I was searching for what to write and share for my blog today and I came across this prompt "Too Real To Believe" in the community, I was taken back to different situations that were really unexplainable as at that time that it happened to me. I'm not the type that believes in supernatural things happening and even randomly but then...
There were two things that happened back when I was in the university that no matter how I think about it, it's still hard to believe that they really happened. First happened when I had just started living in the hostel I rented and the second was sometime in my second to final year. They were situations that happened before I knew they did.
No need for much talk, let me share the first.
I had just moved in with my things to my new room, in my new hostel, in my new school, away from home and among new people. I arrived early so I did all the little cleaning and much arranging so I could rest fine in my new space. All went well and night came, I laid down to sleep.
I was warned not to leave my windows opened to sleep, I obeyed since I was new to the place, to avoid any unnecessary issues coming from my disobedience. It was hot inside but not too bad that I'd be tempted to open the window. Sleep refused to come, I just kept staring into the dark.
At a point, I began to hear voices outside my room but I forced my mind not to imagine things. Somehow, I slept off and the next morning, I got a knock on my door. It was the landlord asking if I'm okay, that I was the only one who slept in the hostel of 16 rooms. I laughed at the whole thing but till now, I still wonder what those voices were.
I didn't share that with anyone but this next one!
My friend and I just finished with the day's lecture. We were too tired to take the long route back home when we learned of a short path, it was the path we walked to the school in the morning so we decided to return in the same path. The sun was very hot, we were so hungry and tired so we walked fast and I was in front.
It was a one path, the other sides were bushes and big trees so we couldn't walk side by side. We've heard stories about the path before but trust us to be brave enough to still use the path because of tiredness. I was telling my friend stories as she continued walking behind me. Then, she suddenly screamed while pushing me.
Since the push was unexpected, I ran a little then paused and turned in shock to see my friend on the ground and a guy holding a cutlass running away with her handbag. All my friend told me later felt like it happened in a flash that I still can't believe what I could have witnessed, I couldn't believe I was in an armed robbery case scene.
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