Scary Encounter

A Story by Neetu Mathew

I am someone who could be easily scared but I have someone in my life who doesn’t get easily scared so I feel safe. I know well I should introduce myself first so my name is Mia I am a software engineer and I love creepy stories and easily get scared reading them so for the benefit of my family I usually avoid such things.

Now this is something which happened few years back. Me and husband as usually came back from work had dinner and sat together and started watching some nice movie not a horror movie mind you... then my husband has this annoying habit of getting up in between the movie to get a cold drink or go to washroom or just simply irritate me as he couldn’t watch a movie in one single stretch it annoys me to the core. But any who he as usual paused the movie and went to washroom. I stared checking my updates on Facebook suddenly I felt a movement on screen I looked at the screen but nothing I thought I started imagining things again and continued doing my Facebook…again I felt the strange movement on screen from the corner of my eyes I felt like a big face appeared and as soon as I saw the screen its nothing, but the scene where it has been paused…I started to question my senses and also felt creepy…and stared at the screen for sometime nothing happened and I continued what I was doing again I felt I saw the face and jumped on my sofa…suddenly my husband came in the room and got startled at the sight of me jumping like that and asked me what happened but due to fear of humiliation I said "no just wanted to scare you".

After that we finished watching the movie and went to bed but I was still feeling creepy…next morning we got ready for office and as I was closing the door looking at my fish tank telling good bye to my fish I saw a distant reflection of something like a hand waving as if gesturing bye and I saw my fish all gathered together at the bottom of the tank as they do when they get scared and where looking in the same direction. Again a chill ran in my veins…but my husband called and I went with him…after reaching office I got busy with my daily tasks and forgot about what happened that day, since I had to work late I stayed in office for long and asked my husband to go home without me…after completing my work I headed to my home…I rang the bell and my husband answered he was sleepy as usual…he said he crashed on the sofa…I went in my room to change and I saw that my blanket was used as if someone slept there and every morning I make my bed before going to office. I asked my husband if he slept on the bed and he said he didn’t even go to bedroom since he came home which was justified as all his stuff where in the hall…then I asked him how come the bed is in this shape he said may be I forgot to make bed which could be true I thought and continued my chores…as soon as I did all my work suddenly my husband called me in shock and I ran and asked what happened he said one of our fish is not moving he even tried poking the fish but it was very still…we took it out still nothing it died it seem but we where unsure about the cause as we maintain our fish tank very well…it was getting creepy for me when I was linking the incidents…

Again I ignored. Next morning the same thing happened while closing the door I saw a reflection of a hand and the scared fish…this was making no sense when we came back another fish dead but the night before we changed the water cleaned the fish tank then how did this happen…we were very sad and I was scared…I thought of discussing this with my husband telling him what I have been feeling…I was expecting a laughter and new jokes made on me but on the contrary his face was serious and kind of surprised…as he told me that the other day when I didn’t come home with him he was watching a movie on the laptop and when he paused to check his wats app he felt he saw a face on the screen and when he checked there was nothing this happened thrice and he has also notice the reflection and the scared fish…but he told me another unusual incident that as he entered home he clearly remember he didn’t switch on the kitchen lights but when he came to open the door for me the lights where on…now at this point we both shared the same feeling…..we tried to find out if our neighbors by any chance felt these odd things but they never did or may be they didn't want to share…after a week or so these things stopped suddenly and we till date have no idea what happened that week and we rarely talk about it anymore but sure it was a chilling experience for both of us….