The Dream Visitor: A Sudanese Tale of the Living Dead

Told By : Montasir - Sudan

They say cities are like people, some embrace you the moment your eyes meet them, while others seem to spit you out as soon as your feet touch their ground. And then there are cities that greet you with neutrality, offering no warmth nor aversion. That was exactly how I felt when I visited Kassala, a city in eastern Sudan, for the first time.

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Ablution at Midnight

Told ByAl Saeed (Morocco)

In my early youth, I never believed in supernatural entities or anything unseen, until an incident changed everything. It happened on a scorching summer night in the Fqih Ben Salah province, when I was sixteen years old.

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Bound by the Shadow Lover

Told ByNoor Al Houda (Egypt)

I am 18 years old from Egypt.

I don’t really know how to explain what has been happening to me , it has haunted me since I was a child.

When I was little, my family often told me that I would wake up at night pale-faced, screaming and crying endlessly for no clear reason. I was too young to explain what was happening, too small to understand.

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Chained by a Dark Entity

Told by Najwa (Jordan)

My troubles trace back to a Zār ceremony I attended when I was just six years old, a ritual whose true purpose and dangers I was too young and naive to understand. 

Over the following years, however, the devastating consequences became painfully clear. 

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Whispers Beyond the Staircase

Told  By Mrs. C.B (Syria)

My father passed away just a few weeks ago. It hasn’t been easy. He used to live upstairs on the second floor of our old family home in Latakia. And yet, even after his death, we still hear his footsteps, the same familiar sounds we were so accustomed to while he was alive.

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War Echoes and a Mysterious Woman

Told By Saeed Abdullah (Libya)

I would like to share with you a strange real-life experience told to me by my close friend and trusted colleague, Khaled, a 50-year-old man whom I consider a brother.

Khaled owns an apartment on the second floor of a four-story residential building in the southern suburbs of Tripoli, Libya - a region that had been heavily affected by armed clashes between militias.

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A Tomb Pit

Told By An University Professor (Syria)

I remember that I experienced a strange incidentoccurred in the winter of 1988, when I was 17 years old and was living in a village near "Dara" town in southern Syria, and our neighbors were dealing with a problem in drain , so they drilled a hole in front of their house reached to 3 meters in depth and during the drilling they found a tomb with a stone inclined ceiling from the four corners , then the laborer broke a part of the ceiling so as to gain a buried treasure as well as to the house owners, but the tomb has only the remains of human bones left its impact on the dust and took the form of the body,

I was a witness to that from the beginning and after the laborer finished working and left, I and some of my fellows of young men entered the tomb uncovering the dust and looking for something that may indicate the owner at the rotten bones, then I found very long hair but it rapidly decomposed so I thought that it belonged to a woman and then we kept working till we found on a jar of pottery collapsed in our fingers as soon as we lifted it up , the jar was filled with dust and nothing remained from it except the dust , afterwards we decided to stop because we did not find anything, so went outside and chatted about the graves and the buried treasures, the night of that day was cloudy and my mother was visiting the my aunt’s house and asked me to accompany her to go back with her to our house at 9:30pm.

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The Son of the Sea

Told by Khaled.R. Gohar (Sudan)

In late 1984 or early 1985 I was in a scientific study tour with a group of colleagues aimed to examine the tribes, customs and the environment in Sudan , the mission consisted of about 90 persons , including students, supervisor professors, and workers .. etc., After we did some explorations we reached the South area of (Fung) in the Blue Nile , In a remote village located on Sudanese-Ethiopian borders called "Yabous", we sat down (six of us) and chat in the evening while we were looking to the water stream flowing under a bridge built over a small river called "Khor Yabous" and it was flinging strongly from the depth of the Ethiopian territories, Then we were surprised with the coming out of a creature from the center of the river moving towards the shore and was walking upright on his feet just like human, the vision was clear, its width was about 12 up to 15 meters.

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A Stranger in the Back Seat

Told ByAbdul-Sattar

For nearly fifteen years, specifically after working for several years in the UAE then returning to Egypt, I decided to buy a taxi and work as a taxi driver as an additional income after finishing the definite time of my governmental work at 2 pm.

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My grandfather’s Haunted House

Told By G.L

When I was 10 years old or since 35 years ago, I remember that something strange happened in the house of my grandfather which is located in a popular quarter of the Aleppo city (Aleppo: second largest city in Syria and one of most ancient cities in the world), where the effects of oldness appear on this old fashioned Arabian-style house which is divided into several large chambers in addition to a cellar and a hall (Ewan), a large yard in the middle.

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