London Bus BY Michiyo

This happened to a friend of my sister who are studying in London.

They were four of them. My sister and her three friends. So there was this one night, they were going back to Brunei Hall after watching a movie. They hopped onto this bus and went straight up to the first floor of the bus (its a double decker). They sat on these front seats that were facing a TV screen showing the CCTV videos installed in the bus. Its the kind of TV that shows video of the lower front part of the bus, then changes to lower back part of the bus, then to upper part etc. So one of my sister's friend was watching the TV screen when suddenly the video changes to upper back part of the bus, which is the seats behind them. Well she saw a woman (who apparently looks like an Asian) and a little boy (about 9 or 10). The woman was sitting on one of the seats at the back but the boy was sitting on the aisle next to the woman. Like seriously on the aisle and he was leaning his head against the woman's lap whom we assume was his mother. So when she saw this, she was pissed. She was like why the mother let her boy sitting on the aisle and didn't the bus driver notice this as he should do something about it. It's dangerous letting a kid sitting on the aisle.

So she looked behind her back to give them a stare (you know the kind of stare to show people that we are not comfortable of what they are doing). But there was nobody there except the four of them. When she looked back up at the screen, she can still see these mother and son. So she thought that it might be the video taken from CCTV downstairs. Then the video changes to other angles of the bus. When the video came back to the seats behind them (or the seats that she thought was from downstairs), she can still see the mother and son.

She was quite confused about which part of the bus was the video taken because she kinda still think that it was from the seats behind them. So she asked her friends where do they think the video was taken from and they said it was from the seats behind them. By the time she looked back at the screen, the mother and son was gone. After they hopped off the bus then she told her friends about what she saw. But my sister went like, I was looking at the TV screen the whole time but I didn't see anyone behind our seats.

Can it be that the CCTV videos shown was from the day before? No, because they can see themselves when the TV screen was showing their seats. Can it be the women and son had left the bus by the time they were looking at the CCTV screen, they were not there? No, because if they left, my sister and her friends would have noticed. The mother and son need to pass them to get down the bus. So who are these mother and son? A glimpse of the other world maybe. Showing them leading their lives as normal as we are living ours. Or maybe it was just an imagination made up by my sister's friend.