The century-old famous Taj Mahal hotel of Mumbai (where infamous 26/11 Terrorist attack took place) is believed to have a resident ghost in the form of its original architect Frenchman W. A. Chambers. Chambers created the blueprints and went off

No one knew they were dead for months 

                            Sep 15, 2002

They were missing for months, yet nobody took notice. Till, Mohammed Sajid, a burglar nabbed by the Shahinayatgunj police, mentioned a break-in he had committed some months ago.

Jayaprada, a 56-year-old woman, and her two daughters lived in a two-storey house in Kundanbagh. Neighbours said they last saw the three sometime in June.

Thereafter, they simply vanished. Truth is, all three had died. The police on Saturday recovered their badly decomposed bodies from their house. A bottle of black liquid — presumably poison — was recovered from the room where the bodies were found.
The front door of the house was locked from inside, but a side entrance was not padlocked.
A heap of newspapers from June 21 lay strewn on the verandah near the front gate.
"As poisoning was the apparent cause of death and the temperature was not particularly high, the putrefication took longer than normal. The neighbours never got the smell of rotting flesh," an investigating officer said. The bodies have been sent for autopsy and the liquid is being analysed at a lab.
The rooms had been ransacked and clothes were piled next to the bodies. The almirahs were open and cheque books and documents were dumped on the floor. "It is possible a burglar had entered the house. He saw the three dead women on the bed. He didn't alert the police and came back repeatedly to take away the loot," he said.
Shocked neighbours said the inhabitants of the house were "queer" people. "They would light candles at midnight and walk around the house. The mother would weild an axe and scare away people. They even hung bottles filled with blood on their verandah," one of them said.
"Some students of a nearby college had filed a complaint against this family some two years ago," assistant commissioner of police P Rama Rao said. It is probable that the strange ways of the Jayaprada family kept area residents from making inquiries about their whereabouts. Jayaprada was a native of West Godavari district and was a divorcee.

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A Mill  Named "Mukesh Mills" Shut down in 1980, this enormous abandoned mill in Colaba has been the shooting ground for numerous Bollywood films and advertisements.

Deserted and rundown, Mukesh Mills is a ready-made set for horror films and Gothic shows, especially considering the mills are actually considered to be haunted.
 Many directors, actors and producers refuse to work here past sunset.

One television actress claimed to have had a particularly bad experience when one of her female co-stars suddenly began speaking in a manly voice, as if she were possessed, telling the crew to leave the premises immediately.Others say this haunted Mumbai area is jinxed and people are always losing their belongings, wallets and phones.

Mukesh Mills will soon be demolished and replaced by a new high-rise residential and commercial complex and a five-star hotel.

Grand Paradi Towers, Mumbai is the most famous haunted building in Mumbai. It is located in one of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods. The eighth floor of the Grand Paradi Towers in Kemps Corner is the site of several freakish suicides or a gruesome pattern of deaths and accidents. An elderly couple leaped out of their apartment window in 2004. Their children and grandchild followed suit within the next year. There have been at least twenty cases of fatal accidents and suicides since the building was construted in 1976. 

Many of these accidents have involved children, and once a maid jumped or fell out of one of the windows.The family who owned the building began to believe paranormal forces were at work. They decided to do a puja and a havan and ever since then the activity stopped—but the apartment remains unoccupied

 Image(Below): Mussoorie

The Lambi Dehar mines are situated on the outskirts of Mussoorie. These used to be strip mines, lime quarries that have been shut.
In the early 1990s there were about 50,000 workers working in these mines and a lot of these people were dying of diseases.
Lime turns your lungs into stone and you die a very painful death, coughing blood etc.
The mines were shut because a lot of safety rules were being flouted and there were a lot of accidents like trucks falling off the mountains etc?
Today there is an entire city of 1500 people that has been deserted for 20 years.
Trees have grown in the houses and you can hear sounds of people hear at night. It is also very scary perhaps because it is remote, far from civilisation and has its history of haunting.
When you're driving there, cars go off the road, trucks go off the road, and there's been a mysterious helicopter crash there. So there's definitely a presence in that place.
Legend has it that there's also a witch that walks down the mountains screaming.

Netaji Subash Chandra Bose led the Indian National Army (INA) and struggled for the independence of India from colonial rule.
There is a large body of work documenting his life as a leader of the INA and his contribution towards the freedom of India from British colonial rule.  However, his disappearance towards the end of the World War II remains one of the enduring mysteries of the 20th century for people of India and the world.



