I was going out of town for a week with my cousins and family, i remembered that it is 4 PM and the place is cold since we'll be staying in the hills where a small complex we will be staying with my cousins and family for harvest tomorrow. If i'm not mistaken, the date is probably 10th of November 2017 and we come over to celebrate my uncle's harvest. My cousin and i followed my uncle and father on our first day to uncle's field for further inspection on the plantation there. When we arrived it's all calm and green with the jungles arround. When they start inspecting, my cousin and i were looking around the cornfields and potato fields since we'd like to see if there is a potato ready in case if my uncle instructed to harvest some early.

While we were having a walk ast the cornfield, we arrived on the end of the field my uncle owns and infront of us is a jungle, luckily it's not dense and the looks of the forest is not creepy or unsettling, my cousin said we should have a little walk there, which can probably ended up badly in some way. Suddenly a farmer that works for my uncle showes up and said: "Hey don't wander off to the jungles all by yourself ! Don't even go there". And my cousin asked why not ?" then the farmer said: "rumor has it the forest has spirits, who knows which spirit you will encounter, so stay out !" we nod and head back to where my uncle and father were before before returning to my uncle's house. On the second day, we returned to the fields again to harvest. When we start harvesting the corn, my cousin felt something on his left arm and he shake his left arm since he is alarmed by the sudden feeling, turns out it is a spider. A small, grey spider with bits of grey hair on it's body, i laughed hard on him because of his panicked face, he pushed me a bit and we get back into harvesting. After we are done we get back home to my uncle's house and have a dinner there. My cousin start to act odd, he seems to lose his appetite and hard to sleep at night. The next morning i asked what happened and he told me that he walked towards the jungle and saw a boar that somehow made noises at him as if he is mad or harrassed, the boar charged at him but he throw the boar a big corn right to it's head, leaving only the boar to eat the corn and he escaped, trying to hide the story from my our uncle or my father because it sounds silly. I chuckled a bit before he said: "i also seen some strange and fading figures in the jungles when i came by to step on a mound, they look scarry, one has an old dirty clothing and the other has a robe or some sort" and unlucky we are to hear our uncle talk about the jungle nearby, he said some farmers say something about sightings of boars, dark coloured snakes, and even strange human-like noises during night time coming from the forest, and to make it a lot worse my father said that the whole disturbances occurs when a spirit is present or nearby. He said spirits are attached to animals that often have more active activities in the night, or maybe nocturnal animals. My cousin cowardly said: "i don't know dude, i don't want to get into more troubles". And i respond back: "dude, grow some balls...it's better we tell this now than having nightmares in later days, so come on" and he decided to confront my father and he told him not to do it again. "You're lucky that you told the truth just in time, some are unlucky to have nightmares or even encountered a paranormal attack if you do swear or say a bad word in the forest randomly" said our uncle's assistant.
Then the next day we arrive again just to visit the jungle and go over to the mound he stepped on along with some local villagers, we unearthed the mound and found some human skeletons with some parts are still decomposing, my cousin said an apology and a prayer for it along with me, but i gave the corpse a pray of rest in peace. The villagers then burry the decomposed body to a suitable cemetary in the village and gave it flowers and water it with flower-infused water to "quench it's thirst and bathe the dead". When on our way back, we felt a cool gust of wind and my father said to us: "feel that ? It's a way the spirit thanks us for our deed, some spirits haunt the living and terrorize them because they disturb their rest, while some spirits are lost and confused in the living because they died by others not by natural causes, and some even have an unfinished business with the living, seeking justice and vengence to those who took their life and left their soul to wander in the place.

We were glad to know that this spirit is a lost and confused soul that is burried under a mound, it is said that this people were couples that are lost in the storms that gotten them lost and eventually got them freezing in the storm and died together to the ground, some specualtes that the ground burrying them is probably from a small landslide from the high steep hills and the land must be burrying them, since there are reports of a landslide on a steep hill nearby about 2 weeks before we got to my uncle's field. Whatever it is, the poor souls must have been lost and confused in the forests and their appearance in the area terrified the locals and misunderstood them for angry spirits, thankfully we put them to rest in a better burial site and gave them relief of refreshment. My cousin then start to feel normal again, and we return home to town happily knowing that everything went back to normal

Me and my friends always went there on the weekends, the same time every Saturday and Sunday we would head straight to the playground and play all sorts of games chase, hide and go seek, cops and robbers, even brought our bikes there so we could race each other around the park, it was quite a lot fun for a while, that is until we found ourselves bored over the monotony of playing the same games over and over, so one day for the hell of it we started walking along the chain link fence trying to find out where it ends as we thought it only kept on going forever and ever, we were little kids mind you, so our imagination lead us to believe the wall was infinite, and it honestly seemed like it did as we kept on walking till it was almost sunset and found no end to the fence. 

