The cane that drew the Ghost away.

This was when i was in a hostel during my school days.

On my very first day i was told that one of the dometaries was haunted. And as i hurdled up the heiarchy of classes, in two years time I landed in the notorious dometary (Dom). Me and my dom mates took the extra precautions. We bought our beds closer to each other. We made sure that the torches always had charged baterries. The odd ones also had pictures of Dieties posted in their cupboards.

Then one of us had the sighting. While going to the wash room late in the night he saw faint white figure resembling a women on the other side. He was terrified and ran back. I still dont figure out how he was able to control the urgent call till sunlight. But his next visit to the loo was only in the morning ant that too not alone.

Soon he wa not the only one who had seen the presence. Then came my "Day of the encounter". I dont no what woke me up in the middle of the night and with rubbing eyes just looked around. And there it was. Just near the cupboards, thirty odd meters away i saw the white thing. I did not know what to do. I was shocked to a state i could not describe. And doing what a pigeon would do i covered my self with the sheet and started my prayers. I did not know when i slept off.

We talked a lot about our distress and the word spread and somehow reached the house warden.

So one day on the notice board came a message that the boys who had had the sightings to assemble outside the mess after dinner.

A proud bunch of us were there. Then came the warden."Bend Down Every one". A swing of cane on each one of our bums. (the instant pain that a cane gives you cannot be described you have to be caned to know how it feels.)

But after this there were no more sightings, no more stories, no more ghost talk. As days passed by we even became brave enough to go to the loo alone at night.


Guess what the cane drove away the ghost (from our minds)