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Believe in ghosts? then you may find this article interesting.

No doubt i personally believe in existence of something after death. So its really makes me interested to read and write about these topics.

There are very popular stories and facts about Haunted houses in Kolkata and surroundings which can be found in books and movies. But beyond this there are direct experiences by common people wh9ch might not got published in books. Here are some about Kolkata Haunted Houses:

1.Haunted house stumps rationalists

7 Dec 2007, 0256 hrs IST, Pinaki Das, TNN
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kolkata/%20Haunted_house_stumps_rationalists/articleshow/2602627.cms

HOWRAH: Strange apparitions moving across rooms, a trail of water on the floor, beds and pillows getting wet — horror movie freaks may think
this to be the plot of the next Ramsay Brothers’ venture.

However, this is little joy for the residents of a century-old building at Santragachhi, where these ‘sightings’ are taking place. The house has already acquired the unenviable title of Bhoot Bungalow.

Siddhartha Banerjee and his family have occupied this century-old house at GIP Colony for nearly five decades now. While Banerjee stays on the ground floor, his sister stays in the rooms above.

It all started 13 days ago when family members found water on the floors where none had been spilled. Even beds and mattresses were moist. Banerjee’s daughter Varsha complained of seeing shadows moving across rooms.

As the news spread, a Paschim Banga Vigyan Mancha team visited the house on Thursday. They reasoned that the floor and beds are being wetted by animals. The family has a pet dog. A number of cats also haunt the house. The needle of suspicion thus pointed towards these animals. The apparitions were dismissed as a figment of Varsha’s imagination.

However, as luck would have it, the team suddenly spotted a patch of water on the floor with no animal in the vicinity. Although the team members did not have any explanation, they contended that the water may have seeped through the old flooring. The Santragachhi Jheel is also close to the house, which might have been built after filling up a pond. The rationalists are now trying to unearth old land maps of the area to find out more. The team may visit the house again on Friday.

2. I also found this: http://wikimapia.org/7710020/27-SV-Rd-Extn-Haunted-House-STAY-AWAY
Please check the above link.

3. This has been collected from the link: http://www.indian-skeptic.org/html/is_v03/3-9-9.htm

IN SEARCH OF HAUNTED HOUSES AND GHOSTS

T.P. Nhaliath

Yes, we are in search of haunted houses! Not only haunted houses, but are in the look out for Poltergeist, Petitmal ghosts etc.

It was surprising to learn that there are “Haunted Houses” in Calcutta even in this part of the century.

In Kerala, during the past we had similar attacks at several places on several occasions. We call this menace “Kuttichathan” (Poltergeist) in malayalam. Our rationalist leaders late M.C. Joseph and Dr. A.T.Kovoor went to haunted houses and caught kuttichathans red handed. Now there are rationalists in all corners of Kerala who simply go to the “Haunted Houses” when such cases occur and catch them then and there. Generally we have found all the kuttichathans of Kerala in the servant of the house, a son or daughter, the mother or even the father himself. Here in Calcutta also it is someone among them. If interested we, the Bengal Rationalist Association (mainly consisting of Keralites) can go and look into the matter and catch the relative kuttichathans who are “playing” this drama. The incidents of Kuttichathan or poltergeist is nothing but a temporary mental aberration. There are also two kinds of disturbances. One is the poltergeist and the other Petimal.

I have also compiled a book under the title “Kuttichathan” in malayalam containing details of similar incidents investigated by the late M.C. Joseph.

Incidentally I would like to make it known that there are a few challenges still valid offering over a lakh of rupees to any one who can prove any super natural power. One is from B. Premanand, the Convenor of Indian Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and another from a rationalist of Kerala.

Here in Calcutta, or for that matter Bengal or India if there are any haunted houses, the Bengal Rationalist Association with the co-operation of Atheists and Rationalists though a few in number, scattered all over the country and the world can investigate the matter and catch the culprits.

As far as “Kuttichathan” or poltergeist is concerned, I hope it will be relevant to quote: It is a phenomenon common since ancient times in most parts of the world. That it is the result of human agency was discovered by Dr. Johnson and his friends. (18th Century)”

(Universal Encyclopeadia (Revised Edition, Vol.X Page 6235).

Now, my friends, give us an opportunity to confront with “Kuttichathan” Poltergeist, petitmal or Haunted house or a ghost, Atleast give us a chance to live in a haunted house!

