WEBVTT - Haunted in Hijab: A UAE Ghost Story 0:00:05.921 --> 0:00:07.281 Apote Production. 0:00:10.201 --> 0:00:12.801 Welcome back to the Chills, the podcast where we tell 0:00:12.841 --> 0:00:16.201 you a story that's hard to believe, unless, of course, 0:00:16.441 --> 0:00:20.081 it happened to you. Let me introduce you to Rachel. 0:00:20.601 --> 0:00:23.361 She's like you and probably like me. She's a bit 0:00:23.401 --> 0:00:26.680 of a skeptic, but she has been surrounded for most 0:00:26.681 --> 0:00:30.001 of the life by people who do believe absolutely. 0:00:30.121 --> 0:00:33.400 I think the way that I've always taken this on 0:00:33.841 --> 0:00:36.601 is that as a family, we've sort of grown up 0:00:36.641 --> 0:00:40.041 with it. We've grown up around that sort of there's 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:45.201 something more. Mum is very much into it. She's very intuitive. 0:00:45.721 --> 0:00:50.321 My youngest brother he is super intuitive as well, And 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.481 I think that's where it's left me sort of in 0:00:52.521 --> 0:00:52.881 the middle. 0:00:52.921 --> 0:00:54.481 They always call me the fence sitter. 0:00:54.801 --> 0:00:57.961 Okay, but you're not WU right. I wouldn't call you 0:00:58.001 --> 0:01:02.761 wu No, I'd call you know, interested. 0:01:02.241 --> 0:01:07.441 In question marks? Yeah, question mark. Yeah, that's a good way, yeah, yeah, nar. 0:01:07.521 --> 0:01:10.440 Rachel used to be a long haul flight attendant. She 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.681 was in the mid twenties and life was pretty good. 0:01:12.801 --> 0:01:16.441 She lived in the UAE and was flying all over 0:01:16.521 --> 0:01:17.041 the world. 0:01:18.681 --> 0:01:24.000 Yeah, mid twenties and flying all over the world for 0:01:24.041 --> 0:01:28.720 a living right, glamorous job, and where I was living. 0:01:28.961 --> 0:01:33.041 You were put into certain accommodation, so you were given 0:01:33.241 --> 0:01:37.360 units in buildings where you could live, and that that 0:01:37.521 --> 0:01:38.920 was just a part of the package. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.321 So you weren't based in Australia, you were based. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.121 I was in Apple Dubbe. 0:01:43.321 --> 0:01:46.521 Yeah, so really interesting single girl living in the Middle East. 0:01:47.121 --> 0:01:51.161 To be honest, when I first remember first the very 0:01:51.161 --> 0:01:54.401 first morning, that call to prayer that came and it's 0:01:54.441 --> 0:01:56.801 sort of crawled across the air and you have your 0:01:56.841 --> 0:01:58.841 window open, and you think, oh my. 0:01:58.841 --> 0:02:00.801 Gosh, what have I done? 0:02:01.361 --> 0:02:06.520 And it is the most it's so powerful, and you think, 0:02:06.601 --> 0:02:08.921 oh my gosh, have I made the right decision. I'm 0:02:08.961 --> 0:02:12.601 in the middle I'm in the Middle East, I'm a female, 0:02:12.721 --> 0:02:17.961 I'm all alone. And the apartment that I had been given, 0:02:19.321 --> 0:02:23.281 you're usually housed with someone. But my particular person that 0:02:23.361 --> 0:02:27.761 I was housed with locked her door in her room 0:02:28.081 --> 0:02:31.041 and then just moved upstairs with her boyfriend because obviously 0:02:31.081 --> 0:02:34.881 it was not allowed. So I therefore had our apartment 0:02:35.161 --> 0:02:37.961 all to myself. But I had no idea what was 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.081 past that door, never had seen in her room. And 0:02:41.121 --> 0:02:42.800 I mean, this is like two and a half three 0:02:42.881 --> 0:02:43.681 years worth of. 0:02:43.601 --> 0:02:45.281 Living by myself. 