Goose bumps were all over my arms and I could feel the hair on my neck raising. There was something in there, perched among the dead trees, watching.
I couldn’t be that scared, but there I was, standing by the roadside, in the dead of the night trying to figure out the thing I had just captured on camera.
People in this remote Borneo village had warned me — be extra careful when passing by that lonely stretch, especially after midnight.
“You may see things but it is best that you avoid making any remark or gesture to acknowledge its presence. Ignore it and it will leave you alone,” I was invariably told.
I rubbed the bumps away but the chill was overpowering. I checked my camera again and there it was, with two angry eyes watching.
Damn! That was one place in Borneo you wouldn’t want your car punctured, especially in the dead of the night.
If you ever get into the situation I was in, you could do yourself a great favour by quickly changing the punctured tyre and drive on. It doesn’t pay to hang around or take your camera out just so you could snap into the dark night; because… there may be things out there which you would rather not know anything about.
Even if they are just digital anomalies, they can still scare you, especially if you are alone and stranded in the dead of the night, with dense woods towering above, as though closing in to swallow you.
In my case, though, I wonder if the thing was just digital fault. I wonder too why the digital fault had two angry eyes.
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First time I see your picture here, it looks like moon. 2nd time, still moon. 3rd time and on, still looks like moon.
Ya, it does look like a moon, except that just seconds later it was joined by several others, perching on the same dead tree like birds. It just that I did not post the pictures here… I still keep them though.
Like I said, it is just digital fault. It’s the camera sensor playing its trick.