Morgan House — the Lady of Kalimpong's colonial hill station mansion

Morgan House in Kalimpong, West Bengal, is a colonial-era mansion built in the typical British architectural style of the Raj period. The house was constructed for a British merchant named George Morgan and his wife, who were prominent figures in the hill station's European community. After Morgan's wife died in the house, reports of her ghostly presence began. Visitors and caretakers describe the partial apparition of a European woman in period dress — visible from the waist up — walking through the corridors and standing at the windows overlooking the Himalayan valleys. The sound of high heels clicking on the wooden floors has been reported when the house is empty, and some visitors describe the scent of English lavender in rooms where no plants or perfumes are present. Morgan House has been converted into a heritage tourism property, and guests who stay overnight report the most frequent encounters. The mansion's setting in Kalimpong — a hill station at 4,000 feet in the eastern Himalayas, surrounded by tea gardens and rhododendron forests with views of Kangchenjunga — creates an atmosphere of faded colonial elegance that makes the British lady's continued presence feel almost natural.