When I Was Screwing Around in India

I was in India, that was my vacation. I had a good time. It was fun. I bought trinkets, none of them gave me a reading. I should explain myself though, I'm a Objectionist. My own little word for someone who Professionally reads objects.

I bought this little flute, hand carved, it had some strange symbols that I couldn't find info on. I didn't bother or feck around with it. I simply played it, though I wasn't quite good to be completely honest. I was improving in skill over time, faster than I expected.

I started having strange nightmares; all of them had some basis around wooden flutes or music. When my skill grew, the nightmares grew in intensity. The nightmares all contained me, impaled on large flutes, music notes causing my head to explode. It all was quite graphic.

I played for some time more, thinking nothing of it (quite foolish). When the music began to form words in my mind of murder and mayhem, I destroyed the flute in a fire of sage, took the ashes, prayed over them and buried the urn deep in my backyard, where the grass has stopped growing since.

I never found out what was causing this, I never found out what the symbols meant, I don't even have a vague recollection of what they looked like.

To this very day it haunts me.

6 Comments

ShadowPeregrinus Jul 11, 2008

Duuuuuuuude.... you destroyed the devil's flute! Some dude sold his soul out to become the greatest flute player in the world... but in exchange his career... his love life... and everything was ruined... his name was Ron Burgundy and played a mean jazz flute. :)

Truthfully though, cool story. Is that the only 'possessed' object you've come across? Seems you got some history with this stuff considering the sage preparation.

brucekidz Aug 6, 2008

lol. that was an awesome story and the person that commented first is right. if you had any more experience then you should definitely write about it...please? lol.

Spacey Dec 12, 2009

You say to this day it still haunts you. Do you mean the memory of it, or are you still having the nightmares?

Kay Mar 30, 2010

Objectionist makes me think of someone who objects to everything- kinda like when I was in school and I said I wanted to be a naturalist when I grew up- everyone thought I meant a nudist, lol!

Terrible thing about that flute. Good thing you got rid of it though, so no one else would have to deal with that. Very cool story too.

hero May 16, 2011

hi!

I am an Indian and I DO NOT believe in your story AT all!

its dumb!

i play flutes and every week (almost) i buys a new one.

If you bought the flute from some traditional exhibition then the markings could be either sanskrit or gujrati or malwari or any one of the 30 indian languages!

Magicsunshine Jan 11, 2013

Interesting story. =)

I would've enjoyed reading you're story more, if you went more into detail on what happened to you while owning that haunted object. Maybe you could write it again =)

Oh and I believe you, things l like that do happen...