story
It was an exhausting day and I was on my way back home from the office suddenly I received a call from an unknown number but I declined it, but the call kept coming until I answered, I was waiting for the other person to say something before I replied, but no one said anything, so I said “hello it's George, how can I help you” and then a low pitched voice stared to talk terrifyingly and filling the air with dread, when I listened to it carefully it seemed like the voice of an old man maybe around his 80s saying “Aren’t you George Philips “ I replied yes it is me”, then he replied curiously “your time has come child, live as much as you can, you have 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours and 3 seconds left, I will come and take you no one can stop me” and the call ended, for a minute I had lost my pulse I was paralyzed and I was in severe mental trauma, afraid of the future and guessing what would happen.
And another thought jumped into my mind maybe any old friend of mine was just playing pranks with me, but just to assure it, I went to the city communication network to get the info of my call history but when the receptionist gave me all the information I didn’t have received any such call, then I opened my cell phone to check maybe the communication network may have had any lag or any other satellite issue but the call and its history nothing was there, everything was gone and it left my heart pounding and unbalanced, I was standing at the same position from the past few minutes I didn’t realize today was nominated as the vice chairman of the Skyline Enterprise, a company I always wanted to work at, meanwhile, my wife sent me a message to come as fast as possible, because there was a problem. I started to panic and in great worry, I ran down the stairs and as fast as possible drove towards my home. But when I was there…
No one was there all the lights were off and the front door was locked, I was sweating heavily, suddenly “boom, surprise everyone started shouting I didn’t know they had organized a party for me and then I took a sigh of relief my heart was pumping too fast and my breath was out of my control but somehow I managed to control it. During the party, I forgot about what had happened to me and I was enjoying myself with my family including my wife and 2 sons named Jake Philip and drew Philip after then we all went to sleep and I didn’t realize anything I was back to normal. The next day a parcel was sent in my name, when I received it there was no name no address no contact and how it arrived at my office and who delivered it all of it was a great mystery but when I called the gatekeeper and asked him who delivered it he said it was an old man around his 80s, I began to suspect it must be the same old man who called me, I ran downstairs towards the control room where CCTV cameras are placed, I asked the in charge to look for who had delivered them today and when he checked there was no record of who came to deliver the parcel.
The question arises, who is this old man? And why is he after me? What does he want from me?
Then he took leave and went back to my home I sat on the couch and I was worried, I was tense and depressed and anxious… suddenly my wife came to me and asked is everything all right but I didn’t answer she asked the same question for 5 times but I was thinking about the old man the sixth time she touched me and I jumped, screaming my heart was about to burst I was out of consciousness and out of my senses. She grabbed my hand and slapped me 3 times and then I was in control, she was worried and she started crying and asked me to tell everything that I was hiding but I somehow managed to make an excuse that I was thinking about a horror movie and she was too innocent to trust me but later on I found it out that I should have told her all that was happening…
As days went by, if more specific 1 week 5 days and 11 hours passed after that incident and I forgot about the old man and his existence. At the same day I was sleeping in my bedroom in the mid of night around 03:45AM and I received a call from an unknown number and I heard the same low pitched voice this time in a relentless manner saying “how can you forget about me and your death, aren’t you happy with your life” I started screaming and woke up, this time my wife knew that there was something spooky happening with me and she began to suspect my manner and the way I was dealing with her, my intentions were not like to hide it from her or some kind but I didn’t wanted her to worry, the next morning on the breakfast table I was trying not to talk about what happened last night she asked herself, do you remember what actually happened last night I replied calmly nothing special then she dragged her chair closer to mine and she hold my hand tight and said emotionally please tell me whatever that is happening with you honey, I can’t see you suffer like this please tell me what is happening, your office staff and crew members have been calling me since last week about your strange behavior, she stopped for a minute and again continued with the same pace “look George, I can’t wait , more whatever it is tell me or else I have to figure it out myself” this time I knew I should tell it to her and I said everything that was happening with me from the past few weeks and she was just paralyze after listening to whatever I said, I know it’s hard to belief on such and odd experience…
Now I was not alone, I had gained courage and built hope to fight whatever comes in my way and to solve the mystery of the old man who was after my life… then my wife gave me a suggestion to meet our relatives and gather some information about this old man, I accepted what she said we both went to all our relatives even those whom we didn’t knew and met them for the first time at the end what we gathered was nothing, I just began to suspect people looking at me strangely and asking me are you George really, just to confirm I glanced at the mirror next to me and I was shocked by what I saw, my hair had turned white, my beard had grown an inch nearly and my skin was melted like a 70 years old man and then my tension and anxiety was at its peak but what kept me alive was my wife the only person whom I can trust and belief that she would never let me die like this she said to me last night “even if it is really going to be your death you won’t die meaningless you won’t lose your dignity and esteem trust me” and then my mind unconsciously began to think about an old friend of my father named uncle rubble, I asked my wife to drive me to him he lived in the old age home right next to nana’s apple pie store, when we reached there the air seemed heavy kind of not allowing us to go inside and on the way the same happened 3 to 4 times we were about get hot but somehow Lara managed to keep us on the track, as we entered the corridor of the old age center Lara was gone to ask for the permission to meet him but I didn’t wait for Lara and I unconsciously just predicting which room would be of uncle rubble entered room 71 on the second floor right next to the large window in the corner of the building, as I opened the room he was sitting on a shabby bed and he was wearing the same army suite that he used to wear from my childhood but he seemed a little bit worried when he saw me, he was not happy and was trying to hide form me but I managed to catch his attention and met him he kind of knew for what I was there and seemed out of words and the first thing he said was “it was your father who killed the old man’s sister, it wasn’t me I was just there to hunt and even your father didn’t killed her intentionally she kind of wanted to die when he was shooting she ran at his aiming position and got hit by the bullet, when we saw her and tried to take her to the hospital his brother an old man suddenly arrived he seemed like a priest not the good one he was meditating down an oak tree and gave your father a cure one day when your son would be 37 years old I would kill him brutally then me and your father came back and on the way we had an accident he was bleeding too much so he died and after that I was not able to see you if you really want to live go to the forest of Zen in the upper California there you would find an oak tree cut it down cause all the power of that all old man is present in the tree once the tree if gone you are free from the curse so please hurry cause time is running out and you have to reach there in the morning cause in night there is no way I would let you go in cause it is really very dangerous to go there at night and there are myths that the jungle is cursed to one who goes into the woods in night and doesn’t comes out by the sunrise he will be trapped in forever…
