I am a police sub inspector working for the Indian Police. My cousin is an inspector, to whom I report. Being encounter specialists, we both are frequently transferred all over India. Wherever we go, we clean up the garbage by brutally attacking gangsters, terrorist suspects, drug dealers, human traffickers and miscreants.
My cousin ( the inspector) and I were transferred to the state of West Bengal in India where we ended up destroying the lives of many underworld dons and gangsters while simultaneously attacking some drug dealers and smugglers.
We were thanked by the police seniors in West Bengal and thus were made to temporarily be in-charge of a police station, but not before taking a small break over the weekend. Everyone here told us that we should never venture on lonely roads and must never go to abandoned places without a reason. We could be in trouble. We ignored all this and decided to carry on with our work. Killing criminals meant everything to us. Shooting or stabbing a prosecuted criminal was more of a hobby and we would do it always. Thankfully for us in the Indian Police, there is no such thing as an off-duty cop and we are allowed to keep guns with us at all times and make arrests at all times.
When we were in West Bengal, we were invited for a party by one of our childhood friend who was a major in the Indian Army, was resigning from the Army after having served in Sudan and Somalia and Yemen.He said that he would be joining as a police officer and was just taking a break for now. He was very elated to meet us and told us to attend the party at his huge bungalow which was on the other side of the town.
Given the fact that our friend was re-entering our life, we decided to attend the party and ask what he had to share with us, about his experience in the other countries.
My cousin (the inspector) and I agreed to drive till his house, but in our police uniform and in our police interceptor to make it look more formal. The other friends and acquaintances joining us for the party were also members of the Indian Armed Forces and the Indian Law Enforcement. So we wanted to fit in with least friction.
The drive brought us to the quieter side of the town, where we had previously hunted down many criminals, but we decided to ignore that and just drive to our friend’s bungalow which was just 20 minutes away from the current location.
The drive was calm, until I heard my friend’s voice calling our names from the dense forest cover nearby. We were shocked! We stopped our police interceptor and yelled at our friend. “Come out man. Stop messing with us, we know it’s you.”
But there was no answer, so we decided to call our friend via the phone and tell him to stop pranking us. Another thing to not forget mentioning was that he was notorious for pranking all his friends during our childhood and we were his favourite targets. Besides, while in the Army, his act of pranking had helped his team capture many terrorists and spy agents. He was a dedicated soldier but never lost his childlike nature. Thus, we had the first set of evidence to charge him with telling us lies.
We were shocked to hear him telling over the phone that he is 100% at home and that he has no intention of pranking us by any chance. We were really scared and did not know what it was. For some reason I began to think that someone was using voice modulation equipment to get us into a trap. So I decided to pull my Glock 19 pistol out, ready to fire.
My cousin ( the inspector) and I suddenly took the decision to just drive away from the place and rush to our friend’s house. In the rearview mirror, I saw a black silhouette running after the car.
I was driving the car at full speed and decided to not look at the rearview mirror or the rearview camera and drive at full speed, I meant as fast as the car could go.
We reached my friend’s house and just ran into the gate screaming his name out. He came running downstairs to check on us and asked us as to what took us so long and as to why we are so disturbed.
We told him about everything we experienced and asked him what exactly happened.
He told us that what we experienced was a Nishi Daak. It is a very devious and menacing spirit in Indian folklore that lures people by calling them by their names and also by the voice of their known ones.
When they fall into the trap and are lured by the voice into a potentially empty location, the Nishi Daak brutally ends their lives and nobody knows more than that.
He told us that we were glad to have escaped the Nishi Daak and that we were also close to being a victim of the Nishi Daak.
He told us to forget about the incident and enjoy the party and also crash in his house for the night. He told us that the Nishi Daak will not follow us or anything.
He also told us that if we hear a voice of a known person coming from a suspicious location, give it time, because the Nishi Daak, like most other spirits of Indian culture will not call more than twice.
We were happy to have escaped the wrath of the Nishi Daak and have decided to take more care. Anyway, we crashed in his bunglow for the night. We had our weapons and communication equipment near the bed itself so it would not be a problem to respond to any emergency.
However, we kept the windows shut and the curtains closed for some reason.
THIS IS A FICTIONAL HORROR STORY THAT HAS NO RELATION TO ANY REAL EVENTS.
ANY RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS AND INCIDENTS MENTIONED IN THE STORY AND INCIDENTS AND CHARACTERS ELSEWHERE IS PURELY COINCIDENTIAL.