The Cowman Calleth

Confession by Anon

True encounter by my 15 yr old son. It happened in Thailand, Ubon Ratchathani province. He was living with his mum in a newly built house for the first time. The first two nights were alright, but something strange happened on the third. My son called me at midnight while I was away at work in Singapore.

"Pa, I cannot sleep... there are strange noises outside the house, behind the walls only.... I am scared," he said.

My son was sharing the room with his grandpa but couldn't seem to wake him up, so he called me as he knew I would be available at this hour.

I asked what kind of noise that was.

"Some cow mooing in a very deep tone... but it doesn't sound like an animal entirely.. It sounded more like a human..." He described that the voice was so distinct that it seemed as if it was in the room.

I tried my best to console him that it was just a cow making weird noises at night and probably sounded exceptionally loud because nightfall in rural areas could be extremely quiet. Also, the cows were likely from the farms around the area.

"BUT it is not a cow! I am sure! It sounded more like an old man mimicking....!"

I had some weird thoughts, to be honest but I didn’t know what else to say except to promise my son that I would be on the phone till he slept. I shared a YouTube link to a buddhist chant hoping it would help to calm him and chase away whatever was haunting him. He slept not long after playing the clip in the background.

I related the incident to his mum and this was what she said. "Yes.. I know what happened, I didn’t hear it the first few nights. It is only on the fourth night I heard it. And I know it is from the kitchen!"

Thinking it could be an intruder, she armed herself with a kitchen knife but she found she was alone in the kitchen. She recited some prayers and both the feeling and the noise disappeared.

"It happened just weeks before the house was built, an old man brought his buffalo to the grass field, the buffalo unintentionally impaled the old man and killed him, right where the house was now built."

All these made sense now. She engaged monks to do prayers and also invited the deceased family members to the ritual. There are no further occurrences. The cows are still there.. but not the 'cowman'.

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