Boarding School Ghosts Stories: Hysteria

An experience of mass hysteria.

From time to time, seniors come to our room and borrow our manhua and read and few time, they chat with us. This is one of the story being told then. 

The story goes that years before we enter the school the ethereal fence set up by the religious teacher and the witch doctor nearby was broken. It happen due to someone in the school broke the rule(having to do with sinful acts). 

The seniors who was also learning malay martial arts told that their teacher upon opening the arena for Silat to practise has already told them that there are too many ghost near the fence than he usually saw. because the ethereal fence were there, the silat teacher just didn't bother and continue on with the practice.

So it happen that the events unfold at night time, around midnight to be exact and it started at one of the girls dormitories. Usually the girls sleep with the door closed but didn't locked it for easy access to the toilet etc. That particular night, right at midnight there was knocks on the door. it started slow but quickly become louder with what it seems like there are a number of hands knocking on the door. The girl closest to the door yell to just come in and the door is not closed. but the knocking sounds persists and it woken up almost everyone in the dorm. 

Annoyed and angry the girl closest to the door, get out of bed and cursing as she goes to open the door. As she yell "Woii" and at the same time opening the door. She felt a sudden gust of wind straight at her. It was so cold that it send chill straight to her spine. So cold that she has to hug her own body and bend over a little to keep her body warmth. That is all that she remembered and told to my seniors, the rest of the night was total blank to her. 

For the rest of the dorm occupants however it was the start of their nightlong nightmare.

The knocking stopped when the door is open. the girl on the top bunk bed of the one who opens the door saw through the event as it unfold. She felt the sudden gust of wind, not as strong as the girl who open the door but it was indeed cold and gave her an unearthly sensation. Despite the annoyance of the knocking subside. The silence that came with the door opening is eerie. In the few minutes of silence she saw the girl in front of the door, hugging herself and bend forward, little by little. Through her cloth she saw something grew on her back. Then the girl in front of the door broke the silent saying to someone to get in and address them as child. 

It was the weirdest voice she ever heard. it sounded old and sounded coarse. the girl in front of the door then turns around walking in favor on her left leg and slightly dragging the right. her back arched and with her back showing like a hump she was literally like a hunchback. The lighting from the corridor through the opened door weren't any help either. her face was dark her voice sound old, the cloth on her was ragged even though she could've swear that the girl did mention to her just night before it was a new pajamas her mom give her during one of the visit from her parents.

She was scared of her, scared of her bunk bed friend she known for the past years. A thought cross her mind that It was no longer her friend. It was something else. 

She quickly pull up her blanket over her face, trying with so little movement as to hide herself and shield her from what happening. God knows how hard her heart raced, how many line of the holy Quran she read that time. She was scared and the blood literally left her making her pale and cold. The chill that night was never like any other she had felt.

Suddenly her bed rattled as if somebody shaking it then joined by some more people shaking it. she let out a small shriek. And felt like there are small children climbing onto her bed and started jumping. the bed sounded loudly through out the dormitories. Then Another bed were shake and jumped on. then another and another, Joined by the screams of the girls in the dormitories. 

She remember being shoved out of her bed and fell down onto the floor. She looked at her bunk bed and saw nothing but it was shaken violently, so as all of the beds in the dorm. Screams and cries were loud within the dorm, with she herself joining to scream for help. 

To her fear, her friend who open the door are just beside her but her face were distorted, her head a bit slanted and was swelling with yellowish boils on her face. And through all that she saw a slight grin on it face. Then It looked down at her.... The red eye were the last thing she remembered that night.

Everyone In the dorms were scared and jumbled up at the far end of the dorm each trying to get behind someone else. it was a total chaos and screams exploded everywhere. The beds were shaken and some fell onto other bed making the clanging of the bed metal frame ringing all around them. right in the middle of the crowd a girl fearing for her life to the unknown horror she now faced, saw the far end of the dorm where an old lady with a hump standing calmly throughout all this. her cloth tattered and another girl, one of her friend in fact lying right next to the old hunchback lady. Yelling for her lying friend to run away. She saw the lying girl stood up with a craze and started to screamed back at her. 

Her friend then run towards her. Scared and fear for the worst, she try to dug in deeper to the heap of the girls all around her. It was then her crazed friend turn and grabbed the bunk bed right closed to them. It was unearthly and she did not understand, how her small framed, petite crazed friend can shake and lifted the heavy bunk-bed. 

She froze there already out of air from her lung from screaming, her knee were barely supporting her body and she was shaking uncontrollably from the fear. and then a few of her friend in the group fainted, she was able to catch one of them from falling to the floor. she never remember her friend were this heavy. supporting her friend made her sit down. it made her felt powerless. 

She felt tears rolling on her face. Her throat sore and no more voice came out. looking at her fainted there were knots forming in her stomach. She wanted to run away. Her fainted friend suddenly opened her eye and giggled a little. then stood up pushing her hard that she shuddered back. A shove came from behind her from a knee of another girl pushing through the crowd to pass her. The crowd were broken apart by powerful shoves. she hears giggled and screams all mixed together. The giggling girls were with a crazed face, running to the bunk beds and joining to shake them violently. 

She was scared and sits there hugging her knee looking into the chaotic room in front of her. A whisper were ringing in her ear asking her to join in the fun. It was an old woman voice. She cries and looking around the room trying to find a way out.

To her relief, one of her teacher, a female warden wade through the dorm and drag her on her feet all along with a few of her friends out of the dorm to the fields just downstairs. she helplessly follow with all her might and weak knees. Outside, to her fears, looking at the dorm building, all hell broke loose, screams and other noises strewn with dorms lights were on and off, as were being played around. The sky was still dark and she felt dew on the grass where she sit, looking around she noticed there were teachers, warden and her male seniors and some from her class.

Slightly relieved to be on safe ground, just before she fainted from her exhaustion, through the corner of her eyes she watch as a handful of the male seniors join the warden to go in the dorms. 

Story went around saying that there the ethereal fence were weak due to it has been years since it was set and there was some student climbed the fence out back to went to the nearby town for the weekends. the student stupidly think it was a good idea to take a leak at some of the trees outside the school. This angered the spirits and they broke the ethereal gate surrounding the school. The girls dormitories are attacked or flooded with the spirit are because there were girls pads and some dirty blood there. It makes sense because it happens on the weekend and the trash bin are not emptied on weekends. the clean up worker works on weekday.

The seniors tell us that that were the biggest hysteria ever happens there.