THE TAXI AND THE GHOST

The taxi and the ghost

In my second year of engg I heard this spine chilling story from one of the craziest guy in our branch. It was the time of after midnight hours and there was a power cut. I was sitting on my chair inside my room with two other roomies, when he came inside our room, with a cigarette in his hands. Before that all we were discussing about the presence of supernatural powers. Actually the power cut set up a dark atmosphere in the room, a perfect time to discuss the ghosts and all. He said that he had a story which he read somewhere in a local magazine. The story goes like this…..

One night a lady in her 30s was searching for a taxi cab in the area of church gate, Mumbai. It was 3:00 am in the morning, and no taxi driver was ready to go at that time of night. After half an hour a taxi driver agreed to take the lady to her destination, which was 7 km away from there. He thought that helping a lady in situation like this would add to his good deeds plus he would make some extra money out of the situation. He instructed the lady to sit on the back seat and started the engine. After travelling a few minutes he saw man on the road waving hands to stop the taxi. The taxi stopped and the man requested them to drop him somewhere in between. The driver said it would charge double, the man agreed. The driver thought that he would be able to talk at least if he took the man. So he agreed to take him and asked him to sit in front with him. Meanwhile the woman was silent and was continually watching the dark sky. After a few minutes the lady asked the driver to stop the taxi, when they were crossing a graveyard. The driver stopped and lady went out. She ran towards the graveyard. The driver watched her and said nothing. The man sitting next to driver asked that why did he not asked money from the lady. The driver said “fool! Didn’t you see her feet they were reversed, she was a witch.” The man laughed. The driver looked at him with anger. The man said “dear! You only noticed her feet, what about me?” the driver then looked at the man’s feet and they were reversed. The next morning police found dead body of the driver in the taxi, his eyes turned all black.



After the story ended we were a bit horrified, I accept that is due to the power cut, thanks to the govt. but after a few minutes, my room partner asked a simple question “ if every body travelling that night in the taxi were dead by the day after, then who the hell told the secret of driver’s death to the people who published this story.”
We looked towards the guy who told us the story and he said “yaar! This is the magazine which publishes the stories about Hanuman ji living even today, Ashwathaama living in jungles, aliens in the ocean, end of the world in 2012 etc.” we all laughed.