I think it was following us.

** cross-posted in r/LetsReadOfficial ** Though I changed the first part to something more fitting for this narrative.

I am never the one to post experiences especially paranormal ones on the net but it seems it would be nice way to start my blog because I am an horror fan in general. Please bear with my English since it is not my native language.

This happened back in 2005, my friends let's call them May, Shel, and Nadi so it would be easy, and I met in college but we all live in separate towns in a province here in the Philippines. That time, our province was not that fully developed so there are lots of land where there are just trees and grass on both sides of a stretch of a road. It was Nadi's elder brother's birthday, let's call him Neil (whom is also our friend but we are closer to his sister more) and we were invited to celebrate it with them at around 6 PM. We got there, ate, had a nice chit-chat with around 7 more people whom we are acquainted with as well. We move to the patio outside their home because we got too crowded in the living room, this was 7 PM by then. Our chit-chat became a story-telling of who has the best ghost experience. We took turns in sharing our ghost stories and our opinions about each other story.

There is a belief that when you share ghost stories within a group, this attracts ghosts to your group. It was around 10 PM and we were in the middle of our story telling when we all smell something like a lit up candle. All of 15 of us started to look around in wonder where the smell was coming from. Since we cannot find a single clue where it might have come from, we looked at each other confused and this doesn't stop us from retelling ghost stories to each other. It was around 11 PM when we were advised of my friend's father that it is quite late and we need to head back home. Since May, Shel, and I, we live in separate towns away from them, Neil was asked by their father to drive us back home. He agreed but he said we need to take the other people which are his friends home first, we agreed.

His friends lived in a town next to them. Since we are a lot, we decided to just walk them to their houses. The street was empty except for the rowdy bunch which is us, and we have long forgotten the candle smell earlier. While walking, Neil's friend who had a bike with him suddenly stopped in the middle of the street. He then exclaimed if we could walk a little slower because his bike was somewhat heavy and he was having a hard time pedaling, so we walked in a slow pace so he can keep up. It didn't register to us that time that it was quite unusual for him to have troubles biking since it was a straight path without any inclines, the bike looks like it doesn't have any flat tires. We kind of realize it was weird the next day. Anyways, while walking, a strong smell of flowers filled the air. All of us stopped and looked at each other and then looked at around us for any signs of flowery shrubs that might have been cause of that flowery smell. Of course, there's none, just grasses and trees. We all felt that feeling of horror creeping up our spine, we decided to bolt out of that street. We got to one of their homes, we decided to take to take a breather first and tried to compose ourselves with what happened. We can't find any logic to what happened, we decided to not over-think of what happened and just go back to Neil and Nadi's house and then head back home. Nothing eventful happened when we were walking back to their house.

Neil went back inside their house to get his car keys while we waited by the lamppost outside the house. We are six, Shel, May, Nadi, and one of Neil's guy friends sat at the back while Neil will be driving and I was riding shotgun. We were just few blocks away when notice Neil was driving so slow. Neil knows a lot about cars and when we asked why he was driving slow, he told us that the car was so low that he can feel the chassis hitting the ground, it was because we are six inside. We were like okay that's logical. Few minutes into that somewhat crawl of a drive, there was a sudden bump and he abruptly stepped on the break, he looked back to us and said he thinks he hit something or bumped onto something. It was dark and grasses are long so he was not sure if a cat or a critter jumped out of nowhere and he hit it. He and his friend went out and decided to check if he indeed ran over something or a probably a hump on the road that he didn't see. They went back inside and informed us that there's none. Their faces showed other confusion with what happened. With a shake of his head, Neil decided to drive slow again. They decided to take me home first because I live the farthest. After 30 minutes or so, I was home. When they left, I texted them to drive carefully and stuff, to let me know if all of them got home. After me, they dropped Shel off. While they were on the road to May's place, May called me to keep on chatting, I was still awake that time. She told me that they were still on the road and Neil was still crawl driving. It seems like Neil heard her comment and had said in his defense that the car was heavy as if like there were still 6 people inside. That got me thinking and I said that is odd, how come it would still be heavy if two people had already left, May said she doesn't know. I just slept on it without thinking too much about it.

The next day I saw texts on my phone, they were from May and Nadi. Apparently, Nadi texted me that night informing they got home safe and I wouldn't believe what just happened to them on the way to May's house. The next text says that they were crawl driving and her brother was already complaining how heavy the car seemed to be. It was like we never left. He was having a hard time driving and controlling the car. It seemed like somewhat or something was holding the steering wheel. Then the next text I read from Nadi got my heart beat racing. She said that when they dropped off May to her house, the whole car just lifted, lifted like all the people inside the car just got out with May. Neil felt the car becoming lighter as they drove back to their house. Then I received a text from May saying that she thinks something followed her home. I sent her a reply "yeah, i think it was following us or most probably, you".