One single night ...
Am doing my Bachelor's degree and am a part time writer in chennai ... we are five in number ( our gang ) ... we always study together and roam together ... we love to travel and darest adventures ... our monthly exams got over last month and we planned to go to the East coast road in our bikes ... known as ECR is a great highway with sea view and full of bare lands and eucalyptus trees ... with 1 to 2 vehicles crossing per minute ... and 1 to 2 vehicles will turn out for an hour ... we started very early in the morning ( 6.00 AM ) and whirled our bikes towards ECR for a long ride ... actually we planned to return in the evening after finishing our lunch in a resort ... but our plan turned upside down ...
Its nearly 50 kms from our city ... we reached it atlast and ate our brakefast in the lonely sea shore ... and played volleyball there for sometime ... we again started our bikes and had a long ride ... by the time the sun hit us hard...exactly above us ... sea shore ll extend to many kms as the name implies ... we had a nice afternoon bath in the sea and decided to change the clothes in a lonely small temple which was just near us in the top of a very small hill ...
when we reached the temple it was very lonely and desserted ... and the wind which smooches the branches of eucalyptus trees had a very strange sound ... the sound of sea waves too ... the temple consist of one single room which had a small hanuman idol in it and a small fire lamp was burning inside ... which was fading gradually wen we reached there ... we changed our clothes ... wen we were jus done i noticed a sigh of a very small boy of 9 to 10 yrs ... i think ... he made a sign and asked us to get down ...
we thought that he was asking fr a help of some kind and we got down ... wen we enquired him he told us tat he was frm a nearest vilage and warned us not to go there ... he told that it was haunted by a priest's spirit who had performed the daily rituals in tat temple cont for 7 long years and he had died in an accident last year after finishing his morning poojas ... he also added tat nobody goes to the temple but the small fire lamp was lit every morning at the time when the pooja's were performed by the priest ...i thought tat it was ridiculous village make up stories ...
u knw wat we did ? ... we lifted the boy and held him again to the temple in spite of his refusals and scream ... he started to scream and cry ... bt we had an urge to prove him tat nothing was wrong and there is no such thing as spirits ... we laughed and cracked him ... we sat in the temple premises and the boy started to laugh after sometime ... then we bid him a good bye and started our bike ...bt i noticed tat the fire lamp was still burning ...
by the time it was nearing 3 pm ... we searched fr a resort and we nearly forgot the incident as we were in a grt hunger ... i rode the bike in a 60 ( as usual ) ... bt my frnd vinodh rode in a grt speed ... nearly 90 ... then all of a sudden it happened ... a porsche crossed on our side in a roaring fast ... i managed to control bt vinodh was totally unaware of a porsche in his side wit a grt speed ... his bike got a skid in the side soil as it was a sea shore ... his grt speed lead him to a loud dash in a small road side electrical transformer ... his co managed to escape bt vinodh had an accident and blood started oozing from his knee and fore head ...
we managed to get help from some nearby villagers ... and a villager started giving first aid to him and we went to his house ... its a nearby fishing community ... he hosted us well and he gave some fruits to us and meanwhile vinodh managed to get some rest ... we spent time by walking and roaming around ... meanwhile vinodh had some rest and we again started after giving him some money as token of thanks ... our watches showed 6.33 pm ... so we drove wit a grt speed as there is no path lights in ECR and u can't even see wat's in front of you in the night ...
we continued our ride ... all we had in mind was to reach home as soon as possible ... bcoz the incidents happened that day was weird ... bt vinod's bike gave us all a great blow as it got struck in the midway ... ( effect of the accident )we were jus standing in the lonely highway and arguing wat to do next ... i thought of asking a lift in the truck or something with the bike and once wen we enter the city limit we could manage ... bt frns thought of leaving both the there locked and picking it up next morning ... bt the vehicles crossed as per this shedule ... 1 for 10 to 15 min ... that too there are only cars heading towards opposite direction and fast moving loaded trucks ...
bt one gud thing which we had done was we ringed to our house and convinced them by telling the fact and told them that we'll come home late ... then we had no commitments based on time ... at a certain moment we got bored and i suddenly asked my frns to accompany me to the temple ... at first they refused then they agreed as that would be a great experience ... the time too proved to be fine ... its only 7.30 pm ... we headed towards the temple ...
the place was very silent except the wooh of air and waves ... we reached the temple and i expected the lamp light was burning still ... bt it was not ... we sat there and chatted fr sometime ... it proved to be grt sitting there ... in the cool night ... lonely temple ... then we decided to move away ... we came down ... thats the time wen my frnd Ezhil felt that his mobile was missing ... he thought tat he left it in the temple ...
he told us tat he'll get it in a moment and went to the temple again ... we waited in the road expecting him to come soon ... we could figure him climbing the hill ... as it was very near ... after sometime we watched him giving a sign to cum up ... we can't figure out wat's the matter ... we thought tat the cell was nt there ... then he shouted at us to come up ... we rushed to the temple ... and he showed us his cell ... so i asked " why r u yelling at us man ? u could have cum back with ur cell na " ... thats when he showed the room where the idol was kept ... tats the time we noticed tat the lamp was lit again ...
I'm sure tat none can go to the temple and light the lamp again in the gap of cum back ... if there was something or someone ... we can figure it out easily ... this is the most scariest and spookiest experience i ever had ... we came back by a truck loading our vehicles ... we had not even discussed abt it ... till mw none in our family knows abt it ...