We suddenly stopped walking when we found a huge opening in the fence, it looked as though it was cut open by someone, the opening looked to be large enough to fit a grown man, as we were examining it, we decided to head back as we heard our parents calling out to us, telling us it was time to go home as the sun was setting, so we all agreed that we should come back here and check it out again next weekend and so.

A week past and we went back to the opening in the fence, as we re-examined the opening we noticed a pathway leading into the dark dense forest, the shades the tree casted blocked out almost all source of light making it hard to see what was ahead unless you were to go in yourself, a huge breeze blew past us as we continued to stare and we felt a chill ran up to our spine and we almost decided to run back to the playground but oddly we didn’t instead as a second breeze past us and we could hear the voice of our parents telling us to come into the forest, almost as if were in a trance we obeyed, and we all proceeded to walk into the pathway leading into the forest.

As we entered the forest, we could hear the whisper of our parents grow louder and louder as we kept on walking and walking further in, following the pathway. We began to see flickers of light amongst the trees and translucent limbs growing from the crevices of those very trees we walk past, for some reason we were undeterred, we were too focused on following the whispers talking to us with our parents voices.

We surprisingly manage to regain our consciousness when we found a strangely built cabin, the foundation of the cabin was tilted to the side as one end was sinking into the ground while the other was pointing outwards.

The Door to the cabin suddenly flung open, and somebody or something walked out,  it looked like tall grizzly old man with a butchers knife held in one of his hands and what looked to be a severed thigh in the other he stared at us with his blood-shot eyes, our bodies shook with terror as we noticed there was a gaping hole from his chest, bleeding profusely unto the ground soaking it with his blood, he took a step forward and it was at that moment that we gathered our bearings as me and my friends decided to bolt back to the pathway that had led us there, continued to run and run, the whispers we heard along the pathway before turned to screams of desperation, begging us to come back using our parents voices again, but we were able to shake it off and continued to dash towards the opening that we came through and out as we then proceeded to continue running in the direction of the playground where we reunited with our parents and cried into their arms .

We tried telling everyone what we saw, but they all brushed us off telling us it was nothing but our imagination. I don’t know what we saw, but one thing for sure, we will never set foot near that park ever again, for fear of what drew us into the forest, would call for us again, and should it ever do so, we would not be able to escape like last time.

I dreamed of meeting her, whether she or I gave the name. I called her *W. We were very close back then. If I’m not mistake, I always played with her in my old house. But due to my school, sometimes I forgot about her existence. Sometime when I felt sad, angry, or even happy, surely I’ll always tell her about it. When I think about her, I felt relieved. Like, she always accompanied me everywhere, even though I forgot about her existence a bit. But over time, I became scared of her, Because there are so many incidents happened around me. I fet someone trying to hurted me. But if i think again, that is certainly not her action. It’s ridicilous if something like that can harmed me. I told to myself that she’s a very caring person, and accepting me for who I am.

But over time, I no longer felt her presence. From a time I was little until now, Her name will always in my mind. Though now I still remember her.

- Putri.

There is one experience that cannot be forgotten from my mind. It was December, after the Christmas celebration in the chapel. For information, my big family has a schedule to gather in Yogyakarta every end of the year to celebrate Christmas together. In December 24, we were ready to celebrate Christmas Eve. The chapel we would go to is located in the foot of Mount Merapi. 

The Christmas Mass finished at 9 pm, after giving Christmas greetings to everyone there, we all went home to prepare a dinner on Christmas Eve. After dinner we did not have any more activities, but my cousins and I had prepared some additional programs so that after dinner we would not get bored. This program is not known by adults, because we want to give a surprise. The program that we prepared was gift exchange, mini games, and watching movies. The mini games consist of several parts. One of them is that we have to walk around the house only with a candle, like a test of courage. We think that is a fun experience. But this courage test didn't happen because there’s something disturb us. 

In our way to go home, we were on a road that was really dark, there was no street lighting such as street lights or people's houses. Our left and right are snake-fruit gardens. We used 2 cars and the car we were driving was in second place. The only lighting that can light the road is a car headlamp. During the trip went home, we were joking, I was sitting in the back seat, and my cousin was in second seat so my cousin had to look back so we could play. In the middle of the game he suddenly fell silent, at first we didn't pay attention. But, until when we were home, he just told us about it. 

