MORE Things That Go Bump In The Night ...

This post is basically a follow up to my earlier ghostly posting. When I first posted things that go bump in the night, I never realized that there were so many of you bloggers out there with paranormal stories of your own and I was thrilled (yet frightened out of my pants ... LOL!) just reading all your comments on your own experiences with the supernatural. I guess no matter who we are, where we come from, we all have at least one eerie encounter to haunt us.

Anyways, let me get straight to the story telling :) This incident I'm about to relate happened to both me, my buddy Adrian and another friend. A couple of years ago, the three of us were coming back from out of town. It was a night trip and we decided to not use the highway (we were cheapskates and didn't want to pay the toll for the highway) so instead we used this old back road home. These roads are just single lane roads with not much to practically non existent road lights. Towns were few and far between and it was mostly covered with jungle on both sides expect when nearing the towns.

So there we were chatting away like we always do on our drives (well Adrian and me anyway, the other friend was nicely snoozing away in the back seat completely out of it), laughing and taking a slow easy drive home. The weather was fine for driving, the moon was out, the crickets were chirping, the wolves were howling (ok, I made up the part about the wolves ... LOL).

Then all of a sudden somewhere along the drive, I said, 'hey, do you smell that?'. I smelled some kind of sweet floral scent. We have an old wives (the poor wives are always blamed for this ... LOL!) saying here, that if you do smell sweet smelling scents at night, do not acknowledge it. Just keep it to yourself. I think it's rumoured that if you acknowledge it, the bloody ghost is gonna pick on you :) My buddy just gave me this glare and said, 'will you shut up.' (He's as much a coward as I am). Mind you, the time was around 11.50 pm or so (I checked!). So, we kept quiet about it and continued chatting, then a a couple of kilometres down the road, just after a sharp left curve, I saw this dark figure lying flat right across the road. My buddy saw it too at the exact same instant that I did.

Ok, I need to get in a short description of the surroundings here before I go any further. We in Malaysia drive on the left hand side of the roads and oncoming cars are on the right. This road was just a single lane road with oncoming traffic on my right (but there was hardly any traffic on the road at this time of night). There is not much runoff space on both the left and right side of the roads. It was basically covered with jungle both sides.

Back to story. This figure was lying across the middle of my side of the road and I was totally taken off guard by this as it was immediately after a sharp left corner but the moment I saw the figure, I instinctively swerved to avoid running over it. This is where I have to thank whatever gods there are out there. By nature, when a driver tries to avoid something in his part, he will instinctively swerve towards the area with more run off space. For me, the best option would have been to swerve right, onto the oncoming traffic lane (which was so open, inviting and practically empty at this time of the night) but instead I swerved left to avoid the figure and ended up bumping our way across grass, rocks, pebbles and whatnots just to avoid the figure!

The moment I managed to control the car and get back on the proper lane, there was this huge petrol tanker coming up on the right side of the road! Can you imagine that. If I had swerved towards the empty right lane, I'd have gone head on with that huge tanker at 100 kmh and I'd be writing my blog from heaven (then again, maybe hell ... hehehe) What of the figure you may ask.

Immediately after the near fatal miss, I slowed the car to a crawl, and both my buddy and me looked back to check on the figure but to our utter amazement there was nothing on the road! The figure couldn't have been more than 200 metres from where I slowed my car but there was nothing there but empty road. Even the tanker driver didn't show signs that there was anything lying on the road by continuing to speed along on his way. But till this day, we both swear upon our lives that we saw a figure lying on the road! We couldn't both be imagining the same thing at the same time, even while swerving the car earlier I know I caught a glimpse of the figure through my peripheral vision but now the figure simply vanished into thin air. There was nothing but jungle on both sides, so he couldn't have been a drunk from any outskirt town.

By this time, we were both visibly shaken and our other good buddy who had been sleeping blissfully in the back seat had woken up from the rough bumpy avoiding maneuver that I pulled earlier and asked what was going on. We related the incident to him right down to me smelling the sweet scent earlier and he said that probably by my acknowledging the scent (he's a firm believer and renowned expert in all things eerie) whatever evil out there decided to latch on to me. And apparently, according to my friend in the back, we were probably meant to have collided head on into the tanker. It was probably a 'dirty' place where some previous accidents had happened in the area and the place is basically haunted by whatever 'lives' there scouting for victims. I don't know what overcame me to swerve to the left but I'm not going to question fate.

Boy, was I freaked out by then. The next thing I knew, I was speeding my way out of there and trying to find the nearest entrance point to get on the highway. I wasn't going to stay on that back roads one second longer than I had to. Glad to say, we all made it back home safely from that incident. I seriously believe that what we saw on the road was something supernatural. I know for a fact that I saw it, my buddy saw it but we both cannot recall if it was really a figure of a human being or something else. All we know is we saw something lying across the road. (Btw, we were both sober, well fed, well rested and totally sane at the time of the incident)

It still freaks me out to this very day and I've avoided the back roads like the plague nowadays, especially after hearing many more stories regarding eerie stuff going on on those roads! How many of you believe that ghosts do try to get victims 'joining' them. How many of you believe that evil picks on the weak (like me ... hehehe). How many of you have eerie incidents like these? I'd love to hear about it.

And Barrett, I'm looking forward to your ghostly encounters posting :) Don't keep me waiting too long buddy ... LOL!