The spirit next door episode 3 – 4

🌴💀The Spirit Next Door💀🌴
Part three

The frightening creature before me was beyond description and human comprehension. I began to think that the writer of those scary movie I watched had an experience before writing because the creature before me was the exact picture of the scre-ming banshee I use to see in a movie except that it was a male banshee.

His hair was white and long, His male physique was really visible in the dark. He was of average height and he his eyeball was shinning in the dark like reflection of light on cat’s iris.

I’ve never heard or of a male scre-ming banshee in my life nor see it in a movie.

He was looking at me with mean and devilish eye. His scary appearance put me in a shocking trance. I couldn’t move nor talk, I was just staring at him alone in the middle of the night.

He increased the terror in his cold eye, then he raised his hand and snapped his finger at me before disappearing into thing air. I couldn’t fathom the reason why he snapped his finger at me.

“Was he trying to warm me against poke nosing or he snapped his fingers to notify me of more impending danger ahead”.

His grip on my mind vanished immediately he disappeared. But, I was surprised the tree didn’t disappear with him. I closed the door as fast my hands could and ran to my younger brother’s room.

I can’t dare sleeping alone tonight. Not after what I just saw. I sneaked over to my brother’s bed and crept under his blanket. I closed my eyes tightly and hug my younger brother tightly to reduce the fear in me. I finally dozed off some minutes later.

I woke up first the next day. The time was around 7 am. I stretched my body and made a long yawn to make myself fully awake. It took me some minutes before realising that my brother was not beside me.

I stood up quickly and went to the toilet to check him but he wasn’t there. I ran to the parlour to check him and still, I didn’t find him. The fear of what I’m thinking started growing in my mind.

I ran to the kitchen, checked our younger sister’s room and also checked our parent’s room, but he was no where to be found. I finally decided to go outside to confirm my thought.

Then I moved to the door and opened it. I paused, breathe in and breathe out to have a clear understanding of what my eyes was seeing.

There he was playing with a big dead rat at the exact s₱0t where the tree appeared to last night.

“Isreal, what are you there. What!!, you are playing with a dead rat early in the morning” I shouted at him as if I wasn’t aware that something will be dead in the morning.

“Please, don’t tell Daddy oo”, he said as he ran in,side.

I quickly disposed the rat away to avoid answering different unnecessary questions from my parents.

Initially, I wanted to visit Precious place that day to explain my ordeal to her, but due to the love I have for her, I voted against it so that I won’t drag her back into the problem she just escaped from.

The day just went by like yesterday. No special activity took place, I didn’t even bother to use anointing oil to desecrate the land. I just went to bed early and was expecting the spirit to visit in the middle of the night.

I held my bible with me under the blanket and slept off. It didn’t take five minutes before I was ferried away into the dreamland.

It was as if the scre-ming tempo is increasing night by night. This night scre-m took a different dimension. I was woken up under one second.

The loudness of the scre-m made it obvious that I was the only one hearing it. If everyone including my Dad hears it, I’m very sure my Dad would switched on the Generator to check where the sound is coming from.

I stood up as usual and started running to the parlour to check what I already know.

I was scared to heaven when I got to parlour. What I saw continue increasing to climax, more unimaginable. I saw the Male Banshee spirit in,side the parlour, he stood at the entrance of my brother’s room laughing hysterically. Then he shifted his gaze at me started grinning and smiling in a devilish manner.

🌴💀The Spirit Next Door💀🌴
Part Four

I couldn’t stand the way the spirit was grinning at me. It seems as if he was drawing out my life energy. I was choice less at that moment, all I could think of was to carry out what I’ve been planning.

So I left him there and started running to my parent’s room. I have made up my mind to inform my Dad about the spirit and I planned to inform him that midnight so that he will be able to see the spirit himself.

I got to their room and their room and saw my Dad awake. I guess he was praying. So, seeing him awake makes me more confused. I could fathom the reason why he couldn’t hear the banshee’s scre-m.

I ran over to where he knelt down praying and quickly tapped him. I didn’t say anything, I just gestured to him to follow me. He saw the way I was shaking, so he stood up and followed me instantly. I started tip toeing to parlour.

What I saw when I got to parlour was unexplainable and funny. The TV was on and the DSTV station was showing the best channel I love most. What surprised me most was that the banshee was on TV smiling at me.

So, there’s no way I will explain to my Dad that I didn’t switched on the TV and how will I explain that what I want to show is the creature on TV. I lost the courage and confident to narrate what had to him.

“So, what is it that you want to show me?”. He said while yawning at the same time.

“Eehhm ehm, nothing sir”

“What do you mean by nothing?,so you disturbed me and forced me here just to see nothing?”.

“I’m sorry sir” I said with a pitiful expression.

He left me there and went back to see his room. Then I sat on the chair thinking about what will be found dead in the morning. I dozed off some minutes later.

I was woken up the next day by the eagerness to know what will happen the next day. I stood up immediately and ran to my brother’s room. He was still lying on bed when I entered his room.

I quickly moved closer to him to check him if he is asleep or dead. I shakes him and beat his cheek. He reciprocated the touch by yawning and changing his sleeping position.

I was relieved and happy to see my brother still alive. I stood up and started walking towards the door. I didn’t even noticed my brother’s dog that was sleeping at the entrance until I stepped on him. I hissed and went out angrily.

When my brother woke up the next morning, he ran to my room p-nting and crying at the same time. “Come and see, come” he said and ran out immediately. I followed him outside and he showed me the corpse of his dog. The body was at the s₱0t where the tree always disappears and appears to.

That moment, I realized that the Spirit takes the life of something more closer. I started unraveling the mystery myself. The spirit’s only way to our compound was through the tree and he takes the life of creature closer to him. That’s why he killed the dog lying at the entrance of the door instead of killing my brother, that’s why he didn’t enter three days ago and killed my pig outside.

Then I thought of temporal solution to the problem. I decided to buy more chickens and placed them near the tree so that he can be killing them one by one until I finds a permanent solution to the problem.

So, I went out that day and bought five chickens. I put them in our abandoned cage and placed it right at the entrance of the house. I tried to convince my parents that the chickens are for my upcoming birthday, I told them “I bought them so that we won’t be worrying about meat”. They both believed me.

The night came and I slept at the slept off as usual, but I didn’t sleep in,side my room this time, I slept on the sofa in the parlour. I wanted to confirm if my hypothesis is real, I wanted to confirm if the spirit will still enter the house tonight.

I was woken up by the scre-m. More louder than yesternight and as yesterday and the day before, it was only me that heard the scre-ms.

I started looking around for something unusual. For ten minutes, I didn’t see anything. I started beaming with smile that I was right. I was really happy that the spirit won’t enter. Then I saw the door opening slowly with a force of wind.

Then the spirit entered and went directly into my brother’s room.

To be continued