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The Foggy Pines—1
The Foggy Pines—1
Four college students and their driver were travelling on a montane road. On went the car with its bright headlights in the dark and gloomy atmosphere during sunset. However there was no sun to be seen as the mountainous road they were on and the pine forests on either side were enveloped in a dense thick fog.
At 17:40 hours, the car came to a halt with a screeching sound. The driver, Sher Singh Tamang a Gurkha disembarked from the car to take a look at the engine. He found that there was no visible damage to it and could not account for the sudden stop. Even after half an hour of trying, the engine refused to start. The driver made a guess of their location and speculated that there was a village 500 metres ahead to which he would walk and return with a mechanic he knew.(Drivers in the mountains know mechanics in every other village) Before the petrified students could protest, the driver disappeared into the fog leaving them to wait in the car.
It was completely dark by then and a very damp sort of a cold. The students huddled together for warmth. Then a man suddenly came upto the car from the dark fog, wearing a shawl and a cap, got into the driver's seat and prope
lled the car forward. One of the students, thinking he was the driver asked him how the car had started strangely now in one go without the help pf the mechanic to which there was no reply.
On repeating the question, the car was stopped and the 'driver' looked behind. It was not a man, it was a monkey with such a face that may be attributed to the Devil himself, with scars all over, gleaming red eyes and fang-like teeth. They screamed in terror and the intense shock.
Sher Singh, returning with the mechanic, found the car in its place and the students, with their eyes closed shrieking their heart out for two minutes or so. Petrified at what was the matter, the driver and the mechanic cautiously went close without a word and found them all gone mad. After calming them, they realized that it was merely a nightmare coincidentally seen by all of them together after falling asleep in the car and they, having cooled down were only too glad to believe that but they were unaware of the fact that two gleaming red eyes were watching the six of them from the top of a nearby pine tree through the fog. After all, is it not odd for four people to have the same nightmare?