He saw an old man walking across. He crossed the street from the right garden section to the left garden section. The old man brought 🤬 and baskets to bring snake-fruit. His face was covered by a thick white beard and wearing a peasant hat. The shirt is white and wears black trousers. His eyes were straight and carrying quite a lot of snake-fruit. 

After heard the story from my cousins, we cancelled the tour around the house with candles. So until now no one knows that at that night there was a courage test event that didn’t happen because of something that cannot be forgotten. 

One day, when we were playing together, my brother’s friend told us that there were ghosts in our house. I was shocked because I did not know that he can see ghosts. The fact that there were ghosts in my house also explained some incident that had happened in our house about three weeks before. At first, I did not believe him. But, after thinking for a few minutes, I thought that it is also possible. He told me and my brother to go into a room and lock ourselves inside. He gave us an explanation and what I get from him is that he wanted to hunt and capture the ghosts. So, my brother and I locked ourselves in a room and waited for him. 

In about an hour, my brother’s friend returned and told us that he had captured 2 ghosts. One was a little boy, and the other one was a teenage girl. He put the ghosts in a plastic bottle and put the plastic bottle in one of our unused room. He said that there were still a few more ghosts in our house. Unfortunately, it was already late at night by then. So my brother’s friend had to go home. I was scared and could not sleep because he said that there were still a few more ghosts. 

A few weeks after that day, everything went back to normal. The rest of the ghosts in my house remained uncaptured. But, there were no more incident after he captured those two ghost. I felt more comfortable knowing those ghosts were captured. But, what made me felt uneasy is that the plastic bottle which contained those two ghosts were left untouched in that room.

          On Sunday, I got very tired after played with my friends at mall. So I took a shower quickly and went to my bed. When I was sleeping, I got a very bad dream. I wanted to wake up but I couldn’t open my eyes.

            In my dream, I stood beside my dining table and I walked to my piano like someone called me there.  Suddenly I saw a woman on the stairs in front of my piano, staring at me expressionlessly on her face. I felt scared of her, so I went back to my bedroom. I pretty sure that I opened my bedroom’s door, but what I saw wasn't my bed room. It was a room with moldy walls, it was very dark inside the room so I closed the door again. I went to my living room and it was very silence there. I felt the nape of my neck. There was someone stood behind me about 200 meters but then I saw it and I thought it was a monster because I saw the fingers look very long and sharp. I was very terrifaid, so I turned and decided to run, but I wasn't at home anymore. I was on the road, but I still chose to run along the road. Suddenly I realized that the road became longer and it became narrow street where I couldn’t see anything. Out of the blue, I heard a scream, then I felt his finger on my back and it scratched my back. I screamed in pain and suddenly I woke up with a very fast beat of my heart. Then I felt the pain of the scratch in my back for few second. It felt very real.

            When I was out from my bathroom,  I saw a women that used pink colored clothe was walking down a stairs with her rounded hair. I couldn’t see her face because my bathroom was behind the stairs, I looked her back and her hair from a hole in my stairs. I was very curious so I went to the dinner room where the stairs was, but there was no someone on stairs or passed the dinner table. Suddenly I remembered a piece of my dream last night. After that scared moment, I decided to use my cross necklace and I prayed to God to bless and protect me.

 After I got up, my body is all sweating and shacking, I don't know why. My heart's beating one thousand miles an hour, and i tried to go back to sleep. And then i had a nightmare, I was chased by an evil women with a long hair and I suddenly woke up and my room became dark and i'm not the one who turned it off. And i was terrified and I wasn't brave enough to turn the lights back on, and i hear foot steps on the floor and the sound is getting nearer, and every parts of my body is freezing. Luckly, my mom opened the door and the foot step sound disapeared.

And everynight, I always sleep as soon as i can so that it couldn't disturb me and I the day after that I always beg to God so it won't do that ever again to me

By : Mario Sachio
XI MIPA 2

After i hear that i dare myself to check it but it was nothing  i continue playing game because for me the scariest thing is women

  

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The guy proceeds to slowly rub the lotion on his face as the whole class watches him in confusion.

The teacher asks him what he’s doing, and he responds with “I forgot to moisturize this morning” and puts even more on his face.

The teacher asks him to go to the hall to finish his moisturizing because he’s being a distraction, and after about 10 minutes he still hasn’t come back in, so someone opens the door to check and he’s still smearing lotion all over his face. He finally comes back in and hands the girl her lotion, and he’s used up half of it. Now people call him lotion boy.