Under the Spell

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315 Anonymous 2010/10/12(Tues) 22:06:06 ID:OT0QzzvRO

This story may seem slow-paced at the start, but please bear with me.

Firstly, let me state that I'm totally sane with no history of mental illness.

It happened around this time last year.

While I was outside, I needed to make an urgent call but I didn't have a phone on me.

So I had no choice but look for a phone booth and make a call from there.

When I finished the call, I tried to get out of the booth, but found my way blocked by a guy wearing a black hoodie standing right in front of the door.

I thought he was just waiting to use the phone, so I mumbled,

"Excuse me,"

and got out of the booth and tried to leave, when I got grabbed.

I got grabbed by the arm.

What? Turning around, I saw the guy was about as tall as me (I'm 179.9cm tall. So close! lol)(*Note: he is saying he's nearly 180 cm tall but isn't).

He was small-built...or rather, I would say, gaunt-looking.

I couldn't see his face because he was looking down and his face was obscured in the shadow of his hood. Besides, it was already in the middle of night and pretty dark around us.

Perhaps he's mentally ill? I became a little nervous.

"Can I help you?"

I said, but he just kept looking down without saying a word.

From under the hood peeped the lower half of his face.

His mouth kept twitching.

Now thoroughly creeped out, I shook myself free from his grasp and ran away.

316 Anonymous sage 2010/10/12(Tues) 22:07:17 ID:OT0QzzvRO 

OK, so now I come to the main part of my story.

Some days later, on my day off from work, I went out to have dinner with a friend.

You might have guessed it already, but this friend of mine was a spiritually sensitive person (*Note: he can see ghosts and such).

We went to the restaurant where I was a regular customer and ordered some noodle and a set meal with fried pork.

It was when we had finished our meals and come out of the restaurant, and were heading towards the car discussing where to go next, that I bumped into another friend of mine.

(From here on, I'll call the guy with who is spiritually sensitive A, and the other guy B)

"Hey! Haven't seen you for a while!"

I left A standing where he was and went up to B to chat with him.

After a while, I thought I should introduce them to each other, and turned around to look at A ---

--- and found him glaring at B.

I wondered if he was annoyed because I had left him out of the conversation.

OK maybe that was rude, but no need to behave like that!

Slightly annoyed, I opened my mouth to give him a piece of my mind; but I was interrupted.

A was the one who opened his mouth first. He was still glaring at B.

"Who the hell is he?"

What's wrong with this guy? He would easily have found that out, if only he had let me talk!

I thought, and said,

"You mean him? Well, this guy... this guy here is...."

Then I stopped. No more words would come out of my mouth.

First I was like, huh? Wait a minute. Next I thought, yeah, who is he? Then I felt a chill crawl up my spine.

Yeah, who the HELL is he?

317 Anonymous sage 2010/10/12(火) 22:08:36 ID:OT0QzzvRO

I turned around with a pounding heart.  

B, who had been chatting with me cheerfully only a moment ago, was now looking down at the ground. I saw his mouth curve into a faint smile.

I froze from the shock.

"Let's go."

A pulled my arm, and I was jerked out of the trance-like state.

Quickly I got into the driver's seat and we drove out of the parking area.

"That thing is no good."

After driving on for a while, A said to me with a cigarette between his mouth.

"No good at all. You made something like that take a fancy to you?"

I said to him, do something!

"I can't. It's not haunting you."

If it haunted me, would you be able to do something about it? I asked.

"Would you really want me to make it haunt you, just so that I could do something to it?" He replied.

Since then, I have often encountered B in various places, and sometimes I had to run and hide in A's house in order to escape from him.

Just yesterday I met him again on my way home from work, so that is why I decided to write in this thread.

To whomever has been patient enough to read my story, thank you.

Perhaps it doesn't sound very scary to you, but to me it's very scary.

319 Anonymous sage 2010/10/12(Tues) 22:13:39 ID:5T9h62f20

What kind of things do you talk about when you see B?

320 Anonymous sage 2010/10/12(Tue) 22:18:44 ID:1ZpErngaO

Well done for writing down the story! >>315-317 

Shit! I have goosebumps now.

You seemed to have fallen under his spell when you met him at the phone booth.

321 Anonymous sage 2010/10/12(Tues) 22:19:25 ID:OT0QzzvRO

    >>319

 I can't remember what sort of things we talked about. I put the same question to A soon after that, but he told me, "I was too busy glaring at him that I wasn't listening."

That was the only time I talked to B.

  

322 Anonymous sage 2010/10/12(Tues) 22:21:22 ID:5T9h62f20

Can anyone else apart from A see him?

You said you've met him a few times, but do you run away as soon as you see him?

