horror
Nobody could have predicted that something could happen so fast and unexpected. It was like any other day in UITM Alor Gajah; we were just getting use to our new life as a university student. On that faithful day, Aiman, Azri and I went to one of our friend’s birthday party at Masjid Tanah. We had the time of our life as the party went on until late at night. It was approximately one o’clock in the morning when we arrived in front of the main entrance and the night was almost pitch black as most of the street lights were somehow turned off. As we entered the university’s main entrance we started to feel unease due to the fact that there were no police officers guarding the main entrance. We went up the hill passing through the HEA parking space and getting closer to the library. We were talking very lively as we get closer and closer to the library not knowing the terror that awaits us there.
Just arrived in front of the library, as we were chatting suddenly something strikes at the back of my mind. I thought I heard some weird noise coming from the lockers. I just kept on walking as I tried to convince myself that it was only my imagination. But then, Aiman and Azri pulled me by the sleeves and said that they also heard the weird noise. All of a sudden, we were shocked by a loud sound like a locker was being banged opened. Our hearts literally skip a beat. We thought it was the wind slamming on one of the opened locker so we kept on walking. Just before going down the stairs, we heard a loud echoing scream coming from behind us. Our body were frozen, we can’t move, we can’t run, we can’t even scream for help as an intense sense of fear flowed through our body. The noise kept getting louder and louder. Our hearts were throbbing so fast, it felt like it was going to burst out of our chest.
We looked at each other and tried to gather all the courage that we had left and decided to look behind us to see what was making that eerie noise. At the very moment we turned our heads around thing started to get very quiet and we could only see an opened locker door. A disturbing croaking noise like someone was choking broke the silence, there coming out of the locker a dark figure, with its long and thin arms clawing its way out of the confined space. A dark bloody red liquid covered its thin, legless body. Its face was no longer human liked as it was shredded or torn off. We didn’t know what to do as the figure was getting closer that it was only a few feet from us. “Is this really happening? What is going to happen to us?” these are the questions that played through my mind again and again.

All of a sudden, Azri yelled “RUN...!” and all of us just started fleeing from the scene with all our might. As we ran, we can sense that the figure was still chasing us from behind. When I looked back I can clearly see the figure crawling on the ground with its dark red eyes gazed on us. As the figure get closer, we ran faster and faster like there was no tomorrow. Praying was the only thing that crossed our minds at the time. All sort of prayers were recited but it had no effect on the figure. Just when we thought all hope is lost, there on the bridge crossing the lake was a man in uniform, an on duty police officer. To found him was like we had found our saviour. He asked us why we were running around late at night; he also said that it was passed our curfew and it is not safe for us to be out this late. We tried to tell him what had happened but we were so tired that the officer could only hear us mumbling nonsense. Either way we felt safe with him by our side, he sent us back to our dorm with just a warning. We went to bed with the thought of being finally free from the nightmare that we had endured.
After having to overcome the most horrifying moment of our lives, we decided to go the library to investigate on what really happened that night. When we got there, we only saw an empty locker, there was no sign of the door being slammed, no trace of blood, nothing. Our minds were puzzled and confused. Did last night incident really happened or was it just our imagination. We just realize that last night horrifying event just happened for about half an hour, but for us it was the longest and most terrifying thirty minutes of our life. That incident also changes our perspective on what really is out there in the world.