u/Major-Beginning-1510

So this is about a few stories that have been known by a lot of people in my hometown.

My hometown is a fairly rural area on a mountain the road hasn't reached people's homes so you can only reach a certain point on a vehicle and then have to walk a km or 2 downhill to reach your home.

When the road to this point was being built the excavator employed to dig out the payload to clear area for the road broke a pipeline of water that supplied water downhill to the town and people were left with no option than to use their personal hose/ pipe to connect the 2 ends in between the broken ends to of the pipe to connect the supply line and then turn on the tap on the top.

Now the supply was a common line so if anyone having a house higher from your house turned on the tap the supply would slow down at lower levels and people wanted that if their pipe is being used they should be able to use the most pressure of water.

One day an uncle of mine was drunk and decided to turn this tap on. My house is literally on the trail to reach that point on the mountain with the broken line so he had to tell us where he was going at night cuz we would have known anyway and asked us to use this water judiciously till the supply was open due to his pipe.

He started off to walk uphill on this trail at around 9-10pm at night and would have been scared to walk at pitch dark night but as I say he was drunk and didnt care a bit.

The whole of this trail of this mountain is visible from outside my house so we were watching him walk

We saw him go uphill with a torch and then watched him walk downhill

The light of the torch used to disappear as he walked among the trees and then become visible again at a point lower than that.

Now as we watched him walk downhill the light went invisible due to trees but the light became visible much lower than what he could have walked at a normal pace we were confused as the light seemed more like a fire lamp and the light hovered around that area.

Then a few seconds later we saw the torch light become visible At a point higher than this flame light and realised that was actually my uncle. We realised something was wrong as nobody walks that trail other than people from my town like there was no reason that flame light could be there in any possible case.

Soon when the torch reached the flame the flame went off.

When my uncle reached my home he said he was not scared at all(drunk ofc) and said he had seen the flame much earlier and knew it was an entity. He had known people say (and this is funny) if you encounter such situation just keep your footwear on your head and try not to act scared and this actually worked for him.

Another incident of this trail has been where another uncle of mine used to go to a field uphill on this trail at night to reach a Field and burst a firecracker or 2 to avoid hogs eating up the crop they had sown. They appararently are scared of smoke and avoid places where they can smell it. He used to do this everyday and stay at our house for a cup of tea and chat later.

Then one day he came back from that trail but didn't stop at our house.

Later we found out he had been spooked by something on that trail at night.

The 'thing' apparently kept surrounding him coughing in his ear sliding a rock and scaring him. He wasn't drunk so he just got scared and didnt wait at our house and decided to just go home.

So this is about a few stories that have been known by a lot of people in my hometown.

My hometown is a fairly rural area on a mountain the road hasn't reached people's homes so you can only reach a certain point on a vehicle and then have to walk a km or 2 downhill to reach your home.

When the road to this point was being built the excavator employed to dig out the payload to clear area for the road broke a pipeline of water that supplied water downhill to the town and people were left with no option than to use their personal hose/ pipe to connect the 2 ends in between the broken ends to of the pipe to connect the supply line and then turn on the tap on the top.

Now the supply was a common line so if anyone having a house higher from your house turned on the tap the supply would slow down at lower levels and people wanted that if their pipe is being used they should be able to use the most pressure of water.

One day an uncle of mine was drunk and decided to turn this tap on. My house is literally on the trail to reach that point on the mountain with the broken line so he had to tell us where he was going at night cuz we would have known anyway and asked us to use this water judiciously till the supply was open due to his pipe.

He started off to walk uphill on this trail at around 9-10pm at night and would have been scared to walk at pitch dark night but as I say he was drunk and didnt care a bit.

The whole of this trail of this mountain is visible from outside my house so we were watching him walk

We saw him go uphill with a torch and then watched him walk downhill

The light of the torch used to disappear as he walked among the trees and then become visible again at a point lower than that.

Now as we watched him walk downhill the light went invisible due to trees but the light became visible much lower than what he could have walked at a normal pace we were confused as the light seemed more like a fire lamp and the light hovered around that area.

Then a few seconds later we saw the torch light become visible At a point higher than this flame light and realised that was actually my uncle. We realised something was wrong as nobody walks that trail other than people from my town like there was no reason that flame light could be there in any possible case.

Soon when the torch reached the flame the flame went off.

When my uncle reached my home he said he was not scared at all(drunk ofc) and said he had seen the flame much earlier and knew it was an entity. He had known people say (and this is funny) if you encounter such situation just keep your footwear on your head and try not to act scared and this actually worked for him.

Another incident of this trail has been where another uncle of mine used to go to a field uphill on this trail at night to reach a Field and burst a firecracker or 2 to avoid hogs eating up the crop they had sown. They appararently are scared of smoke and avoid places where they can smell it. He used to do this everyday and stay at our house for a cup of tea and chat later.

Then one day he came back from that trail but didn't stop at our house.

Later we found out he had been spooked by something on that trail at night.

The 'thing' apparently kept surrounding him coughing in his ear sliding a rock and scaring him. He wasn't drunk so he just got scared and didnt wait at our house and decided to just go home.