Voices of the Night: Encounters with the Unseen
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One day me and my three friends left from Gilgit to Ghizer whereby we drove to the village center and con-tinued from there. As we reached the center, the evening call to prayer sounded. My friends mentioned that their sister was staying there and I told them that my brother was too, thus we all agreed to meet after dinner. After dinner, I went to my brother's house but forgot my Quran which I realized only after a while when I returned alone to retrieve it. As I rejoined my friends, we started to hear strange voices, sometimes from the right, sometimes from the left, sometimes from up or down the road. The voices followed us, growing more unsettling. One friend, armed with a gun and in possession of a Quran, encouraged us to continue. We eventually reached a place with three houses and, out of fear, decided to wake up a family. They were hospitable, and after some rest, my friends wanted to stay, but he insisted to leave. As we walked on, the creepy (eerie) voices returned, but we pressed on until we neared a village where barking dogs seemed to chase the voices away. By morning, we reached home, shaken and pale. When we shared our experience, villagers recounted similar tales, confirming the presence of jinns and ghosts in the area. One villager recounted a tragic event involving a sick child, tormented by a jinn. The child eventually died, which intensified the fear and superstitions surrounding these entities. In those days, the fear of jinns and ghosts kept people indoors after dark, especially in the Ghizer valley, where such stories were com-mon.
Once, the entire village was disturbed by loud noises from the hills at night. The next morning, a local grand-mother, known for her connection to fairies, explained that the noises were made by fairies, not jinns or ghosts. She shared that a hunter named Bajji had died from a stomach ache, and the fairies were communicating the event to each other.
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