Spooky, Eerie, Scary

Last night we were talking about ghosts and weird happenings which many of us have experienced. A small girl who is an Management undergrad from a college in Bombay narrated this story to us.

It was their college Industrial Visit abbreviated I.V. Don't know why I remember Poison Ivy Trilogy here. They had been to Jodhpur the fort city of India for a 3 day trip. They say the hotel was weird in the first glance and it differed from the normal conception of a building design of a traditional Indian hotel. It was designed in a rather unusual fashion where it had several duplexes connected by a common courtyard. There were 4 rooms in each duplex and a large common room on the ground floor.

The participants stayed in two adjacent duplexes and complained of strange incidents throughout their stay. The series of unfortunate incidents is summarized below:

1.) The rooms were very spooky at the night and strange sounds could be heard at all times if you keep your ears open. You can hear people talking in corners of the hallway and find absolutely no one when you check it out.

2.) A strange mishap occurred which scared the little shit out from them. A girl went out at night to meet two of her friends who were in the adjacent room. When she knocked the door, she heard the two of them talking from the outside. She knocked again and again but no one opened the door. She tried to turn the knob and found that it was locked from inside because the door latch was open. She was frantic at this and rushed to call others from the common room at the ground floor.

Once she climbing down the staircase the scene scared her to the soul. The girls whom she was calling to open the door were standing below talking to each other. They were not in the room above and they were talking slowly. There was no possibility that she was overhearing their conversation from below. She called them upstairs to find out the weird sounds. They brought the keys to open the door but as they turned the door knob they got surprised at the result.

The door was open and only latched not locked. The girls were scared to the core and slept the night in talking, no one of them could sleep after that.

3.) You don't believe unless it happens to you. The boys of the group made fun of the girls and said they are framing this story and claimed the first girl might not have checked the door properly and overheard the discussion downstairs in the silence of the night.

The boys had to pay for not believing the girls. They were drinking liquor in one of their rooms and kept ice in a ice box with them. One of them thought that Ice will not melt if kept in the washroom (don't know why). They did this with the ice box and started to drink.

After some drinks one of the boys went to pee into the washroom. He was standing in the washroom and suddenly the lid of the Ice-Box broke open the seal the boys have put in and flew ceiling high and landed over his leg. The boy screamed and ran back into the room to narrate this to his friends.

The Legend
The group later quizzed the waiter about this and the waiter told him this legend.

This hotel was constructed on a site where once used to be a farm land. There were farmers who used to live here in their small huts. The owner of the land confiscated this land and payed the farmers some money as compensation. However, there was one farmer couple who did not want to move from their patron land and stayed there disagreeing the terms of the owner.

The land owner and his men decided to kill this farmer and set his house on fire. The couple was charred to death on this land. From then they say there has been such series of mishaps surrounding this land.

A number of times when they tried to make a building design the building collapsed and killed many workers. So, they decided to make duplexes instead of a single building hotel.

The waiter said once there was a couple who stayed there for their honeymoon and there were strange happenings surrounding their stay.

The couple received the news of the man's father being ill and decided to discontinue their stay and return back home. They checked out in front of the manager and a waiter. However the manager went on leave the same day, thus leaving no news of the checkout of the couple to other staff.

It was some days later that another waiter brought the room service bills to the manager when he returned from his vacation. The manager got puzzled when he saw bills from the room where the duo stayed. He inquired the room-keeping staff and got baffled. The staff replied that they were getting continuous orders from this room and they even delivered the food onto this room to the couple.

The manager decided to go and check out for himself. When he reached the room there was a stench coming out of the room like that of rotten food. They opened the room and fond food getting rotten kept on the table and a Red Saari lying on the bed.

This was the time they declared the hotel haunted and advised the guests to be ware and not to step out at night anywhere in the hotel.

I have no idea whether all this is true or not but certainly I would say this is all linked.

Scariness is not mental alone, what if you hear someone you can't see??

It all about What If?