Àkúdàáyà - The Living Ghost. ~ A Pic-a-topic Contest
My fear of Ghost didn't start today, I've had a first hand experience of it, and I must say, its not funny, there are wild discretion to the existence of Ghost. The bible says after Death is Judgement, ghost defies this theory. The existence of Ghost in this part of the world, Nigeria, is something you should know. There are ghosts and there are Ghost, the kind you'll see and piss in your paints right away, the type that gives you a heart attack and pass out.
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Here, they are called Àkúdàáyà, it means someone who has died but still lives among men, some of this spirit gets to live in a distant land away from there relative. I'll tell you of an experience.
Mr A died in Nigeria, after some years he is found to be living in Switzerland. Immediately anyone who have known him before sees him, he disappear and changes location.
An experience happened here in my state, so many years ago. A particular man died, he is the only child of his parent, living the parent broken hearted, he doesn't have a wife or kid when he died, shutting down his bloodline. Ten years passed and out of nowhere, a woman knocked on the door of the parent of this man's house. She asked them if this is Mr and Mrs ......, they replied yes, the woman already have four kids with her, three boys and one girl, they greeted each other and the mother asked, who they were, the wife replied that she is Mrs ......., her husband brought them here by pointing to his family house afar off while he branch at his old time friends house, the wife assure the mother that he'll soon be here.
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The mothers asked to see the picture of this man because she has perceive what could have happened by looking at the boys face, there and then they could see there son. The mother broke down in tears, while the wife couldn't understand what is happening. The couple brought the wife and kids to the backyard where the husband was buried ten years ago. She couldn't believe her eyes, till date, the husband was never to be seen.
We've had so many instances where a family will receive gift from a far away land, with there name on it to there family, only the family knows the sender is dead, while the messenger is left ignorant of it.
That isn't all though.
Another experience ill tell is about Akanbi, Akanbi happens to be a young boy in his early thirties, he was lucky to have made some good money in his business and so decided to have an investment, in this case, a land, he bought it just beside an elderly man. Akanbi went about his business leaving the land to appreciate in value. Then came this Londoner (name/colloqua for someone who just came back from London).
The choice of the area pleased him well also that particular land, he asked who owns it and if he's ready to sell, Akanbi was consulted and he said No, the man was offering to the tune of millions, a land bought for just two hundred thousands, Akanbi declined, the next thing we heard was the death of Akanbi, he was brought to the land for burial, the old man sold the land to the Londoner, he built his gigantic mansion, but never get to find rest in the home, every night Akanbi is seen at the gate of the house, sitting down quietly and cursing whoever killed him for his land, people have reported to have seen him, my dad have seen him too and the street night watchman.
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The rich man never had peace too. He moved out of the house after two years of unbearably living in a hunted house. The guilt of a third party killing of a young man too.
The fact remains, if after death is judgement then why do ghost exist, how come, one thing is also very common with this "ghost", they are the spirit of young people, you cant find a ghost of a man or woman who died at a ripe age. Even if they exist, they don't terrify.
Don't ask me if ghost exist please, I've heard one knock at the window before, asking to be let in into the house.
Thank you @botefarm for your interesting stories about ghosts in your homeland.