A FRIGHTENING EXPERIENCE

I am not one who is frightened easily,but I must admit that one night I saw a figure that struck terror intomy heart.

It was a moon-lit night.I was returning home on foot from a small town a few miles away.That was the first night in my life that I was out alone.The road along which I was walking was not used much at night.Even during the day,it was used only by those who worked banana plantations along the road.

As I was walking,I could hear the noises made by squirrels,insects,owls.Creatures that love night world such as bats were very active,and there were hundreds of shadows.However,all these did not frighten me.I held a stick in my hand and moved rapidly towards home.Then,suddenly,I caught sign of an old lady,a short distance away.Her head was covered with a white cloth,and she was waving to me.

Curious to know why she was there at that time of te night,I stopped for a while.As I stood there,however,vague memories of stories about ghosts began to come back to my mind.I was soon gripped with fear and took to my heels.I ran as fast as I could,and when I reached home,I could hardly speak.

However,on the next day,I visited that place again to make sure that the woman was indeed a real person and not a ghost.But I could find no foot-prints there.Only a banana plants stood there with its leaves moving in the breeze.I realised then that it was the banana plant with its leaves moving in the breeze that looked like a woman waving her hand.

I had indeed made a fool of myself,but after the previous night’s experience,the discovery was small relief to me.Besides,I will never  walk on the road  at night.