The Mysterious Old Man

My name is Jack and I am 16 years old.I live ina luxury house with my mom and dad and one older
brother.Our house is in a lonely place.The road is on the front and there is a small forest behind.

One night I was getting ready for bed.I turned off the lights and was just getting in the bed when I
noticed an old man walking on the dark road without any lantern or any torch.At first I got scared but
then I thought maybe I am seeing things because I was tired and sleepy.And I ignored that incident.

Weeks went by and I totally forgot about what happened that night.But then one night I had a
plan with my friends.It was decided that first we will have a nice dinner and then go watch movie and
then head home.The only one with a car was me.So I had to pick everyone up.We went to a good
restaurant.We had a wonderful time and dinner.Then we went to the theatre.The movie was
awesome.Now I had to drop everyone home.But everyone said that it is getting late and it would get
dangerous returning as anything could happen.Instead we planned that we should stay at someone's
house which comes in the way.Luckily it was my house.So everyone planned to stay at my
home.Everyone was so tired that fell asleep real quick and so did I.

In the middle of the night I woke up as I heard a strange noise from outside.I went to the window
in order to see.When I saw outside I got frozen to the point for what I saw was that same old man which
I saw weeks ago.Again without any source of light.I wondered that who is that man and how can he walk
so well in this dark?So I woke my friends up and made them look outside the window and that
mysterious old man.Everybody including me gave the opinion to go and check what was going on.So we
grabbed the torch which I had in my room and went out.At first it was a real help but then when the
battries got low it got as worse as it was good earlier.But we really wanted to find out about that man.So
we continued to follow.We had to tear up our eyes to walk but we were really surprised and shocked to
see that old man walking so well.One of us whispered that "How can this oldie see so well in this dark
when we can't".And that made us tremble even more.Our hearts kept telling us that we should not go
any nearer to that oldie.And that is when we realized that that old man was going to turn around.We
were so scared that our hearts were in our mouth.When he turned we saw his face,and we had to
control our screams.there were blood patches all over his face,his eyes were red and had dark circles
around them.He asked that "Where do you go to get to the graveyard?" we told him the directions, and
were just about to ask that why does he want to go to the graveyard but the he turned again and said
thankyou and we fainted as we were really scared.
 In the morning,when we woke up our parents were there to get us.We saw the old man's bloody
footprints.Seeing that we got real sick and had terrible haedaches.After two to three days when we got
better we went to ask someone about that strange old man and we were told that once years ago there
lived a man with his daughter who he really loved but then one day he got news that his daughter died
in a school accident.He was so sad that he commited suicide.And from that time his soul walks at night
and asks everyone the way to the graveyard where his daughter is buried.We told our parents the story
and asked them to change the house as soon as possible.we did not really wanted to but we had no
other choice.And now whenever I remeber that incident my heart skips a beat.

CONTRIBUTED BY: ALEEZA RAZA ZAIDI

AGE:12 YEARS OLD

CLASS : 8

SCHOOL:BEACON LIGHT ACADEMY

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ISPHAHANI ROAD,KARACHI.

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