Horror Story at the Faculty’s Laboratory July 13, 2007

by Wahyu

When I was in college year, I had a strange experience. I studied at one of state university in Surabaya. The location is on the eastern Surabaya. The campus is so big with its old building. When the night came, the campus looks dark and so quite, because there is no academic activity in the night. Especially after 9 P.M.

My department is located near a small river that divided the campus with old trees and bushes on each side. The wind usually hard and cold because the area still surrounded by swamp. Although there are official house for lecturers and located in the area of the campus, but it’s far enough from the faculty.

Students usually did some activities in the campus area. From playing chess, poker, internet, did homework, study in the 24 hours library, until in the lab. The activities usually dominated by male student, although female student also take part.

The Natural Science Faculty, where I studied, has a legend. The legend related with a female student that was killed because dropped from the top of the 4th floor building some years ago. She was suicide because she had broken with her boyfriend. She was in her last year. She was dropped into the small river near the building and died. Another story is there was a murder in the indoor basketball field. The victim was a female. It happened during my study. But until now the case still mystery. The crime area was near our faculty. Those are some legends in our campus.

Now, come back to my strange experience. One night I did my computer assignment in a computer laboratory in the faculty. I started from 10 P.M. with 5 of my friends. We played MP3 from our computer with rock music, the situation so lively and we chatted about many things from assignment until woman. It was boys talk. When the clock showed 0.00 A.M. 2 of my friends began to sleep at the floor using a mat. And than one by one, they began to sleep until me and one of my friends. We still talked each other about the assignment and we concentrated in our own computer.

When the clock showed 2 A.M., there was somebody called my name. She called couple times. I thought it was my friend trying to terrify me. Than I said to him don’t terrify me, it’s not funny. But she still called me. Suddenly I looked back, at his place, but I didn’t see him. “Where the hell is he?” I asked myself. I looked at the back on the floor, I saw all of my friends had slept. “Wow, so who called my name?” I kept asked myself. I didn’t dare to move my body and when I looked outside at the window of the laboratory, I saw shadow of somebody. It’s look like a woman. But it’s not clear. At that time, I was really afraid because I had never experience anything like that.

And then, I kept my face looked at the monitor although my mind couldn’t concentrate. I tried to yell to my friend to wake up but they didn’t hear at all. I heard the woman kept called my name. My hand felt cold and my body felt eerie. I didn’t know how long it had been going on and still I sat on my chair without noise. After some times frightened, suddenly I heard adzan subuh. My computer clock showed it’s already 4 A.M. and didn’t hear anybody call me anymore. I moved from my chair and walked headed to my friends. I woke them up, and said that I want to back to my boarding room. One of my friend only said yes.. yes.. and then back to his sleep.

I took my jacket and opened the door and than went out from the library to parking area. Although I was still afraid but it was significantly reduced because I believed that ghost is afraid of adzan. I turned on my motorcycle and went to my boarding room. After arrived, I took wudhu and prayed. After prayed, I slept and woke up at 10 A.M. when I felt hungry. I saw that my friends already arrived in our boarding room. I asked one of my friend to woke up and had a dinner. During having dinner, I told to him that I experienced frightening times in the laboratory last night. I said that I yelled to woke up them, but they didn’t hear at all. He looked scared also and said he didn’t want to go to laboratory by himself. Quickly, the story soon circulated among the student. But, we only scared just for few days. The laboratory looked empty. After few days, the laboratory began filled with students who did their assignment. They said that they were afraid of ghost but they were more afraid if they failed the course.