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Lambi Dehar Mine - Haunted by mine workers or witches??

Do a quick search on google “Most Haunted Places in India” or to be specific “Most Haunted Places in Mussoorie” you will find Lambi Dehar Mines listed there and then numbers of newspaper articles (some of them are big and reputed media), blogs, videos all claiming this place to be haunted. I went through most of the articles and I was not surprised by the content of articles. 50000 (yes 50000) workers died here. I don’t know how they got this number, Witches roam here and scream every night.  Several car and bike accidents near this area Once a helicopter crashed here Most of the writers of article, blogs never went there but copied content from one website to another and thus you will see many internet articles flooded with claiming this place to be “Most Haunted Place” and exectly similar content. Its all from mouth to mouth There are few who went there and spent a night. You can find some great YouTube videos claiming they have seen shadows, heard screa...

Being a Witch in India

- Swapnil Desai “Witch” – The one word that is as fearful or dreaded as a Demon. Wicca – A religion shunned by the New World. Witchcraft – A subject more feared than accepted.   When I was asked to write on this subject, I willingly and promptly accepted, not because of any “folklorish” elements of this topic that I will be addressing, but its because Who I am and What I believe is hugely misunderstood.   As much as the origin of the word “witch” is still debated, One popular etymology for witch maintains that it is related to the English words wit , wise , wisdom [Germanic root * weit- , * wait-, * wit- ; Indo-European root * weid -.* woid- , * wid- ]. 1   Another theory claims that witch is derived from a root meaning “holy” or “sacred” and thus reflects the witch’s ancient religious role [Germanic root * weih- , * waih-, * wih- ; Indo-European root * weik -, * woik- , * wik- ]. This appears in the Modern German word for Christmas, Weihnacht, literally “holy...

10 facts from Indian mythology that would reaffirm your faith on Mass amnesia!

  -Shishir Kumar India is a land of mystery. When we add ancient to the current Indian map the mystery gets graver. How were we 4000 years ago? Literature here take us on a mystical journey into our missing past that looks exactly like the one we are living today. Read and get a serious jolt to rethink if we are missing our yesterday or we are living a time loop! 1. Dasaavtra - Theory of evolution   While the rest of the world waited for Theory of evolution till 19th century, India had it since 3138 BCE. The Dasvtara is about the incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu. According to it God incarnated on earth the following sequence - Fish (Water dweller), Turtle (water and Land Dweller), boar (Land dweller), Narshima (Half human half animal), Dwarf (The undeveloped human), Parshuram (the hunter), Rama (homo sapiens) the ninth Krishna was portrayed as the smarter upgrade while the ninth that is yet to come shall be responsible for the destruction of Eart...

My Ghost Story - 2

-Shishir Kumar I don’t know where to start this narration from. I am even unsure whether to put this incident in my experiences with ghosts or not. To be clearer I put this very instance of my life in the category of “supernatural”. It was weird and is till date a puzzle about what actually had happened during that missing hour of my life. Year 2002 Date 16th January I clearly remember the date as that week of my life was different. Far away from books, no isomerism, no LHS=RHS, no reflection and rarefaction and no tension of calculating the per capita income – a perfect life as I imagined. I studied in the 11th standard then. Back in my school, my name meant trouble for the school administration. I was the ring master of all the students who were ‘grown ups’. Bashing of a Romeos, non-cooperation movement by students, seizer of heap of crackers before Dipawali, weird chemicals in chemistry labs to the sobbing smarty and raw agents – the administration exactly knew wh...