Untold Stories : The Stalker (Horror)

Piya works in a leading BPO in gurgaon. She hails from the north-eastern parts of India and had been carrying the load of expectations on her shoulders since the time she ventured out of her village. She is the 3^rd daughter in the family and the prior are very successful in their own fields. Currently she is working as a Team Leader of an outbound process, US market dealing in wireless tele-communication products. Her team consists of 17 members and she has made sure its 17 only in numbers but 1 in spirit. Her beauty made most guys have a crush on her and her personality commands respect from every soul she meets. A woman with a good heart made her a complete human being. Trojans as her team was named, have been breaking all records and was the best team of the organization for the last 14 months.

She used to stay in Moti-Bagh, about 30 minutes away from her office. She shares the 3 room flat with another girl from Sikkim who is pursuing bachelors in English from Jesus & Mary. The Trojans were doing a 6pm-2am shift. So Piya used to return home by about 3:00-3:30 am. Her usual routine after reaching home be a nice long bathe followed by some food and television. She didn’t have anyone to talk to at this wee hour of the day. But she was happy with her life as she earned good money and held a nice position at work.

This incident happened some weeks back. As she was ready to retire from the day, she said her prayers and shut her eye-lids. After about an hour, probably as she started dreaming, she felt as if something heavy was kept on her chest. Thinking it was the weight of the blanket, she tried to remove it but the weight did not go. Now even her hands and legs were slowly getting heavier, as in as if some weight was placed on her. She tried to call out to her room mate but her voice was lost in the darkness of the night. Suddenly she saw a strange cloud formation at one corner of the room and it was getting brighter and larger until it took the shape of a full grown man. She still couldn’t move, nor could she utter a word. Slowly the figure climbed on top of her and lay on top as if it was a blanket or lemme rather put it across as if the figure was trying to sexually molest her but it didn’t. Rather it kept staring directly into her face, the distance between their face was about 6 cms. This went on for about 10 minutes but it definitely seemed like years. Eventually Piya passed out. When she woke up in the morning she saw strange marks on her arms and legs and chest. The marks resembled that of a grip when held very hard. Her room mate was very scared and they visited the doctor and relatives. The doctor thought it might be some form of a multiple personality disorder scenario and gave her medication and recommended vigilant observation. But the marks were strange. However, she was admitted in the hospital with the best of doctors taking up her case. But she just couldn’t get rid of the cloud stalker. It was there everywhere and now the figure was growing stronger and more evident as each day passed by. If she would be sitting with people in her room, the cloud would appear at one end of the room and take the shape of a full grown man and keep staring at her, some saw it too while others didn’t and dismissed it as a figment of imagination. Piya was getting berserk each day. If she traveled by a vehicle, the stalker would follow her, it would appear in the bathroom, it was everywhere.

One fine day, a tantrik after getting in terms with the case visited her place and performed some ceremonies and advised her to leave the city, if possible the state at the earliest possible. But she had to clear the house of every sign that led to her, even a strand of hair.

Its been more than 3 years since the incident took place and Piya had moved to another country (un-disclosed) but she lost her mental balance. Life wasn’t same for her anymore and the mystery of the stalker was never solved.

Deja-vu deciphered (concept)

At times when we walk to the cafeteria to re-fill our coffee mugs and a colleague pats on the
shoulders and says "hi", we reply back but we stand struck in time – confused but affirmative
that this incident has occurred earlier. We feel as if we have been through/seen this exact
scenario. Scene by scene, every moment appears to be so familiar yet so mystic/distanced. I used
to feel that I was blessed with this unique phenomenon. My assumption was however shredded
when I ventured to learn more about it. And then I was introduced to the world of ‘Deja-vu’. I
was somewhat relieved that a huge section of people experience it.


Not going by the physics of time or principles of chemistry, I put forward a concept that might
be a relative probability that leads a person to experience the phenomenon. This concept as I
enumerate below is based purely on personal experience and understanding of the world and its
characteristics.


General physics has proved that everything is made up of energy – consisting of positive as well
as negative charge. For a moment let’s assume that our universe is a single charge and there is
another universe with the opposite charge standing parallel to us. Existence is a mirror image.
The only difference is it is ahead of us in time. Whatever motion takes place in our universe
happened exactly ahead in time in the other universe, this includes me writing this article and
you reading it. You in this universe are reading it now but you in the other universe read it
sometimes back.


