When I Was With Kuntilanak
This story happened in early 2008, specifically in January 2008. I had just returned from working abroad after five years in a country where Petra is majestically carved between mountains of stone and desert sands. In 2008, I returned from my travels to a neighboring country between Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. At that time, I bought a handycam, and because I’m the curious and playful type, this story happened. That afternoon at 6:00 PM, just after Maghrib prayer, I asked my fourth sister to go ghost hunting in the cemetery near my house, armed with my handycam. But because my sister is a bit scared, she didn’t want to stay long and decided to go home, leaving me alone in a bamboo grove among graves, some of which no longer had tombstones and were even leveled with the ground. That night, I sat alone under a bamboo tree, observing my surroundings. It was a Wednesday night. I set my handycam to infrared mode. An hour passed...