0:02:46.201 --> 0:02:50.801 But this particular building when we got given our locations 0:02:51.161 --> 0:02:53.921 and you'd gone through flight school seven weeks and this 0:02:54.041 --> 0:02:56.361 it was a big thing. I didn't understand it because 0:02:56.401 --> 0:02:59.680 I was only fresh. They were given and they sat 0:02:59.761 --> 0:03:01.601 us down, and this is where you're going to be living. 0:03:02.481 --> 0:03:06.400 And I was given this building that everyone went, Oh, 0:03:06.441 --> 0:03:11.001 my god, you're so lucky. It's called the Golden Tower. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.321 The Golden Tower, right in the middle of the city. 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.121 It was the best place to be. I even could 0:03:18.201 --> 0:03:21.520 see the water from our like we were a couple 0:03:21.561 --> 0:03:22.881 of streets back from the water. 0:03:23.361 --> 0:03:24.361 It's luxury. 0:03:24.561 --> 0:03:28.041 And then the first day after we'd done our seven 0:03:28.081 --> 0:03:33.081 weeks in temporary accommodation for flight school and we'd passed, 0:03:33.361 --> 0:03:36.561 and then you graduate and then you get your flying wings, 0:03:36.561 --> 0:03:38.561 but you also get your own apartment. I get to 0:03:38.601 --> 0:03:42.721 my apartment, I can see this Golden Tower and underneath 0:03:43.201 --> 0:03:47.561 the first three levels of the Golden Tower is a hospital. 0:03:48.881 --> 0:03:55.161 A hospital, a hospital. I know, I was like Handy gossick. 0:03:55.321 --> 0:04:00.681 But then this is where the question marks pop up. 0:04:01.241 --> 0:04:05.081 This is where those moments with the likes of my 0:04:05.161 --> 0:04:09.761 mum and my brother and growing up around it goes oh, oh. 0:04:09.441 --> 0:04:11.681 This is just a normal general hospital. It's not like 0:04:11.721 --> 0:04:14.641 a psychiatric hospital or anything like that. It's a general 0:04:14.681 --> 0:04:16.481 hospital in the middle of Abadabbi. 0:04:16.961 --> 0:04:17.881 Let's fast forward. 0:04:18.161 --> 0:04:19.921 It would have been close to when I was sort 0:04:19.961 --> 0:04:23.161 of been there a year and a half, right, so 0:04:23.201 --> 0:04:27.440 I've seen some things. I'd experienced some things like what 0:04:27.721 --> 0:04:32.561 being out the front of the hospital. Okay, I'd experienced 0:04:32.601 --> 0:04:39.441 and seen suicide. I had experienced people literally getting thrown 0:04:39.481 --> 0:04:40.801 out of the car out in the front of the 0:04:40.801 --> 0:04:45.361 hospital and the car driving off. And we had security 0:04:45.361 --> 0:04:49.961 guards on every building that we had as flight attendance 0:04:50.561 --> 0:04:55.761 and flight crew because I don't know what actually security, 0:04:55.921 --> 0:04:59.361 so technically I had because of the way that we 0:04:59.361 --> 0:05:03.440 were situated. We had security on ground floor as you enter, 0:05:03.481 --> 0:05:05.200 because you had to sign in and sign out to 0:05:05.201 --> 0:05:08.601 get into your own building. And then because of the 0:05:08.641 --> 0:05:11.481 situation where I was living, I had my own security 0:05:11.521 --> 0:05:16.921 guard on level four practically at the front, twenty four 0:05:16.961 --> 0:05:19.281 hours a day, so that no one came through the 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.721 hospital into the building. It was weird when I think 0:05:22.721 --> 0:05:26.121 about it, it's weird. This one night, in particular, I 0:05:26.201 --> 0:05:29.080 had been flying around the world. 0:05:29.401 --> 0:05:30.921 I had come back. 0:05:31.081 --> 0:05:34.361 I had on my particular you had to have a 0:05:34.401 --> 0:05:38.241 certain amount of hours between flights. Because I'd been away 0:05:38.241 --> 0:05:41.281 for nine days, I had to be on ground for two. 0:05:42.041 --> 0:05:44.001 I had not had any alcohol. 