• Problems may pass by in our lives and tragedy may occur during one of them, but there is a mystery that we cannot solve from the past.
    My name is Leibniz Lagura and this is my Tragic Banquet...

    One night, me and my clan were having a Grand Reunion Banquet held in the main house which is the house I temporarily lived in. The women are in the dining area, the men are in the living room, some of my family friends are chatting near the living room; on the other hand, I was sitting in the stair way to my room where I can see all of them. My brother and father are not yet here so I was waiting for them to come until...

    ...I heard something not right...

    "AAAH-!" It was some of my family friends near the living room. As I checked on them, they fell from the floor. The floor that they are standing is a weak floor, and so they fell and die. Unfortunately, the house was a three-floored one. It was stiff before, but it's weakening now.

    Lights then suddenly turn off before our eyes, the ladies in the dining area also suddenly vanished. One of the walls in the living room collapsed and squished every men, one of them got struck by a ply wood with a nail on his head. I was the only one who survived, and I was terribly scared.

    I hide in the stairs, kneeling down and asking help from God to rescue me. I know hiding in the stairs was not enough, but I think that it would be a bad idea to go and stay upstairs. I was terribly afraid that I might die. I kneel down and begged God "I don't want to die!" I thought. Though I also felt guilty when I begged, I some times say I don't want to live, but I'll take that back.
    In the stairs, I can see some black hair. "Oh no!" I thought, still hiding and imagining a scary ghost, "It might be a white lady or something. AH! I can't take this anymore!"

    As the head goes up little by little, it was our nanny! I was supposed to call her but I can't believe what I saw! I saw her being piggy back ride by a nothing! As if she was floating, talking to something, smiling and said "You're funny!"
    As she approached to me, I asked without thinking, "Nanny, may I ride with you?"
    "Oh, okay!" She replied, as if nothing happened.
    And so I was piggy back ride by her while she was piggy back ride by a ghost or something and I don't know why. As we went down, I saw one of my Arnis sticks. I took three of them, trying not to make "them" notice it as we continued to walk.

    We finally reached the door and I hurredly ran outside. As I got out of the house, the house suddenly collapsed and turn into a nothing. With fear, I ran with my Arnis until I saw father and brother on the way. I explained to them what actually happened and thank God, they both believe me. And so we left the house and never returned.



    Few years later, father died due to an old age. It was me and brother left. We never agreed to each other, but it was the first time that he took pity on me while I cried in our father's grave yard.
    Years later, brother worked as a businessman and I worked as a lawyer, I was in Norway at this time. News came to me that some people sometimes see a group eating together in the house at 12 midnight. The house I'm referring was the house we left, but I didn't get to visit that place ever since we left.

    In the coffee shop, I put down my coffee in the table, looked up in the sky and I saw a figure of a two children and their father, it brings back memories.
    I thank God...

    ...that we survived...




    I also heard, that a boy around my age also survived in the incident. He, now, lives in Australia. Who was he?