Did ‘Netaji’ die in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945? The question is once again back to haunt historians and Netaji’s numerous followers alike after the Allahabad High Court’s order directing the government to take a fresh look into the matter.And order comes in a case filed 27 years ago to ascertain whether one mysterious ‘Gumnaami Baba’ who lived in Faizabad for several years was actually Netaji himself.
According to some books, Netaji, founder of the Indian National Army (INA) and one of the leading lights of the Indian independence movement, died in a plane crash in Japan in August 1945. the ashes of netaji are kept in Tokyo’s Renkoji temple. But the mystery surrounding his death is yet to be solved.
“The personal articles, documents and photographs recovered from his room after his death (on September 18, 1985) clearly show that Gumnaami Baba was indeed Netaji. But it is unfortunate that no one has probed the matter seriously enough to reveal this truth,” says Shakti Singh, president of the Subhash Chandra Bose Rahstriya Vichar Manch, who is a petitioner in the case and has written a book on the Baba.
Three inquiry commissions have probed Netaji’s mysterious death but their reports have thrown up more questions than they answered. The last probe panel under Justice MK Mukherji had concluded that Bose did not die in the plane crash.
The Allahabad High Court’s has now ordered an inquiry to ascertain whether Faizabad’s late Gumnaami Baba alias Bhagwan ji was really Netaji. The court noted that the Baba was “not an ordinary person”, and that “family members of Netaji, friends and relatives from Kolkata had been regular visitors.”
The court chided the Centre for not conducting a DNA test on the ashes at Renkoji Temple (Tokyo). The court has directed the state government to establish a museum to preserve Baba’s belongings.

The Gumnaami Baba is reported to have come to Faizabad sometime in the 1970s and was first reported to the police by a local in 1977 for his “suspicious” activities. Very few people saw him as he did not meet anyone except for the few he trusted. Also, there is not a single picture of the Baba.
Shakti Singh points out that Netaji’s niece Lalita Bose, who filed the first petition after his death, used to visit him as did his other close friends and relatives. Lila Rai of the INA also came to meet him, he says.
Netaji’s personal physician Dr PC Bannerji and his trusted domestic help Saraswati told people before they died that the Baba was indeed Netaji. However, the Mukherji commission which briefly looked into the Gumnaami Baba episode did not attach much importance to these things.

 

Shaniwarwada Fort of Pune in India is one of the most haunted historical places of India and contains a nerve chilling story within it's walls. This is the place where the 13 year-old Peshwa Dynasty heir Narayan was brutally assasinated.

As his assassins chased him all across the fort, the boy yelled, again and again "Kaka, mala vachva!" (Uncle, save me!) and even today locals say that they hear his cries for help at midnight on every new moon day.

Raj Kiran Hotel, Lonavala in Mumbai, India is not a big hotel but is haunted for sure, confirmed by a number of Paranormal experts, that one

There is a particular room on the ground floor of this hotel, where guests have reported their bed sheets had been pulled off while they slept. Some have woken up in the middle of the night with blue light at their feet.

The room, however, has now been stopped being rented out.

Roopkund is a beautiful clear water Himalayan lake, located in the lap of Chamoli district of Uttarakhand state India. The starting point of the Roop kund is Debal. A picturesque lake is surrounded by snow covered majestic Himalayan peaks and glaciers

This high altitude lake (4600m) lies in the lap of Trishul massif. A shallow lake, Roopkund has attracted attention by having human skeletal remains easily visible at its bottom. It is the highest peak, situated in Chamoli district of Garhwal. It is standing at 7802 meters; the peak finds its home in the state. The scene of countless pilgrimages, this brand new state has its roots steeped in the spiritual heritage of this great land.

The various sources of the Ganges Yamunoti, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath is the bernoth that draws devotees by the hordes. Here the tourist is replaced by the devout the young, the old, the fit and the infirm, all find their way here battling biting cold, high altitude sickness. Finding penance perchance in this hardship as the Gods almost seem to be close enough to touch. The mountains have many escapades to offer Valley of Flowers, the sacred Roop Kund and Dodital lakes, Milam glacier and Kuari Pass each of these have a distinct flavor – Rolling Meadows to killer ascents.

What happens when ice melts in the Roopkund lake?
When ice melts in the glacial tarn of Roopkund, located 5,000 metres above sea level in Chamoli district, Uttaranchal, hundreds of corpses can be seen floating. Thus gets exposed a mystery that dates back to more than 60 years and has begun to be understood only recently.
In 1942, a forest guard chanced upon hundreds of skeletons at this tarn.


