God, should I even be telling this… I mean it. When I first heard this, I couldn't bring myself to take Gayang Station for a long time. I'm serious.
This is something I heard — I can't swear to all of it — but apparently in 2022, three people disappeared near Gayang Station. Not just disappeared, though. The CCTV caught every one of them going in. But none of them ever came out. Not anywhere. Not through the exits, not through the transfer corridors, not through the bathrooms — nothing. As if the moment each person stepped inside, they were simply erased from the world.
The one that scares me most is the guy. It was around two-thirty in the morning when he called his girlfriend. Nothing special, she said. Just "I'm heading home soon" — said it, and hung up. She figured he was on his way, went to sleep. But in the morning he didn't pick up. And he wasn't home. His family made flyers and went around posting them everywhere — not a single tip came in. Not one. His last words to anyone were "I'm heading home soon." I don't know why, but that's the part that gets me.
Another one had been dealing with depression — but here's what makes it stranger — she'd been getting better. Doing well in treatment, no reason to just vanish. Her family said they'd all had dinner together that evening. They went to sleep, and when they woke up, she was gone.
But here's the thing — a friend of a friend of mine, not something that happened to her directly, but she saw it herself — around the time of the last train, near the far end of the platform at Gayang, she noticed something off. A person standing there, head tilted slightly down, completely still. A train came in. They didn't board. She kept watching, thinking something was wrong — and then she smelled it. Soil. Not just ordinary dirt, but soil that had been wet for a long time. The kind of smell that comes from somewhere deep underground. And it was only coming from around that person. Then slowly, the figure raised its head and looked toward the exit. The face had no expression. None at all. Like there was nothing underneath it, no muscle, no life. Then it turned and walked into the crowd and she lost it.
When my friend told me all this, she said the face hadn't looked like a stranger's face. Like she'd seen it somewhere before. And later, thinking back — the flyers. The missing persons flyers posted on the pillars inside the station. She thinks that was where she'd seen it.
They say new flyers still go up on those pillars sometimes. At Gayang Station.
