If you’ve watched Harry Potter and thought that’s witchcraft, well, clearly you’ve never been in Africa. I’ll virtually take you inside Africa and it’s mysteries.

I just brought a new home in the borough of Johannesburg in Gauteng. The house was perfect. It had two large bathrooms with two bath tubs and two showers. Three bedrooms, a dining room and one large kitchen.

I enjoy being on my all day, plus I’m in a new town away from home in Durban and I don’t know anyone here so nobody bothered me.

Few days later I started feeling sinister odd sounds coming from the next room from which I was in, but when I listened carefully I heard nout. It was summer, the hottest summer I’ve ever felt in my life, but oddly my room was always cold. Like deep freezer cold. I didn’t mind since it was always hot outside.

One evening, loud banging on the door, hasty and heavy panting on the door made me jump clumsily on my bed and rushed to open the door. Whoever it was was either running from something and a criminal. So why was I rushing to open the door because whoever it was is partly dangerous. There I was grabbing my door handle and opened the door. I was appalled to what I saw…..

Nout. Zich. Niks. Nothing was there. Nobody. I just felt freezing breeze pass past me. My brain froze, and it was like I saw a ghost. Okay, nothing there so I closed the door and sat down in the dining room tryna analyse the banging and panting on my door. Could it be kids just tryna play Halloween with me. Or had I imagined everything. Or maybe it happened on T.V. Yeah that was the only reason I could come up with right now. So I allowed myself to believe that although I doubted it.

I presumed to watch my favourite soapies on the television. It was already time for Scandal. I couldn’t help it but shake the feeling that I was being watched. I looked around the room but I didn’t see anyone. Obviously I was alone who was I hoping to see.

Suddenly it felt like someone was in the shower but when I got there no one was there but it was wet all over the bathroom as evidence that indeed someone was showering here. Again I thought my mind was playing tricks on me and maybe I had left it like that after showering before the banging and panting on the door.

While I was busy cleaning the shower I smelled eggs and russian coming from the kitchen. This thing is happening my mind is not playing any tricks on me. I went to the kitchen shivering and my voice quaking as I yelled ”hello”. Again when I got to the kitchen no one was there but there was an eaten plate of bread, eggs, russian and polony. I definitely didn’t make this food cause I had already cooked dinner. Pap, gravy and chicken. So I definitely wasn’t alone. The big question is, who else is here? Where’s that person, why are they hiding themselves and how did they get in? This was a puzzle I’m prepared to solve immediately.

As I was busy talking to myself in the kitchen, the T.V switched on and off. I thought of trapping the bastard and leaned over the wall to see who it was. And you know what I saw?! I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES. There was the remote with no one holding or controlling it but the T.V kept switching on and off. Heart don’t fail me now, courage don’t desert me as I need you now more than ever.