The house in my home city of Karachi inherited to my mother and her sisters after the passing of my maternal grandparents became a legal property dispute.
My mother's older sister demanded the entire property be put in her name.
She managed to take over the ground floor and place squatters in it, out of fear that she would loose the whole house.
The squatters switched places with their relatives various times when they'd leave for their village(s) while their relatives would occupy the ground floor.
They have stayed for a decade now. Upstairs is occupied by my mother's best friend and her servants as we live in North America.
In 2005 I visited Karachi and heard a rather strange story. According to my mother's friend, the squatters downstairs were afraid of the room at the back belonging to my late aunt who passed away in 1999.
My late aunt's beloved piano had also been placed into the room she lived in. The squatters claimed that they encountered a giant man threatening to hurt anyone who entered the room.
Late at night the piano would play. Then a day came when the room was opened and a cat came running out.
Many assumed the cat had been walking on the piano making it heard.
The story was ridiculed and laughed upon by my mother's friend. However my mothers friend herself spoke of a story that she slept alone upstairs one night. It was pitch dark and she claimed to have seen a white moon colored light move past her bed.
She then claimed to being chocked by something and tried to free her neck, however she could not feel anything touching her neck.
She struggled for a few minutes and tried calling out to the servants living in the quarters in the backyard. But she then became free.
Also according to her, the squatters complained to my aunt who put her there about this strange bearded man.
My aunt had come to the house and went into this allegedly haunted bedroom of my other late aunt. She took a copy of the Quran and recited some prayers. My aunt supposedly performed these rituals a several times.
I do not know if there is truth to any of this, but according to Pakistani mythology and ghost tales, when a house or room is left abandoned for a long period of time, it usually attracts spirits and becomes haunted.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Paranormal tale: A possible ghost encounter.
As stated in my other posts, I'm not a believer or a skeptic. I was however told that this incident is true by my late uncle who told me this story.
I am also unsure when it took place or where exactly, but if my memory serves correct, it happened somewhere in North America.
A man was driving on a highway and came across a young boy on the side of the street waving to get on. The boy wore a baseball uniform and hat.
Once the boy got onto the car, he urged the man through sign language to move onwards and kept pin pointing to a certain direction without speaking.
Next thing, they arrived at a crash site. A school bus seemed to have fallen off or collided with another vehicle (can't remember).
The man got out and tried to help the injured passengers. An ambulance and other medical help arrived. As people were leaving, the man noticed a stretcher with the blanket covering a body.
He lifted the blanket to find the body of same boy who led him to the bus crash. He was astonished. He told the medical teams and others that he was guided by this dead boy to the crash site. As the man got into his car to leave, he found the boy's baseball hat still sitting in the right passenger seat where the silent boy had been.
I am also unsure when it took place or where exactly, but if my memory serves correct, it happened somewhere in North America.
A man was driving on a highway and came across a young boy on the side of the street waving to get on. The boy wore a baseball uniform and hat.
Once the boy got onto the car, he urged the man through sign language to move onwards and kept pin pointing to a certain direction without speaking.
Next thing, they arrived at a crash site. A school bus seemed to have fallen off or collided with another vehicle (can't remember).
The man got out and tried to help the injured passengers. An ambulance and other medical help arrived. As people were leaving, the man noticed a stretcher with the blanket covering a body.
He lifted the blanket to find the body of same boy who led him to the bus crash. He was astonished. He told the medical teams and others that he was guided by this dead boy to the crash site. As the man got into his car to leave, he found the boy's baseball hat still sitting in the right passenger seat where the silent boy had been.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Paranormal story: A possible UFO encounter.
Author's note: I am neither a believer nor a skeptic. I am only repeating what I have heard.
This took place with my uncle (who is mentioned in my previous post) while he was a young boy and my their close friends (friends of my uncles and father) were playing in a back alley. This was in Karachi in the 1950s. Back then the city was safe, sparsely populated so they as children were free to play in the open.
As they were playing, they were encountered by a giant spherical shaped light about fifty feet in the sky. The close position of the sphere terrified them that they stood still.
