Hari Raya Visits

This incredible yet shocking encounter happened to my friend Siti and her family way back in 1993 in their five room flat in Bukit Jalil.

Siti had a spastic, elder brother, Khamis. Khamis was wheelchair bound as he was born paralyse waist down. His arms were skinny and bend in awkward position. He kept grinning and both his eyes looks in the opposite direction. Although in that condition, the family still didnt mind baby feed him for his whole life, for Siti and her family members are the responsible kind.

Khamis couldnt communicate well due to his disabilities and had to communicate using hand signals. He only knows how to made whining and moaning sounds.

One day, Khamis passed away due to brain cancer. He was given a proper Muslim burial. His departure was by coincidence as it happened on Thursday. The day that he was born which was how he was given the name Khamis(Thursday in Malay).His wheelchair was kept for the memory of him.

On that year later, on Hari Raya eve as the family was preparing for the celebration that night for the following day, Siti heard sound of wheel chair in one of the room. While all the family members was in the living room and the kitchen! The family was quite big, there was many people in the house so Siti didnt feel that scared.

She went to one of the room where she heard the sound and found Khamis's wheelchair creepily stood in the middle of the room. She knew that her mum had already kept and folded the wheelchair and put it beside the cupboard. But Siti just kept quiet and thought that it was probably one of her kids playing with it earlier.

That night sleeping she was wasnt sure of what she heard was a dream or real. She heard the fammiliar sound of Khamis voice in the living room.

The next day was Hari Raya, relatives and family members gathered at the house that morning. The celebration went on normally except of course there was no Khamis. They were wrong.

In the living room there was a very big antique mirror at the wall and what happened was... right in the middle of the family gathering that occured in broad daylight in full view of everybody, there was Khamis! A reflection of him in the mirror standing, grinning and looking with his eyes which stared in opposite direction and he seems to wear a white shroud! The kafan!

Everyone was shocked! The children started to cry, while some ladies fainted including Khamis's mother.At last some of the male family members muttered some prayer and the reflection of Khamis vanished as mysteriously as he appeared. By then some relatives had already ran out of the house!

The incident was the most clear and frightening ghostly encounter for it was not only seen by one person but many.The family made some prayers again for Allahyarham Khamis and prayed that may his soul rest in peace.

'Khamis' was never seen again.