In the shadows of India’s bustling metros, live paranormal investigators and exorcists, believers and sceptics, chasing and dispelling the idea of a ghost.
BLink goes in search of the truth, or the embellished lie, trailing the pallu of a spotless white sari
The Mehrauli Archaeological Park is a reliable haunt of good and bad djinns, where the restless spirits of Thomas Metcalfe and ‘Slave ruler’ Balban wander.
>Ranjit Nagar, near Shadipur Metro Station
The Sekhris believe their four-storey DDA flat in Ranjit Nagar, west Delhi, was haunted.
The peepul tree near the Dada Badi Wala shrine in Dwarka stands tall, unmoved by the hubbub of traffic.
Kolkata
The resident ghost of the 250-year-old National Library doesn’t approve of disorderly readers.
Located near a burning ghat, Bhooter Bari is a convenient pit stop for wandering spirits
>Institute of Education for Women
The first governor general of Bengal is believed to haunt the Institute of Education for Women.
>Kolkata Port Trust quarters, Taratala
The residential quarters of Kolkata Port Trust have been witness to strange things
Chennai
Only those with steely nerves dare to visit Fort St George at night.
This colony, named after a 19th-century Portuguese businessman, is the source of many a vaporous story.
>The Theosophical Society, Adyar
The banyan tree at The Theosophical Society in Adyar is said to harbour friendly spirits
Mumbai
Couples seek privacy at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai, undettered by the tales of leopards or ghosts
The germ of the idea for movie Talaash (2012) came into being when writer-director Zoya Akhtar had a brush with the supernatural at the Worli Sea Face.
At Kacheri Baari in Bengal, scars run deep, and the air hangs heavy with tales of persecution
As we grow in number and grab every inch of land we can, there is little wilderness — or plain imagination — left for ghosts to haunt
Boarding schools — rich in imagination and impressionable minds — are the perfect home for restless old men, headless boys and women in white
As mythologies faded onscreen, the ghost movie gave Indian audiences their fill of supernatural chills and thrills
A Bengali short story that leaves you asking, what lurks on the other side… of the phone, of the wall