The ghost in the playground - Real Indian Ghost story
This narration is about an experience i had during my
schooldays. I studied in kendriya vidyalaya which has got awesome allround
academic activities. Apart from studies my school also used to give importance
to sports and various other activities like scouting,nature club,readers club
etc. When i was in 5th grade i joined the scouts club as i was interested in
outdoor activites. And being a scout promised a lot of adventurous night outs
along with my friends, offcourse it used to be under the guidance of our scout
master ( usually a teacher from our school ).
There were exams to advance to next levels in scouting. It
started with, being a cub when you join and then later once you are in 6th
grade you become a scout. The tough levels used to start from 8th grade where
in you had clear a level called tritiya sopan, then in 9th grade it was rajya
puraskar ( rajya means state and puraskar means award ) and the ultimate award
for scout in india is rashtrapathi puraskar. When i was in my 10th grade i had
completed all the levels and was ready for rashtrapathi puraskar. That was a
tough 3 weeks camp where in we had clear levels individually and also as group.
We had tests on knots, lashings, constellations, compass reading, hiking and
trekking, first aid, cooking,other physical exercises and written tests on a
various subjects. In short it was a tough nut to crack. But i am proud to say
that the group of scouts from my school cleared these tests and we all became
rashtrapathi scouts. And got awarded the badge and appreciation letter from the
President of India. There were 14 of us out of which 9 were boys sand the rest
girls. We went to a place called trivandrum to attend this camp.
As i said it was a tough camp as the director of the camp
was a very hard taskmaster. So we had to be very disciplined and orderly during
the camp hours which was from 7 am to 5 am. After which we could do our
personal chores but didnt have permission to leave the camp. As i said the camp
was held at a school in trivandrum which was based in an indian army base.
There was a huge playground were
soldiers used to do parade and stuff, this place was given to us for tests and
other activities. We were to occupy class rooms in the school as it was summer holidays
for other children. I was glad that my best friend Arun was also with during
that camp. We used to have a great time pulling pranks and doing all sort of
crazy stuffs together. By the 3rd day of our stay we got accustomed to the nook
and corner of the campus. That night myself and Arun thought of pulling a prank
on Sarun who was a good kid but a loser according to us ( which i now know was
wrong, my apologies ). But we were wary of another kid Bhaskar who was our
group leader. So at night when all of them slept we played our prank to perfection
and to laugh out loud without disturbing the victim we snooped out of our room.
We had a good laugh and then Arun said, bro lets go out for a walk. For the
info of my readers the time was 1 am. I was scared to go out as there was no
proper lighting outside. But then i thought what the hell, lets go.
We both went out in to darkness and headed straight towards
the playground.There were stands for people to sit at one end of this
playground. So both of us went towards it and sat down and were talking about
the tests and the prank that we had
played on poor Sarun. There were huge neon lamp posts near to the place where
we were sitting and i could see a fair amount of area just it would have been
during the day time. But there were no lights projected towards the playground,
since that night being full moon and the sky starlit we could see kind of okay.
We would have been there for about 15 min or so and both of us were enjoying
the night, I suddenly saw a person in white dress or to be precise a white
human shape in the ground about 400 meters away. I got scared but then i
started wondering who would be standing alone and then i realized that i was
looking towards that place where the form is for about 2 minutes and it appeared
in a blink of an eye and i am sure if some one would have walked from either of
the sides of the ground i would have noticed. This thought brought shivers to
my body. I said to Arun in a hushed voice and showed him the person. He was
also shocked as he to felt the same as i had. Then to our further surprise the
form moved about 20 meters to the left all of a sudden and then again moved back to
the place where it was before. It was
like one second its in this place and then in a second it changed its place
and then back to where it was. I didnt have have to say anything to Arun, he
understood the scenario well and we both got up and ran back to our rooms. I
didnt even turn back to see whether the thing was following us or not. We both
were scared to our wits and slept off our terror.
Next day we both didnt talk about the incident at all. As we
both knew that what we had seen the other was not anything close to human. We
had our daily tests during the camp hours and then once the day was called off
by our camp director we both went back to our room. Then we spoke about the
incident that happened the other night. I said we need to inquire about this to
a local guy. There was this school gardener whom we had befriended the other
day and he was a local person. We went to him and i said about what had happened.
He said what we saw could have been a ghost as that place is haunted. India was
under British rule till 1947 and that place was used to torture and hang people
to death who had committed crime. Then later when India got independence, the
Indian army took over the place. He also said that there were many sightings
before and people have been harmed or
some times even been possessed by the spirits and we were lucky that we were not
harmed. We both couldnt say anything and we just stared at each other. For the
rest of the days in the camp we didnt fool around rather we concentrated on our
tests. Its been more than 13 years but
even now when i remember this incident a shiver runs through my body.
Thanks for taking time to write this story. I was very interesting!
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