Some Unexplainable Real Life Incidents

Riya Joseph Kaithavanathara
4 min readApr 3, 2020

I love hearing spooky stories specially when it is real. All my teenage and college days as well as now I have been asking people and watching many videos about such spooky experiences. There are even many regional folk stories too. But today I am writing this to share the spooky experiences of some people who are very close to me. You can believe it or not. This will be just something interesting to read for people who say they don’t believe in it. Well, as for me my grandmothers aunts story seemed really spooky. That story created a battle inside me between my mind and intuitions. So coming to my grandmothers aunts story, it was set in the early 1900’s. My grandmother was a small girl at that time. Her aunt her husband and 2 other people were coming back after visiting some of their relatives from a distant place. They were coming in a boat, and got down and was walking .All they had at that time was fire lit up on the dried coconut leaves , that was the medium of light in villages during that time. While they were walking towards a bridge, they saw an extremely tall figure waving at them using his right hand. Like as though the figure knew them. They initially thought it was someone they knew. Though it had the figure of a man , the man was extremely tall. The height of the man didn’t seem like as that of a normal man. My grandmothers aunt stopped the others from walking towards the figure on the bridge and asked them to stay wherever they were. Then she closed her eyes and started praying. She recited the apostles creed and in front of them that extremely tall figure jumped into the waters and till now when my grandmother tell it she swears it to be the devil. She believes that the devil comes to places which is deserted or somewhere were there are less people to attack the common travelers. I don’t believe in ghosts but I cannot find an answer for this even now who must be that guy? and why did he jump to the waters when my grandmothers aunt prayed? what was it?Whatever it is, it definitely is spooky to me.

Then there is another incident which was told by my friend , this happened to his mother. She had two experiences , and what they don’t know is that if both incidents where connected to each other or if they were separate. So without further delay lets get into the story. My friend’s house was inside a big compound. In the middle of the big area there is this house of theirs. His mother usually for cooking lunch , the curries specially use the traditional cooking things which will be kept outside the kitchen. We make a curry called “Chammanthi” in kerala using “Ara kall” and “Ara kall” is nothing but the traditional grinder. We use to grind things using this before the grinder came into picture. Infact food cooked is really tasted when it is grinded in Ara Kall. So while she was grinding outside the kitchen using Ara kall and nobody was there at home. She felt someone behind her and she also got a cigarette smell from behind ,this continued for days but each time she looked there was no one. Next to their home was a big ground and their gates where locked so if anyone opened the lock she must have heard it, but nothing happened like that. No one had entered their property. And this looked really unusual, some people later claimed it to be the burial ground of the Muslim which was near by from were ghost comes and they also said there was a Muslim man who died next to their house who use to smoke the local cigarette who was buried in that burial ground. Then his mom had another experience closely related to it at night they used to see shadows of a man through their window after the lights of their rooms were turned off. The shadow was caused because of the street light. The questionable thing was that their house was located at the middle of their property and there were walls enclosing the house then how come a shadow was cast inside the house when the compound walls where so away from the house as well as when the gates where already locked from inside.

There are many incidents which doesn’t really have any valid explanations, still people are searching explanation for it, some must have stopped searching eventually getting tired after finding nothing. And in the end Mystery still remains a Mystery. Sometimes it is because there is no fun if we are living without any curiosity.

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