The sphere them beamed a light on them for a period of five minutes, with them still terrified and paralyzed.
Why this light was beamed, no one knows. Possibly for observation. But after about this period of five minutes, the sphere's light switched off and it sped skywards at an incredible speed.
The boys were so terrified that they did not speak of their encounter. Only some years later, when the subject of UFOs was being discussed, my uncle spoke of his experience.
That's all I know of that incident.
This took place with my uncle (who is mentioned in my previous post) while he was a young boy and my their close friends (friends of my uncles and father) were playing in a back alley. This was in Karachi in the 1950s. Back then the city was safe, sparsely populated so they as children were free to play in the open.
As they were playing, they were encountered by a giant spherical shaped light about fifty feet in the sky. The close position of the sphere terrified them that they stood still.
The sphere them beamed a light on them for a period of five minutes, with them still terrified and paralyzed.
Why this light was beamed, no one knows. Possibly for observation. But after about this period of five minutes, the sphere's light switched off and it sped skywards at an incredible speed.
The boys were so terrified that they did not speak of their encounter. Only some years later, when the subject of UFOs was being discussed, my uncle spoke of his experience.
That's all I know of that incident.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Paranormal story: A possible ghost encounter
About a year after Mariam's death, a friend of me and my cousin's, Faraz in Karachi was spending the night at his home.
I mentioned Marian in another blog of mine who was assassinated by her husband.
According to my cousin, Faraz came to him at night and woke him up. He claimed he was going to the washroom where he saw Mariam's image in the hallway.
My cousin didn't believe him. But the same summer after the killing, I recall coming back to North America and having a dream. I saw Mariam on the same signal way on the way to my cousin's house.
This was a strange dream, since Mariam and I had no close acquaintanceship or anything of that sort; though we did spend enjoyable times during my youth entertaining ourselves and my cousin when he was a toddler.
But I saw her in the dream. On the intersecting roads on the same route to my cousins house. The signal turned red, all the vehicles stopped, Mariam crossed the road waving at me and calling out in Urdu "How are you X" (X is a substitute for my real name, which I avoid giving out on the Internet).
All of a sudden I was at my cousins bedroom on the top floor, with Mariam organizing my cousin's clothes.
But Mariam was dead I told myself. How can this be? This had to be a spirit. I darted to my cousin's father downstairs at their house and my uncle (cousin's father) said that her spirit will stay there, refusal to leave.
I woke up from the dream after that. Weather this dream of Mariam's position in Faraz's experience is connected or coincidental; I do not know. I am just sharing experienced which I have no way of knowing are real or not.
I mentioned Marian in another blog of mine who was assassinated by her husband.
According to my cousin, Faraz came to him at night and woke him up. He claimed he was going to the washroom where he saw Mariam's image in the hallway.
My cousin didn't believe him. But the same summer after the killing, I recall coming back to North America and having a dream. I saw Mariam on the same signal way on the way to my cousin's house.
This was a strange dream, since Mariam and I had no close acquaintanceship or anything of that sort; though we did spend enjoyable times during my youth entertaining ourselves and my cousin when he was a toddler.
But I saw her in the dream. On the intersecting roads on the same route to my cousins house. The signal turned red, all the vehicles stopped, Mariam crossed the road waving at me and calling out in Urdu "How are you X" (X is a substitute for my real name, which I avoid giving out on the Internet).
All of a sudden I was at my cousins bedroom on the top floor, with Mariam organizing my cousin's clothes.
But Mariam was dead I told myself. How can this be? This had to be a spirit. I darted to my cousin's father downstairs at their house and my uncle (cousin's father) said that her spirit will stay there, refusal to leave.
I woke up from the dream after that. Weather this dream of Mariam's position in Faraz's experience is connected or coincidental; I do not know. I am just sharing experienced which I have no way of knowing are real or not.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Paranormal story: A strange event in rural Canada.
Author's note: Stories such as this one does not reflect my beliefs in the supernatural. I am only repeating the details of an incident I heard.
