The Oldman On The Staircase

Friends, today the story which I am telling you is a very strange supernatural experience which happened to my uncle (let me mention here, once again, not my maternal one).

My uncle (now dead) used to go for his business trip to Ahmedabad (a city in Gujarat, a state in India) . Whenever he used to come back home at night, he always used to see a unknown Maharashtrian old man dressed in dhoti and kurta, sitting on the staircase.

First of all, my uncle used to think that he must be some relative of our tenants, sitting and chewing tobacco on the staircase. First he used to just ignore that man and things were going finely, when suddenly one day things turned worse for my uncle. One day, at late night when he came home, the old man, asked him, "Hey Mohan (my deceased uncle's name) in Marathi, how are you? How is business going on?"

My uncle felt strange about him being asked something from an unknown old man, but he chose to ignore him, as he was old. Later on the same thing continued and finally my uncle got angry on the man and asked him angrily " Who are you and what you want?"

To which that old man replied in a silent manner, "Don't ask me who am I and what I want. I am just telling you, don't come in my way ever again. Next time you come, you will be found dead here."

My uncle looked at him in anger and was going to beat him, when suddenly he observed his feet, which were twisted back. Now he realized that he was talking with a ghost and fell ill badly after he went home, but chose not to mention to anyone. But since, it was a question about his bread and butter, he kept the sacred ashes of God in his pocket and after wards, never ever saw the unknown old man's ghost ever afterwards and he continued to keep it until his death in 2007, even when he shifted to a new home and nothing of that bad and evil sort ever took place with my kind and innocent, pure hearted uncle.