The courage to step out of the comfort zone will make a person's attitude much more mature and resilient in facing challenges.
However, not all hopes align with desires, especially if the mental strength is not yet sufficient. This is the condition experienced by a young man when he decided to pursue his education at a boarding school.
Instead of becoming independent, his new life left him with deep trauma. This young man from Malaysia shared a dark story from 10 years ago when he lived in a dormitory.
He described his dormitory as having three floors and being located in a remote place.
The mysterious events he experienced began when the third floor of his dormitory building was left empty and uninhabited. This piqued the young man's curiosity.
"The academic year I entered didn't attract many new students. So, the surroundings of the dormitory were quite quiet."
"My room is on the ground floor. But every time I want to go to my room, I always look up to the third floor."
"Because from a distance, I feel an unpleasant aura." The third floor has been empty for years, but why?" he said, beginning his scary story.
When asked by their senior, they fell silent, as if hiding something that should not be known by many people.
" Seniors always say there are 'certain things' that are better not to be known. "Even though it sounds scary, it actually makes me more curious," said the young man.
Even so, the young man's stubbornness turned out to backfire on him when he discovered the truth that only brought misfortune.
"One day, my friend was unwell. So he didn't attend the exam in class. I decided to take care of him in the dormitory."
"At that moment, it crossed my mind to take this opportunity to check the atmosphere on the third floor of the dormitory," he said.
While his friends were busy with exams, this young man was happy to finally sneak out of his room.
He had imagined...and finally being able to find out the reason why all the seniors and some teachers were afraid to talk.
"But before I could step out of the room to explore the third floor, I suddenly felt very drowsy."
"This is very strange, because my body has been feeling fresh all this time. I automatically jumped onto the bed and slept first," he said.
Not long after falling asleep, he woke up. Faintly, he heard someone knocking on the door of his dorm room.
When he turned his gaze to look at the wall clock, it was only 3:30 PM. It's impossible for the kids to just be coming back from their exam at this hour, she thought, full of confusion.
Even..more surprising was when the young man discovered that his sick roommate had also disappeared without a trace.
"My friend is no longer here." The room suddenly felt very quiet. The outside also felt extraordinarily silent.
"The sounds of other dormitory residents were not heard, not even the sounds of animals, as if I were in a vacuum space in the sky," he recalled.
When he opened the door to leave the room, the young man was astonished to see that it was already night and pitch dark outside.
Earlier, he had just seen that it was still 3:30 PM. The dormitory looked empty, as if it were a school holiday.
"I was the only living being in the dormitory yard at that time." The body feels cold when the night wind blows gently.
"I looked up at the sky, neither the moon nor the stars were visible, it was pitch dark." Fortunately, the light in front of the dormitory is still on.
"Even that one flickers a lot like it's about to die." Suddenly, my body felt like it was being pushed to the third floor," said the young man.
It turns out that what was found on the third floor changed the young man's life forever.
"One by one, I climbed the stairs, and the atmosphere was indeed very quiet." Finally, I reached the third floor, the hairs on my body kept standing on end. The situation there is very cold.
"So cold that white smoke comes out of my mouth every time I breathe." My body is shivering. I'm trying to process what's happening.
"Suddenly, I was grabbed from behind, my neck was ensnared by something." I couldn't identify what that 'something' was because I couldn't see behind me. Its grip is very strong.
"I immediately felt weak." At the same time, I smelled a rancid odor piercing my nose. After that, a hoarse voice tried to speak in my ear. "But I didn't understand because it sounded like a foreign language," the young man recounted.
In that state of panic, the young man tried to fight back to save himself. Despite the pain and shortness of breath from the choking, the young man continued to struggle.
"Is this what death feels like?" I can feel death approaching. I try to fight it, but I am getting weaker.
"My soul feels like it's being pulled out of this body." Memories of life are playing in my head like a replayed video. "I have already surrendered," he said.
Suddenly, his ears caught the recitation of the holy verses of the Quran, which seemed to come from nowhere. It wasn't very clear, but he could hear it.
At that moment, the noose around the young man's neck suddenly loosened by itself, and his body fell limply to the floor.
"Falling deep into the ocean of darkness. I fell into a bottomless pit." My vision blurred and I lost consciousness," said the young man.
The young man finally woke up, and a big surprise awaited him. His body jolted, and he felt sweat soaking his entire body.
"I tried to open my eyes and was shocked to see that I was already in the dormitory prayer room. I was surrounded by other students."
"They formed a circle around me. It was as if they were reciting something towards me." A sense of panic seeped into his body, what does all this mean?" he recalled.
It turned out that the young man had just fainted and was being treated because he was disturbed by a supernatural being while going up to the third floor of the dormitory.
"There was a man wearing a cap and a white turban who approached me, introducing himself as a cleric. He said I was being treated for disturbances caused by supernatural beings."
"After my condition stabilized, I was taken home and decided not to return to that school. I enrolled in a regular daily school," he concluded.