Road into the woods

it's a true incident which had happened with me and my friend.

It happened 8 years ago, when we went to Delhi's most haunted place "Delhi Cantt"

Delhi cantonment, a well-known place in the capital of India, is haunted! It is said that most of the time, a revengeful spirit of the lady clad in pure white sari asks for a lift. If people don't stop their vehicle, she starts running with the same speed and reaching after them. If you stop the vehicle you are vanished (this is what locals say). More than 1000 of people have seen that lady. Some people say she often tries to make them nervous and horrified. Even she knocks the door if the cars raise its speed too. And some local people say the lady doesn't harm anyone but she looks for something on the road. With these strange incidences, that area becomes one of the scariest places in Delhi.

In order to know the truth, I, Danish(a friend), Kabir(elder brother) and Shobhit(cousin) went to Delhi cantonment. We carried some baseball bats with us, not because of that lady but yes to protect our self against thugs and goons who could loot us because the area is full of green lush trees and dense forests.

We were very excited but Danish was scared and didn't want to go there but finally we convinced him. We had heard of all of the stories of the lady clad in white Saree and we wanted to see if they were true. Guys truly speaking we didn't find any lady in the woods but what we found was fucking horrible. A little while past midnight, we get down from the car and stepped in to the woods in searching for the vengeful lady. It was about 2 in the morning. We were exited except Danish, he was feeling uncomfortable and wanted to leave the place. He looks at me and says..

" yar wapas chalte hai kuch ajeeb sa lag rha hai" ( Dude, let's go from here, feeling something bad). We said "ok you go back to the car, we will be back soon. Then he left the woods and waiting for us. After walked 1 or 2 miles in the woods, we heard groans of something. We thought maybe it was a dog or cat, suddenly Shobhit saw someone jumping from tree to tree. He screamed " Sid I saw something there, please leave this place right now. We couldn't ignore him at this point of time because he is the guy who loves to visit haunted places or enjoys real ghost stories. I and Kabir decided to go back to the car where Danish was waiting for us. We were on the way suddenly we heard laughter in the woods. Now this was the time when we all were scared like hell. We started running than I stumbled on some bones (maybe belongs to any animal). I started freaking out some more thinking paranoid thoughts about how we might die in the forest. We ran around desperately I started to see things. No straight up ghostly apparitions....but a few times I could have sworn I saw somebody standing next to a tree but when I looked back there was nothing." Finally we reached to the place where we parked our car, we get in the car but wait where is Danish??? Where is he? We started calling to Danish but his number was not reachable, May be network issue (trying to convince myself that everything is fine).

Kabir: My networks are fine.

Shobhit: Mine too.

We all were in the car and thinking about Danish and those things which just occurred with us. We were scared I could see fear on their faces, especially on Shobhit face after all he saw someone jumping from tree to tree. We locked our car, and waiting for Danish. Were we scared of thugs or goons?? Or it was the fear of that lady?? But our first priority was to find Danish. After 10 or 15 minutes we saw a figure coming out from the woods and it was coming to us, we couldn't see properly because of darkness. We hold our baseball bats very tightly and ready to attack..." Hey" it's me. That was Danish.

Sid: Where were you? We have been trying to calling you for last 15 minutes, but the number is not reachable.

Danish (with smiling face): Went to pee.

Sid: come-on get in the car, we have to go now.

Danish sat in the car with the same expression (smiling face).

Kabir (while driving): why is he smiling?

Shobhit : I don't know.

Sid: why are you smiling? Did you know what happened to us? We heard mysterious noises in the woods. Are you listening or not?

Danish remains quiet and smiling and continuously looking into the woods.

After sometime we reached on the main road, where we could see other vehicles.

We felt comfortable now but Danish was still giving the same expression and looking out of the window. It was about 4 or 4:30 in the morning, we decided to go to the Sheeshganj Gurudwara to have koyle( coal) wali chaye( tea). Suddenly danish shouted "no I won't go there, stop the car and let me go ". Guys this was the first time when he refused to go Sheeshganj Gurudwara. He often use to go there to have "koyla tea". But he refused this time and asked to leave him alone.

Shobhit: what happened to him? He was not like that.

Kabir: He must be tired.

Sid: hmm I think so..ok we are not going there. We are going to home.

Again Danish gave us the same smile and looking out of the window.

"God knows what he was looking at"

Finally we dropped Danish at his home. After we reached our home, I , Kabir and Shobhit was discussing about the things that happened to us.

Shobhit: What was that thing who was jumping from one tree to another tree.

Kabir( in funny mood): May be that was a Witch.

Sid: Shut up! That could be a monkey, but truly speaking, I was scared when I heard laughter in the woods.

Shobhit : True. I was also scared.

Kabir: Are you still thinking about that lady? And please don't say that you guys believe on those stories. I was scared because I was feared of robbers.

5:30 a.m- they both slept.

I didn't sleep... I was thinking about Danish, what happened to him?

Why was he smiling? Why was he looking outside? To whom he was looking at? Why he refused to go to the Gurudwara? All those things were bothering me.

Somehow I slept.

Same day, 11.30 a.m.

I got a call from Danish's sister, who were literally crying, she asked me to come her place. I rushed to her house. I asked her what happened. She said "something happened to Danish, he is behaving like a girl, he wore my suit and used my mother lipstick on her lips. I asked her what Danish is doing right now. She said "he is sleeping now, but when he came to home he took my suits from my room, I was praying that time but I was surprised to see him, so I went to his room and check what he is doing. I asked her what you have seen. She told me that Danish wore my suit (kurti and pajami) and was dancing like a girl. I shouted at him, so he started laughing and shut the door. I was trying to understand what's going on than I heard someone is crying and the sound was coming from Danish room but that was not Danish, I was scared and ran downstairs to woke up my mom and dad, when we knocked his door, he didn't response so we broke the door, he was lying on the floor, we entered to his room where we saw a painting on his wall.

Let me tell you guys, he is a good painter.

I asked her to take me to his room.

As I entered Danish's room, everything was messed up. But what I found there was fucking horrible.

He drew a painting on his wall which shows..

A car with the speed of 50 km/hr( 50km/hr was the only number which he has wrote in the picture) and I remember last night when Kabir was driving with the same speed. That was the average speed( 50km/hr).

Secondly he drew a lady who's running swiftly with the same speed.

That means Danish was the only guy who saw that lady. Was that spirit chasing us last night?? Or just she was chasing Danish? That means when we found Danish last night and asked him to get in the car and he was contentiously looking outside into the woods that means he was looking at the lady who was running with the same speed of our car but only Danish could see her.

I remember, while running last night I saw somebody standing next to a tree but when I looked back there was nothing.

What was that? Was that Danish??

After one week Kabir also told us that he had dream about the lady who was chasing us that night.

Danish took 6 months to become normal.

All these things show there is something in the woods. Or the story we had heard was true.

Spirits have their own world, they also want peace like human. But when someone enters to their world, they started haunting them, as we did. I never actually believed in ghosts, maybe because I have never had any experience, but this incident has changed my whole perspective of the paranormal.