《Short Ghost Stories》64) Nasi Kangkang (Dark Magic)
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Location: Sarawak, Malaysia
Sender: Lady J
Back in 2017 when i was a student, something happened to a friend of mine who was also my senior at the university. Let's call him Luqman. Here's some details about Luqman; he is one of the most soft-spoken guy i know. He does not get angry easily. In fact, he is a very jovial guy. Luqman has a long time girlfriend whom we all know. Let's call her Nora.
They had been dating for a very long time and shortly after they graduated, they got engaged. They were both my seniors by 2 years of age gap. After graduating, Luqman got a very good job and started saving up for their wedding. Luqman loves Nora a lot. I have never seen a couple more in love than them (this info might be relevant later).
Another relevant info; Luqman is pretty well-off. He lived in a mansion, at a gated community by the seaside. He got his own car too. He's like your typical rich guy. We're all very close to Luqman. Even though he had graduated, we would always find time to meet up for lunch and just keep ourselves updated with each other.
One day, Luqman brought this up at the meeting,
"They hired a new girl at the office."
Then one of the guys randomly searched her up and they were saying things like;
"She's pretty and she's single etc."
"I hardly ever notice her in the office anyways." Luqman replied.
A month goes by and we met up again for lunch. During this meeting, we saw that Luqman looked really tired.
"I hardly get any sleep because i have been having nightmares." he explained.
He didn't elaborate and we too didn't question him further. 3 weeks later, we met up again and we saw that Luqman's eyebags were very heavy. One of the guys nudged his arm and said jokingly,
"Why are you like the walking dead?"
Luqman actually snapped at him and the whole group was stunned because we all know that he has always been well-mannered before that incident.
He then apologized and explained that he's on the edge of a recent nightmare. So i decided to ask him about the nightmares because it's been close to 2 months since he mentioned them. I wasn't ready for the answer. He explained,
Sometimes he would wake up from those dreams and sometimes he would just experience paralysis where he's unable to move or wake up. Of course we were all freaked out by that!
"Did you update your fiancee Nora?" we asked curiously.
"Nope, i did not tell her as i do not want to scare her." he replied.
We then dropped the topic. 2 weeks later we met up again and this time, we saw that Luqman brought a packed lunch along with him. So we teased him,
"Wah, you're lucky to have Nora to always make you free lunch." as we knew they were engaged.
"Err.. no. This was made by my new colleague." he said.
"Huh? Why though? Why is she giving you a packed lunch?" we all wondered.
"Hmm... i think she's just being nice. I'm pretty tired from work so i guess this is her way to cheer me up. Don't think too much about it guys."
We were all shocked but since he didn't put much attention to it, we just brushed it off. A couple of months passed and we had barely meet each other because we were all busy with our own schedules. One fine day, when i was hanging out with the girls, we decided to open the topic about Luqman. We stalked his profile and suddenly, one of the girls just gasped and said,
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"Hey guys, look here. Luqman and Nora had removed each other from their social media accounts."
We didn't want to assume anything so we approached Nora for more details. She told us that Luqman dumped her and called off the engagement a few days ago.
"He became out of character and blamed his job. I suspect that.. he has an affair." Nora explained.
We found out that Luqman had been spending an unusual amount of time with his new female colleague and when Nora confronted him, he chased her out of his house! We were all shocked and we pestered Luqman to meet up with us to know what's happening. Just 2 days later, Luqman posted a picture on Instagram of him with his new female colleague and put the love emoji as the caption.
The following week, we met up with him for lunch. He brought with him again the packed meal and at that point of time, we grew suspicious about who made him the lunch. We asked him about Nora and he just told us that they were no longer contacting.
"She was getting in the way." he said.
He was giving us one word answers and didn't want to discuss much. So then we asked him about the girl in his new post and immediately his face changed! He suddenly got very excited talking about her, like how she's an amazing cook, etc.
"How long have she been cooking for you?" i asked him.
"Oh, it's been about 2 months. She's truly amazing!" he explained.
Apparently, this female colleague have been making for him packed lunch everyday. I raised my eyebrow and exchanged glances with the rest of the group. I also noticed that his eyebags were worse than before. We didn't question him further and just leave the conversation there.
A few days later, Luqman called one of our guy friends and he was being hysterical. He told him that the nightmares were driving him mad! Mind you, things were happening to him at any time of the day and when he called us, this happened in the late afternoon. Things were just starting to get very chaotic!
We all then drove down to his house and when we reached, we saw him sitting on the front porch with his head between his knees while rocking his body back and forth.
"You guys have to believe me. Please believe me. I feel like i have lost control of myself and i need help! I need help! Please i need help! The other day when i called Nora, i feel like i could not control myself. I didn't want to say the things that i said to her but i cannot stop it!" he shrieked and explained.
We knew that things weren't normal and will get worse so we quickly brought him to the nearest mosque. We got into the car with him and when we reached the mosque, we saw that the Ustaz was already waiting for us outside the mosque. This Ustaz is famous for driving out evil spirits from peoples' house and had even done exorcisms.
