Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-32720314-20170730023233

I had recently heard of a story from my mom about a troubling event that had occurred to my grandmother many years ago. For some background, my family comes from Pakistan with me being the only one born in the good old USA. My grandmother on my mother's side is the only one of my grandparent's still alive. My great-grandfather created the village in which my grandmother currently resides in the province of Rahim Yar Khan. The actual incident happened in the province of Faisalabad.

It was the late 1950's or early 1960's and my grandmother had gone to visit her parents who were living in Faisalabad at the time to prepare for her marriage. She was around 20 at the time that this incident happened and very excited because she would soon be married and her life would be wonderful. She had been wandering around the village visiting local stores and enjoying herself thinking about her future not suspecting that anything could possibly go wrong.

My grandmother was outside for a while and realized that it was getting late. It was around midnight when she got home and there was no issue getting inside. When she entered she saw what appeared to be a woman putting something around the walls which wasn't odd because there was another family that lived in the house and they would often walk around at late hours. She thought nothing of it and promptly went to sleep.

In the morning at around 6-7 AM, my grandmother was appalled to discover that there was blood on the walls. In some areas, it had just been completely random as though a person simply splashed blood on the walls but what was really disturbing was that there were markings/symbols on the wall too that were clearly deliberately made. There were also some words written in Urdu which stated, "The Devil is here" 3 times. The symbols included some shapes such as randomly drawn circles but the only symbol that stood out was one of a skull that was half detailed and the other half rushed and partly missing the bottom of the skull. My grandmother screamed and her parents came in and were just as horrified and disgusted. They never found out who did it but her mental instability was apparent.

The house was cleaned up, my grandmother got married, and she moved with her husband to Rahim Yar Khan where she's still living a fine life. She stated that this was the single most terrifying event that happened to her and to be honest, I am not at all surprised.



   