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This happened with my friend back in 2015. I am from India. I belong to the state of Himachal Pradesh and I was born and raised in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. Himachal is known as Devbhoomi(the land of deities), so a state where Deities exist, Ghosts and witches will also exist there. It's a very common thing to encounter supernatural in Himachal. It's because 90% area of Himachal is covered under forests and mountains, so ghosts prefer areas like that, which are away from population and make it their abode.There's a famous tourist spot named as Prashar Lake in Mandi where many tourists visit it throughout the year. Back in 2015, it wasn't explored much by tourists from other states and it was only known and visited by the local people of Mandi. My friend was scared shitless when he narrated me this story and I know he didn't lie about this at all. His name is Chaitanya. One day, he went with his another local friend on a two wheeler(scooter)to Parashar Lake. It's about 45kms away from where I and Chaitanya lives in Mandi. They went in the afternoon, reached Prashar, visited the temple, clicked some photos, relaxed over there for sometime and started their return journey around 5pm. On their return journey from Prashar Lake to Mandi town, it was already dark by that time. Between the journey of Mandi town and Prashar Lake, you will encounter many spots where there's pin drop silence everywhere and the place is isolated and silent. With thick deodar and pine trees surrounding both sides of the road giving off an eerie vibe even during the daytime, there are a lot of lonely stretches on the road. No population, no house and completely isolated area. So, on their way back home, when it was pitch dark, un fortunately their petrol (gas) tank got empty and ran dry and engine immediately lost its power and the two wheeler stopped. They ran out of gas. In india, what's most popularly called as Gas in western countries is known by petrol. The two wheeler belonged to Chaitanya's friend so he scolded his friend and confronted him in anger that why he hadn't kept the tank full before they started their journey. After spending some time on that lonely road with no traces of a nearby house so that they could ask for help from someone, both decided to drag the two wheeler as far as they can so that if they find a nearby house, they can borrow some petrol(gas) from them. After dragging the two wheeler for sometime, they noticed a girl coming from the opposite side of the road. It was pitch dark at that time and there was no street light or anything. The very first thought which came into chaitanya's mind was , what is this girl doing all alone by herself at this lonely stretch of road and also there's not a single house nearby. As the girl approached closer to Chaitanya and his friend, they both were mesmerised as she was extremely beautiful and was wearing a himachali traditional woman attire of a village girl. Chaitanya was smart enough to realise that something was really off about the whole situation and this girl so when that girl came closer to Chaitanya, he tried to ignore her completely and decided that he will not communicate with the girl no matter what happens. But to their surprise, the girl all of a sudden approached Chaitanya and his friend and asked them in curiosity, "Where are you going"? Chaitanya chose not to reply to her, ignore her completely and kept dragging his two wheeler. But as she noticed that both of them are ignoring her, she said to Chaitanya, "Do you wanna see a magic trick" ? And as soon as she said it, Chaitanya lost his mind and was scared shitless to what he experienced after that. The girl touched her one finger of her left hand with her right hand and plucked out/removed all her fingers from the palm one by one with her right hand and joined them back. I repeat again, The girl separated/removed all the fingers of one hand one by one from the palm and joined them back again. He looked at her feet. Her feets were turning backwards. And seeing this, a chill ran down the spine of Chaitnaya and his friend and they both shouted at the top of their lungs and hurried up dragging the scooter along with them and running away from the girl while reciting Hanuman Chalisa simultaneously. When they turned back to see the girl, she had disappeared into thin air and was nowhere to be found. Later, after some minutes of struggle to drag the scooter down the road, they finally found a home and knocked on their door and told everything to the local resident about what they encountered. The local resident later scolded Chaitnya and his friend that not to travel on that road at this point of time when it's already pitch dark. A chudail(witch) haunts the road for years and many people have encountered her at the same spot in the past. They both borrowed the petrol(gas) from the resident, filled the tank and reached back home safely late night. And I can never forget even to this day that when he narrated me this whole story, he had goosebumps telling about it and his hands were shivering. A chudail(witch) often takes on the form of an extremely beautiful woman to lure and attract men so that she can hunt them later on. I consider my friend very brave to have encountered something like this and not losing his mind and consciousness while facing her for the first time in his life to which many others would've fainted right at the spot