Nattarg
Ghost on the rooftop..
Ghosts? Don’t be ridiculous, as a scientist you know that there are no such things. But you see in Nattarg Apartments there was a ghost..
We all know that there isn’t anything magical about the rooftop of Nattarg Apartments. It’s just bare open space with not a single piece of furniture. The only sign of life up there are the cigarette buds of the Asian guy in flat 13 who goes up there for a smoke. There’s also the guy in flat 20 who sits with him sometimes. Late at night though when the general public is either in bed, drunk, drinking.. or getting there, a small figure takes the stairs from the first floor up to the rooftop. The figure stands watch for a little while before taking a sit at the far end corner. There it stays unmoving for about an hour before making its way back to the first floor and there all traces of existence vanish. None of the security cameras have been able to catch the figure’s ascend and/or descend every weekend. This phenomena just became known and accepted as the “Bride’s visits”
Rumors say that raised voices could sometimes be heard from the rooftop during these “visits”. There have been no eye witnesses though as no one who has lived to meet this ghost has lived beyond that point. Well, that’s just a bit dramatic don’t you think? The truth is that no one has ever seen her. She was dubbed female when one of the rumors claimed that she left a very faint scent of parfume in the air. Some say she curses, others say that she weeps. One school of thought is that she was a girl who lived in a house which had been located where the present day Nattarg Apartments was built, so she goes up to the highest point of the building to cry for her lost home. Another is that she was a wrongly accused and killed witch who was buried beneath the building. So she hunts and curses all the tenants every few nights. The most widely accepted though is that she was a bride left waiting at the altar, jilted by her lover. And still, even in death she makes her way to the altar to await her beloved. When it seems like all hope is lost and her lover doesn’t show she wails and cries up there and leaves.. Only to return the next week to wait again.
So many imaginative ideas dontcha think? But I know the truth. About the little creature that lives on the first floor who loves to just sit up there at night and gaze at the stars and reflect. Hoping beyond hope that she understands what she needs and sending thanks for her circle. I know this because she tells me so.. every weekend when we sit together on the rooftop of Nattarg Apartments watching the skies and envisioning worlds beyond our own. She was that kind of person.
The rumors were right about one thing, she is female. Not your average Casper unfortunately but interesting enough for a living apparition.
The rumors were right about one thing, she is female. Not your average Casper unfortunately but interesting enough for a living apparition.
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