ghost stories in mumbai

The hospital we were talking about has a very narrow lane connecting the other departments to the postmortem house. This postmortem house has many stories linked to it. But the one that really appealed was the love of the lady for her son.

The person telling us this incident actually a staff of the hospital has seen this happening and what was more astonishing was that it happened every afternoon for years on end. He tells that whenever a body being taken for postmortem through that passage it was felt that some was holding the stretcher from one end and the ward boys together couldn’t push through and when the applied optimum strength the entire stretcher would upturn.

The person tells us that this lady had lost her son in an accident and the didn’t want postmortem to be conducted hence she lay crying in that passage and finally passed away in grief in that passage itself. From that onwards every afternoon there was a problem in passing through that passage with that body.

Now wit time passing by it is learnt that the effect of the lady has reduced probably she has just overcome the grief of her loved ones death……..

As said earlier this hospital was a house to unnatural happenings. But his one was really rocking as no one ever saw anything.

We came to know about this place when we met this 22yr old guy actually we didn’t meet he came up to us and spoke to us. He started of saying that the lane behind the postmortem center isn’t very safe as people moving there have often experienced a push or a tight slap. We counter questioned him as to how he knew so much about that place. He told us that not very long ago there was this young boy in his area returning from that lane late in the night after his shift at work. When this guy reached this debated place he experienced a tight slap across his face. He didn’t actually realize what had happened and he rushed home. But by the time he had rushed home he already had high fever his parents didn’t know what to do and gave him some medicine but the fever continued rising and the guy started slipping into unconsciousness. But he kept muttering all the while that he had been slapped in that lane. He finally slipped into unconsciousness and his parents rushed him to the nearby hospital where he was declared dead due to brain haemorhage.

We again asked this guy how did he know all these details that time he told us that this dead guy was his brother and tears just welled in his eyes. We were just too shocked even to console him. But he himself later told us that even today people don’t prefer to use that lane in the nights .

Ghost stories in a cemetery are common but this cemetery in a very sleepy area in the middle of the city didn’t have any of these ghost stories until lately. We didn’t even expect a ghost story in this cemetery because one of our group members lived just a stone’s throw away from the cemetery. But just to prove us wrong we had this slapping spree going on in the corner of the cemetery and no one knew who did it as there was no one around. The employees were just too excited to tell us the happenings there as though no one had ever asked them about the fishy happenings there.

This slapping was a new phenomenon there because this was happening only for the past few years there. Now what exactly happened? How it all started? ……..

A dead body of a young boy probably in his early 20s had been cremated there on a hot May noon. The boy had died of drowning in a nearby well there. So after all the cremation rites were over one of the workers just went there to see if the body had completely burnt but as he was moving from one end of the cemetery to the cremation site he had to pass the debated corner and as soon as he reached there he got a stunning slap but to his astonishment there was just no one around absolutely no one …… After some another employee was passing through the same place and he too recieved a slap of the same magnitude if not less. If this was not over to add to our goosebumps both of them told us separately that the same night they saw a rabbit hopping away from them and later transforming into a lady who raced away from them. They didn’t have a clue of what was happening but were surely too scared to investigate any further.

The slap in the afternoon and the rabbit turning into a lady probably too much of a strain on their minds and we could just conclude ‘When you get a tight slap you might not just see Stars you might as well end up seeing Rabbits transforming into Women’!

How would it feel if someone inside you other than yourself is negating your movements? It’s that eerie kind of energy that makes you do what it wants….

This is what happened to this young boy living on the outskirts of Mumbai however while giving out his experience he did not wish to be named. So let us call him ‘Eklavya’. Eklavya was a normal 10 year old who liked to play a lot of outdoor games with his friends. He had a strange fascination to the cemetery near to his house and slowly that cemetery became one of his and his friends favourite places to play. But one day all was not going to be the same for Eklavya. He went to the cemetery as usual not knowing what was there in store for him . That day he finished his game as usual and returned home and then it was just the beginning …………. Of his leaving home and running away. He would sometimes leave home and come to Charni Rd and be walking along the railway tracks. He remember once he ended up walking along the Mumbai- Ahmadabad Express Highway and returned home somehow walking along the Diva- Vasai railway line. He was in absolute apathy when he returned home.

These running away from home incidents continued over the next few years . When he was about 12 years old he was taken to a middle aged man who offered to help but whatever that man did was not of much use. He kept going to unknown places without any information about how to go there. When he was about 15 he was taken to another middle aged man ‘ baba ‘ as he calls him and this man gave him a locket and some vibhuti which were never to be separated from his body. From that day onwards he returned to his normalcy and his leading a very normal life now.

When he asked baba what was there in his body he came to know that he was possessed by the spirit of a girl which made him do so many things. He still recollects the entire horror he faced with a chill down his spine. He just says that its always important to that darkness of the night has many secrets hidden in it which we don’t know or don’t want to accept it !!!!