Indonesian Horror Story

The Forbidden Shrine

Rima, a young and adventurous Indonesian woman, decided to explore the hidden parts of Bali with her friends, Samantha and Jim, who were American tourists visiting Bali for the first time. They walked deeper into the forest, far away from the familiar tourist spots, which they found quite boring. As they strolled down an unfamiliar path, the sun started to set, leaving the forest cast in shadows. Rima suggested they should head back to their hostel before dusk, but Jim insisted they keep going, as he wanted to see more of the island's hidden secrets before they left.

Suddenly, Rima noticed that the path they were following had started to resemble a graveyard, with gravestones littered everywhere. Samantha and Jim felt uneasy, but Rima tried to calm them down and move them away from the graves. But they soon realized that they had made a grave mistake. They had unknowingly wandered into the forbidden shrine.

As they got closer to the shrine, they saw an old woman in a white kebaya sitting in front of it. She had a forlorn look on her face and was staring at the shrine, muttering strange incantations.

Jim, thinking she was a local, approached the woman and said, "Excuse me, ma'am. Can you tell us where we are and what this place is?"

The woman didn't respond and kept looking at the shrine. Rima and Samantha looked at each other nervously as the silence became more awkward.

Suddenly, the woman turned to them and spoke in a deep, raspy voice, "This shrine is cursed, and those who enter it will never return."

Rima, Samantha, and Jim were petrified. They knew they should have listened to Rima and turned back. But now it was too late.

Without another word, the old woman disappeared, leaving Rima, Samantha, and Jim alone at the entrance of what appeared to be a forgotten and forbidden shrine.

As they stepped inside the shrine, they felt a sudden chill. They could hear whispers and footsteps echoing around them. The shrine was dark and the altar was covered in black cloths, probably to conceal its heritage. The air was heavy and stagnant. They could sense something was wrong.

They saw shadows moving around them, slowly approaching. The shadows took form, and they could see the outlines of two young girls standing in front of them.

One of the girls, who appeared to be eight years old, with hair covering her face, shrieked in a high-pitched voice, "Leave us alone! You have no business being here!"

Jim, Samantha, and Rima were dismayed and scared, not knowing what to do. Suddenly, a cold hand touched Rima's shoulder, and she screamed.

The group soon realized that they were not alone in the shrine, but rather surrounded by the spirits of those who had died there previously. The spirits were angry, and they wanted revenge.

Rima, Samantha, and Jim ran out of the shrine in terror, chased by the ghosts of the young girls and the cries of the old woman. The forest seemed to have transformed, and they were lost, unable to make any sense of the path ahead of them.

They ran blindly, trying to find a way out, but at every turn, they encountered more spirits and cryptic symbols that made them realize they were trapped.

As they wandered further into the forest, they came across a small village, and the villagers warned them about the forbidden shrine being cursed. They finally understood the full gravity of their mistake. They had unwittingly unleashed the curse by entering the shrine and were now at the mercy of the vengeful spirits.

Rima, Samantha, and Jim tried various cleansing methodologies and techniques, but all efforts were in vain. They were never the same and haunted by the spirits every day for the remainder of their short and painful lives.

They realized that the curse of the forbidden shrine was never ending, and they had condemned themselves to a life of everlasting suffering. They would tell their story to others they met, in hopes that they would learn from their lesson and never blindly venture where the locals warned them not to go.