A creepy incident took place in school today. School ends at 5.30 pm nowadays and onwards because of exams. And I didn’t have to supervise the second session of exams so as usual, by 5.20 pm, I’d be packing my bags already, preparing to escape a.s.a.p.
As I was packing up all the exam papers (all of which I am done marking), I heard a student come into the staffroom to talk to the discipline teacher. That’s not unusual either. But the thing is, after that, I turned around to the windows behind me, and I saw a few boys running after one boy in front. That wasn’t unusual either since fights are not unseen.
Let me draw a simple diagram to illustrate it. The below is the rough sketch of the buildings’ locations, all of which is connected by roofed pathways.
Okay.. I was in the staffroom and behind my seat is the windows facing Block A & B. So all I had to do was turn and look.
The boy was in his classroom in the first floor of Block B.
So about 5 teachers ran out after that and I didn’t know what happened yet. But I thought they’re probably gonna stop a fight or something. I didn’t budge cos I needed to pee and wasn’t going to run after the unknown.
The red line represents the boy and other boys running after him.
The blue line represents the teachers who split up to find the boy.
The smiley face is me in the comfort of the teachers’ room.
Not long after, the teachers came back. The afternoon supervisor and a couple of the other teachers just now brought a boy back to her office which is at the end of the staffroom block.
One of the teachers who went for the chase told us that the boy was hysterical and ran straight out from his classroom with his friends in tow, who were trying to catch him.
Their classroom is the nearest to the stairs and the boy half ran and half jumped down the stairs as witnesses by another teacher in the class a floor below. He was seen to be agile like a monkey the way he jumped down the stairs. Mind you, it was raining heavily and the stairs are usually dark because there’s no light there.
Then he ran from block B to block A to the students’ toilet. I managed to see the group of them running from block B to A.
All the while that he was running, he was murmuring to himself. This is where it got creepy. He said to himself that something’s after him and he must get away. *goosebumps*
The teachers caught him at the toilet and somehow calmed him down and as I said brought him back to the afternoon supervisor’s office. They then brought him to the toilet to wash his face to wake him up further more I guess.
They called his parents to bring him home and I didn’t see him after that. The teachers were worried sick. And I believed the teacher in the class at that time (they were just doing revision on their own since they’re not having exams at that time) must have been scared even more. I had goosebumps all the time until I reached home.
One of the teachers saw him and another friend playing with coins (you know how you hold the two coins lightly on two fingers and you crash them gingerly to produce the high pitch chink sound?) and chanting all that time as though to summon a spirit not unlike the Ouija board.
I’m not saying that it’s connected but it’s a bit too much of a coincidence. And we’re often heard of people going hysterical especially after meddling with things we deemed supernatural like the Ouija board.
What’s my take on supernatural occurrences?
I’ll just say that I won’t disbelieve it and that I will keep an open mind on that. Well, what we call supernatural is what we don’t know. And what we don’t know, we tend to be scared of.
Back in the days when people thought the earth has edges, everyone is scared to reach the edge to fall off the face of the earth. And then someone comes up with the theory that the earth is a sphere and the idea was ridiculed.
Same thing here. Just because we do not know about the existence of supernatural/paranormal powers yet, we are scared. And we’d rather not think or face it in anyway. But one century ahead, who knows what might happen?
Someone might discover something new that will show reasoning for all these. Same goes for UFO. I shall keep an open mind.
But the incident is freaky nevertheless. I have often heard of stories of hysteria but have never seen it. Whether or not the incident has any paranormal connections, we shall leave it at that.
As I get older, I get more timid and lose more of my courage for acceptance of such things. I do not watch horror movies at all unlike my younger self who loved horror stories. Anyway, we shall let that be and hopefully I can still enjoy my weekends 
