Haunted Lies part 1

INCIDENT 3

Mrs. Joseph’s Plant

4 JUNE 1999

PLACE: Daman

Dear diary,

Interesting information to share with you.  You remember few days ago Mrs. Joseph gave us her plants to look after them as she was going to her native? There was something which I experienced for the first time.  No doubt those cute bonsai plants were cute enough to be loved. The day when Mrs. Joseph gave those plants, around 5 in the evening an old man approached us.  Vineet, my husband asked his identity and there he replied to be Mrs. Joseph`s relative.  He said he would come to water those bonsai every evening.  We thought that Mrs. Joseph did not want us give much trouble and therefore she had arranged a gardener for her plants.  He used to come every day and water his plants, but never spoke anything with us.  Finally Mrs. Joseph arrived yesterday and she was pleased to see her plants.  Vineet and I went to deliver her plants and there I told her about the gardener she had arranged; now the twist came here.   While filling the water cane in the kitchen, she told that she had asked none of her relatives to water her Bonsai.  Now that was mysterious but the very next moment we heard Vineet shout from the hall.  Both of us ran to the hall to see that Vineet stood dumbstruck.  He just pointed something on the wall.  He pointed towards a photo on the wall, the photo of the same old man who claimed to be Mrs. Joseph`s relative. The photo read “IN REMEMBRANCE OF MR. SAMEUL JOSEPH” and below that “1940-1989”.  A freaky feeling ran down our nerves.  Mrs. Joseph told us that bonsai plants were his favorite and few days before was his 10^th death anniversary.  Vineet and I did not disclose anything to her and we pretended to be very stupid for the behavior.  Guess what?  We came home and wondered about it silently and now today morning both of us pretended that we have forgotten everything but the feeling still persists.

Priya Mathur