It was around 1999 when my uncle told me of a strange story involving some distant relatives of mine whom I do not know personally; I don't believe I've ever met them.
These people were traveling to the west coast of Canada through the country side. As people might know, Canada being the world second largest country and having a population of just over thirty three million people is probably the least densely populated country in the world.
The story is that these relatives were driving from one Canadian city to another through the countryside. It was finally getting dark and they were in desperate need for a place to eat and rest.
They felt lucky when they spotted a motel in the middle of the empty countryside. But something felt strange. All the cars in the parking lot were red like their own. They checked in and went to their rooms to sleep.
Later next morning they found that except for their car the parking lot was empty and the motel deserted. Puzzled, they decided to continue their trip, but one of them wished they had access to a telephone.
Suddenly, right in front of them a telephone raised out of the ground in front of the car. Frightened, the relatives started the car and drove away from the motel. But in the car mirrors there was no reflection of this strange motel.
They looked back where the motel should have been, only to see nothing. The motel disappeared as if it was never there.
When the relatives reached the nearest town, they explained to a person at a gas station about what they had been through.
The puzzled person at the gas station claimed there is no motel or any town or city on their route for days and that they were in the first town going westward on that route.
It was around 1999 when my uncle told me of a strange story involving some distant relatives of mine whom I do not know personally; I don't believe I've ever met them.
These people were traveling to the west coast of Canada through the country side. As people might know, Canada being the world second largest country and having a population of just over thirty three million people is probably the least densely populated country in the world.
The story is that these relatives were driving from one Canadian city to another through the countryside. It was finally getting dark and they were in desperate need for a place to eat and rest.
They felt lucky when they spotted a motel in the middle of the empty countryside. But something felt strange. All the cars in the parking lot were red like their own. They checked in and went to their rooms to sleep.
Later next morning they found that except for their car the parking lot was empty and the motel deserted. Puzzled, they decided to continue their trip, but one of them wished they had access to a telephone.
Suddenly, right in front of them a telephone raised out of the ground in front of the car. Frightened, the relatives started the car and drove away from the motel. But in the car mirrors there was no reflection of this strange motel.
They looked back where the motel should have been, only to see nothing. The motel disappeared as if it was never there.
When the relatives reached the nearest town, they explained to a person at a gas station about what they had been through.
The puzzled person at the gas station claimed there is no motel or any town or city on their route for days and that they were in the first town going westward on that route.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Paranormal Story: A house possibly haunted by Jinns.
Author's note: Stories such as this one does not reflect my beliefs in the supernatural. I am only repeating the details of an alleged incident I heard.
Me and my parents had close family friends in Pakistan who now live in North America like us but in a nearby town outside of the city we live in.
Ever since they moved out of Pakistan, their house in Karachi has been left empty for quite some time, I believe it has been kept up for sale by them.
A few years ago, they told me of a strange incident involving a relative of theirs in Karachi.
It was late at night and this relative was driving near their empty house, so he decided to enter their compound just to take a look as he wasn't sure if it has been sold yet.
He climbed over the gate and entered the compound. All of a sudden, an adult woman and a few children (I don't know exactly how many) came out and so he turned back towards the gate to exist the compound, not wanting to upset them of his unexpected presence.
As he was leaving, he decided to take a last look and so he turned back and to his surprise, the woman and children were hovering above the ground. Terrified, he climbed over the gate and rushed to his car and sped away.
When he reached home, he emailed his relatives- our family friends- about what had happened. Apparently, this relative of theirs was a non-believer in the supernatural.
Our family friends responded to his message stating that they too heard strange voices and were touched by un-seen things when they lived in that house.
It is a wide-spread belief in South Asian Muslim societies that homes left unoccupied for longer periods of time get taken up by Jinns.
During my summer holidays in Pakistan in 2006, I passed by the house during the day time and noticed nothing unusual. Even during my childhood, I used to visit that house a lot, but never did I see or sense anything out of the ordinary.
Me and my parents had close family friends in Pakistan who now live in North America like us but in a nearby town outside of the city we live in.
Ever since they moved out of Pakistan, their house in Karachi has been left empty for quite some time, I believe it has been kept up for sale by them.
