Sometimes it is hard to put a reason to things. There are so many ghost stories in real life amidst us that it becomes really daunting to put a pin against. When I listen to rapt ghost stories in real life I become overwhelmed with the response I get. These real ghost stories are abounding with unworldly talks and it makes me question them beyond limit. But what I don’t get is a reason to believe otherwise. I often wonder how come? Why? Or if there is a scientific explanation or a logic behind any unexplained act? But the veracity in the eyes of my narrators always plays against me making my skepticism dodgy.
This one right here is one amongst those rare real life paranormal stories that tremors me from the inside. A splendid truthful ghost story meticulously brought into account from all those happening ghost stories in real life. This has also undoubtedly become one of my personal favourites from our collection of scary ghost stories in real life. Read on:
REAL EXORCISM IN A VILLAGE
One of the most bizarre tales I have ever come across is hands down this one which I am unable to tag a reason to. It was narrated to me only recently and I wish to bring you all up to speed at once. It is about an incident that took place in a rural area once. It’s been more than 50 years since it happened, and this leaflet, even though finds its way from history, comes out clear as a crystal. Primarily because my narrator could never forget the events of his uncanny past. I surmise, it is hard to forget horror.
GHOST STORIES IN REAL LIFE: THE VASISTHA BACKDROP
The backdrop of this tale is in a weird way unsettling, essentially because the story skims on the surface of crime. Though there is peculiarity entailed in the crime proffered here, I do understand that given the chance, one could easily convert it into a good script or a movie. I don’t hold anyone from doing that. Go ahead, make it into something more beautiful. The world should know about this.
There was a guy called Vasistha. Even though I was warned to not use his name, since it could summon the unearthly, I choose to do that nevertheless, since I consider such statements sheer horse-crap. So, getting back on the saddle again, there was a guy called Vasistha, nay make that ill-fated Vasistha, a young chap who happened to live in an unruly rural area where crime used to get answered by merciless beatings. He used to play cricket with his friends on empty plots, and barren fields. It was the group of the young, who were on their way to become adults.
THE DEFIANT LOVE
He fell in love with a girl, a young lass who preferred going for an extra marital affair as an answer to escape her miserable life. She was the second wife of a landlord who had turned a widower owing to a mishap that took away his first. Capering on the same-age bridge, falling in love wasn’t hard for Vasistha, and the damsel in distress got on the escapade pretty quick herself.
Love, something that doesn’t behold barriers that conventions make, kept decimating dams until one day their story was out in the open. He was thrashed mercilessly for the transgression, the crime that was inexcusable in front of the eyes of the society. The same societal laws that still give poetic justice taking enough care to not blow things out of proportion. Stories that pass under their gavels never make it to the papers. Their names never go public. They are the real vigilantes that societies hide hitherto.
So love happened and then the ruthless beating that followed left him half dead. Last moments of Vasistha were recalled by saying:
“He got up to have some water from the pot, and then returned to bed only to leave his body without a sound.”
Some claimed he died of internal bleedings that could have been a result of that crude thrashing. Anyhow in betwixt elusive love and humiliation he passed away, a silent yet restless death.
AFTERMATH DEATH
The village erupted in remorse the next day. But I doubt if anyone was too mournful, his crime taking the vanguard to prevent tears from falling down. Truest tears were shed by Vasistha’s friends. They cried the most. The bond that they had inadvertently made with their fallen player couldn’t have possibly found a better description. They took his steep fall as if they had fallen themselves.
Rituals asked of them to accompany the cadaver to the burning grounds where the body was supposed to be cremated. Now this is claimed even though we question its relation and tangibility, but it does manage to give some interesting crises to the story. After the body was burnt, as one of the guys who carried the body returned home, someone from the family ended up asking him:
“So you came!”
My narrator pressed on this fact that it was because of the statement the dead decided to stay. Whilst it is customary in some funerals (preferably in Antyesti) that the guy who carries the body to the cremation ground should only be interacted with after he has had his bath, purged off and been purified properly. Little did the person who inquired know he sent out an invitation to the dead land.
DRINKING IN PROFUSION
In some societal laws, where rules aren’t that stringent, people allow you to go insanely drunk after funeral chores are carried out successfully. So all the friends of the deceased drank like drunkards. Subodh, who happened to be one of those friends of Vasistha, who had tacked along to help the needy ones to successfully carry out those final rituals wasn’t feeling so good after all that drinking.
It was quite late when he returned home, along with Pramod one of his closest friends, to accompany him through all those dreary routes of darkness. No bulbs shimmered in the dead of the night. No lights gleamed to put the village out of its constant misery. There was no electricity there. For ages the villagers had learnt to embrace the dark and so everyone lived unperturbed amongst forces they didn’t understand.
Subodh’s family already knew all about those funeral drinks, and they were fine with that too. As they encircled around him to listen to his blather about the day, they began noticing a strange comportment building up in his talks. Since Pramod and Subodh were close, the former would always hang around for a while before retiring into the night of his own house. So, they yelped for Pramod who was busy washing his face near the hand-pump.
