The Helping Ghost

Alex was driving in his car outside the city to reach his project site for a very important client meeting. He was driving at the maximum speed he could and was in a rush to reach the meeting place. Soon on the way, he saw that the road ahead had very low visibility as it was filled with thick fog. Alex slowed down his car so as to see the road ahead properly and not go in the wrong direction. Fifteen minutes passed by and still Alex was driving slow due to the fog. Suddenly his car sputtered and came to a stop. He was trying hard but was not able to start the car. He started shouting for help but all in vain as there seemed to be no one nearby. Even his mobile phone couldn't catch a signal for him to call anyone.

Just as he was about to lose all hope of reaching the meeting in time, a young man with a peaceful grin on his face knocked on his car window and said, “Brother do you need any help”. Alex first got surprised to see the young man suddenly appearing from nowhere in the dark lonely road. But he promptly said “yes, yes, please help”, and elaborated on his situation that he is getting late to reach somewhere where his presence is very crucial.

The young man then smiled and said, “Some year back, he also got late in reaching a place, but now he always reaches everywhere in time like he reached here to help him”. Alex giggled, but found the words of that man a little strange. Soon the sweet, but the strange man opened the car bonnet and started repairing it. Alex couldn’t see him, but he started talking to him. Alex said that he is very kind, and no one helps a stranger these days and then asked what he was doing there alone at night, Is he works or live somewhere nearby and what his name is? The man didn’t answer anything and just asked Alex to restart the car. Soon the car got started, but Alex found something strange, the car bonnet was yet opened. Alex got down from the car to at least say thank you to the young stranger for his kind help but he found no one outside. Alex already had gotten so late for the meeting at the site that he didn’t even care much about the young stranger and left the place.

The next day when he was returning back home, he got shocked and frightened to see the place where his car got breakdown had nothing except a graveyard.