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Tomb-sweeping-Grave Hill

Once a year

By Filipi KallhoffPublished 3 years ago 7 min read
Tomb-sweeping-Grave Hill
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Everyone has encountered something that is always unexplainable. The first year of junior high school when my grandfather died, grandfather was always the best ...... to me when he was alive because the family is Hui, so I and my father, grandmother, and uncle, in Eid time to go to the cemetery mountain to sweep the grave (Hui is allowed burial). That day directly to the cemetery mountain halfway up the mountain, the sky was raining, the sky is not good some yellow, not so say "people crazy have trouble, the sky yellow have rain". So my family and I are planning to get done as soon as possible to hurry home, it rained on the mountain road slippery fear of accidents. Perhaps some people know that the Hui tomb sweeping is to ask a good master in the mosque (imam) to go up to the grave before the mountain to read the scriptures, Dad himself said he went to the mosque not far down the mountain to ask the master, we are standing in place waiting for Dad. I was bored standing under a tree playing with my phone, the sky was getting darker and darker as if the rain was coming down, and Dad hadn't come back yet. Suddenly I saw a woman not far in front of me (tentatively called a woman, because I could not see only see is long hair), waved to me a hand. Although it is difficult to see, I have a feeling that the woman is very white, white some strange, but also can not say where abnormal. I just want to say anyway, bored to look in front, did not take two steps grandma called me in the back, said my father went so long, did not come back is not the wrong way. So we a line of 3 people walked down the road to see if my dad took a wrong ...... walk for about three or four minutes, and saw a person lying on his side on the ground by the roadside, a glance to see his dad. After we picked dad up, asked him what happened. The father said he felt a sudden chill, and then his whole body lost strength, and his feet slipped and he fell. At that time, I think it is not much, we went down together to find the master to take the master to the grave and read the scriptures. To prepare to go back when everything is very normal, just when the car I seem to glance at the woman again in our not far from waving, but a closer look and can not see any figure ...... back after the strange things happened, feel like they always forget things, obviously just keep reminding themselves in the brain, to remember to What are the things, the back will somehow forget all of them. And usually do not have the spirit to walk in the street, they do not know what they think. When I went out during that time, I could only ask one person to accompany me. Dad seems to have changed as a person, he used to love to drink, and from time to time he would fight with mom, and after drinking, he would scold me. However, during that period, my father stopped drinking, and quit very suddenly, as if he had never touched a drop of alcohol in a long time ago. There is also something strange at home, the sun is not very hot outside at noon, but it is also warm. But sitting at home will be a burst of cold. Later on, a friend whose family owns dog meat and rice noodle store mentioned that

"The body is too weak recently", he immediately joked with me "is not the right-hand muscles have also developed a lot recently". I did not follow his words as usual and he was poor. The next day he gave me an animal tooth, dressed in red thread, and told me to carry it with me. Told me to put it under my pillow when I slept. I asked him what kind of tooth it was, and he said it was a dog tooth. I was a little resistant because I usually like dogs and I had never eaten his dog meat and rice noodles, but later he insisted that I bring it with me and I agreed. That night before going to bed, I put the dog's teeth under the pillow, sleep very poorly, and feel my body keep getting cold at night. And from time to time I hear a very far away barking ...... After a few days, I felt better, just a burst of chills at home. But I have not felt very strange recently, I did not care about this matter. But what happened later, I did not expect. That day I came home from school and found that the family had prepared a meal. I sat down and realized that my father had made it and was waiting for me to come back and eat it together. I was really happy at that time, because my dad hadn't cooked for a long time, and our family had sat down to eat together with smiles for a long time. That night at dinner dad talked a lot about how he would work hard to make the house a better place, and mom and I were happy and smiling all the time.

After dinner, I finished my homework and went to bed. Soon after I went to sleep, I felt very cold, I thought the window was left open, so I was ready to get up to see, I did not expect to get up after I felt something white above my eyes. I looked up and saw nothing, at that time I was really frightened, rushed to open the room door to turn on all the lights, the room is very quiet, as usual, nothing unusual. Just then that quiet even more amplified the fear in my heart. The more quiet people are, the better their hearing will become, and at that time I hated this setting. I could hear footsteps on the stairway, and I could hear the sound of marbles falling from the ceiling. Although I had read before that the sound of marbles falling from the ceiling is a natural reaction is very normal. But at that time I felt not normal at all, weird, very weird ...... can not say that feeling, sat for a while nothing moved, I also laid down, lying down and sleeping, suddenly in the middle of the night I woke up, I opened my eyes and found that I could only open a slit, feeling that the body was what something to be pressed down to make the force I saw a "person" sitting on the edge of my bed through that crack, "it" seemed to be looking out, I just felt it was so icy, I could barely see "it" on the neck with white I could barely see the white sweat hair on the neck of the "person". The first time I encountered this situation, the first thought that flashed through my mind was "Oh no, a ghost is pressing on my bed". Later I remembered that someone said that you can try to move your fingers when you encounter a ghost in your bed, so I did it but I couldn't move at all ...... I opened my eyes early in the morning and I couldn't remember if what happened last night was a dream or real. The next day at noon, I came home from school, and I was looking forward to sitting down and having a good meal as a family of three as I did last night and talking by the way, but I came home to see my mother mopping the floor, saying nothing, with red eyes. Dad was lying quietly in bed, and when she saw me coming back, she said, "Your father has left."

At that time, I may have thought a lot and may not have thought anything, the only certain thing is that it was very sudden. After the funeral of my father, the family also returned to normal, I did not encounter those strange things. In less than a month after Dad left, Mom took me to see relatives in my hometown when I met one of Mom's friends. Her friend's mother is a believer in Buddhism, once she saw me, she said to my mother "your doll is followed by the Black Death". The mother was shocked and started to tell her what happened in front of her ...... "The Black Death was brought home by the child's father, the child's father fell on the cemetery hill and the Black Death followed him home", an later I told her about the strange woman I saw on the cemetery hill Later, I told her about the strange woman I saw at the cemetery and the ghost that pressed my bed while I was sleeping at home. She said, "I saw the strange woman on the cemetery hill should be a ghost, she was waving to you if you agree or you see it, take the initiative to talk to it may be haunted. At home, the time the ghost pressed the bed is haunting your black fury, you just put on the dog teeth that night and feel a strange sound is made. Your father was taken away because he fell on the grave hill and was haunted by the Black Fury". Indeed when dad left, it was just a short forty days or less before that trip to the grave mountain. I am not very good at expressing myself, and this is the first time I have recorded my experience. From that time onwards, when we go to the tomb, we will first contact the master, and then go to the mountain with the master, when it is rainy and cloudy with few people we will not go to the tomb.

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Filipi Kallhoff

Be a sailor of the world and swim in every port

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