In case you
are not aware, college students are indeed good ghost story tellers. In fact,
many of the popular ghost stories in circulation originated from these groups
of people. I know of a young lady by the name of Diana and she told me of her
strange experience during her first year of study in a local university in
Kuala Lumpur.
As per
local university rules, first year students are normally required to stay in
campus hostel. It is only on the subsequent year that they are allowed to stay
outside perhaps due to insufficient hostel space.
Diana was accountancy
undergraduate and she was assigned to stay in hostel block B. Malaysian
universities have very strict rules about male and female hostels and no male
or female can step into hostel of opposite sex. Whoever breaks this rule will
have to face with very serious consequences.
Block B then
was surrounded by many tall trees and those people from that university would
know which building I meant. Block B was reputedly to be haunted by a restless
spirit of its old tenant. Of course, it is now abandoned as I was told but I am
not sure if it is still around.
Life in the
hostel wasn’t too bad as there was a small canteen downstairs students can purchase
food during lunch and dinner. Well, according to Diana that no one would
literarily visit the canteen after 2 weeks because the foods would always be
the same.
All of the
hostel residents would need to share a common toilet and bathroom. It was quite
a distance from Diana’s room. She had to walk pass a long and narrow passage
way in order to get there. During peak times, one even needs to queue up to use
the toilet. Except when there are morning lectures, Diana would normally wait
for a good time when the toilet is not too crowded as she hate to walk all the
way to one end of the building carrying all her stuffs and back.
So the best
time for Diana is during late evening after 8pm when there would not be so many
visitors. That was when Diana could take her sweet time to do her business. Now
comes the interesting part…
A week
after Diana stayed in Block B, during one of night visits to hostel toilet;
Diana suddenly noticed there was another girl washing her face beside Diana. They
nodded to each other at first politely and went on to their business.
Somehow
Diana was curious about this girl but she didn’t have her name, so after coming
across the girl a few times; Diana ventured to the girl and introduced herself.
And the girl responded politely and said her name was Maryann. According to
Maryann she was also studying accountancy. Though Diana felt strange because
the name Maryann didn’t ring a bell to her as she didn’t recall the name
Maryann appeared in the student list. As usual, Diana found herself some
excuses to dismiss her doubt: perhaps Maryann is a transfer student from other
university she thought.
Soon Diana got
acquainted with Maryann as she always appears in the toilet at night. One
night, Maryann invited Diana to have an evening walk around Block B and she
agreed. Since the evening walk, Maryann told Diana about her side of the stories,
mostly her relationship with her boy friend. After that, both of them
frequently walked around the hostel at night.
Then after
one of such night walk, Diana’s concerned roommate, Lian pulled Diana aside and
asked why Diana usually walk around the hostel alone at night. She cautioned
Diana that the hostel was haunted; especially under one particular banyan tree
outside the toilet.
Diana
became curious and told Lian about Maryann whom she met in the toilet at night.
Lian exclaimed:
“Whooah!
There was a girl by the name Maryann who used to stay in Block B. But she hung
herself during her birthday after being jilted by her boyfriend two years ago!”
On hearing
Lian’s words, Diana felt dizzy and fell onto the floor unconscious. After that,
Diana had to rest for another two weeks in her hometown before returning to the
university. Since then, Diana avoided the toilet at night until the end of her
academic year when she was permitted to stay outside.
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