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Soham Mondal

Children Stories Horror Action

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Soham Mondal

Children Stories Horror Action

The Foggy Pines—2

The Foggy Pines—2

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The red eyes gleamed from the heights as Tobgey and Jigmey walked on the road, almost concealed by fluttering prayer flags that were meant to scare it away, on which it was first seen by the group of four college students.

It had been months since that first sighting and the apparition had been seen by many in similar circumstances of the car getting unnaturally halted, the local people and tourists alike refrained from using the road after 4 pm. Several locals appealed to the lamas at the Lava Monastery to bring a solution to the situation by constructing a stupa or something and Tobgey and Jigmey, two young Lepcha lamas with tremendous courage were sent to investigate and select the location to construct a Stupa. They were not interested in listening to the conspiracy theories of tourists—that it was the Kala Bandar or Hanuman ji—and took upon themselves that they were to help the person or monkey or spirit (whatever it was) as it was clearly suffering from some kind of problem that was compelling it to act so strangely and frighten the wits out of tourists.

The reached a spot and sat down on a large stone by the road for a little rest. The apparition saw that and thought it prudent to look face to face and eye to eye to the monks and scare them with its terrorizing face. 

This plan turmed out to be a failure—the monkey came in front of them, looked at them face to face with its gleaming red eye

s and growled fearfully, which had absolutely no effect on the monks. It then tried of rotating its head 360 degrees which too had no effect, then it started jumping up and down and flapping its hands like a bird followed by screaming at the top of its voice a frightening part-man, part-monkey, part-demon voice—all of which proved futile. Tired thus, it collapsed on the road panting and looking defeated, saying in Nepali, 'Why aren't you scared?" 

Jigmey replied, "Because we did not want to be scared." Then they uttered several verses and discourses of the Buddha followed by some spirit-scaring mantras of Guru Rinpoche and the apparition fell asleep.

The next morning it rose in the Monastery courtyard surrounded by many monks, young and old. Its face was completely changed—it was just like a man. Actually, he was a Nepali poacher who had illegally tried to enter the Neora Valley to kill and get hold of animal skins but his demonish plan could not be carried out as he was possessed by an evil spirit. Now, after his return to being a normal person again, he vowed to give up poaching and even confessed his previous deeds. An old monk by the name of Tsering Rinpoche, one of the highest ranking lamas in the area explained, "The good and the evil spirits lie inside each and every person's body, it is the person's actions or karma which decides which spirit becomes the dominant one."



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