A few years ago, they told me of a strange incident involving a relative of theirs in Karachi.
It was late at night and this relative was driving near their empty house, so he decided to enter their compound just to take a look as he wasn't sure if it has been sold yet.
He climbed over the gate and entered the compound. All of a sudden, an adult woman and a few children (I don't know exactly how many) came out and so he turned back towards the gate to exist the compound, not wanting to upset them of his unexpected presence.
As he was leaving, he decided to take a last look and so he turned back and to his surprise, the woman and children were hovering above the ground. Terrified, he climbed over the gate and rushed to his car and sped away.
When he reached home, he emailed his relatives- our family friends- about what had happened. Apparently, this relative of theirs was a non-believer in the supernatural.
Our family friends responded to his message stating that they too heard strange voices and were touched by un-seen things when they lived in that house.
It is a wide-spread belief in South Asian Muslim societies that homes left unoccupied for longer periods of time get taken up by Jinns.
During my summer holidays in Pakistan in 2006, I passed by the house during the day time and noticed nothing unusual. Even during my childhood, I used to visit that house a lot, but never did I see or sense anything out of the ordinary.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Paranormal story: A possible witch atack.
Author's note: Stories such as this one does not reflect my beliefs in the supernatural. I am only repeating the details of an incident I heard.
During the summer of 2002, I was on summer holiday in my home city of Karachi in southern Pakistan.
During my father's childhood, his parents adopted a son called Ibrahim. A few of Ibrahim's grand sons had become close friends of mine. His granddaughter, sister of my friends had come to spend the night and be with my grandmother.
I got into talking to her about the super-natural, though I don't remember how we ended up with that subject.
She told me of an incident involving her older brother Imran and his friends. They were driving in a van one night in the outskirts of Karachi. They were passing by an area full of thick shrubs and bushes where they spotted an old woman searching through the bushes. Seeing that it was late at night with public transport closed, they offered her a ride home.
The woman turned towards them and seemed to hear their offer and moved towards the van. As she came closer the men noticed something awkward about her: Her feet were pointed backwards.
In Pakistani mythology, a woman with her feet pointed the opposite direction is a witch.
Seeing this, the men quickly shut the van's door and tried to speed away. But this "woman" caught up to the speeding van and grabbed on. Next thing she was banging on the windshield and dug her really long, sharp nails into the van's surface.
The terrified men tried increasing the speed, but it seemed to do no good and by this time the "woman" was screaming violently. The men then recited an Islamic prayer from the Quran, and the screaming witch's nails snapped, causing her to fall off the van.
Early in next morning the men found the outside of the van scratched with a bloody nail still dug deep into the metal skin.
During the summer of 2002, I was on summer holiday in my home city of Karachi in southern Pakistan.
During my father's childhood, his parents adopted a son called Ibrahim. A few of Ibrahim's grand sons had become close friends of mine. His granddaughter, sister of my friends had come to spend the night and be with my grandmother.
I got into talking to her about the super-natural, though I don't remember how we ended up with that subject.
She told me of an incident involving her older brother Imran and his friends. They were driving in a van one night in the outskirts of Karachi. They were passing by an area full of thick shrubs and bushes where they spotted an old woman searching through the bushes. Seeing that it was late at night with public transport closed, they offered her a ride home.
The woman turned towards them and seemed to hear their offer and moved towards the van. As she came closer the men noticed something awkward about her: Her feet were pointed backwards.
In Pakistani mythology, a woman with her feet pointed the opposite direction is a witch.
Seeing this, the men quickly shut the van's door and tried to speed away. But this "woman" caught up to the speeding van and grabbed on. Next thing she was banging on the windshield and dug her really long, sharp nails into the van's surface.
The terrified men tried increasing the speed, but it seemed to do no good and by this time the "woman" was screaming violently. The men then recited an Islamic prayer from the Quran, and the screaming witch's nails snapped, causing her to fall off the van.
Early in next morning the men found the outside of the van scratched with a bloody nail still dug deep into the metal skin.
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