The remains have intrigued anthropologists, scientists, historians and the local people ever since. Who were these people? What were they doing in the inhospitable regions of the Garhwal Himalaya?
Many speculated, initially, that the remains were those of Japanese soldiers who had sneaked into the area, and had then perished to the ravages of the inhospitable terrain.
Those were World War II times and even the slightest mention of a Japanese invasion was bound to throw the area’s British administrators into the tizzy.
The matter was investigated and the speculation was put to rest: the corpses were said to date back to at least a century. But nobody knew when exactly. Some British explorers to Roopkund, and many scholars attribute the bones to General Zorawar Singh of Kashmir, and his men, who are said to have lost their way and perished in the high Himalayas, on their return journey after the Battle of Tibet in 1841.
But radio-carbon tests on the corpses in the 1960s belied this theory. The tests vaguely indicated that the skeletons could date back to anytime between the 12th and 15th centuries ad. This led many historians to link the corpses to an unsuccessful attack by Mohammad Tughlak on the Garhwal Himalaya. Still others believed that the remains were of those of victims of an unknown epidemic. Some anthropologists also put forward a theory of ritual suicide.
Local folklore has it that in medieval times, king Jasdhawal of Kanauj wanted to celebrate the birth of an heir by undertaking a pilgrimage to the Nanda-Devi mountains in the Garhwal Himalaya. However, he disregarded the rules of pilgrimage by boisterous singing and dancing. The entourage earned the wrath of the local deity, Latu. They were caught in a terrible hailstorm and were thrown into the Roopkund lake.

Folklore is not all myth
Now the first forensic investigation of the frozen corpses has concurred with the hailstorm theory. Scientists commissioned by the National Geographic television channel to examine the corpses believe that they died from sharp blows to their skulls. “We retrieved a number of skulls which showed short, deep cracks,” said Subhash Walimbe, a physical anthropologist at the Deccan college, Pune. Walimbe was a member of the team that visited the site.
“The cracks were caused not by a landslide or an avalanche but by blunt, round objects about the size of cricket balls,” he surmised. According to Walimbe, “The only plausible explanation for so many people sustaining such similar injuries at the same time is something that fell from the sky. The injuries were all to the top of the skull and not to other bones in the body, so they must have come from above. Our view is that death was caused by extremely large hailstones”. Another member of the team, Wolfgang Sax, an anthropologist at Heidelberg University in Germany, cited a traditional song among Himalayan women that describes a goddess so enraged at outsiders who defiled her mountain sanctuary that she rained death upon them by flinging hailstones “hard as iron”.
“We were amazed by what we found,” said Pramod Joglekar, a bio-archaeologist at Deccan College, Pune. “In addition to skeletons, we discovered bodies with the flesh intact, perfectly preserved in the icy ground. We could see their hair and nails as well as pieces of clothing,” he said. The scientists found glass bangles, indicating the presence of women.
The team also found a ring, spear, leather shoes and bamboo staves. This has led them to hypothesize that the corpses were those of pilgrims. The scientists estimate that as many as 600 bodies may still be buried in snow and ice by the lake.

Pilgrims perish
The samples were sent to the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit of Oxford University, uk where the date of death was established at about 850 ad. The team has yet to resolve the identity of the victims, though.
Meanwhile, scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad have also undertaken tests on skeletal remains. Lalji Singh, the director of the centre, said that his institute had conducted studies on the dna of 31 samples of bone and muscle taken out from the remains. “Three samples have unique mutations in the mitochondrial DNA which are not found anywhere in the world but only in a particular group of people from Maharashtra,” he said. Singh, however, refused to mention the ethnic group. He said analysis of two other samples matched with some people living in Garhwal even as further studies on all the 31 samples were still on to find out more accurate facts. D K Bhattacharya of the National Geographic team agrees: “Only a few have the characteristics of the Mongoloid hill people of the Himalaya,” noted this scholar from the University of Delhi. It’s quite possible that the pilgrims employed these local people as porters. After all, Roopkund is almost 35 km away from the nearest human settlement and it’s virtually impossible for outsiders to venture into the area without taking the help of local people.
Need protection
It is quite unfortunate that the local administration has made no organised attempt to protect this site. Skeletal remains and other articles of those who perished ages back are reported to have been diminishing fast from here. Lack of administrative will and a general indifference has denied this destination its due place on the international tourist map. In the ceaseless efforts to win over nature sometime we emerge as victorious though losing the battle is also an integral part of the game. The Roopkund remains an indicator of the latter.

