Long, long ago, there was a graveyard in a small town. In that graveyard, there was a gravedigger named Selim Mia. Selim Mia has done this job for 35 years. He lived alone in a room attached to the graveyard and his family lived in the village. Actually, he was also the caretaker of the graveyard. He was working nicely in the graveyard since he was young and now he gets older. But one day a terrific incident happened in the graveyard.
One morning he woke to the voice of some people. He opened the door with sleepy eyes and got surprised. Some people were standing surrounding the grave, he dug yesterday. He went near the grave. The shroud cloth of the dead body was inside the dead body fragile. The most horrible scene was some parts of flesh were missing from the dead body. Only the face was intact, but the whole body looks like someone had eaten flesh in places. It was a girl's dead body, so he hurriedly covered the body with cloth. After a while, police came to the graveyard and asked him many questions about the incident and if he could see or hear anything. In 35 working years as a gravedigger, he had also experienced this weird incident for the first time. The police investigated, strictly at the crime scene, but there was no weapon or any footprint. As it got later they left the graveyard and told Selim Mia to night watch the graveyard. They took the dead body with them.
Salim Mia did not sleep tonight. It had been raining continuously for two hours, along with strong winds. This cemetery was on the side of the road, but the place was quiet. The houses were far from here. Also, the cemetery had no boundary wall. From here any human even the lights of their houses could not be seen. He was sitting on the balcony of his room thinking about the events that happened in the morning. While sitting like this for a long time, suddenly the presence of something was felt. Salim Mia looked at the watch, it was half past one. Perhaps a fox or a dog had come, he thought. So he ignored the sound, but after half an hour when the sound did not stop he stood up. Moving forward in the darkness, something white seemed to be hoofing the soil of the grave. And as soon as the light of the torch was dropped, the thing turned to look at him. Hey! That was the same face! The corpse that was lying wounded this morning. The only difference was that it had no pearls in its eyes, completely white. She was wearing a white shroud and was digging her own grave with both hands. For a minute Salim Mia was stunned. His sense got back when the body gave a big smile as she looked at him. And just like that, a line of sharp hyena-like teeth flashed in the torchlight. Saliva is running down the teeth. Then it started running towards Selim Mia with great speed. Salim Mia ran back to his room. The rest of the night was spent with extreme fear. When the night was over, he fell asleep due to mental exhaustion.
The next day police came again to the graveyard and search for the weapon, but found nothing. They said to Selim from the doctor's report it had come that the weapon was not sharp enough to cut the flesh of the body. Selim tried to explain if any animal could do it. But police said there were no nail or teeth marks on the body. The body was cut by a weapon. After five hours of hard work, they returned to the police station without any result. And told Selim, they will return tomorrow. When the police car started to leave the graveyard, there was a ferocious smile on Selim Mia’s face. Suddenly he smiled loudly, 'How will you find that weapon? I hid the body when it is being taken for examination. That is nothing more than a big knife, which is used to cut the bamboo that is placed in the grave during the burial. It had become blunt because nobody had been buried for three months. The head was completely stuck due to the intoxication of meat without getting any death for so long. Moreover, the age has increased, or how did I make the mistake that I never do? No one could know that I have been doing this work so beautifully and perfectly for years. Still, no one would have found out if I had buried the body before going to bed. No problem, no one knows anything except me yet. But does anyone really know anything? They know everything. These corpses became my victim. '
From which day he had started this thing could not remember. Just he could remember, one day in a tea stall someone said laughingly that Human flesh is very tasty. Then, during the cruel poverty, he had to starve, he remembered what that man said. Then he did these things in the unconscious mind. Now it has become an addiction. Indeed, human flesh is very tasty.
There was a thunderstorm and load shedding from the evening. At eleven o'clock at night, a light was extinguished in the middle of the cemetery. It seemed someone's torch light. Salim Mia was very surprised. He thought to himself, 'Who came here at night? ' He started walking towards the source of the light. But after going some distance, he saw that there was no light anywhere. He looked around carefully and saw that he was standing in front of a banyan tree. He saw yesterday's corpse wrapped in a white shroud coming down the banyan tree like a chameleon with its head down and legs up. Salim Mia wanted to scream loudly, but no sound came out of his mouth because his whole body was paralyzed. The figure stood in front of him and burst into laughter. He thought that now I have to escape from here.
But he saw there was no way to escape because more corpses that looked the same surrounded him. All of them were very terrible looking. There was no flesh from someone's hand, or from someone's leg. Different parts of someone's body were showing holes and internal bones. Salim recognized who they were, they were all his victims. To this day all those whom he had turned into his food had risen. Today they want to turn Salim Mia into their food. They will not go without avenging the wrong he had done to them. Injustice! Yes, he did injustice by digging up the buried bodies again, he had ruined their sanctity. Unjustly mutilated their bodies. Now they will take revenge for that injustice. They all looked at him and smile. What a horrible, cruel smile. They all surrounded him in a circle, laughing together. And slowly the boundary of that circle started to be shortened.
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