bhoooot!

Bachaaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aspine chilling cry awakened the sleeping inmates of boys hostel no I in a december night.Too weary of all the daily chores some of them dragged their way through the corridor to peep below in the dark ness from where the sound seemed to have come.

In the fog what could be seen was a commotion in front of chakraborty's canteen ,where the busky voice of chakraborty was resounding!"kita hoiche!bolen bolen!"And so on!In a frenzy we rushed to the spot to find !!!!!!!!

The most quire appearences i have ever seen.our greaaaaat! SPP(ekhon londone thaki!)was holding hard to the huge belly of chakraborty (pressing against his huge one)and shivering bitterly !only thing that we could gather was one word that slipped out of his dry and trembling tongue!!!!!!bhooooooooooooooooot!!!!!! bachaaooooooo!!!!!!!!

All of us looked very much shaken in such surroundings specially in the midnight such thought itself is very frightening indeed!

But a distinct naughty and mischievious smile hung to the lips of the four dhamakians who seemed to have found it rather amusing indeed!

After all had recovered from the initial spate of horror, the dhamakians chose to retire to their respective rooms.But spp was inconsolable ! None could persuade him for coming back to the same grip of terror thats still fresh in his mind! So what was so horrifying!? Well, back in his room, the sight was indeed curious. Two bundles of fire was seen hanging on both sides of the balcony facing the woods near the hostel!!!!!!!!!!!! on lots on keen and precise enquiry it was known that one local witch!(called :thola ray)had given the bundles to spp to protect him from those evil spirits(pishach)that were troubling him of late in his room! Very frequently, as spp was fast asleep in his room ,bones of dead animals kept flighing in his room and buckets full of blood!!!!(Actually kumkum from tinali) kept being splashed in his room, giving him a very horrible time! he had tolerated all of these and as soon as the owl shreiked near his balcony he would shiver in mind(pecha pecha ! bacha!).You could find him knocking some inmates door often at midnight requesting a refuge for the night!if asked , why r u afraid!he replied, aaaa nana ! Aami bhut bhoi pai na!asole eka achi to! tai! his naughty room mate also never came to his rescue and he kept on decreasing weight in his tummy day by day! Suddenly one day there was a proposal from his roommate and other in mates, which seemed to be a remedy to him! planchetteeeee!!!!!!!!

In that horrifying evening, all six of us gathered around a ghostly lamp on a table. Whole room was dark as hell! In front of the trembling stature of spp all of us were trying hard and fast to keep the supernatural spirit appeased, (so that he doesn’t become blood thirsty!)of which spp had appeased us many times of.! The medium being roommate of spp, was very anxious to invite the spirit within himself! And to our horror and? (?Pleasure)the spirit arrived soon after showing a series of teeth at spp and growling in a inanimate tone!" youuuuuuuu!dareeeee,touch my shadow!!!”(Dear readers! bhoot doesn’t have a shadow!) this silly mistake was even over looked by spp as he prayed for mercy to the spirit. Severely sweating out of fear. one of us had

to continue the conversation on behalf of him and pray to the spirit to know what was the remedy for this anger of his!Somewhat appeased at our sincere prayers the spirit seemed to be little cooled down (the medium was getting tired of acting) and he demanded a feast from spp as the fine for his misdeeds (which misdeeds? I couldnt understand till date)The feast was to be arranged at hostel in the dhamaka block itself! spp (known to be a great miser)at once accepted it and prayed for mercy !!!!!!!So, mercy was granted after the final order of the spirit! the feast should havae "payas"in it! ssp agreed immediately and started preparing for it.So the day had come for all of us! the whole dhamaka block was overflowing with enthu and pious endeavour of spp who was in the best of his form with a mark of sandalwood paste(tika) on his forehead ! we were all gathered for the kirtan party and our tantrik AD was busy recording all the sounds possible from the event!(luckily for spp there was no mobile camera and the digicams were not so cheap otherwise we could have presented a video show on it!) "however the recordings in the cassette of AD are still there in the name of "abhisopto ratri" and to say the truth, spp had totaly been under the spell of bhoot ;so much that he was indeed very sincere regarding the kirtan and all of us had enjoyed the feast that night at dhamaka! We had so many feasts after that but this feast was to be remembered for ever after for all of those who have seen it! Anyway the culmination of bhoot was no smooth for us bcause being afflicted by spp's fear for the bhoot some one of our seniors had broken the news to him about the whole event! And dear readers! Ssp had vowed since that date that if ever my or DR s.p (his room mate)'s children came under his claws in any medical college of india he will never allow them to pass in their life time. I tell you my dear friends i am still afraid of spp for this cause bcause he is supposed to be back from abroad after getting a huge wealth, and who knows may achieve a very important position in the medical faculty in our state! Then the time has come for us to hide from spp, both us and our children! Anyway it was great sharing those days with you. And I would heartily apologize for any left out and if i have hurt anybody in the course of this funny episodes,