When I was about 5 years old. I went with my mom and brother to Dufan . Dufan , which is located in Ancol , is one of the most popular amusement park in Indonesia. There are many rides which are interesting and thrilling . Because I was young at that time and I was not sufficiently tall. So, I only played in rides which were specifically meant for children. My brother was playing on the Hysteria ride where my mother was waiting for him to play. Tired of waiting for him, I went out on my own without my mother knowing. My mother , who was watching my brother at that time , didn't realize that I was gone missing. 
Without realizing it, evidently I had walked quite far from the ride where my mother was. 
I was frightened and started crying which attracted the people around me. Then , a security who worked in Dufan , brought me to the information centre . The information centre , where I waited my mother there , announced that there was a boy name David who lost his mother. My mother, who realized that she lost me, started looking for me. Then , my mother heard an announcement from information center about me. Finally , my mother came to the information center and pick me up.  

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  I met my 'oma de', who was my grandma's older sibling, and we talked about memories. Now, as some may think, this isn't scary, at all. Some people might even say that "it's a normal thing.". Yes, I know it's a normal occurrence, I know everyone has their time, but how can you not be sad when someone you love and someone who took care of you passed? There's not a day where I don't think about my grandma. Do I miss her? that's a dumb question, of course I do. But so does my mom and my other family members, and now I'm slowly trying to move on from this loss. Thank you for listening to my ted talk, yours truly, Jolinda.

Ok now stop promoting and let's begin the story, it started like any other island vacation where you rented a boat then had fun for the rest of the day. When we rented a boat it was a little bit sketchy. It is a bit like a fisherman boat but a tourist boat also. By renting the boat obviously it comes with a captain who has a very nice and positive attitude,it's kinda creepy. So one day like any other day we went snorkeling it was supposed to be a dive but the seabed was only about five meters and there's a lot of coral reefs so we went snorkeling instead, later i know that was a bad idea. Because it was only thirty minutes of snorkeling time, I didn't wear any protective clothing like a simple wetsuit so it was like swimming in nice and calm waters. So I was swimming and seeing the coral reefs where i took a dive then when i goes back up in ended up on the bottom of the boat and it was moving and i was behind the propeller so i kept swimming and panicking until the propeller eventually stopt it was for about 30 second keep continuously swimming with a  propeller sucking all the waters until it stopped so i went to the deck and  caught up abit of seawater and my nose and lungs felt burning for the rest of the day probably because of the salt. So That was my terrifying and exciting story about a holiday also by the way I swam with sharks the next day so yeah there's that.      

    

 

As a person of Thai descent I will go to Thailand whenever there is a songkran festival in April and visit my cousin there. This incident occurred in 2014 where there were protests everywhere so I was stucked everywhere, then I saw a truck carrying a scary statue. At first I didn't know what the statue was.  I asked my uncle who is a person who studies a lot about ghosts he said that it was a ghost from the Thai Malay tribe which was a statue sent from the Southern Thailand area. I headed to the temple in the area where my grandfather lived, which is a sacred area in the Ratchaburi area because that area is an area that has scary stories from time to time such as the Dark Age in Thailand, the Age of Khmer Massacre, the War with Japan and many more. another creepy thing. After 4 hours I finally arrived at the temple, the shape of the temple was very creepy and there were many strange statues and even an elephant in it, the place was very fragrant with flowers. The place was crowded with people from various regions and even many people who were Malay there. When I wanted to enter the quilt I had to walk for about 15 minutes because it was a big temple and when I wanted to enter the shrine I had to take off my shoes and bend my knees in front of a magnificent statue which is a sacred statue. I was given about 6 sticks and the ends were burned and someone recited a mantra in Thai. This story began when I watched the burning of a statue containing an evil spirit accompanied by several women dancing the khon (sacred thai dance) which all went well until finally there was a krasue statue which is krasue is one of the most powerful ghosts in Thailand. I still remember that the time to burn the statue took about 1 hour because it was very difficult to burn. When the statue was burned, it shattered into pieces and gave off an unusual ash. I still remember very well that the black ash was in the form of a head without a body and immediately approached the person near me. The man immediately went into convulsions and had an unusual expression on his face. He suddenly glared and spit out his tongue while crawling and he spoke ancient Sanskrit and Thai. Honestly the people there did not understand what he was talking about but everyone there was told to stay away and the bikhu came to handle it. I still remember that the bikhu brought an object and stuck it on the possessed person's forehead. Then my grandfather said he understood a little bit what the possessed man was talking about, my grandfather said he said "Khmer land, ancestral land, Spirit land". Until now it has been a nightmare for me.

