AneStory

              As habituated to nocturnal way of life, Hera used to spend most of his nights in college and only go to room when he could no more keep his eyes open. However, for past few days, Hera had noticed the absence of other roommates too at night. And far less number of visitors too!

             A few days back, the owner of the bungalow had come, as always after a month, at first every one had thought it was normal check up on his property. But then someone noticed each time he came and came some Lemons with pins, Turmeric, black doll and other stuff. Curiosity had aroused. And hence Crack made the connection, of the stuff and owner and no moon days! And Cat was out of bag. Everything started looking sinister.

             The whole colony was now being looked through glass of Sherlock Holmes, only difference being, he used to look for clues left by humans, here people were looking for ghosts, banshees and witches. A character sketch was made of people who lived in that locality. It looked like this.

            STD Uncle and Auntie: Too sweet and over excited, always. 

            People with big Compound wall: Kept to themselves, but had one case of mental illness. 

            One of the Hostel owner: Cat woman, has at least 5 of them, Husband is drunkard. 

            Other Hostel owner: Could not speak with anyone unless fighting. Too liberal with girls. Leaves life in secrecy. 

            Lastly: Our owner, comes only on Amavasya, is as pale and white as vampire. 1st wife died in bathroom below!

            That was it, the proof, he killed her and now she haunts the place. This is how people jump to conclusion, and they did. Next time, he came, he forgot to switch of the light of bathroom, yes same one. People coming to room noticed that, which did not seemed to be on in morning, when looked in. On one such excursion to find the root of mystery of on light, Smoky fell to ground only to discover an arrow head with its head rising from earth. That put the seal on this bungalow being haunted.

           And hence Hera's friends became little afraid of coming to room and so did others, many times he slept alone. So one day with Rack, Smoky and Monc, Hera decided to carry out an investigation on his own, for he had not had any bad vibes from this place till now.

          Being, differently intelligent that he was, Hera pulled out all fuse to look at  bulb whether it works, it worked. That sent a chill through his spine. Next day Hera noticed that most of the furniture used to shift away from walls and more towards balcony! Something used to walk over the roof at night, which was made up of cement sheet in some part, which could not have supported weight of a small kid. these things were good enough to move every one out of room, but Hera had no where to go at first. So he stayed put, and ghost did not trouble him, either he was too good or simply worser than the ghost himself.

         With this knowledge came privileges, Hera got recognition among his colleagues as a brave person, fear of theft from room vanished, no one ever tried to come up the room, no one ever bothered to lock it. It was a freedom ticket, Hera, went wherever and whenever he wanted too, without searching for the lock and key, as it was never kept in its proper place!

        Hera got the meaning of phrase, Liberation from chains! He understood what girls felt, how they liked living alone in this alien town and have fun, have freedom! Being independent! Well outrageous, but thats what he thought!