The Haunted Room 22B

“We Hide in the Day

And Dance in the Nights

We Sing with Pain

And Scream with Joy

We

Are The Spirits of The Night"

                                       

 Room no 22 B, 20 kms away from Siruseri, Chennai

Sathya: You believe in ghosts?

Lucas: Me, no way, is there any proof of ghosts? they are just fantasies machi.

Sathya: hmm, absence of proof is not proof of absence, it should be 3 am in India now, what are you doing still awake

Lucas: he he, working for your US client, just finished an On-Call da, I am literally a ghost now, so stressed up, going to booze

Sathya: Idiot, just go an sleep

Lucas: ok machi

Sathya : Ghost dreams

Lucas : ha ha

Signing off.....

Lucas played on Mozarts 40 th symphony. Took the whiskey from his refrigerator and poured into a glass. The eerie silence of the night accentuated the whiskey drops filling the glass betwixt the melodies of Mozart's symphony. Adding to that was the howling of the dogs, they suddenly seemed to remember their wolf origins and decided to be their original selves

Tut tut tut 

Tut tut tut 

Who is that? 

       

Tut tut tut

Tut tut tut 

 Which filthy pig disturbs me at 3 am? 

(Stops music)

(Opens door)

                                                              

Dai what happened? 

Why did you give me 18 missed calls?

You scared me to hell

Lucas denied, denied with anger and fear when Karuna, his colleague cum friend showed at the door and showed him the message sent from his mobile.

"MACHI COME IMMEDIATELY TO MY HOUSE, VERY URGENT"

Tut tut tut 

Tut tut tut

The same tappings on the door continued.

It was December and cold. The winds turned eerily musical.

Lucas went to the door. Opened it, turned back to Karuna nervously

"Nobody is there da"

The door shut itself with a bang.

Tut tut tut

Tut tut tut

The sound continued

Scared, both of them moved to the bed.

The laws of gravity suddenly failed to be consistent.

The lights went off and on.

The TV switched itself on and played "The Conjuring" movie. 

The ceiling fan moved in inconsistent speeds.

Lucas's laptop booted itself.

Lucas and Karuna saw the keys punched by air and heard the scariest keyboard tuk tuks of their life.

A Notepad opened itself and "THEY" typed-

Hellooooooooo

The cursor blinked as if waiting for a response.

Lucas's hands were shivering. He approached the keys to reply but his fingers were too trembling to touch them and make meaningful words.

THEY took control,

Don't worry, 

I can see you shaking in terror.

Speak we can hear.

The cursor blinked again.

Karuna was speechless in fear. He looked stoned. Lucas gathered his courage and asked

"Wwhooo aaree yyyouu?"

THEY took control

 They typed "WE ARE THE SPIRITS OF THE NIGHT"

We want to play a game.

THEY opened facebook, logged in

 

Karthik Manohar

 ********

THEY went to the album Me and my best buddy Sri.

THEY navigated through the 14 photos in the album one by one. 

Karthik and Sri are/were close buddies since childhood.

The album showed photos of them together very happy and brimming with the warmth of friendship.They were all smiles.

At photo no 13 THEY stopped. Looked like they got very emotional . 

Karthik and Sri were tutting their heads and grasping each other's shoulders and laughing. And the background of the photo was very familiar to Lucas.

It was Room no 22 B, their own room.

THEY typed

That's us when we were humans. We led a happy and normal human life until the spirits took us

Each time they finished typing and the cursor blinked, the poundings of Lucas's and Karuna's heart increased.

The cursor blinked for a long time.

THEY typed -

The spirits love this game. 

They chose us to kill you.

They love the number 2. We two to kill you two.

Lucas and Karuna shook in terror on seeing this and screamed.

The room was almost sound proof and the scream went in vain.

The dogs howled louder and louder. The winds blew stronger. And Mozarts sympony started playing again in the background.

THEY signed into youtube and typed "The last moments of Sri and Karthik"

A video marked private opened up

It was Sri a BPO employee who died an year ago along with Karthik, sitting in Room no 22B having a party together.The music paused.

************************** VIDEO STARTS*************************** 

Tut tut tut,

The same sound played in the video

The same acts followed

Laptop opened up, keys were punched ,

THEY typed

Helloooooo

The cursor blinged

THEY typed 

The spirits love this game 

They chose us to kill you

They love the number 2. We two to kill you two

THEY logged into facebook.

They showed an album, Murali and Nagaraj - best buddies for life 

THEY signed into youtube and typed "the last moments of US - Murali and Naga"

A private video opened up.

Mozarts sympony was played in the background.

Sri's mobile camera was capturing all the moments in the background.

Sri and Karthik were trembling in fear and pleading the ghosts.

THEY typed

The Game is on

It's our turn now

You will get your turn.

Bad bye Sri

Bad Bad bye Karthik.

Bad Bad Spirts we are

"We Hide in the Day

And Dance in the Nights

We Sing with Pain

And Scream with Joy

We

Are The Spirits of The Night"

                                       

************************** VIDEO ENDS *****************************

THEY closed youtube

THEY typed

 

THE GAME IS ON

Its our turn now. 

 You will get your turn.

Bad Bye  Lucas

Bad Bad Bye Karna

Bad Bad Spirits we are

Lucas's mobile camera had been on capturing the digital ghosts moves.

Lucas and Karuna were tortured and murdered.They joined the Spirits of the Night and they all sang.

"We Hide in the Day

And Dance in the Nights

We Sing with Pain

And Scream with Joy

We

Are The Spirits of The Night"

                                       

1 year later...

Lawrence: dai I found a new room listed on findyourroom.com

Kalyan : where da

Lawrence : Siruseri da, near our new office

Kalyan : ok will call you 

Tut tut tut

Tut tut tut

...

Helloooooo

We Hide in the Day

And Dance in the Nights

We Sing with Pain

And Scream with Joy

We

Are The Spirits of The Night