Fiction1- Who was in the backyard?

We lived in a small house, but after my marriage, we felt we should shift to a bigger house. So we were looking for a bigger house and asked an agent to find us a home. After a few days, he showed us a house. The house seemed ideal for my family, so we rented it and we all moved in.

  
On the very first day after we shifted, my wife was in the kitchen when a woman passed in front of her. She thought maybe it would be my mother, but after a while my mother called her, and my wife thought that it was my mother who had gone to the backyard, passing right in front of her, so why would she have called?

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My wife did not pick up the phone and went to the backyard to meet her mother, but she did not find her there. She was a little surprised. She immediately came back to the house and called Mom to find out where she was; she must be in the backyard.

My wife called my mom and asked if she had gone in the backyard, and when my mother said that she was in the market, my wife's heart missed a beat, was there a thief in the house? Her hands were trembling and she was in deep panic.

When I came back home from the office, my wife told me all the incidents that had happened during the day. I didn't take her words seriously. The next day, my mother was preparing food in the kitchen when someone pulled her hair from behind. When Mother turned around, she saw no one there. She looked out of the window and saw a person in the backyard.

After this incident, my mother got very nervous, but she did not say anything about this incident to anyone. On the third day, I got a call from my wife's mother. My father-in-law was sick, but I could not get leave from work because an important client had come from abroad and I had to deal with him. So, I dropped my wife off at the railway station as she wanted to meet her sick father.

That night, when I was trying to sleep in my room, I felt alone so could not sleep and decided to go for a walk in the backyard. I tried to get up from the bed but couldn't. It seemed as if some spiritual force was holding me back. After a few minutes, I managed to get up and looked out of the window and saw a few strangers standing under a tree. The next day, when I told this to my mother, she immediately asked me to shift, and we immediately shifted to another house.

But while leaving, we inquired about that house from a neighbor. He told us that a family had mysteriously died in this house last year and that no one had lived there since. They also heard strange voices coming from the backyard of that house, so for many years, no one lived in this house.

But the mystery still remains a mystery-

Who was in the backyard?

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