Rabindra Sarobar Metro Station — Kolkata's haunted underground railway stop

Rabindra Sarobar metro station in Kolkata is a busy stop on the Kolkata Metro, India's oldest underground railway system. The station has gained a haunted reputation due to a series of unexplained deaths — multiple people have been found dead on the tracks under circumstances that investigators have struggled to explain. Some were ruled suicides, but others showed no signs of intentional self-harm. The station is claimed to be haunted by an entity that draws people toward the tracks. Metro workers and passengers have reported seeing a woman in white standing on the platform edge during late-night hours, hearing a voice whispering in Bengali near the track side, and feeling an inexplicable urge to move closer to the platform edge. In Bengali folk belief, a churel — the ghost of a woman who died during pregnancy or childbirth — is known to appear near bodies of water and underground spaces, luring victims to their death. The concentration of unexplained deaths at a single station, combined with the witness reports, has made Rabindra Sarobar one of the most discussed haunted locations in Indian urban legend.