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| By Kamal Ghazal |
In the early hours of Friday, November 30, 2003, a horrifying tragedy unfolded in Apartment 112 of the Saray El-Sultan building on Mohamed Mazhar Street in Zamalek, Cairo. Within just 15 minutes, an astonishing 69 bullets were fired from an automatic weapon by Egyptian businessman Ayman Al-Sewedy. In a fit of rage and emotional collapse, he gunned down his wife, the celebrated Tunisian singer Zekra, as well as his executive director Amr El-Kholy and Amr’s wife Khadija. The massacre ended with Ayman turning a pistol on himself, taking his own life in the same blood-soaked apartment.
For 20 months, Apartment 112 remained sealed by court order, untouched and undisturbed. But the horror refused to stay buried.
A Plea to Reopen the Apartment
In mid-2005, Mohammed Al-Sewedy, Ayman’s brother, submitted a formal request to the Qasr Al-Nil Prosecutor’s Office to lift the wax seal and inspect the property. The reason? Guards and neighbors reported bizarre, unexplainable occurrences: windows opening on their own, strange scratching sounds, cries resembling fighting cats, and even small stones being thrown from within the sealed apartment.
The apartment had become, in the words of residents and staff, “haunted.”
The Return to the Crime Scene
Accompanied by law enforcement and Mohammed himself, a police unit arrived to unseal the door. One officer, seasoned in crime scene investigations, described a sudden sense of dread he couldn’t explain. Although he had seen the corpses back in 2003, this time was different charged with an oppressive, otherworldly tension.
Inside, traces of blood still stained the walls, floor, and furniture. A chilling memory returned: Zekra, in her white training suit, lay slumped on the couch, clinging to a pillow riddled with bullets. The body was gone now, but the scent of death lingered.
The stated reason for reopening was to inspect whether a bedroom window, once found inexplicably open, had been tampered with. After careful inspection, authorities found no signs of forced entry, the window had opened from inside. Yet the apartment had been sealed.
Ongoing Phenomena: Sounds, Stones, and Specters
Building guards reported that the elevator consistently stops on the second floor at 5:00 AM, the exact time of the murders, despite no one summoning it. They also heard quarrelsome voices, and chilling cries they compared to "fighting cats" from within the apartment. A particularly disturbing incident involved stones being hurled from the bedroom window, witnessed by guards stationed outside.
According to one night-shift guard, panic set in when he and a colleague saw the elevator inexplicably stop on the 2nd floor. Soon after, they heard shuffling and clattering noises, followed by a weak crash outside. Rushing to investigate, they found nothing until they looked up and saw the bedroom window open, stones dropping to the street below.
Fear Among Residents
While many of the apartment building's residents are foreign nationals, some have indeed complained to the building union about eerie nocturnal noises, often between midnight and dawn. The union chair reportedly downplayed their concerns, but guards remain adamant: “There is no doubt. Something unexplainable happens in Apartment 112 every night.”
Recent Updates (as of 2025)
Although the apartment has long remained uninhabited, recent online discussions and social media posts suggest that the legend of Zekra’s haunted villa lives on. Paranormal vloggers and amateur investigators have attempted to document the apartment, though access remains highly restricted. Reports persist of lights flickering, whispers in recordings, and a heavy presence felt even outside the door.
Despite modernization in the building, Apartment 112 remains vacant, its doors closed, its secrets sealed in silence… yet never quite still.
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