Fatimah Azzahra Sundaning Asih

XII MIPA 4

The Sound

That night become one of my the unforgettable night for me. It happened last year, when I
was in 11th grade. At that time I lived in my grandma’s house for one year because my house was
under renovation. My grandma’s house is Netherland’s heritage house. The house is very big. The
house can load some families I guess. Beside that, the yard of house is very large. There is many
trees and flowers. It make my grandma’s house so green and shady. Beside the house, there is a
café that owned by my cousin. My grandma said that the house was brought from Netherland’s
government official, so the house is older than my grandma. Even though the house is very old,
but it is still sturdy. Maybe because of the age of the house that is very old, my grandma’s house
is very creepy.
Some years ago, my grandma and grandpa lived there with their drivers, assistants etc. My
parents, my uncles and aunts lived in their own house. But since my grandma was passed away,
some of my uncles and aunts lived there to accompany my grandpa. Because my house was under
renovation, my parents and I lived there too for one year. From people who ever lived there, I
heard many creepy experiences that they had. They said that for new people, they usually would
get “disruption” or paranormal experiences.

My mom said it too, she got some paranormal experiences in my grandma’s house. When
she was in early marriage, she lived there with my dad. My mom told me that she was in the
kitchen, then she met an old lady. So they talked for a while. My mom felt like she has ever seen
that old lady but she forgot. Some days passed. My mom saw a painting of old lady on the kitchen’s
wall. After that, my mom told it to my dad. She asked who was old lady. My dad said that she was
mother of my grandma that already passed away long time ago. My mom was very shocked. Well
that was my mom’s experience, now I will tell you one of my paranormal experience that I got.

As I said before, I lived in that house for short time. Actually, I got bedroom in second
floor of this house, but I prefer slept in first floor, in the guest room exactly. Why I chose it? The
reasons were : first, I hated stairs, it was very tiring to walk up and down stairs. Second, in guest
room, I got wi-fi signal from café beside this house. I couldn’t get this signal in second floor. Third,
there were many dark and scary hallways. Sometime I ran as fast as I could when I through those
hallways. So I thought guest room was the best choice.

Usually, I was in guest room with my cousin. She usually was called Aca. We often studied
or watched together in that room. We treated this room like our own bedroom. We put our things
like books, bags and anything else. We usually spent our time in this room. So that night, as usual,
I was in guest room with Aca. I was studying and Aca was watching Youtube by her mom’s laptop.
around at 11 P.M, we heard something from outside of room.
“Ting.. ting..”

I tried to hear it closely. The sound was heard like sound of clink of plates, like there was
someone ate outside. I was sure that no one ate at that time. Beside it was too late to eat, lamps
outside were turned off. If there someone ate, the lamps would turned on surely. Even though we
felt scared and little bit weird, we tried to ignore it.

The night kept going on. I usually slept late night so maybe that made me felt difficult to
sleep that night. Aca already fell asleep some hours ago but I was still awoke. So, to spent time, I
play my handphone like opened browser, youtube, etc. Without I realized, the time were already
2 A.M. At that time I heard strange sound from around front of my grandma’s house.

“Krieeeeettt…. Krieeettt….”

My feeling started to feel unwell. After I tried to hear clearly, finally I knew that sound. It
was sound of swinging iron swing. There were old iron swing in my grandma’s house but it located
in behind area of the house and far from this room. So it felt so impossible the sound could be
heard so clearly.

Because the sound didn’t stop, so I dared myself to check where the sound came from. So
I opened my window. After I opened it, the sound disappeared. I felt confuse, so I looked around
the yard, but nothing strange. After that I closed the window then I laid on the bed. I was getting
scared but I tried to cheer up myself. Maybe I was just misheard, I thought.

I still couldn’t sleep, so I decided to watch Korean drama by my handphone. After around
15 minutes, that sound appeared again. I become more curious what the sound really was. I opened
my window again, but at the same time the sound disappeared again. I looked around more
thoroughly but still nothing strange. I closed the window and continued to watch korean drama.
But again, the sound appeared after around 10-15 minutes. I opened my window for the third time
and again, the sound disappeared.

It happened three times so I thought that maybe I was hallucinating. But I felt that was so
real. I really heard that sound. So finally I planned if the sound appeared again, I would record it
by my handphone. As I expected, the sound appeared again. So I recorded it around 3 minutes.
After that, I listened it and the sound was be heard clearly. A few minutes later, the sound really
gone and I finally could sleep.

At the morning, I went to school like usual. I planned to tell about my experience last night
to my friends. Arrived there, I told it to my friend passionately. My friends listened my story
excitedly. Then I took out my handphone and searched the recording. I wanted to prove the sound
that I heard last night to my friends. Then I played the recording, but the sound wasn’t recorced.
The recording was empty. I felt confused because I was sure I heard that sound were recorded in
my handphone. I tried to play repeatedly but the recording was still empty.

I kept thinking about the recording until I went home. My friends and I planned to work in
group to do assignment in my grandma’s house, so after school they came with me to my
grandma’s house. Firstly we did assignment seriously. Suddenly I thought to replay the recording.

“Krieeeeettt…. Krieeettt….”

The sound was be heard! Then I told it to my friends and played the recording in front of
them. All of my friend were very surprised because they could hear the sound. In the school all of
us didn’t hear anything but in my grandma’s house we could hear the sound clearly. The
atmosphere became awkward and scary. So we did the assignment hurriedly then one by one of
my friends went home.

Months passed since that night. I almost forgot about that recording sound in my
handphone. But one day, suddenly I remembered about that. So I searched that in my handphone
but I couldn’t find it. I was sure that I didn’t erase or move the recording. The recording was lost
mysteriously.

Now, my parents and I already moved to our home. But, Aca and her families still live
there. Sometimes I still remember about that night. From that experience I can several things. First,
it’s not good to sleep too late. It can give a bad risk for our health. Our body need enough rest
because our activities all day. But, I often sleep too late, that is my bad habit. So maybe that
experience warn me to not sleep too late. And if I slept earlier that night, maybe I wouldn’t get
disturbed by that sound. Second, if we can’t sleep, it will be better if we pray. In that night, to
cheered up myself, I spent my time to watch Korean drama. When I heard the sound, then I prayed,
maybe “disruption” wouldn’t continue. Even if I prayed earlier maybe I wouldn’t hear the sound.
Third, this experience like make me realize that’s true that there’s an another dimension beside our
world now. It should make us to make ourselves closer to God. We should have in faith to great
of God by believe in creation of God.