Ghost & Haunting Reports in West Bengal
10 nightmarks documented
Morgan House — the Lady of Kalimpong's colonial hill station mansion
The merchant's wife still walks through her Himalayan mansion — high heels click on wooden floors and lavender scent fills rooms overlooking Kangchenjunga.
Nimtala Crematorium — spirits linger at Kolkata's oldest burning ghat
Figures who aren't mourners walk among the funeral pyres — at Kolkata's oldest cremation ghat, Lord Shiva's domain, the boundary between life and death dissolves nightly.
Rabindra Sarobar Metro Station — Kolkata's haunted underground railway stop
An unseen force draws people toward the tracks at Kolkata's deadliest metro station — a woman in white appears on the platform edge during late-night hours.
Dow Hill — the headless boy of Kurseong's haunted hill station, West Bengal
A headless boy walks through the forest near a colonial boarding school — the 'Death Road' of Kurseong's haunted hills has earned its name many times over.
Howrah Bridge ghats — the suicides' spirits beneath Kolkata's iconic bridge
Phantom figures replay their final jump from Kolkata's busiest bridge — jal-pret (water ghosts) haunt the ghats where the Hooghly claims its dead.
Hastings House — the colonial haunting of Alipore, Kolkata
British officials still hold phantom receptions at this 18th-century colonial mansion — the ghosts of the Raj refuse to leave Kolkata's most prestigious address.
South Park Street Cemetery — colonial ghosts in Kolkata's crumbling necropolis
British colonials walk among their crumbling monuments in this 1767 Kolkata necropolis — a weeping woman in white haunts the children's graves beneath strangling banyans.
Dub Pukur — the haunted pond of Haldia where spirits pull people underwater
Spirits in this pond call your name and grip your ankles — Dub Pukur has dragged victims underwater for generations, even as modern Haldia built up around it.
Writers' Building — the phantom clerks of Kolkata's colonial secretariat
Phantom clerks still scratch quill pens in the offices of the East India Company — colonizers and freedom fighters share this massive Kolkata secretariat.
Begunkodar Railway Station — the ghost-abandoned station of West Bengal
Indian Railways closed this station for 40 years because employees refused to work — a woman in white on the platform was too terrifying to ignore.