Pankaj's Short Stories

A Mountain 🌿

A beautiful mountain which was in a dense forest. Every year many tourists used to come to climb that mountain. But whoever reached the top of the mountain would not return. Day by day the tourists who climbed it were going missing. A detective named Senan decided that he would find out why so many tourists were going missing. What is the secret of that mountain? It was morning. Dark clouds were engulfing the sky. Senan washed his hands and face and had food and set out alone towards the mountain in a hired car. After a few hours he reached the road which was inside the forest. Senan started going towards the mountain through the rough path of the forest. After some time he reached near that mountain. He started climbing the mountain. He reached a great height of the mountain. He looked up the mountain. On the upper part of the mountain he saw many smiling people who were staring at Senan. Senan did not climb to the top of the mountain but started descending quickly. After some time he reached the bottom. When Senan saw those people, they had one hand behind their back. That means all of them had weapons in their hands behind their back. Their beards, moustaches and nails were quite long. So they were not tourists. They were cannibals. They were killing the tourists coming to the mountain. Senan wrote 'Cannibal' in big letters on the lower part of the mountain with a stone and he started walking towards his home thanking God. After a few years, there was a terrible lightning during the rainy season. Lightning struck that mountain several times one after the other. In this lightning, the cannibal people living on the mountain were killed.