (thats what I am fondly called by everyone at home) doura, ei amak mari pelabo...” Saying so, he started to run with me following him for dear life. Strangely enough, while we were running I could clearly hear a thudding noise behind us, as if someone or something pretty heavy was following us. That noise ceased to follow us once we crossed the Nilakanth restaurant but we did not stop there. We run towards my home at Latasil. Seeing our pale faces, mother inquired what was wrong and what Ratul revealed was unbelievable. He said that he saw an uncanny figure of an old man with a hump and elephant like legs emerge from the side of the peepal tree near the Shiv mandir who was slowly but surely coming to possess us (I suppose thats what he must have felt). That incident was supposedly over that night but the next day Ratul was down with high fever. A few days later his brother came and took him to his ancestral home at Siphajar. It came to be known that he had passed away a month later. The news shocked us all but that incident is still fresh in my memory as if it happened only yesterday. Did Ratul really see a spirit or was it his imagination? What was that thudding sound we had heard so very clearly while running for our lives? Was it that old man (as described by Ratul) who was chasing us with his elephant like legs? Did the spirit do something to Ratul that the poor boy passed away soon after the incident? Some questions will never be answered... #Devarshi (devadutta786@gmail)
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:00:16 +0000
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