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THE AMALA GHOST VENDOR

The Amala Restaurant allegedly ran by ghosts.

By CLARA'S VLOGPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
THE AMALA GHOST VENDOR
Photo by Natali Hordiiuk on Unsplash

THE AMALA GHOST VENDOR


A four-person family was rumored to have moved into that neighborhood in early 2022 and to have opened a restaurant there in the bigger Road ayobo Apache neighborhood of Lagos State.
There are many different versions of this story, but in general it goes that they vanished one day after it was discovered that they had died somewhere else or somewhere else, and when confronted the woman and her apprentice also disappeared. Eventually, though, a content creator went there and took it upon himself to speak with a neighbor who was close to the family.
This neighbor, who we were even friends with because he sought to extend a hand of friendship and noted a shift in character from their mother, gave us quite an insight into what actually occurred.
He was happy that this incident occurred at a time when more people were aware of it and more people were using the internet to record it. Thanks to this neighbor, we now have a clear understanding of what actually happened to the four persons who owned the Amala restaurant: were they ghosts?, did they truly vanish?, and if so, why are people claiming they were ghosts?
Well, it turns out that there are answers to this question, despite the neighbors' claims to the contrary. He could acknowledge that there was something strange about this family of four, and he comprehends why many people, including his wife, feel that they might be ghosts.
The family was made up of a woman who was older and who was apparently or suspected to be the mother of the other children. She was accompanied by two girls and a boy, but it's unclear how they are related. It was obvious that there was no father figurehead in the family. Only a woman and three other younger individuals—possibly her—were present or perhaps her apprentice, and he claimed that they moved in at the beginning of 2021.
They've been there for about a year and a half, and while they were closed off for most of that time, when they were operating their business, people had been supporting them and they were a thing there. However, a few months after they moved in, according to the neighbor, things started to change. The family actually only rented the shop that was attached to the compound where this man lived; they did not have an apartment inside the house although they had some furniture.
A few months after the family moved in, they were friendly with everyone. Then, all of a sudden, they abruptly changed and stopped returning pleasantries. I believe that this change in behavior was a big factor in the family's strange behavior. The neighbor attested to the fact that the shop's employees, including the women, ceased returning welcomes. When you would greet them in the morning, they would not respond, and they even went so far as to tell people not to do so.

This happened when a customer visited their store once and had to explain to the woman working there that "See, I can't be eating your food and when I greet you, you don't respond, you have to reply me." As a result, they refused to serve that particular customer because of the greeting, which they thought was an odd thing.
The neighbor also noted that even in hot weather, the family of four continued to live at the restaurant. Since they did not have an apartment, the restaurant served as both their place of residence and place of employment.
They get up early, set up, and begin selling, but the neighbor claimed that when it was extremely hot and he had to leave his air-conditioned home with windows to go outside and sleep without a shirt, he would see that this family of four adults was still inside the building and was also sleeping comfortably. However, what particularly caught his attention was that four adults were sleeping in the same shop with the door locked and no window, which struck him as odd. He also pointed out that the shop had no windows.
He made it clear that dogs are usually very friendly after a period of time if they consistently keep seeing the same person over and over again for the one year and seven months that this woman and her apprentice lived around their neighborhood and in the compound his dogs were always barking at them but three weeks regularly every three months was another strange thing that the neighbor pointed out.
The man also mentioned that the four of them spoke a very unusual language, the origin of which he was unsure, and that they only used it when they didn't want other people to hear what they had to say. He claimed that it was a language he had never heard before and that he didn't know what tribe it came from.
According to the neighbor, he had returned from crossover night with his wife and had seen the family operating their business with and their generator was on they were still selling they were still active up until 2 A.M. It was around nine when it was Daybreak that he got a call that the woman and her apprentice were no longer there that they had packed and they had moved and I think that was what a lot of people thought had happened.
The shop was closed, nothing was there, no one was there, no one saw them move, no one saw them enter the vehicle, and no one saw them carrying things out, so it was just assumed that when it was daybreak they just didn't see this family there any longer. However, it is not stated if people saw her pick or pack her things to leave. The general idea behind this ghostly Amala merchant is that they simply did not notice them, which was kind of like the adult's opinion.

No One Saw Them Leaving.





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