"I just had a feeling that something was coming." the Ustaz explained to them.
At that time, we didn't know that Luqman was going through a possession. We could not put the pieces together. The Ustaz brought us into a room and started questioning Luqman. Luqman described his nightmares and how he felt like he wasn't in control of himself.
"Do you have/know someone who wants to do evil to you? the Ustaz asked.
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"No, i don't." Luqman replied.
"Actually, you have someone in your life who is very much obsessed with you. This person had sent a jin (demon) to attach itself to you. This demon is the one that has been causing your nightmares. It makes you weak and to make this dark magic work, it comes with a physical attachment too." the Ustaz explained.
"I can help you by conducting the exorcism on you here but i need someone to go to your house and find the other physical attachment. This is one of the stronger dark magics so even though she cooked the (the one from your packed meal), it won't work without this other physical attachment." the Ustaz continued.
"Have you brought this woman back to your house before?" the Ustaz asked.
"Yes, there have been a few occasions where she came and cooked dinner for me." Luqman explained.
Without delaying, 4 of us drove back to his house while 2 other male friends stayed with Luqman at the mosque with the Ustaz. When we entered his house, we felt so sick like as if there was some dark energy there but for the sake of Luqman, we continued and stayed to find this mysterious physical attachment. We then stripped the house from top to bottom and mind you, there were 3 levels in his house. He lived alone for some personal reasons so we were like his only family there. We emptied all the drawers, the cushions and everything else. We even checked the toilet bowls but we could not find it. We turned the house upside down but we could not find anything!
We called our friend who was at the mosque and told him we could not find anything. The Ustaz pressured us, saying that the attachment was still there.
"You know what? Let's check the sink traps." another friend suggested.
We did and we found nothing again. By this time, we had been searching for it for over 2 hours. Then one of the guys said that we have not checked the 3rd floor bathroom so we went up to check it. True enough, it was there. All of us were gagging at it! It was truly a disgusting sight and the smell that came out of it almost knocked us dead!!
This was what we saw : in the sink trap, there was a sanitary pad that was full of blood. There were also nails, chicken bones and some strands of hair; both short and long hair that were wrapped up altogether! We suspected that the short hair belonged to Luqman and the long hair belonged to the female colleague. We then reported it to the others.
"Burn it, burn all of it! Burn it outside the house and do it fast because over here Luqman is already starting to get possessed." one of the guys explained accordingly to what the Ustaz instructed.
By this time it was already 6pm. Sunset in Sarawak is 6:30pm. We rushed down to the back of the house and started to burn it but for a good 15-20 minutes, the thing would not catch on fire. It was very dark around the house and because of everything that happened, we had forgotten to switch on the lights in the house. The physical attachment was taking its time to burn and at the same time, the lights in the house started to flicker altogether!
We were all clueless and didn't know what was going on. We're just following the instructions. All 4 of us were staring at the house and then,
"Guys, please tell me i am not hallucinating. Take a look at the 3rd floor and please tell me, you guys are seeing it too." i told them.
All of them froze! That means all of them saw what i saw! The silhouette of a woman on the 3rd floor staring down at us! Suddenly, one of the phone rang and it was the Ustaz.
""
What he meant was the demon was there! We knew for sure the same demon was the woman on the 3rd floor! The house was on full glitch, a demon on the 3rd floor and we were surrounded by darkness at the back of the house!!
We started cursing ourselves because we had decided to burn this thing at the back of the house instead of the front porch. Now we have to go through the house to get out of the house! The physical attachment had been completely burnt.
"Bury the ashes, then quickly walk through the house and leave. Do not look anywhere as you walk out. Just walk straight, get out of the house and come back here as fast as possible." the Ustaz instructed and as we called him, it sounded very chaotic in the background. Meaning that
We did as told and when we reached the mosque, it had already been closed to the public but at the same time we could hear Luqman getting possessed in it.
"" he was shouting at the top of his lungs.
Obviously we could not see what he saw and everything else was just so chaotic.
"This woman with long hair is covered in blood and she's shouting!! She's shouting!!" he continued screaming.
All the girls including myself were not allowed to enter the mosque until the exorcism was over. So we waited outside and finally after 8pm, we could enter. When we entered, we saw that Luqman was sleeping peacefully. That must have been the most peaceful sleep he had after months.
He wanted to make sure that the rest of us won't be bothered by the demon in any way. The next day, Luqman got his house cleansed and contacted Nora to explain what had happened. Nora was shocked to know everything and they had reconciled. A week later, Luqman got back to work and tried to find the female colleague to confront her but she wasn't there. She didn't resign but she just.. disappeared! For months after the incident, Luqman made all attempts to reach her but everything would end up in her voice mails instead.
It was as if she was wiped off from the face of the earth. Everything about her was gone. From her social media accounts to her personal files at work. One of my guy friends reached out to the Ustaz and asked him about what could have happened to her. The Ustaz explained that since Luqman had since resigned from his job, sold his house and car and moved to another state where he and Nora now have a son. We still keep in touch until today.
My advice to all is not to do/practice black magic as it always doesn't end well. Thank you.
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