Desi Ghosts, spirits, and other things that float about in the night…

Some Desi ghosts and spirits share some characteristics with vampires such as having the capacity to drain out a person’s life-force and to generally carry about causing trouble for human beings…although some can be trained to behave…
Djinn:
In Islamic mythology, the Djinn are fiery spirits, one of which was Iblis. From the Arabic junna, “angry, possessed.” [...]

Vikram Aur Betaal! (retro ghost teleserial)

here’s some childhood t.v. Doordarshan nostalgia for you…personally I never watched this series but I used to read the story-book about the corpse hanging from a tree that King Vikram needs to collect for a tantric to use in his magickal workings… you need to watch the clip halfway to see the ghost flying and [...]

Professional Ghost

Scary living for India’s ghost man
Sunday, 02 October , 2005, 07:50
Pakurtala: Mothers use his name to scare their children, while adults hope they don’t bump into him in the dark. For more than 40 years, Gopal Haldar has been making his living in India’s Sunderbans mangrove region as a ghost.
Measuring a mere 1.21 meters (four [...]

Ahmadabad’s Restaurant of Death…

image from pirategirl
AHMADABAD, India (AP) — In India, death is a part of life - and, at one restaurant in western India, a part of lunch. The bustling New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls, and the graves between the tables.
It’s a spot where old men page [...]

A ghost in Kolkata…

Oct. 7, 2007
KOLKATA: The scare of ghosts is haunting 345 Class V students of Degri Girls High School in Domjur, Howrah. On Saturday, the school authorities were forced to suspend classes for the day after terror-struck students claimed seeing poltergeist activity.
Just before classes began, a rumour spread among Class V students that many of [...]

A British Ghost in India: Your tea and cake or your life!

This news is exactly one year old (July 17, 2006) but is just too scrumptious not to be retold…

Owen Tomkinson was a British soldier who died of cholera in the northern Indian state of Bihar in 1906.Nothing unusual about that, but people of Ekbalnagar in Gaya town where Mr Tomkinson is buried, believe that his [...]

Evil Desi Ghost posseses little girls

image from thehotspotonline.com

July 17, 2007
Yes, a school in a West Bengal village is closed for the last five days, courtesy a “ghost” that resides in a haunted century-old neighborhood house and “possesses” young girl students at will.Toiba High School at Kusumgram - a village in Burdwan district about 150 km from Kolkata - is stalked [...]