Bhoot

NOTE: This story is based on the author's fiction. It doesn’t apply to any historical references or real-life incidents.

2010

NEW DELHI, INDIA

That day, in the car ride app to meet his first customer, Kapil was waiting in his car. Recently, he was fired from his job. Since he had no job, he now needs money. The whole day, he was waiting in his car in all directions, but he got no customers.

Like this, the time went by, and he thought he was wasting petrol without any reason. No one is going to come here after that. He went to close that car ride app on his phone and left for his house. At that time, he got a notification.

In a forest area near him, a few distances away, a request came to pick up a lady there. Kapil felt that the place was quite sketchy. But there is no option. Since he definitely needs money now, he accepted the ride.

Now, by accepting the ride to her location, with the GPS tracking, Kapil drove his car. When he went, the path led to an isolated forest without any traffic. Since it was nighttime, he drove the car by looking around.

After he went for a while in his car headlight flashed, and he saw a girl standing a little far away. He thought that this must be the girl and drove near her. But when the car went near her, the girl went far away. Now, from the original pickup spot, after she went a little away, and in one place near her, Kapil drove his car.

Kapil checked whether the photo on his phone and the girl were the same. After that, he opened the passenger seat window glass near him and asked, "Madam, Is your name Siya?”

At that time, the girl stopped walking. When he looked at her, the girl looked like she was in a confused situation. To Kapil’s question, she just nodded her head like she was Siya, and Kapil also opened the door. He asked her to come and sit inside the car.

That girl also opened the door slowly and sat in the passenger seat. Now Kapil also formally asked how she liked him asking everyone else. He started his car from there. But Siya, without answering for any of that, was just looking at the road straight. Also, with her hand, she continuously scratched her neck.

After that, she started searching for her dress and finally started to speak.

“I think I lost my mobile phone, and my bag is also missing.” After that, Siya looked at Kapil and said, “I didn’t remember booking a car.” Kapil opened the car ride app on his phone, showed her photo, and asked if she was not the one.

For that, Siya said, “It’s me.” She said, “I don’t remember anything, and where am I now?"

Kapil asked, “What are you doing here now?”

For that, Siya said, “I took a shortcut to my home, and that’s the only thing I remember.” Hearing this, Kapil started becoming highly suspicious. He saw that Siya’s eyes were fully red. He thought that she was fully drunk.

“Should my first ride be like this? If this girl faints in the car, what should I do?” Kapil took the water bottle from his car and gave it to Siya. He asked her to drink some water. When she looked into the bottle, she was shocked. Siya screamed and threw the bottle away.

Seeing this, Kapil thought that something was wrong with that girl. He was definitely sure that something was not right.

Now Siya said, “Sorry. I don’t know why I did that. But I will drink that water for sure.” Kapil saw all this while sitting in his driver's seat.

The bottle fell under Siya’s leg. To take that bottle, she bent down and took it. At that time, Kapil noticed a shocking thing. Both her feet were turned in the opposite dire

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Seeing this, Kapil lost control of the car for a second. He was very shocked, and after that, only he realised that the girl sitting next to him was a bhoot.

In North India, the soul of a person who recently died is called a bhoot, and the leg of the bhoot will be turned in the opposite direction. Not only that, it’s legs will be floating and not touching the ground. (Most importantly, it was afraid of water.)

"Definitely, this girl must have died a few hours ago. That’s why she couldn’t realise that she was dead.” Kapil thought that she was confused. But before that girl realises that he should escape from it, He thinks that he should make her get out of the car.

Kapil, with one hand on the steering, took his other hand near the water bottle that he had in the car and the cap of the bottle. He slowly opened it without the girl noticing it.

When Kapil was doing this, Siya was scratching her neck. She opened the vanity mirror before her and saw the face. When she saw her neck, she started screaming.

Hearing the sound, Kapil turned to his left and saw Siya’s neck. It looked like she had a lot of blue wounds on her neck.

The next second, her facial expression started to change totally. Her eyes totally changed to dark black, and she started to scream loudly in anger. Immediately, Kapil took the water bottle in his hand and poured the water on her face. Instantly, its face started melting, and it was screaming very loudly.

In the next few seconds, the girl was not in the passenger seat. She just disappeared. Kapil just got his life back, and he could hear his own heartbeat beating faster. He thought that he should never use the car ride app again. His hand on the steering wheel was shaking, and he heard some noise in the tyre.

He made his car steady and started to drive. Now only he was riding on that road. Immediately, he marked his house on that map and started going that way. After going for a while, suddenly in his rear-view mirror, he saw something bright. It was the headlight of the vehicle coming behind him.

He started driving his car fast, thinking about who was coming close to him like that. Because the light from the vehicle behind him will not affect his eyes. But even then, the light of the vehicle was very bright.

While driving the car, Kapil adjusted the mirror down. When he adjusted down, he saw in the rear mirror a scary face with two black eyes staring at him.

FEW DAYS LATER

Meanwhile, the driver, Adhithya, who was coming behind Kapil’s car, said in later days to an investigating police authority, “Sir. Kapil’s car forcefully went and hit the transformer near the road, and before he died, he died brutally. I saw something in his car, and it did something to me. It was the reason for that accident.”

But when Adhithya and the police authority went inside that car and saw only Kapil’s dead body. The next morning, a few kilometres away in a place where Kapil picked Siya, police found Siya’s dead body there.

EPILOGUE

Persons who are driving your car at night, be careful whom you are picking up. It is said that it might be bad. It is not a real story. It’s an urban legend. The urban legend story means the ghost spirit in our areas like that. In each country, according to that country, there will be separate ghost stories. Recently, a Serbian dancing lady urban legend went viral on the internet like that.

So readers. Comment your opinions without forgetting. Comment down on how you felt about this story. Did you feel scared? I will meet you in my next story. Bye.