4. A haunted night experiance : collected from : http://www.ghostvillage.com/encounters/2007/03022007.shtml

March 2, 2007
Disembodied Ghungroo Sounds

Raaj Datta, Kolkata, India, August 1999 and April 2001

I have had paranormal experiences throughout my life but I have never been harmed in any way whatsoever. Maybe I never let it get into my head. This particular incident, though shook me a bit.

Now, getting to the point of what exactly happened. I was in the 11th grade, and I stayed alone in Kolkata at that time. It was a rented accommodation. I stayed in the ground floor and the owner and his family stayed upstairs, but mine was completely separate. My bedroom was just beside the corridor to the kitchen. But the house was in a bizarre fashion. I had to take a full turn through the front room to get to the kitchen after crossing the corridor.

As usual, I would study till 1 a.m. and then go to sleep and that night nothing was too unusual. After switching off the lights, I went to bed and was fast asleep. After around 45 minutes or so, I heard something and my sleep got disturbed. It was still dark, but I could clearly hear the sound of someone walking in the corridor. The person was wearing a payel/ghungroo (a musical instrument worn by women around the ankle to produce rhythm) which is very common in India. I could not believe my ears and I thought that it must be the house owner’s granddaughter who was just 2 years then. But I had to dismiss that because the sound which was coming from the ghungroos gave the impression that it should be someone of around 20-25 years of age, and moreover it was almost 2 a.m. Strange enough, the person or the sound never moved beyond the corridor. This continued for another 15 minutes, then I decided to get up and switch on the lights. All of a sudden, the sound stopped. I checked the entire house, but I couldn’t find anything unusual.

The next day I asked the owner if they were awake late at night. He confirmed that they went to sleep around 11 p.m. and no one got up that night. I still could not believe what I heard last night; I thought I must have cooked it up in my brain. That night too, when I went to sleep, after an hour or so, I began hearing the same sound. I got a bit disturbed because on the second day the sound was coming from the front room and from that room only. It was not from the corridor, it was the front room. The only difference being, the sound was very distinct. After 5 minutes, I got up and switched on the lights and the sound vanished. I looked here and there but found nothing. The rest of the night was peaceful.

The next and the third night it was all the same but I got real scared. The sound was in my room and kept moving around my bed. I started calling God’s name but it made no difference. The next thing I knew, I jumped out of my bed and raced toward the switch board and just when I switched on the lights, the sound vanished. I was out of my wits as I have never come across something like this. But after that night nothing happened.

After the incident, I got in touch with a person who knew some sort of black magic. He gave me a talisman but he also mentioned that it was definitely not a spirit or ghost but something like a fairy. He warned me not to mess with it. One thing he clearly told me was that I shouldn’t go outdoors if it again happened. Afterwards, I pursued many people who were into occult practices and got one common answer; I might have some sort of past life relation with this thing. But believe me, I simply disagree with this hypothesis.

Again, in April of 2001, after we shifted to our own house with my mom and dad, I again went through the same experience. This time the sound did not enter our house, rather it came from our garden. I quickly opened the backside door but could not find anything. The next night it again happened and this time I armed myself with a kitchen knife and the talisman. I went outside and suddenly the sound shifted to the roof of our house. I decided to climb to the roof — we hadn’t yet built the stairs — so it was quite a risk, but I went ahead. I started climbing and just when I was a foot lower than the roof, a sudden thought crossed my mind; what if I see something ghastly? Then I looked down and understood if the thing had intentions of killing me, this was the time. I quickly got down and bolted the door from inside. I wondered what got into my mind that I got myself to climb to my potential death.

I told my mom the next morning, but she too was confused as to what exactly happened. But what happened had really happened and how could I dismiss it? What was it? I truly don’t know.

I am not posting this stuff just to get myself published. It is my request to the Ghostvillage team if they can tell me, what are these things?

Maybe because I do meditation, I am still unhurt. It is an accepted fact that meditation closes in the link between the normal and the paranormal. People who practice meditation on holy names are less likely to be hypnotized.
All I can say is, I am not a fool or an uneducated person, but something is there and I do not have any explanation at all. My email id is dattaraaj@gmail.com. If anyone has any clue what it could be, please mail me.

There are lot more in my stock and I will share this stories with you time to time.

Now please post if do you have such kind of experience and even what do you think about this topic.