Magnetic Hill in Ladakh - There is a hill in Ladakh region of Kashmir which can pull a car parked in neutral with the speed of 20km per hour. Apparently this happens because the hill possesses magnetic power. Its not just cars but planes that too are attracted by the Magnetic Hills. This is the reason why Indian Air Force has asked pilots to avoid flying over the Magnetic hills. To visit the Magnetic hill, you will have to travel Leh. From Leh you can hire a local guide who would take you to Magnetic hill. There isn't much to see there. Only a sign board has been placed by officials to indicate Magnetic Hill.

shimla has a lot of ghost stories associated with it. There's one about tunnel number 103 on the Shimla-Kalka railway line that has the ghost of a British sahib.

The ghost in tunnel 103 is said to be one that talks back in full context with the humans he comes in contact with.

The tunnel itself is wet, damp, dingy and about 140 yards long and is quite a scary place.

It is also unique in that the spirit of the Englishman responds to humans.

There are different kinds of spirits. Most of them don't acknowledge your presence. They just appear on a particular day at a particular time and play out their part as if on a video tape -- for instance if a woman who walks in from one direction and ends up jumping in the well will do so even if you try to stop it.

If you come in her way, she will walk right through you. If there is a house built in her path, she will pass through the walls. There is nothing you can do to stop her or even if you try to talk to her, she won't respond.

But besides the tunnel itself Shimla has a lot of villages around it and the only way is to get there is by walking. There are a lot of stories about witches in the area and walking down those was quite terrifying. These trails are very, very scary. As you walk, things move around you and you can hear them. It can be frightening to walk down these trails in the nights.

It is a big film city in Hyderabad like Universal Studios. The hotels in Ramoji film city are believed to be haunted. Legend says thet the film city is built on the war grounds of the Nizam Sultans.

Witnesses report paranormal phenomena happening during the shoots like lights falling off the ceiling, light men (who sit with the lights on top) have been pushed by invisible hands and have been seriously injured on multiple occasions.

The food left in rooms has been found to be scattered around the room. Strange marks left on the mirrors resembling Urdu (the language of Sultans).

Women get troubled by the ghosts of dead soldiers more than the guys. Torn clothes, shadows in the changing rooms, knocks from the bathroom doors locked from outside are daily occurances.

Inspite of taking many preventive steps to stop the hauntings, they still seem to occur on regular basis.

Even the capital of India, Delhi is haunted! The most eerie place in Delhi is Delhi Cantt area which is full of green and lush trees. Most of the times, people have seen a lady clad in white sari asking for lift. If you don’t stop your vehicle, she will start running swiftly with the same speed and believe it or not, people have reported her reaching ahead of them.This story has been doing the rounds for a while now. Some people claim that possibly the lady was a hitchhiker while alive; hence she waves at lonely passersby to stop.

Dow Hill, Kurseong in West Bengal is one of the most haunted places of India. Especially the corridors of the school and the woods where a lot of paranormal activity has been recorded.

A number of murders have taken place in the woods and that has left an eery feeling in the air here.

On the stretch between Dow Hill Road and the Forest Office, woodcutters claim to have seen a headless young boy walking and then disappearing into the trees.

Many locals have also heard footsteps in the corridors of Victoria Boys School during the December-March vacation.

The 178-year-old Brij Raj Bhavan Palace of the former princely family of Kota in Rajasthan, which was converted into a heritage hotel in the 1980s has a resident ghost, namely that of Major Burton, who, while serving as the British Resident to Kota, was killed by Indian sepoys during the 1857 Mutiny.

The sepoys killed Major Burton and his two sons in the central hall of the building. The former maharani of Kota told British journalists in 1980 that she used to see Major Burton frequently, as the room in which he was killed, was being used as her drawing room then. An elderly man with a cane in his hand, ghost of Major Burton does not harm anybody. But during his night visit, if any of the guards are sleeping or dozing, Major Burton gives them a slap.

Introduction:Nazca Lines are the most outstanding group of geoglyphs in the world. Etched in the surface of the desert pampa sand about 300 hundred figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes and pictures of animals and birds - and their patterns are only clearly visible from the air.



The high desert of Peru holds one of the most mystifying monuments of the known world—the massive-scale geoglyphs known as the Nasca Lines. Ranging from geometric patterns to “drawings” of different animals and stylized human-like forms. The ancient lines can only be truly taken in, their forms discerned, from high in the air, leaving generations mystified as to how these precise works could’ve been completed long before the documented invention of human flight. Are the lines signs left by an alien race? Landing strips for UFOs? Relics of a ancient people far more advanced—capable of human flight—then previously imagined?

