Superstitious

Five days passed on, Vishal has joined his newly posted job in a remote place. He is an engineer in a petroleum mine but he took a small house on rent to reside in, which is situated at few hundreds kilometre away from his office.

Vishal’s locality is quite a solitary place where everything is peaceful but a belief that a supernatural power has kept the place consternated…. If anyone sweeps at night must face scary ghostly incident. Vishal’s neighbours at their first meeting cautioned him about it.

This night on returning home Vishal found his courtyard covered with scattered several dried leaves which disturbed the man to uneasiness. He almost got ready to take a broom to sweep those out but at once he got alert with a sudden sound ‘mieu’ of a black cat. Vishal then stopped. After having dinner Vishal again got annoyed with those dirty leaves and started sweeping the sprawling courtyard. Just then an owl’s hoot tried to thwart him. This time Vishal cared a freak and ignored the bird.

At mid night a mobile call from Vishal’s office compelled him to visit his office again. After solving problems when Vishal was on the way to home it was pitch dark. He could see an exquisite lady with tears in her eyes. Vishal then stopped and asked the lady, “How can I help you?” The lady replied ,”I came to crematorium to cremate my husband’s dead body but I don’t know it’s exact direction. Pl. help me.” Vishal answered,”Oh obviously…come on.” That woman started walking and Vishal was following her. After a while Vishal could find a corpse covered with a white cloth lying on the ground. Vishal asked the woman,”Is this that body?” The lady admitted . Vishal removed the cloth gently from the body but what he could see that the body belonged to that lady and the lady got vanished from there. Next morning when neighbours and colleagues of Vishal started searching for him they found him senseless lying near the burning ghat.

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