dear Reader

Supernatural Stories | Apr 15, 2012 | 6 min read
36 Votes, average: 4 out of 5
Dear Reader
The contents of this letter is of the utmost importance to you.  Do not put it down, but read it right through to the end.   For reason that will soon become clear to you I do not know how soon after I write this letter it will be read.  It can be days or months.  Therefore I urge you, once again, to read the whole letter no matter how old it looks.  It reveals the secret of everlasting life, but not in the way you expect.
You see I write this letter to get your help.  I am being held a prisoner.  I am in a prison from which I have no means of escape.  It is not an earthly prison, but more of a psychological prison.  Only you, the reader of this letter, can help me escape.  Your reward for helping me escape will be the secret of everlasting life – which I will gladly give you.
Ju-Sugh.
The prison that I am in has no roof.  I cannot see the blue sky that I was used to, but only a dark red heaven - if you can call it that.  There are also no walls that I know of.  It is just one big open space.  I can walk for days and I will always end up where I started the minute that I stop.  If that isn't torture enough I am tortured by an evil demon, by the name of Unnarroz,  - he was the one that originally put me in this prison.
Un-Na-Roz
He tortures me in the most dreadful way imaginable.  Holding a flaming hand in my stomach for hours.  Cutting off my arms and then let insects come and sting me in my face and all over my body, knowing full well I have no way of defending myself.  Sometimes he let the insects go in under my skin to torture me from the inside.  At times like these I will scratch until my skin comes off in bloody pieces.   The pain is excruciating…and it never ends.
My clothes have disintegrated long ago and I am totally naked.  It is either freezing cold, or burning hot.  Never in-between.   So even when the demon is not here, I am being tortured.  You say you don't believe me; that I should have been death by now.  That is the beauty of it.  Here in this prison I can't die.  I am not getting older and I can't die.  I have everlasting life.  Whatever limb or organ the demon cuts off me or out of me, simply grows back when the torture sessions stops.  But the incredible pain is very real.  The demon will be able to torture me for all eternity, but you can help me escape.
You must help me escape.
But let me start right from the beginning.  This whole thing started with my friend, Gavin De Bruyn.  Okay, not really my friend, but Gavin and I knew each other since we were together in primary school in Elsies River.  We were never what you can call friends, but we knew each other.  I don't think Gavin had anybody that he could call his friend, because he was a kind of loner and he always did things that we others found strange.
Nat-Mal-Jus-Ba-Chag.

As technology became better and better, Gavin was one of the first computer geek guys.  He knew everything about computers and he even built his own computers.  You remember those ZX Spectrums and later the 286's?   Gavin became an expert in all of them.  We used to go over to his house to see this wonderful technology.
Then the Internet appeared like an unstoppable force and the world as we knew it came to an end.  It wasn't long before Gavin was on the Internet and I am sure that he met up with other "strange" people like himself from all over the world.  Gavin became weirder and weirder.  He now learned stuff that he never would have if it wasn't for the Internet.
So it wasn't long before he tried to call up a demon.  This was where I learned that words can have great power.  Just think about it - everything that we have in our world is there because of words, whether it is spoken words or written words.  Every invention, every  discovery; everything started with words.  All the holy books of all the religions even describe how the Universe and the earth was created by the particular god saying some words.  "Let there be light" and there was light.  So you can see that words are extremely powerful.  Whether you hear it, read it, say it or write it; it is powerful.  More powerful than you can even imagine.
So Gavin downloaded these ancient words from the Internet to call up this demon, Unnarroz.  By calling up Unnarroz with the correct words, he would have power over the demon and the demon would do his bidding.  If he told the demon to bring him a beautiful girl, he would have a beautiful girl; if he told the demon to bring him a million rand, that is what he would get.  So once he was in control of the demon he could have whatever he wanted.  The same like the genie in the bottle who worked for Aladdin.
Maybe the words that he got from the Internet were wrong or maybe he pronounced them wrong, but what happened is that he did succeed in calling up the demon, but the demon wasn't under his power.  He was under the demon's power.  And the demon then transported him to this prison, where I am now, to torture him forever and ever.
After years of unending torture Gavin found that there was one way to escape from Unnarroz.  He had to provide the demon with another human in his place.  Gavin agreed to this and that is how I landed up here and Gavin back in the real world.  You see Gavin succeeded in trapping me here in his stead for Unnarroz to torture.
And now, after years here in this place I have also figured out how to escape.  You see you write a letter - like this one.  The demon deposits it somewhere in the real world and it traps the first person who reads it. (I heard that Unnarroz nowadays also post it all over the Internet on Horror Story Sites and other forums.)  In any case, there are three words that the person just have to read out loud, namely  Jusugh, Unnarroz, Natmaljusbachag; (there you've read it for the second time now) and he or she will be placed in this prison where I am now.  The exchange happens at 00:00 of the next day that the person reads it.
Once you have read those words, there is no way to stop the process.  That is how powerful words are.
So, as you can see my dear reader, your fate is sealed.  Just try to remember as soon as you arrive here that you can write a letter to escape.  Nothing about this place is good, but try to make the best of it.  You possibly still have some time left so write a few letters and say goodbye to your loved ones.  Even if you escape from here, you won't see them again, because too many years would have passed in the real world.   At 00:00 you will arrive here.
Also try to remember writing the letter - to trap someone else - as soon as you can.
And remember you have everlasting life now, you simply cannot die.  Only problem, you will pray for death every second that you are here.
Thanks for reading this letter.    Thanks for giving me back my life.
Marina Louw

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Joanne Jan 14, 2013

Your awsome how long did it take you to do that

Andreea May 2, 2012

Just amazing! :) I really really like it! :D I'm glad I read it! Keep writing dear, you're doing a veeeery good job. ;)

André Apr 21, 2012

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Jacob Apr 20, 2012

is it real

André Apr 18, 2012

Thanks, Amit. I am glad you enjoyed it.

Amit Apr 17, 2012

very nice story ... actually the best story I've read after a long time.

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