Bushra Alkurbi

Mystery of the Crystal Ball

On a cloudy, gloomy day, I was on my way to my little cabin that I

inherited after my grandfather passed away. As I was on my way, coming back
from work, I saw this shadow slipping away from my front porch, but I did not
assume much about it since I was pretty tired and sleepy. When I reached my
front porch, I saw this box neatly placed in front of my door. Even though it
looked like an ordinary box, it had this eerie aura surrounding it that made me
feel uneasy about opening this unknown and strange box. I was glancing
around, trying to see or even take a glimpse of the person who dropped this
foreign box at my front door. At first, I thought someone may have dropped this
bundle at the wrong house since it took place a couple of times, but when I was
examining the box a bit more since now I'm closer to it, I saw that my name was
written on a note at the top of the bundle in capital letters and unsteady
handwriting saying,
ENOLA, FOR YOU...
I quickly started feeling this uneasy feeling growing again. As if someone was
watching me, I turned around to eye my surroundings, and once again, I found
nothing to be the source of causing this uneasy feeling.

I entered my home, carrying this mysterious box with me. I sat on my couch,
staring at nothing in particular, not knowing if I should open it or throw it out
and go on with my day as if nothing had happened. I noticed the room felt cold
even though the fire I outset was fiery; it was as if this box in my hands could
cause this cold, uneasy, and eerie feeling to roam my room. I decided that I
should rest since I just came from work, and I feel pretty drained from herding
sheep and goats, taking care of cows, and feeding bulls. I put the box on the
table in the living room and went to my room to take a very well-deserved
goodnight sleep.
 In the middle of the night, I felt something crawling up my leg, and I
woke up startled, breathless, and heaving for air as if someone was choking me
in my sleep. After I calmed down, I thought about heading to the kitchen to
drink a glass of water. While drinking water, I felt this presence behind me, but
when I turned around, I found nothing......My heart quickly started beating
harder and faster, I felt my lungs constrict, and I felt my heart hammering in my
ears because the box was open when I left it untouched. I stepped gradually
toward the tilted package and found a piece of paper attached to an even smaller
box. I sat on my couch, held the piece of paper between my fingers, and started
reading,

Enola, this is a very precious piece of our family, it passed from generation to
generation, and now, it reached you.....
-Sincerely,
your aunt
I don't have any aunts...? My father told me that all my aunts, there are three of
them, died in a tragic incident, and I never ever met any of them; they all died
before I was even born; then...then how? I put the piece of paper down, clutched
the box in between my hands, and opened it to find........ a crystal? It was
spherical shaped, and it looked normal. I took the crystal ball out of the box and
held it between my hands. I started rolling the ball in my hands, just looking at
it, when suddenly my body froze, and my eyes just kept looking at the ball, and
my gaze never wavered from it. Abruptly, this demonic face appeared in the
crystal, smiling so creepily, and my body started heating up as if it was boiling,
I tried screaming for help, but nothing came out. I was screaming in my head,
HELP SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE when I felt this strange and anonymous
force sucking me in towards this dangerous crystal. There was this strong voice
in my mind laughing at me and then saying, pathetic humans,
suddenly.......everything turned black.