BY GROUP 4:
Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror Literary historian J. A. Cuddon has defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length, which shocks or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing" It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror is frequently supernatural, though it can be non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society. One of the defining traits of the genre of horror is that it provokes a response, emotional, psychological or physical, within readers that causes them to react with fear.
1. Haunted House.
In a small town in Perak we moved to a rundown house that my parents thought they could repair. I was 4 years old and thought the house was haunted. After 3 or 4 months my parents gave up and we moved to the other side of town. When I was 6 or 7 I started walking to the pool and playground field with friends but always avoided Jts Street. It actually caused fear being on that street.
When I was 9 walked past the still rundown house but in the other side of the street. When in almost in front a little kid about 3 or 4 walks out the front door. He looked exactly like me at that age, same hair cut and everything. He just sat on the edge of the porch with an erie missing tooth grin, big eyes and stared at me. I was terrified and walked home in extreme fear. I kept telling mom the story and she finally said she will call Uncle Muthu and Mrs. Lily who live near the rundown house. They told us the house is vacant and nobody has lived there since we had a few years before.
2. Apartment
This one happened few years back when were residing in an apartment. We are located in Genting Highland. So every weekend my friend, my brother and I will go out for a movie night show. It was just an another day. Its an apartment have 10 houses, the ground floor is for parking and we were at first floor. That night we forgot the main gate key, so had to jump off the wall to get the key (so that we can park the car inside). As I was driving the car I was lazy to get out and jump off the wall so my brother and friend were having argument about who is going to get the key . Finally my friend said he will get it and my brother was in call. So he went up and its been 5 minutes he didn’t
get back.
I tried calling , but he left the mobile in the car, My brother has walked nearly 500 meter while he was talking in call. So I dusted up my butt and got in. I thought he would not have spotted the key. I entered in and got the key which was hanging right at the hall, Then spotted my friend. He was standing in a little passage like area (Where dining table located) and looking towards kitchen (which have attached balcony). I sneaked behind him and thought what was he doing? Might be texting someone or busy with mobile?
I went near him and he have got goosebumps allover , I can see it on his hand, He was dumb struck and sweating like anything. I touched him and shooked then asked what has happened. He did not utter anything but still looking at the corner of the kitchen and raised his hand pointing there. I was damn scared its around 1.30AM. Then he said, I saw something in black colour was sitting at this corner and just whiz passed in to balcony.
I did not thought he must be hallucinating something cos at that moment what he told seem really trustworthy. Then I gave him water and we both walked down back. From that day we never stayed in that appartment alone.
3. My Bed In Infinity
This moment is by far the most scared I have ever been in my life. I awake from some sort of dream and my room is pitch black, I cannot see anything past the sides of my bed (my room is never completely dark.) Also I have a condition with my eyes where I see static interference over most things, especially at night, but this time everything is pure black. I know I am in my room but I feel completely lost. I cannot sense my walls, ceiling, floor or anything. It is a small room, my bed is 2ft away from the wall on my right and 4ft away from my wardrobe on the left. It is like I am surrounded by nothingness, in space all by myself. I keep telling myself I am being stupid but my brain is convinced I am not in my room. My heart is ripping through my chest and all i can hear is thumping. So I close my eyes and try to sleep. In my dream I am sitting in the sky miles above some weird unruined Mayan city which is huge and almost endless beneath me. I wake and I am aware of still being suspended miles in the air, I even think I can see the city beneath me slightly. I look down to my carpet but I see nothing, I lean from the bed so my face would literally be 2″ from the carpet but nothing, I cannot even sense it. I am too scared to leave my bed to try and stand.
I reach for my clock which has a really bright light and the light turns on and fades instantly over 15 seconds and my whole room lights up and my heart returns to a normal level. I fall asleep for 2 seconds and have the same vision again and wake feeling lost. Again I use my clock and calm down. I decide now I am not going to sleep until the sun starts to come up and gives some light.
