Amit looked around nervously and said, “The EMF meter is going crazy, but there’s nothing here. I can’t see any dark entity at all.”
Trying to remain calm, I answered, “That’s because you all removed those bands. Whatever was attached to them may already have been set free. I only hope God forgives us for taking such a dangerous chance.”
My words immediately changed the atmosphere. Amit, Abdul, Peter, and Diljeet exchanged uneasy glances. The confidence they had shown earlier slowly disappeared. The flashing green light from the EMF device reflected across their worried faces, while an unnatural silence surrounded us. It felt as though unseen eyes were watching from the darkness.
I broke the silence again.
“Abdul and I never touched those bands. We should head home now. It’s already midnight, and we can continue our investigation tomorrow. Sometimes these devices give false readings.”
Even as I spoke, I wasn’t fully convinced. The EMF detector continued to beep and flash at maximum intensity. The entire area seemed strangely lifeless. There were no barking dogs, no passing vehicles, not even the usual sounds of the city. Only an eerie stillness filled the night.
Then we noticed something.
Slowly, from behind a broken wall opposite us, the head of a man emerged.
He was completely still.
His pale face stared directly at us without blinking, his head tilted slightly to one side. It looked as if he had been standing there all along, waiting for us.
For a moment, nobody moved.
Diljeet suddenly shouted, “Hey! Stop!”
The instant his voice echoed through the street, the figure reacted. He quickly ducked back behind the wall and started running.
“After him!” Amit yelled.
Without thinking twice, we sprinted after the mysterious stranger. The EMF meter screamed wildly in my hand as we chased him through the narrow lanes. He moved with incredible speed, weaving through the dark streets of Faisal Colony.
We raced after him, our footsteps pounding against the ground. Abdul stayed close behind me while Peter and Diljeet tried to get ahead and cut him off.
Then we witnessed something that none of us could explain.
The man reached the entrance of one of the colony’s narrow streets. Just as we thought we had cornered him, his body seemed to shake for a brief instant.
And then he was gone.
He didn’t turn a corner.
He didn’t enter a house.
He simply vanished.
A cloud of gray smoke briefly appeared where he had been standing, swirling through the air before fading into nothingness. Seconds later, the street was empty.
No footprints.
No movement.
No sound.
We stood there in complete shock.
Amit broke the silence with a whisper.
“You all saw that... right?”
Peter slowly stepped backward. “He... he disappeared. He literally turned into smoke.”
Diljeet wiped the sweat from his forehead despite the cold night air. “That wasn’t human.”
Abdul looked at me with fear in his eyes.
“But he came to this street,” he said quietly. “This place must be connected to whatever we just saw.”
At that very moment, the EMF detector stopped flashing.
The silence returned.
None of us spoke during the journey home. The confidence we had carried earlier was completely gone. Every shadow looked suspicious, and every distant light felt unsettling.
By the time we reached home, it was almost two in the morning.
We quietly washed up, changed our clothes, and sat together in the living room. Nobody joked anymore. Nobody talked about false readings.
We opened a few energy drinks and shared some snacks, hoping to distract ourselves from what had happened, but the memory of that disappearing figure refused to leave our minds.
Finally, Amit spoke.
“Tomorrow... we’re going back.”
No one argued.
Soon, exhaustion overpowered our fear, and one by one, everyone fell asleep.
But the night had one final horror waiting for us.
Exactly at four o’clock in the morning, Abdul and I woke up at the same instant.
At first, I thought I had imagined it.
Then I heard it.
Someone was crying.
The sound began softly, but within seconds it became louder and filled with terror.
“Please... don’t kill me...”
The voice was coming from the room where Amit, Peter, and Diljeet were sleeping.
Abdul immediately sat upright.
“You hear that too?”
I nodded.
The cries became desperate.
“Don’t kill me! Please!”
We rushed to their room and pushed the door open.
The sight before us sent a chill through my body.
All three of them were thrashing in their sleep. Tears streamed down their faces as they held their hands up, trying to protect themselves from something invisible.
“Don’t kill me!” Amit screamed.
Peter was shaking uncontrollably, while Diljeet cried like a frightened child.
The room was empty.
There was no shadow.
No figure.
Yet the terror on their faces was undeniable.
A dreadful realization struck me.
Whatever we had encountered in Faisal Colony had followed us home.
I grabbed Amit by the shoulders and shook him.
“Wake up! It’s only a nightmare!”
Abdul did the same with Peter and Diljeet.
After several tense moments, they slowly opened their eyes, gasping for breath and looking completely terrified.
“What did you see?” Abdul asked.
Amit wiped away his tears.
“It was that same man... standing beside us.”
Peter nodded quickly.
“He kept coming closer.”
Diljeet’s voice trembled.
“He told us... we should never have removed the bands.”
A heavy silence settled over the room.
I walked over to my bag and took out the protective amulets that the Sufi Baba had given us during our investigation.
I handed one to each of them.
“Wear these,” I said firmly. “And whatever happens, don’t take them off until this is over.”
This time, nobody questioned me.
With trembling hands, they put on the amulets.
Almost immediately, they seemed calmer. Their breathing slowed, and the fear gradually left their faces. Within a few minutes, exhaustion pulled them back into a peaceful sleep.
Abdul and I remained awake.
The clock showed 4:30 AM.
The house had become quiet again.
But my mind kept replaying everything—the flashing EMF meter, the pale face behind the wall, the desperate chase, the cloud of smoke, and the horrifying nightmares.
This could no longer be dismissed as coincidence.
Something had been awakened.
And it had already begun revealing its presence.
As the first rays of dawn slipped through the window, I realized that our investigation had entered a far more dangerous stage.
That narrow street in Faisal Colony was not merely a clue.
It was a warning.
We had interfered with something we did not understand.
We had removed the bands.
And whatever we had disturbed was deeply angered.
The only question now was—
What awaited us in the days to come?
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