A Mysterious Taxi Passenger

A friend of my older brother is a taxi driver in Jakarta. His name is Frengky. Just like many taxi drivers, Frengky has amazing stories. I am going to tell you a story which is very frightening, just like Frengky told me, this story is so frightening that I couldn’t sleep when he told me this story.

Frengky was driving his taxi home after a long day. At the midnight, when he was passing Tanah Kusir area, he saw a woman in a black dress waving her hand stopping his taxi, and the women got in the back seat and introduced herself as Tanya. Tanya said that her car had broken down. Tanya asked Frengky to drive to her parent’s house which is located on Bendi Raya Street. During the whole trip, Tanya asked Frengky weird questions about death. Sometimes Frengky looked back at Tanya just to see her face, but it was so dark that he couldn’t see her face. Frengky also started to smell flowers in his car. It was the smell of jasmine.

When they got to the home of Tanya’s parents, Tanya asked Frengky to wait while she went inside to take some money. Frengky waited for thirty minutes, then he went to the door and knocked at the door three times. A man about 50 years old whose eyes are grey, answered him. Frengky told that he was waiting for Tanya, his daughter, “I am waiting for Tanya, your daughter” he said, The man’s eyes filled with tears and said “is this a bad joke?”, “I did have a daughter named Tanya, but she has passed away, her funeral was at Tanah Kusir ten years ago. She died in a taxi accident.”