Vexed by his recently found demeanour, Pramod inquired what was wrong. The inebriated Subodh answered that his head was spinning and that he wasn’t feeling that good. He sat on the floor cross legged imploring his mother to get him some lime juice to get rid of that punishing hangover. To bring him up to speed Pramod asked him to punch his hands, to which he reluctantly agreed. But after a jab or two he gave up.
ENTERS THE DEAD
Meanwhile Pramod summoned for some oil to ease his buddy’s stress out. But the moment he pressed his palm against Subodh’s head after pouring oil, he felt the boiling heat followed by a changed voice grumble, that shriveled him up.
At that very moment Subodh’s mother had entered the room. Gawking at her he spoke in a demoniac twist,
“So you came Aunty!”
Taken aback by what had just happened, Pramod tried to look at his friend. His friend was long gone, he could make out with that unique voice that it was none other than Vasistha himself who had embodied the poor chap and successfully wrapped him up in his shackles. Anything that came out of his mouth was an altered note, a different tone altogether, that matched him perfectly with the dead guy. Whatever he said took Subodh more aloof placing a different persona altogether.
Pramod was the boldest of all, the skeptic who didn’t believe in ghosts. Yet he shivered in doubt, fear and trepidation.
“Didn’t we bury this guy today?”
The only solution that dangled in front of him slept in a comfy bed some 2 kms from their home. Baffled beyond limit, Pramod hurried in that sickening night with a searchlight, alarmingly quiet in that disquiet, to call the village’s only hope against the supernatural, the Pundit.
RUNNING FOR HELP
Battling bazillion thoughts as he made his way into the darkened streets smelling fear at every corner, he was one of those souls that silently fought the rural repose in an endeavour to bring his friend back at any cost. On reaching the Pundit’s abode, he went straight up to his bed to wake him up. Whilst a miffed Pundit retorted “five more minutes” amidst his constant yawning, Pramod kept beseeching him to tend to the unexplained matter at hand at once. That they were living one hell of a ghost story among those ghost stories in real life he had only heard about. Coaxing him up on his feet, they both hurried to see the victim.
THE REAL EXORCISM
A chair was placed against Subodh, or must I say Vasistha, who recognized Pundit the moment he made his way into the hall. He blared:
“How are you today Punditji?”
“I am fine. What are you doing here?”
The Pundit coolly responded. Whilst this real exorcism began taking place the Pundit started off with his exorcism prayers, rubbing tobacco in his hands.
“Why are you troubling this little chap?” he added.
Vasistha responded that Subodh had peed on him, which was apparently an accident, since the living can’t see the dead. But Subodh was paying the price nevertheless. Vasistha had a statement to make, and so he stormed in an eruptive voice saying that he was slain. It was so unfair on their part.
“What you did was fair?”
The Pundit responded wittingly trying to reason with the dead. Then the reasoning followed. Pundit was trying to push him into the well of guilt. Whilst he was defending himself saying love is blind, and that punishment should be left to the law. There were questions and answers, flowing from both ends as the Pundit rubbed his tobacco religiously, chanting the exorcism prayer secretively as the demon spoke.
LEAVING THE BODY
At the end of it, Pundit reasoned that it isn’t fair on his end to embody Subodh for vengeance. He didn’t do any harm after all he was just his friend. He ordered the ghost to spare him. So, the ghost of Vasistha, understandingly concurred and decided to leave.
With a final chant of a mantra, the exorcism prayer that the Pundit was constantly preparing against the supernatural, Pundit blew his tobacco in the air. Just as that happened, Subodh fell flat on his back and uttered a doleful cry of pang. Everyone became sure that the body was left alone. Right after that Subodh sprang up back to life, he began recognizing everybody and calling them by just what he used to call them by.
Days after the incident, Subodh often confessed being scared to go alone on the streets for the fear of being held captive again in his own body. Pramod fathomed every bit of it, and the skeptic lights in him began to flicker. He beheld everything firsthand. So, it scared him too.
REAL LIFE PARANORMAL STORIES
If you have come across a real exorcism it would be hard to tell who is playing who? There are so many aspects to it that sometimes it gives you a phony feel.
Sometimes I wonder if priests, pundits, sages and all such claimers have a preordained concoction, an agreement with the victim or a prior understanding with the crowd mentality just to keep those juices flowing. People don’t mind being played on by puppet strings. They don’t object to superficial games that curdle nonsense as long as they are able to hammer that fear quotient to perfection. But then comes along such thrilling paranormal stories and ghost stories in real life that compel me to think otherwise.
What if these ghost stories in real life are what they claim to be? What if these ghost stories in real life are every bit reeking of veracity? To be really candid, it renders me speechless.
PS: If you wish to unspool this or devour more ghost stories in real life or real exorcism, I will be more than interested to listen to you in the comments section.