1001 Horror Story

The Woman in the Middle of the Photo

My name is Irfan, a police officer who served in this small town for almost 5 years. In these 5 years, murder, robbery, rape and fraud cases are a common menu at the police station. But behind the heap of common crimes cases, sometimes the police office also often encounters cases of reason and logic, extraordinary and unreasonable cases, which have touched the mystical world…

I have one friend who is said to have advantages. Name's Ibrom. We can no longer be separated. Coming from the same village, playing together, coming to town together, my friend since childhood. As I alluded to earlier, he has the advantage of seeing subtle creatures, or ghosts.

I think the only thing that sets us apart is our view of nature outside of human nature. He certainly believes in ghosts (because he claims he can see them anyway.) He also does his day-to-day work as a psychic. Help cure people of strange diseases or clean the house. But I really don't believe in that much myself.

I once tried to challenge him, “Lu try to catch one for the cave. Cave will try interrogation of ghosts to believe.”

He tried to explain to me, “In fact God creates something always in pairs. There is light there is dark. There are women, there are men. There is a sun, there is a moon. There are also humans, so there must be something that fills this void. People give names to this emptiness. Some call it a ghost, spirit, spirit, or genie. But in reality this emptiness does exist.

You are a person who helps people who are related to worldly things. Related to the visible. As for me, I help people who have problems because they are disturbed by things that are invisible. Things that you guys don't think make sense.”

And that's how I can't argue with him, even if I don't really believe it. Indeed, sometimes the police station can find strange and mysterious cases, but I am sure everything will definitely have an answer behind it. The reasonable answer is that this is human. And not the intervention of the jinn or ghosts! That's what I believe. But after the events of the last case, I began to rethink my views over the years….

 

I was in the office taking care of administrative matters. Suddenly there was one colleague who told me, “Pak head called you.”

“Good.”

In his office, I respectfully asked what was going on. The commander sir while looking at the file while pointing to the chair hinted me to sit down.

After a while looking at the file, he looked at me.

“Administrative tasks in hand are all done?”

“Already Sir.”

“Ok, I have one thing to ask you to search. This is not something official, so I want you to keep this a secret from anyone.”

“You still remember the incident of the young girl who died in the hospital a week ago?”

“Iya. His name, if not wrong, Sriyani? And if not mistakenly remembered, the doctor canvassed the cause of death due to a heart attack. That's why we don't consider it a criminal incident. Is there any other evidence that contradicts that?” ask me. Last week we had a report of the body being found in a boarding house behind a bus station. From the results of the forensic team's check, there were no signs of resistance in his room or in the body of the corpse.

“No. He was diagnosed with a heart attack. I just got word this morning from the hospital. Over the past week, several women have been sent to hospitals with the same condition. One is still in a coma, the other is rumbling, but his mental state is unstable…

“There are some points of awkwardness in this case. First, these women are related to the Sriyani. I checked their data. All of them came from one school and even came from the same class. Second, they have never had a history of heart or psychiatric disease. According to the doctor, they seem to be this way because of intense fear. The first woman, Sriyani, was also acted upon to experience intense fear, thus triggering a heart attack.”

I'm starting to understand where this is going.

“Please ask to investigate this strange incident and report me. As I said, this has no indication of a crime and there are still no official reports. So work quietly, and report what you find.”

 

I went to the hospital to see the condition of the patient. A nurse led me into the patient room. There the woman lay. If I look, his age is not far away from me. Should've been 30s. There are no new clues that I can get, considering the person is still not familiar. The nurse also could not confirm when she would be able to make out.

The nurse explained that the patient was found unconscious inside her home by a maid. Similar to Sriyani I thought. They were immediately taken to this hospital.

“Alright, bring me to another woman,” my pinta.

I was finally brought to the fourth floor. Special rooms. The mental state of this patient is still unstable. Sometimes he just kept quiet and looked blank. But sometimes, he would be frightened for no apparent reason, as if something was chasing him.

I was asked not to provoke him. Sometimes the patient can become aggressive and attack others. Already several times the hospital officials had to hold him when he was violent.

From outside the door I saw a woman. He sat on the bed and faced the wall. What an unnatural sitting position. “What is he doing?”

“He always faces the wall. When we tried to communicate with him as well, he was reluctant to face the door. The doctor said, there may have been a traumatic event related to the place of entry, so he became so. He was found unconscious in an empty hospital. You know, that old, empty hospital in the southern part of town? There's a tramp who found it there and reported it to the police. Later he was directly brought here..”.

“We can enter?”

“Ya, please. The doctor gave permission. I'll accompany you,” replied the nurse.

The nurse opened the door and walked in first. He tried to call his patient.

“Nunik..

The patient, Nunik, was silent. He ignored the nurse's call. Still sitting facing the wall. I still haven't seen his face. Just look at the long black hair.

“Sorry Mom, there is something I want to ask..”.

There's no reply.

“Bu?” I tried to grab her attention and tried to swing my hand in front of her face. Suddenly, he faced me and shouted.

“AAH!!! AAAAAH! KYAAAAAA!”

Somewhat surprised, the nurse tried to calm him down. But it doesn't seem to work. Finally the nurse let me out first, so she could handle the patient. I walked out, passed several nurses and one doctor went inside to calm her down.

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