0:05:44.241 --> 0:05:45.320 I knew what was ahead of me. 0:05:45.361 --> 0:05:47.681 I had a big roster, and everything was well and good, 0:05:48.761 --> 0:05:51.281 but this one particular and I sort of landed about 0:05:51.281 --> 0:05:54.561 the eleven o'clock mark, and I thought, all right that, yeah, 0:05:54.601 --> 0:05:56.081 I'm a bit sleepy, might go to bed. 0:05:57.401 --> 0:05:58.241 Then I go to bed. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.601 Everything was fine again, not under the influence of any alcohol, 0:06:02.801 --> 0:06:08.241 nothing like that. And I wake. 0:06:10.121 --> 0:06:11.921 To this. 0:06:13.401 --> 0:06:16.640 Person and I'm talking straight over the top of me. 0:06:16.721 --> 0:06:20.200 Have you ever had that sensation over your whole body 0:06:20.201 --> 0:06:25.720 where you're completely and utterly paralyzed, you cannot move head 0:06:25.761 --> 0:06:30.481 to toe. I'm awake and I'm going I need to 0:06:30.521 --> 0:06:34.041 get out of this bed. Two people in my room, 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:38.721 one man, one woman, and traditional clothing wise, but he's 0:06:38.761 --> 0:06:42.561 in the corner and saying, yes, do it. And I've 0:06:42.561 --> 0:06:44.801 got the lady in the head jab straight over the 0:06:44.801 --> 0:06:48.401 top of me with hands firmly placed around my neck 0:06:49.121 --> 0:06:51.201 and full pressure. Jaye, I'm talking. 0:06:51.401 --> 0:06:52.441 I was paralyzed. 0:06:52.521 --> 0:06:57.440 I couldn't move, I couldn't I couldn't get anything out. 0:06:57.521 --> 0:07:00.481 I could hardly breathe and I could. I was going, 0:07:00.601 --> 0:07:04.721 what is that? Like this cannot be and I'm thinking, 0:07:05.241 --> 0:07:05.760 is this real? 0:07:06.561 --> 0:07:06.880 Is this? 0:07:06.961 --> 0:07:09.161 And I'm having this moment where I'm flicking, but i 0:07:09.201 --> 0:07:13.481 could see two figures in my room and I'm looking 0:07:13.561 --> 0:07:17.041 up and I still no word of a lie. Could 0:07:17.681 --> 0:07:21.841 not move and the pressure around my collar bones and 0:07:21.881 --> 0:07:24.881 that I just had to It was almost like you 0:07:24.921 --> 0:07:27.601 had to lay there. You had to try and breathe 0:07:28.521 --> 0:07:31.001 at the same time think no word of a lie. 0:07:31.961 --> 0:07:34.401 I couldn't. And it was like, all of a sudden, I. 0:07:34.361 --> 0:07:38.121 Had Mum in the back of my mind, in the 0:07:38.201 --> 0:07:41.441 back of my head saying tell them to leave, because 0:07:42.401 --> 0:07:44.601 she was you know, as a kid, she used to 0:07:44.641 --> 0:07:47.001 tell us that you have to ask them to leave 0:07:47.321 --> 0:07:48.161 three times or. 0:07:48.161 --> 0:07:48.961 Something like this. 0:07:49.041 --> 0:07:52.681 In it it's at this stage I'm going And so 0:07:52.801 --> 0:07:57.161 it just all started to dissipate. And then as you're 0:07:57.201 --> 0:07:59.761 doing this over and over of like just leave. This 0:07:59.841 --> 0:08:01.921 is not for you. This is just like just trying 0:08:01.961 --> 0:08:04.681 to do anything you can. I just literally could got 0:08:04.801 --> 0:08:07.881 this big gasp of air and then. 0:08:07.761 --> 0:08:08.721 All of a sudden it was. 0:08:10.241 --> 0:08:13.321 No word of a lie, had like full pressure marks 0:08:13.361 --> 0:08:14.601 around my collar bones. 0:08:15.361 --> 0:08:20.881 I had no one in my room. Like by the 0:08:20.921 --> 0:08:21.761 time I could. 0:08:21.561 --> 0:08:25.601 Move, I had full like I was, I was sweating. 0:08:26.121 --> 0:08:28.801 I got out of the bed. I flew out of 0:08:28.801 --> 0:08:31.361 the bed. I ran through the house like the apartment, 0:08:31.481 --> 0:08:32.841 looking to see. 0:08:32.681 --> 0:08:36.561 If nothing doors locked. Everything's locked. 