Government Hostel 🌿

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Many children had come to a government hostel after passing the Navodaya examination conducted in government schools. Once while playing in the ground, two boys named Sanan and Gaman got into a fight over something. Gaman was a little stronger. So Sanan knocked Gaman down in the fight. After this scuffle, Sanan felt like taking revenge from Gaman. Both of them were around fifteen years old. Some days passed. It was Sunday. Every Sunday, the hostel allowed children to watch TV for entertainment. There were many big rooms in the same hostel. There were many beds in those rooms. One of those rooms was considered haunted by people. A child had died in that room for some reason. That room was located on the second floor and it was closed for many years. But today someone had opened that room. It was night time. The children in the hostel were watching TV. The clock was around ten o'clock. Sanan had gone to the market in the morning and brought a claw. Its claw was pointed and sharp. A senior child watching TV said to Gaman- You go and call Sanan. He will also watch TV for some time. When Sanan came to know that Gaman was coming to call me, he went to the room on the second floor and sat down covering himself with a blanket. He went to Sanan's room, but he did not find Sanan. He thought that maybe he had gone to the room upstairs. Gaman reached the room on the second floor via the stairs. He crossed three beds and went a little ahead. He saw someone covered with a blanket. He said- Come on, let's go watch TV. Even after calling several times, there was no response. Then Gaman turned and started to go out of the room, when Sanan covered with a blanket ran and caught Gaman from behind and dug his claws on his hand. Gaman thought that he was a ghost and pushed him hard and ran away from there. There were claw marks on his hands. They looked like nail marks. Sanan thought. Now the children and teachers can come here to investigate. So Sanan also ran away from there. Gaman's hand had become completely red and blood had started coming out of his hand. When the children and teachers saw this, they all got scared. Gaman was not able to utter a word due to fear. Everyone went to that room. But there was no one there. Gaman and everyone thought that this is the work of some ghost. In the morning, the parents came and took Gaman home. Sanan was saved by the ghost. Sanan was standing on the roof and was smiling to himself seeing Gaman going.

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