What is the scariest ghost story?

This incident happened with a friend of mine from college.

Let’s call this friend R throughout this story. He used to live in Jammu when this incident happened and he was probably 16 years old at that time. The house in which he lived had a forest behind it. Apart from his family there were many workers in the house too. Also, since his father was a reputed government official, some guards always used to stand in front of his house all day and night.

One day some workers of the house came to his mother to tell her that they see a strange figure in the house sometimes. Going by the looks of all of them, R’s mother decided to take this seriously and started doing some research on her own.

She went to the guards and asked them if they also see what other workers could see. To her surprise, they all said ‘yes’. They even told her that they see this figure sometimes in the kitchen at night, sometimes on the roof and sometimes around the house. Also, they told her that this figure is always seen wearing some white cloth or something which was very unusual for a normal human to do.

Now, she was pretty sure that something was not right. So, she decided to go to the gardener of the house who had been working there since a very long time. He also told her that whenever he go back to home at night, someone always throw a stone at him from the old peepal’s tree. The solution seemed clear to her for a moment. She immediately asked the gardener to cut that tree down. This seemed rationale to her because in India it’s believed that ghosts live on peepal’s tree.

The very next day, that gardener climbed on the tree and started cutting it. There was no one at the scene except the gardener, R and R’s mother. Suddenly, something happened and he fell down from the tree and passed out. He came to his consciousness in the hospital. R’s mother asked him ‘What happened back there?’ To which he told her that he was pushed by someone from the tree. He was pretty sure that someone must have pushed him because he had been doing this since his childhood and he never had such accident in his life.

Everyone was so scared in the house and R’s mother didn’t know what to do. She couldn’t even tell R’s father about it because he was very busy during those days and she didn’t want him to be more stressed out. So, she decided to let it go for somedays.

Everything got normal for some days after the last incident but one night, R’s whole family was coming back from a big dinner. R was on the front seat, his father, mother and younger brother were on the back. Since it was very late in the night so R was sleeping but that was not gonna last.

He was woken up by the sudden stopping of the car. He saw his driver first. His driver was chanting some mantras and lighting incense sticks in the car. Seeing that scene he got a little scared and so he asked his driver what was he doing. His driver told him not to worry and to go back to sleep. This made him more suspicious and so he looked in front of the car.

There was a man standing in front of their car. Nearly 20–30 metres away. He was wearing a white cloak. For some reason, his face and hair were also white. What he did next left a deep scar in R’s mind. He laid down on the road and stretched himself to cover the entire road. No one could believe what they were witnessing. The driver decided to do something immediately. He started chanting mantras and drove the car from the top of that thing.

That thing was something like this but with a white cloak.

Next day, R fell sick. A priest was called at home who told them that this category of spirit is called Badappa. These things could stretch themselves as much as they want. He must have died around this area a long time ago and wouldn’t have got a proper burial which led him to become that thing. After that they had a house cleansing ceremony and everything got fine after that. But I could still see the fear in R’s eyes when he was telling this story.

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