  

   

323 Anonymous sage 2010/10/12(Tues) 22:22:08 ID:1ZpErngaO

    >>319

 Yeah!

That's a major thing that needs to be cleared up. 

Why did he think B was his friend

And what did they talk about

325 Anonymous sage 2010/10/12 (Tue) ID:OT0QzzvRO

   >>320

Thank you. I think that's what happened, but I can't be sure

It wasn't as if that particular phone booth was a well-know haunted place.

It stands in a lonely place, but otherwise it's just a normal phone booth.

  >>322

Sorry, I don't know.

As far as I know, me and my friend A are the only people who have encountered this entity.

If I see him again I will just run. Yesterday I saw him on my way home so I was able to just go home, but the worst case scenario would be him waiting in front of my house.

>>323

That's been bothering me too. But I don't remember it

and A doesn't want to tell me about it either. I'm sure he heard what we talked about

329 Anonymous 2010/10/12 (Tue) 22:55:21 ID:PfZbjQ8G0

>If he sometimes waits in front of your house other members of your family must have seen him too?

>Why don't you try to talk to him

According to what 315 said I am quessing this person(?) B probably is invisible to his family.

But his friend A can see him and can even make him go away.

I suspect A has a pretty good idea about what B is, but he can't tell you for some hidden reasons? 

This is all what I have been able to conjecture from the narrative.

331 Anonymous 2010/10/12 (Tue) 23:09:13 ID:OT0QzzvRO

   >>320

 If it was human I would have simply called the police. LOL

The first couple of times I saw him I thought he was human, but I don't feel it is human anymore especially after what A told me. 

Here is a summary of what A told me:

・ He could do something to it if it haunted me, but it is not haunting me.

(It only chases me. I don't know how it is different from being haunted, but I don't feel haunted either.)

・It is impossible to tell what it really is, but we cannot make it go away, (In other words, the only thing I can do is run.)

333 Anonymous sage 2010/10/12 (Tue) 23:19:35 ID:PfZbjQ8G0

>>331

>>He could do something to it if it haunted me, but it is not haunting me.

But once you somehow recognised B as your friend, right? 

That is scary. 

I don't know if you are bewitched by B or not, 

But it appears B is able to influence your mind and thought in a way that isn't normal. 

In my opinion, this phenomenon isn't caused by a spirit but some other sort of more troublesome entity. 

475 Anonymous sage 2010/10/14(Thur) 20:19:41 ID:EIADgkMtO

It's my day off today so I decided to write more about B. 

First, you should all know that I am totally sane. 

About a year ago, someone I knew died. We recently held one year death anniversary for him in the hotel where I work. 

I was part of the team that organized the ceremony. 

A was attending the ceremony too. 

Let us call the man who is no longer with us as C. 

A had a great deal of respect for C, and I too felt the same. 

That is why I feel relieved that he died --- C could finally return to the place he was meant to be. 

When C died, that was the thought that crossed my mind, and I cried. A cried too. 

Both of us cried together in the restaurant we usually go. 

We drank sake (*Note: Japanese alcohol drink made of rice) which we don't normally drink, and kept crying, saying how happy we were for C. 

477 Anonymous sage 2010/10/14(Thur) 20:21:24 ID:EIADgkMtO

Now onto the subject of B. 

I don't feel so threatened by B. The reason for this is because this C had the same experience as me before. 

 "I am not sure if it was the exact same entity as B," C warned us, but said, "it was following me before." 

C referred to it as "Take-Over." 

I summarised his story below: 

・ In the past, C used to have an entity similar to B stalking him.

・But he didn't know if they were the same entities (Meaning, he didn't know if it was B in a different form, or another spirit of the same kind).

・Normally, there is nothing you can do about it. Things like purification ritual would have no effect on it. 

・However, he thought A could do something to help me. A, who was listening to C with me at the time, nodded to his words. 

・Before it stalked C, it used to stalk an acquaintance of C (But he didn't know if they were exactly the same entities either).

And C added at the end:

・In time, it would naturally go away.

I remember feeling so elated after hearing all those things from C, because I felt I had just learned about the essence of what B was. 

At the same time, I felt relieved. 

If I waited, it would disappear. If I remained patient, I would eventually be free from this fear. 

479 Anonymous sage 2010/10/14(Thur) 20:29:37 ID:EIADgkMtO

And right now, I have a plan.

I am going to make B disappear. 

C said A might be able to help me, but I think I can also do something about it if all the conditions are met. 

The only problem is that so far it has never turned up at the time when I thought I was ready to do it. 

I am waiting for the time when the conditions are right and B turns up too. 

Until then, I will do my best not to provoke it and keep running away from it when I see it.

I have said this before but I will say it again; I am not mad.