0:08:36.721 --> 0:08:39.041 Even that bloody bedroom that I'd never seen in for 0:08:39.081 --> 0:08:40.121 two years was locked. 0:08:40.161 --> 0:08:42.841 No one was there and no word of a lie. 0:08:42.881 --> 0:08:46.161 I got up, made the whole My whole back was 0:08:46.281 --> 0:08:51.481 drenched with sweat up. I could barely catch my breath, 0:08:51.561 --> 0:08:54.041 like I'd run a marathon. I had like these pressure 0:08:55.081 --> 0:08:59.241 heavy round my collar blones like you name it I had. 0:08:59.561 --> 0:09:02.121 It was like I'd gone on the biggest and then 0:09:02.721 --> 0:09:04.201 it was just it like go. 0:09:08.401 --> 0:09:11.601 There's nothing more scary than feeling trapped and not being 0:09:11.601 --> 0:09:14.961 able to move. It's even scarier when the thing that's 0:09:14.961 --> 0:09:18.841 not letting you move you can't actually see. All you 0:09:18.881 --> 0:09:22.201 can feel is pressure. There is nothing in front of 0:09:22.241 --> 0:09:26.561 you apart from the two figures just saw before. So 0:09:26.601 --> 0:09:29.281 I guess if that happened to me, my first instinct 0:09:29.721 --> 0:09:31.761 would be to get the hell out of there. 0:09:31.881 --> 0:09:36.601 Yeah, stay, I rang, mum going, and obviously the time difference, 0:09:36.641 --> 0:09:37.641 She's going, what's wrong? 0:09:37.761 --> 0:09:39.161 Slow down? Stop. 0:09:40.561 --> 0:09:42.721 I didn't obviously sleep for the rest of that night. 0:09:43.121 --> 0:09:45.921 By the time the next day, I had another whole 0:09:46.001 --> 0:09:47.801 day and then I was flying that night, so it 0:09:47.881 --> 0:09:49.921 was I sort of felt like it was okay, I 0:09:49.961 --> 0:09:53.441 wasn't going to have to sleep again again in this 0:09:53.521 --> 0:09:56.561 apartment until you know, it's sort of worn off. But 0:09:56.681 --> 0:10:00.401 then she also had told me to go and get 0:10:00.481 --> 0:10:05.641 a black particular crystal you put underneath your mattress, underneath 0:10:05.641 --> 0:10:08.521 your bed, and that would be the protection barrier between 0:10:08.961 --> 0:10:14.041 whatever obviously is leaving the planet. What they were saying, 0:10:14.041 --> 0:10:16.521 because I spoke to a few people obviously, and they 0:10:16.561 --> 0:10:20.561 were saying that obviously from being the first floor above 0:10:20.601 --> 0:10:24.921 a hospital, when a spirit leaves their body, they have this. 0:10:24.881 --> 0:10:26.601 Moment where they sort of like passing. 0:10:26.721 --> 0:10:28.441 I don't know whether they want to pass through or 0:10:28.441 --> 0:10:30.161 they don't want to pass through, and not all of 0:10:30.201 --> 0:10:35.201 them passed through willingly or happy, and obviously I had 0:10:36.641 --> 0:10:37.681 got two of them. 0:10:38.121 --> 0:10:41.481 And then one night, right, do you know if on 0:10:41.681 --> 0:10:44.721 that night that you were in your room and there 0:10:44.761 --> 0:10:48.241 was a man and a woman in traditional garb that 0:10:48.321 --> 0:10:51.801 were in your room holding you down, the woman holding 0:10:51.801 --> 0:10:54.761 you down, do you know if two people that night 0:10:54.801 --> 0:10:55.761 in the hospital died. 0:10:59.281 --> 0:11:02.201 I never went I never went down to actually like 0:11:02.361 --> 0:11:05.161 explore that, and I never heard. I never invest to 0:11:05.201 --> 0:11:07.401 get to see who had passed that night. But I 0:11:07.441 --> 0:11:12.841 can tell you from this one hundred percent, two people 0:11:12.921 --> 0:11:17.121 left that night, and they came through my bedroom. 0:11:17.161 --> 0:11:19.641 If you got a story that can give us the chills, 0:11:20.081 --> 0:11:25.721 dms at the Chills pod on Instagram or TikTok, or 0:11:25.761 --> 0:11:30.081 you can email us at the Chills at podshape dot com. 0:11:30.241 --> 0:11:36.921 That's the Chills at podshape dot com. See you next time.