Chapter 4 : Greetings from entities

Chapter 4 : Greetings from entities

2005, Late April. My Mom and I went to my relatives place in bulacan to take a three days vacation. Their home is in remote location with numbers of trees surrounding the house. They had a mini garden in their front yard and a little old hut you can hangout on the side. Neighbors are distance away, so you can only hear some animals or insect on that place. It is truly a very relaxing spot if anyone wants a break from city noise.

The room they gave us is on the first floor and has only one bed that is right beside the wall. It is a long room with one window that is facing the old hut outside.

Before going to sleep that night, my mom told me to throw away our trash outside where the trash bin is located , but I can't find where the bin is, I looked around and found a sack of trash beside a tree a few meter away from the house. I'm about to put the trash in the sack when I heard a silent but clear " psst " near me . I was taken aback, immediately put the trash on the sack and look around, there's no one. Then a "psst " sound again, I heard it three times. It is clearer than the first one. I feel weirded by it, then my Aunt came out from the house saw me.

She ask me what am I doing there and come immediately inside, she looks so surprised to see me there, but I notice how she looks around us then told me .

"Bilis,pasok k na, dapat di ka na pumunta dyan,"( come here immediately,you shouldn't go there ) ,after she said that ,we both heard another "psst " sound . My cousin come out too when she heard his mother. Both of them look around while I go to them .

I didn't dwell much on their reaction that time , as both of them laugh it off and said "wala Yun, wag mu pansinin," ( it's nothing, don't mind it anymore)

That night, I dream something peculiar. I can remember it by the detail. It is windy with a bit of rainshower. But I can clearly see the raindrop that is blown by the wind . I was standing alone infront of the old hut, I look up at the dark clouds then down at the hut. This time ,there is someone. The face looks like an old plump woman, round face , slanted eyes that I can't almost see the eyeballs. She has a hat that is made from dried leaves and she wear the same long dried leaves on her body like a coat . She has no expression, just staring at me . The raindrops are blown to the right side but her hat and coat leaves are blown to the left. Then little by little, three more appeared on her back, they had the same clothing and hat but their faces are blurry. I can feel the four of them are staring hard at me.

From the very beginning, I am conscious that it is a dream and every moment of that dream I already want to wake up. But all that time in that dream. I also just watched them until I naturally wake up.

The moment I woke up. I saw a white cloth like mist passed by infront of me right off the bat. Then it gently flew through the wall. It disappeared just like that. I stare at the wall woodenly for a few moments,still shocked on what I saw ,then I woke up my mom beside me. I told to her what I saw ,both in dreams and reality.

In the morning , she told my aunt what I saw, my Aunt told me,

"Baka binati ka Lang nila, ", (Maybe they are just greeting you,) ,then she never want to talk about it anymore. I don't know why.