Etched, as if by giants, onto the arid moonscape of Peru’s southern desert lies one of man’s greatest mysteries; the Nasca Lines. More than 15,000 geometric and animal-like patterns have been discovered criss-crossing the pampas like a vast puzzle. Who built them and what was their purpose? Ancient racetracks, landing strips for aliens, or perhaps a giant astronomical calendar? And are the Lines connected to the gruesome discovery of large cache’s of severed human heads. Now, after decades of misunderstanding, modern archaeology may finally have the answer.

Excavations in the surrounding mountains are uncovering extraordinary clues about the people who made them and why. A long since vanished people, called the Nasca, flourished here between 200BC and 700AD. But the harsh environment led them to extreme measures in order to survive.

Archaeologist Christina Conlee recently made an extraordinary find: the skeleton of a young male, ceremonially buried but showing gruesome evidence of decapitation. In place of the missing human head, a ceramic “head jar” decorated with a striking image of a decapitated head with a tree sprouting from its skull.

Conlee wonders who this person was? Why was he beheaded and yet buried with honor. Was he a captive taken in battle, or could he have been a willing sacrifice? And did his decapitation have anything to do with the lines? The discovery of large caches of human heads adds grisly weight to Conlee’s theories and helps unravel on of man’s great mysteries.

These Are Some Of The Lines :

The Condor



The "Giant"


The Heron



The Pelican


The Hummingbird



The Hands



The Dog



The Spider



The Monkey

This area has been reported numerous of times for it's paranormal activity. People have experiences with hearing strange whispers on the beach. It's like the wind around this area is full of spirits of dead people.

Dumas beach in gujarat is one of the most haunted places in India. Hindus have a tradition of burning dead on the beach, plus spirits tend to be found more at places which are windy, and Dumas Beach is one of them. Especially at night, if you are walking towards the ocean, you'll hear noises in the wind which'll tell you not to go forward and go back. A number of tourists have been known to have disppeared while taking walks on the beach at night.

Dogs, who have a slightly wider spectrum to notice paranormal phenomena, behave weirdly around the ocean here, and cry at night. Many have been chased by dogs here, but locals say they are just running away from something else!

People say that nobody returned from there who stayed there after dark.

Indian Government Warning Signboard

Bhangarh - "No Entry Before Sunrise And After Sunset
The biggest thing is that as per Govt. of India rules there has to be an office of Archaeology Survey of India (ASI) beside every historical structure in India. But even Government authorities couldn't dare to open an office there and they opened their office about one kilometer away from the ruins of Bhangarh.

Bhangarh, the most haunted place of India

VOA News

India, with its rich and long history, is full of mysteries. Perhaps none is as puzzling as what happened hundreds of years ago at a royal city in Rajasthan, now under excavation. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman went to look and has this report from the ghost town of Bhangarh.

Real account from people who're missing now

A photograph and a diary entry

"The place was absolutely dark! No artificial lighting. At all! we parked the car strategically so as make use of the car's headlamps and jumped the iron gate and, we were in. Of course, this didn't happen so fast and without a lot of discussions and thinking and some more re-thinking. Soon we were far from the car and the only luminescence in the pitch blackness was my phone flashlight. We'd gone way in and were scared to death, we'd dare not go inside the caves, there were bats. We wanted to stay away from the trees and wilderness, black panthers and snakes were common here.

The guard told us the story of Bhangarh, how a tantrik cursed the town so its inhabitants would die suddenly , he cursed- that none of the houses would have roofs over them. The guard then showed us that in fact none of the ancient houses had roofs other than the mandirs,the temples! I shit you not. And that moment, it was bone-chilling! He took us to the gate and made us leave. We left. I slept on the way and damn, I cant forget the nightmares I had that night."
Last Entry:

"I woke up at 7 am to find myself in the middle of nowhere, turns out we'd lost the way back and my friend who was driving had parked the car and dozed off. Boy, he must have gone through crazy shit. But now, it was daylight, we felt safer, though we had no clue where we were and there were no people around! there was no no mobile network,so we couldn't make calls. that was still manageable, but the car? it would not start!"

A search party went looking for these boys but no success...only their car, a camera and a diary with these notes scribbled were found. Apparently, they visited the place for a night of ghost hunting.