Well, my experience is something connected to it. My parents used to take me and my sister to the mall on weekends. Usually, we (me and my sister) always stayed near with our parents. But, there is one thing that can make me and my sister slipped away from my parents. GADGET STORES!!!  Like, hey! We were kids and the gadgets can be played for free.  But, for some reasons, my parents stayed away from it, except in times of need.

One day, my mom wanted to have a portable charger or power bank. So, we went from one store to another to find the one with the best quality. We went to one store which seems very interesting for me and  my sister. So, while we were playing, my parents asked about the portable chargers available. Turns out, when we were still playing, my parents were done asking. They called us several times and I replied them. Because they thought I had realize that they were about to leave, they started to walk first. Well, me and my sister didn’t realize that so, a few minutes later  , when we turned our backs, they’re gone. POOF!!! We both panicked when we realized that. We rushed out of the store just to find that they were gone. We started to walk away from the store . First, we went to the previous store where they searched the device before. And, guess what?? They weren’t there. We got more panicked. WE started to ask the staff who served our parents before. Unfortunately, he didn’t know where they  either. WE went to the parking lot where our car is parked. Finally, the car was still parked in the same place. Well, there’s hope.

Long story short, we started to walk around the mall which is super huge and ended up very tired. We went to the front gate where we came in from. Luckily, there's a kind lady who escorted us to the lost center. A woman who works in the center welcomed us warmly and asked a few questions. Not long after the announcements, our parents came panicked. Turns out, when we searched for them in the previous store, they went looking for us in the store when we were lost. When we reached our car, we got grounded for wandering without their notice and no game for the week. I understood why they were angry so, I just took the consequences without complaints.
Well, I guess that's the end of the story,isn't it?
So, thank for all of you who reads this post. 
Later :D.

 

Last year, when I was 13 years old, I experienced the most frightening moment in my whole life. Bali is where it happened. Specifically, Legian Beach where I went with my family to go swim and have fun. At the evening, when the weather is nice and warm, we went there. The ones who went swimming were me, my brother, my dad, and my cousin who had arrived from Melbourne the day before. The rest of my family sat near the beach to enjoy the sea breeze. 

This terrifying experience happened when we were swimming in the sea. My cousin who is older than me, suddenly grabbed my arm and pulled me to her. She pointed to flags near the beach and that is the moment when I realized we were swimming in the area where we weren’t supposed to swim in. We immediately told my brother and my dad to go back to the shore.

 

We started swimming back to the shore but it feels like it was getting farther away from us. This is when we started to swim faster. We got dragged back into the ocean as more waves crash above us. We were caught in a riptide. I was getting tired and I feel like my legs were giving up. I was terrified, which rarely happens. Fortunately, my father swam over when he saw me struggling. I felt relieved when I wrapped my arms around him. I closed my eyes and swam as fast as I could. Then, I realized I was close to reaching the shore when I felt sand moving beneath my feet. 

We made it back. My mom, who didn’t know what happened, cried when we told her about it. She was scared we wouldn’t be able to come back and honestly, I was starting to think so too. We bought some roasted corn and coconut drinks which was very delicious and refreshing. After this experience, I started to feel scared when I get close to the beach.

In the last few months, which online learning began, I have had trouble sleeping. I find it hard to fall asleep even though it is already night, that is time to sleep. Even though Daddy,mom, brother and sister have fallen asleep, where in their respective rooms, I still can't sleep. If the whole house is asleep, when I can't sleep yet, I will spend the time waiting for sleep by reading, praying, playing with my hamster, whose my favorite pet, or doing diamond painting. But sometimes that activity hasn't made me sleepy yet.  And the thing that scares me the most and worries me is when I see that the clock has shown it's more than 2 pm but I can't sleep yet. If that happened then I would find my Mom, where in her room, and join her. It's my experience, that scared me.