Yo,
I got a few water story, I don't know if it's Zaj or just encounter of the unknown.
1st story: This took place long ago, it was a hot day, so me my friends and his wife. We went to Phalan Lake to go swimming. 1st of all I can't swim. I knida do but if my feet ain't touching the ground I'll go belly up, LOL. so you can say that I can't swim, period. So we got to the lake and if you ever been to a swimming area and see that it's block by a yellow rope. So that, if you can't swim don't go beyond the rope. That's deep water, but it was only about up to your waist. I'm about 5' 5" tall.
So we were playing tag and chasing one another within the yellow rope. There was a lot of ppl there and also 1 life guard was on duty that day.
Here's the strange part, one of my friend(a) was it, and was chasing the other friend(B). I saw that my friend (c) had swam up to the yellow rope and I decided to swim there. As I was swimming there,I felt this very strange feeling and I stop and stood up in the water and looked towards my friend (c). He was looking at me, like he has seen a ghost. I mean his eyes were as big as an owl. I ran/ jump towards him and said "what happen" he told me that when he was swimming towards the rope he felt like someone tried to grab his wrist/hand.
Then he stood up and look at what ever it was. He said " it was a little girl, and it was like someone or thing was dragging her away from him and the little girl tried to grab him". I said " hell no, are you shyting me"!.
By this time all my friends had swam towards us. And (c) told them what happened. So all my friends stop doing what ever they were doing and we all jumped out of the water, and went to the beach. I said to my friend (c) that he needs to report this to the life guard. He say " you kidding me, they might think that I'm crazy or something". I said " shyt, what are we going to do than". What if it was true and someone just died. At least we try to tell an adult, and if it was false then it's okay. But he was too scare to even think about it, he said to me that it felt like a dream and that it was not true, it can't be true. Then his wife said " you better go and tell the life guard was you saw". We were still auguring, than out of no where the life guard blew her whistle and demanded everyone out of the water. By this time I was freaking out and said " holy shyt, is this really happening". The life guard was calling a name but no one answered. So she had some one dialed 911. and told all the grown ups to hold hands and they started walk back an forth in the water.
This was the 1st time I ever saw this and hopefully that I will never ever see this again. As they were doing that I could hear the siren of the police, ambulance and fire trucks wailing towards the lake. I saw ppl diving under water trying help with the search. I saw the fire ppl pulling out their inflatable boats and gears and rowed out to the lake. We all watched this for a good long time in hopes that they could find a body or this kid shows up out of no where. After a while I was like dude I think we need to go, cause I don't wanna see a dead body. So we all left, After that day I never wanted to go swimming in that lake. This lake is well known for it's drowning of ppl. OG's said " that there's a Zaj livivng in the water". I personally don't know how many, but it's a lot of hmoob ppl that drowned there, but yet I still see a lot of hmoob ppl go swimming there too. Anyways everytime some hmoob drown there the OG's would look into it, and say that the Zaj took them.