It was rainy season,and it happened with Me and my two friends Aakash and Hemant. Our group decided to visit Chinchpat Waterfalls which is about an hour and half from where I live. Most of our friends chickened out as the place was infamous for the lives it claims.
We 3 made up our minds to go irrespective of whoever would come or not. We somehow reached the village bordering the waterfall, it was about 45 minutes climb from there. Our first mistake happened here, One old man who was standing asked us where we were going and we replied Waterfalls, he warned us not to go but we didnt listen, he almost begged of us but we merrily continued.
Second mistake, There was a single path but there was no one in sight, but we could hear noises throughout, we went ahead assuming there would be groups ahead, we could clearly see all wrappers and bags littered around. It was half an hour we were climbing not sure how much ahead we had to go. We could still hear the noises and were confident we were going in correct direction,we saw a small stream, we decided to bathe there and return as it was beginning to grow dark. Only Aakash had a watch and it had stopped working.
Third Mistake, I have never met a person who loved throwing himself in water more than Aakash, but he flatly refused to come in, he said he felt uneasy. Me and Hemant egged him but he made it clear that he didnt wanna come, we could still hear other group member's sounds, we were bathing when I saw someone/something move, it hid behind the tree. My throat had dried inspite being in water, I moved a bit ahead, I could see it behind the branch but it was no human, it was in all sense floating, I went to Hemant who was still enjoying his bath and said, "Someone is watching us and we have to move."
"Who's it?"
I showed it to him, he saw but it was not visible to him, petrified within seconds we were out, we noticed then that it had become relatively dark within minutes and we no longer could hear any sound. The way through which we had come(there was only one path) multiple trees had fallen on it, we had to take detour about four times, the path which was a straight one suddenly had 3 to 4 extensions with all of it looking same.
Mistake Four, we were initially walking even after sensing there was someone thirsty for our blood, there was no way that it would have taken us more than one hour for us to cover the distance which had initially taken fewer minutes(30 - 35). I knew our parents wouldn't even find our bodies, it was with renewed energy we decided to run. We ran like crazy chanting Hanuman Chalisa, it was getting dark and we knew the place wanted our lives. It might have been 15 minutes or 20 or 30 we didnt know, we were panting and me and Hemant had broken our footwear. Atlast we saw a hut, we knew we'd be saved. As we panted and reached village outskirts, we saw it was not even dark, infact sun was yet to set, Aakash's watch which had stopped working was working perfectly fine, it was 6.45 something.
As we reached, we prayed, thanked God for sparing us and went to our houses, totally baffled. It took atleast 2 weeks for us to recover from it fully.
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