The Unforgettable Old Lock!
Story Credit: Anne Bakshi
When I was in my teens, I might have been in 11th grade at that time. We had shifted to a new place, meaning a new school. My father is serving in the army so the shifting was pretty usual for me. The school was really huge and well maintained, what was odd about the school was a small area just beside our assembly ground. It was a bit away from the ground but had only a huge Banyan tree alongside an abandoned girls’ washroom. It’s weird to think of a washroom there but according to some students it was from an old model of the school when the school was small. I always used to think why they had kept it in the first place, I mean they could have reconstructed or renovate that part or simply deconstructed it but whatever it didn’t bother aside from looking creepy. A few days passed and I heard about a story that freaked me badly.
So these girls were talking about another girl who had died in that washroom with no apparent reason and that is why the place was abandoned, another girl interrupted the first one saying also then peon had hung himself on the banyan tree a few months after the girl’ death. Like every normal child, I was freaking terrified and told the story to my best friend the next day as she was on leave the day before. She laughed it off and said they are making up all that crap and there is nothing to be scared of. I didn’t give the topic any more thoughts and changed the topic. We had a few more friends but we two used to hang out together the most hence best friends. Days passed I forgot about the story everything was normal until this day, which left me traumatized for years. Before our final exams, we have this photo session of the whole class thing happens.
It was a fine day everybody looked happy the session happens to be on the assembly ground stage, on the staircase. It was going by routine, starting from junior classes. When it was out turn the whole 11th-grade section went on the ground. We used to have many sections literally from A to G in for one class I was in D. The session took nearly 20 minutes for every class A then B then it was C and here one of my friends had to pee. God what a time she chose, so as our turn was coming up, my best friend I mentioned decided to go to the abandoned one nearby and would be back by 5 minutes. The one who had to go there didn’t want that and said she would rather go to our wing and be back soon, another friend told her she wouldn’t be back in time and they will not wait for us as every class has to get their session done. So my best friend and I decided to go with her to the nearby one. Just when we were leaving our class teacher called me for some work and two of them had to go then. They were gone for some time and it was our turn, I told our teacher that they have gone there and aren’t back yet.
My teacher asked me to get them back. I went there with one of my other friends but weirdly the door was locked when we got there. We thought they might have gone to another seeing the lock as we turned we heard door banging from inside, we freaked it was them, we couldn’t figure what to do and went to get our teacher. She came as fast as she can but seeing the lock she didn’t believe us and the banging sound was also not there anymore. She called a peon to open the door but as it was an old lock, the key was hard to find. They broke the lock some other teachers were there too. As the door was opened, two of them were there, lying on the floor, unconscious making all of us dead inside. We were taken to the sick room, our parents were called, all teachers knew about what happened but other students were not aware of the incident. My best friend was tormented and so were the other friends they didn’t know what happened, the door banging, locked nothing, I never bothered them asking again. No one, not a single soul could explain the incident, some say it probably was a prank but what really happened is still a mystery.