I put this theory forward questioning the possibility for anyone to experience deja-vu without he/
she physically having been through the situation before. How can someone predict a future when
he has not seen one himself? Well this is possible as the sub-conscious mind connects to the
parallel universe and the suspense of the future in our universe is revealed in the history of the
other universe.


So next time a sooth-sayer predicts your future, it’s not because he is holy but as he could
connect to the parallel universe with his sub-conscious mind.

Girl’s PG prank (Horror)

The Gurgaon-Mehrauli horror incident left Joy in a different state of mind for good. He just couldn’t believe in whatever happened. At 1 point in time, he even referred himself to a shrink. Most of us thought that he was going through the recovery stage. Only he knew what was happening to him. Life was not the same for him anymore. He became obsessed with knowing more about life….the stories that were told as well as the ones that were never told.

I met him last winters in Noida. It was a fine evening with some more old friends around, over for drinks and smoke, some were non-drinkers. It was then where we realized that Joy has spent sometime in the wilderness. He told us tales of rural-legends and unheard stories of boundless mystery. There was 1 particular that nearly froze my spine.

It was a story from Pune. A girls hostel  of a renowned institute. New season got many bright new faces during admissions. Some could get into the college hostels while others had to make accommodations in flats…a world known as mess. Guys give the actual meaning to the word. I have been in many. Coming back to the story, I will introduce Mae to you. A beautiful, enthusiastic new face from the north-east, Manipur.  She has almost broken all records in her academic resume. The guys of the college, both old and new were inspired to be at their best. The girls envied with jealousy. She was the talk of the complex almost all the time.

Though Mae was dynamic with her intelligence as well as personality, she was missing the company of more people from the north-east. I guess this is a common thing at the beginning, eventually the new places becomes a home. And she was not used to the way of living, as in from how she used to stay at home and how she has to stay now. This is actually the moment of truth for a person. Either he/she can break down or be propelled to exceed. Mae was a strong willed girl, she hasn’t given up ever in life. She did have to win many battles staying in the girls hostel which has girls who were dumped by their boyfriends to woo Mae. She had nearly made friends to half the people in a month. The other half were conspiring in the dark. Attempts were repeated but none could stop the power of will of the little girl.

The girls dormitory were of 8 beds, 1 bunked over the other in sets of 2. Mae had a habit of going for a shower after all the girls almost started snoring. The she would climb to her bed, switch on the reading light, drag her favorite book from under the pillow, read for about 30-45 minutes and then go off to sleep. Riya  the master mind was so focused on bringing Mae down that it felt like she was born only for this. She was on the verge of giving up when she wanted to play an evil prank on Mae. She asked her gang to get her a human hand from the specimen jar of the institute laboratory. When it was provided, she kept the hand under Mae’s pillow. She anticipitated that Mae would scream like a crazy women and the rest would wake from their fake sleep and laugh at the girl. The plan was executed the very might.

When all the lights were down at 10:45, Mae took a shower and as usual climbed onto her bed and rubbed her hair with her towel. She was humming a song, she did sound like an nightingale.  All the other girls were pretending to sleep with blankets over them. They heard Mae throw her towel on her chair and a click her reading lights on. She was still humming her song. The shriek was anticipated just round the corner. But nothing. No-one wanted to turn around and break the suspense until the event was triggered by Mae. But there was loud silence from her end. The humming had stopped and the excitement was building up. After about half an hour, Riya  turned back to look at Mae and screamed at the top of her lungs. The other girls quickly turned their lights on and turned their focus towards  Mae and saw her eating the hand that was kept in place of the book. Everyone was stunned, the land had slipped from below their feet. No-one moved for minutes to come.

Mae was admitted in a mental institute and it was declared that she would require to undergo treatment for unspecified time. She was expecting to read her favourite book and what she found out under the pillow was an absolute horror. Something snapped in her brain and she could not control her mental balance from there on. Riya and her gang were punished but the intolerable harm has already been caused.

Another story which got buried by the authorities, by time.