For those of you who have read my previous posts, ‘The Demonic Animal’ and ‘Demonic face on the wall’, I have yet another story to share with you. I’m sure most of you must have heard that dogs have 6th sense. In India, there is a saying that when you hear dogs howl in the middle of the night, it means there are spirits roaming about. If you have watched Indian horror movies, you will notice that the main item that will make your spine tremble from top to bottom is the howling of dogs.
This happened recently, I would say a week. The place I’m staying right now is more like a men’s hostel. In each room they are at least two to three people staying together. For some, they preferred to take the whole room for themselves. Like me for example, I took my own room. That’s because of my previous experiences. My other room-mates never respected me. They used to come late at night while I’m in a deep sleep or at times when their cell phone rang, they preferred to answer the call with me inside the room fast asleep rather than going outside and answering it. Those were the type of room-mates I had. That’s the main reason why I chose to have my own room rather than sharing it with someone else. It’s a bit expensive but I’m having all the freedom I need. So I guess it’s worth it.
A month ago, this new person takes a whole room for himself. He was a very strange fellow. He never used to come out of his room. He had no friends and nobody in the hostel knows a thing about him. The worst of all, not even his name. But in time, we all managed to keep him out of our heads. At times, I used to see some of the guys asking him if he would like to join us for an evening walk. He never accepted any of our invitations. He just shook his head and walked back into his room. We won’t see him for the whole day after that. Let’s call him Rahul (Not his real name).
But a week ago, his whole life changed. Just last week at three in the morning, while the whole hostel was fast asleep, I heard the most horrifying scream. I jumped out of my bed with my heart in my mouth. I have no words to explain how this person was screaming. I could only imagine this would be the way a human would scream if he saw death face to face.
I never came out of my room until I heard voices of other people outside the corridor. I slowly opened the door and saw people running toward the screams. Once I was outside, I could see people trying to break open the door where Rahul was staying. I wasn’t even sure if it was Rahul screaming. No one could recognize his voice.
At last they managed to break open the door. We saw the strangest thing ever. Rahul was lying on his bed. He had his hands covering his eyes and he was screaming like a mad man. Some of the guys went over to him and tried to talk some sense into him. I was standing outside his room watching all this happen. Rahul kept repeating that he was going to die and that this man with red eyes is going to kill him with a knife. The people next to him, tried to their best to convince him that, nobody was going to kill him and that he had a nightmare. I noticed he was sweating so much. His whole bed was wet because of his sweat. Someone sprinkled water on his face and he slowly opened his eyes. He was breathing heavily and he looked so pale. He looked more like a dead corpse that came out of a zombie movie. It took 40 minutes for him to calm down. Some of the guys tried to change the subject. Some even said jokes. He slowly got his senses back.
A friend of mine told him to come out with him for a small walk outside. Just to get some fresh air. Surprisingly, he nodded his head and got up to go out. I too thought of accompanying them, not because I wanted to keep his mind at ease but I too needed some fresh air. We three went out. The whole city was fast asleep. Not a soul outside. It was so quiet except for the breeze and the leaves scraping against each other. The moon was so bright that night.
My friend was in the middle, I was walking at his left side and Rahul was walking on the right side. While we were walking down this particular lane, I had this bad feeling come over me. It was more like fear. I have no clue why I was scared for no reason. But I knew something was not right.
Suddenly out of nowhere, from the shadows, at least 6 to 8 dogs circled around Rahul and stared at him. We all just froze. These dogs were only looking at Rahul and not us. I and my friend tried to shoo them away but they would not even budge. We tried to move away slowly but the dogs would growl and it looked like they would pounce on us any moment.
We three just stood there for like two to three minutes and suddenly all hell became loose. The dogs started to bark so furiously. It was like they would tear us all apart in like seconds. But I and my friend noticed that the dogs weren’t barking at us but only at Rahul. And what’s worse, something didn’t look right with Rahul. We couldn’t see his eyes properly. We couldn’t see the iris, just the white part. We could see his teeth and he was biting it down really hard.
Now here’s the scary part. The dogs weren’t barking at him only. We noticed they were barking at him and at someone else standing at his right side. I turned around thinking there was someone behind us but the whole street was empty. At times few of the dogs would jump back like as if someone was trying to shoo them away. I was rooted to the road and trembling with fear. We stood there motionless for like a minute and then my friend suddenly turned around and ran for his life. Seeing him running away made me to turn around and run. I never ran so hard in my life since I finished high school. It was more like a 100 meter race. My friend was running in front of me and I was running right behind him.
We didn’t even stop to help Rahul. We didn’t even turn back to see if the dogs were following us or what the dogs were doing to Rahul. We didn’t stop till we reached our rooms. I just ran inside my room, locked the door and put all the lights on in my room. There was a big tube light, a small bulb and a table lamp. I just switch on all three and jumped on my bed and covered myself with my sheet. I was trembling so much. In the distance, I could still hear the dogs barking.
For a whole 10 minutes, I was just staring at nothing and slowly fell asleep. At ten in the morning I woke up and somehow managed to refresh myself and got ready to go to office. While I walking down the corridor, I noticed Rahul’s door was shut. I put my head closer to the door to see if I could hear him snoring inside but nothing.
I just hoped he was ok. Felt really guilty for leaving him there all to himself. But you couldn’t blame me. Just imagine, you see dogs surrounding a group of people and barking at only one. And what’s worse, barking at someone you couldn’t see but they could. Someone that made the dogs jump back, as if, someone was trying to hit them or shoo them away. The way Rahul looked at that moment also freaked me out. I admit I watch horror movies and the movie Exorcist did freak me out a lot. Rahul looked like he was possessed. Forgive me if I’m saying it wrong. I just don’t know how to say it. This is the best way I could describe how everything looked.
I walked to the bus stand trying to get rid of the thought. My whole day was bad at work. At night while returning back to the hostel, I noticed Rahul’s door was wide open. I didn’t want him to see me, so I started to walk fast. But as I crossed his room, I managed to have a quick glance inside. He was sitting on his bed criss-crossed and staring at the wall in front of him. I’m glad at least he made it back to his room in one piece. I never spoke to him again and he was back in his own world, stuck in his room with the door shut most of the time.
I believe these facts now. Dogs do see things that we humans can’t. They do have a sixth sense. They could see spirits.
CHEERS!!!!
. But after my 12th results were declared (which wasn’t very nice to talk about) my dad said I was not worthy enough to have a cool cell phone. With the marks I had he said I was eligible to carry the world’s first cell phone ever created by man. So he took it from me and started using it for himself. Damn sad!!! 
But I have to admit this cell is sure a headache and a blessing. Ever since I bought this cell phone everybody here in my office had their eyes on it. I just bought it for 12K and it has everything in it that a cell phone would have for 20K. It helped me a lot when it comes to surfing the net and organizing stuffs. The android market provides brilliant applications. This is one of the best features if the cell supports android.
