🏢 The Woman on the 13th Floor
Genre: Psychological + Paranormal Horror
Setting: High-rise apartment in Lahore
Theme: Isolation, superstition, and an invisible neighbor
By Faraz Parvez
Professor Dr. (Retired) Arshad Afzal
Retired Faculty Member, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, KSA
(Pseudonym of Professor Dr. Arshad Afzal)
When Danish shifted into the newly built Burj Rosewood Heights, he didn’t think much of the fact that his apartment was on the 13th floor.
Most buildings in Lahore skip the number out of superstition, labeling it 14A instead. But this developer hadn’t bothered.
“Just a number,” Danish laughed. Until the night he heard the crying.
It was faint. Muffled.
A woman sobbing — sometimes humming — right next door.
Only problem? The flat next to his was vacant.
He asked the security guard. The reply chilled him.
“Sir, that unit has been sealed since a woman… jumped from the balcony during construction. She was never identified. Some say she was never even part of the staff.”
Still, every night after 1:00 AM, he heard her — weeping, sometimes whispering to herself.
One night, unable to take it, he knocked on the sealed flat’s door.
It opened an inch.
He saw a pale face, eyes sunken deep, long hair framing a cracked mouth.
She whispered:
“I just needed someone to notice me…”
The next morning, Danish found himself standing barefoot on the edge of his own balcony — unsure how he got there.
He moved out the same week.
But the new tenant who replaced him?
A young woman named Sana.
She texted the property agent three days later:
“Kindly send someone to ask the lady next door to turn down her crying. It’s disturbing.”
The agent replied:
“There is no lady next door.”
She never texted again.
Her phone was found on the 13th-floor stairwell, screen shattered, the last image blurry…
But her own terrified face was visible in it — as if someone had clicked it for her.
🕯️ Sometimes, the horror isn’t what’s inside your flat. It’s who lives next door.
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