However as soon as the light from my clock fades, it is like everything has disappeared and I have the feeling of endless space again and my heart thunders. I think to myself “you just saw the walls of your room 2 seconds ago, pull yourself together” but my brain is CONVINCED that everything has vanished. So I reach for my clock and keep it in my hands constantly pressing the light button over and over. I made it to morning and did get some sleep. This is the only time this has happened and luckily nothing like it has ever happened again.
Based on the discussion above, in our life there have many horror story that we will cannot forget. That is because we as a race have a curiosity towards the forbidden things in life.
We get this curiosity sated by watching horror-movies or reading horror-texts; throughthem we test our fears and explore the darkest recesses of our minds. Besides, as a muslim we have our own faith which we need to believe with the only one Allah.
Greetings Group 4,
ReplyDeleteI could not imagine how spooky and eerie if I were the one who encountered those experiences. :( I would be terrified.
However, I would like to ask your opinion on your own belief. Do you believe in ghost and supernatural existence? If yes, tell me why and if no, please justify why.
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Assalamualaikum wbt and good evening to Sir Haziq. I'm Nadiathul Kamaliah Binti Zin Azman. I hope you are in a good condition, sir! First of all, I would to thank you for giving us a positive comment :)
DeleteMuslim belief says that after a person dies, his soul is taken and pleaced in Barzakh. Muslim generally believe in two kind of supernatural entities. First, Iblis or Satan is the one who misguides people creates fights between couples, whispers into hearts to create confusion and mischief etc. Second, Jinn. Like humans, they have free will and can be good or evil. They also live as communities, forming families etc. They are made of fire. Al-Quran has a Surah which talks about a group of Jinn who heard the Quran and become Muslims after that.
Allah know best, I hope this helps. Thank you :D
Yes , i believe in ghost and super natural existence because in this world there are other creatures other than human like devil . When i’m 4 years old i have seen a ghost like a “pocong” at my old house. -maisarah
DeleteI am Thenmolli a/p Pasupathi.
DeleteYes, I do believe in ghost. Ghosts or the worldily essence of the once living, have nearly always been a part of human culture. Ghosts tales. Ghost are found throughout history and within many cultures. Physical proof of the existence of ghosts remains vague, despite the use of modern technology. To help understand the supernatural some people turn to the christian religion to make sense of spirits. There is in Indian too have believe in spirit. For that we doing prayers until 1month to the soul rest in peace. If we miss to doing prayer or not follow the procedure until the prayers such as cannot eat non-veg, cannot drink alcohol and can't cut hair and finger nail. If anything we not follow the spirit will not satisfy and it will still around the world. In my point if view, there is something bad vibration will around us. We can't see or feel that until that think disturbing us. So we need to protect ourself and have more confident in God.
Thank you!
assalammualaikum sir . yes because there are many natural phenomenon that can't be investigated by our technology. Also there is something that we cannot see using our eyes. we possess good evidence that humans are very prone to false belief in invisible beings when those beliefs are based on subjective experience, then I should be wary of such beliefs. And that, in turn, gives me good grounds for doubting that my dead uncle, or an angel, or god, really is currently revealing himself to me, if my only basis for belief is my subjective impression that this is so. Under such circumstances, those who insist ‘I just know!’ aren’t being reasonable. - siti nur rashida
DeleteHye assalamualaikum and good evening sir. I'm Siti Aminah Binti Sa'im. Thank you for your comment and I hope you are in a good condition, sir :D
ReplyDeleteAs a muslim, I belief the existence of ghost and supernatural. Belief in the supernatural is one of the foundation of the Islamic faith. The unseen creature likes ghost, demons, angel and genie is actually exist around us. Even though, it sound creepy, but as a muslim, we only scared of Allah The Mighty. The supernatural creatures can’t bring any harm to us if we not disturbing them. We can protected ourselves by performing prayer, dua’, and always recited Al-Quran to avoid disturbance of supernatural creatures.