A ghost is terrorizing the people of Zanzibar. Big deal. For the residents of this semi-autonomous Tanzanian island unfortunately this is nothing new. However, fear has struck residents of the Zanzibar Islands more so than usual as rumors of the re-emergence of a particularly sexually voracious ghost that goes on sodomy sprees while they sleep in their beds at night.
The demon struck Zanzibar in 1970 and again briefly in the 1980s. According to The Guardian: "Even those who dismiss the attacks as superstition nonetheless admit that for true believers they are real. Zanzibar's main hospital has treated men with bruises, broken ribs and other injuries, which the victims blame on the creature."
Zanzibar seems to always be on the wrong side of some kind abnormally violent supernatural entity. Zanzibar is to poltergeist what Tokyo is to 7 story tall sea monsters.
The ghosts that they are forced to deal with are definitely not the kind of ghosts that you and I saw on Scooby-Do. These are the kind of poltergeist that push the boundaries so to speak of what is possible in terms of scaring the shit out of the living.
For example, the last ghost they had terrorizing them hung around for six months doing very little else besides randomly kicking the shit out of all the little kids on the little island.
Parents were powerless to stop it and although at the time they thought it couldn't get worse, many residents are claiming the islands are being revisited by a ghost or Genie that they thought they had gotten rid of about 25 years ago which is coming into peoples homes in the middle of the night and sodomizing its victims
particularly skeptical men.
Daaaammmmmmmn.
Yes, Popo Bawa which is what they are calling it, is again appearing in peoples homes as they sleep. It's name comes from the Swahili words for bat and wing, as the creature is described as having, in addition to a dwarf's body with a single cyclopian eye, small pointed ears and batlike wings and talons. According to local villagers, it is especially prone to attack "anybody who doesn't believe."
His appearance is always preceded with an acrid smell and then a puff of smoke. When he appears to them, they fall into a trance like state and then he takes them over a table, the arm of a couch, the side of a bed, spreads their ass cheeks and just has his way with them.
And, so the story goes, if they do not publicly reveal what has happened to them, despite the obvious public humiliation, then they can expect a return visit from Popo Bawa the very next night. Many Zanzibaris are now refusing to sleep in their houses as they believe it only preys on people in the comfort of their own beds.
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