The housing colonies near Patpatganj, east of the Yamuna, are newer developments in an area that was a setting for some of the epics of centuries past. Delhi’s djinns and tormented souls have been roaming these eastern parts even before the arrival of the Turks.
Tucked away in a nameless colony, just a stone’s throw away from a metro station is a haunted house. No, this is not your typical ‘bhooth bungla,’ which was abandoned in the 1950s. In those Nehruvian times, the plot of land where this house stands was in all probability, an agricultural field.
Could it be something that happened around the time Arjuna was fighting his cousins in nearby Indraprastha? Or was it the result of a post-independence land-feud? Is it something that may have transpired in those simple socialist days, when Dilhi was far away and disconnected from these parts largely because of the then-clean and wide Yamuna? No one has a clue. The farmers of the 1950s are all gone. The inhabitants of the area only know that there was a murder in the house and that every family that moved in since has witnessed a death.
Cobwebs, decay and spirits jostle for space with the only external sounds being azaans from nearby mosques and bhajans from a neighbouring gurudwara! A group of adventurous girls once decided to walk in to the compound on a cold winter night. The lucky or unlucky 13 moved in quietly hand-in-hand and as the cold breeze swung some branches, an odd strike of lightning and thunder made the girls scream in horror and scram for the gates. Few have dared to venture in since!
Some hear screams and plates being broken, others see lights, yet no one knows who haunts this wretched house! What is the story? Will the truth ever come out?
Tucked away in a nameless colony, just a stone’s throw away from a metro station is a haunted house. No, this is not your typical ‘bhooth bungla,’ which was abandoned in the 1950s. In those Nehruvian times, the plot of land where this house stands was in all probability, an agricultural field.
Could it be something that happened around the time Arjuna was fighting his cousins in nearby Indraprastha? Or was it the result of a post-independence land-feud? Is it something that may have transpired in those simple socialist days, when Dilhi was far away and disconnected from these parts largely because of the then-clean and wide Yamuna? No one has a clue. The farmers of the 1950s are all gone. The inhabitants of the area only know that there was a murder in the house and that every family that moved in since has witnessed a death.
Cobwebs, decay and spirits jostle for space with the only external sounds being azaans from nearby mosques and bhajans from a neighbouring gurudwara! A group of adventurous girls once decided to walk in to the compound on a cold winter night. The lucky or unlucky 13 moved in quietly hand-in-hand and as the cold breeze swung some branches, an odd strike of lightning and thunder made the girls scream in horror and scram for the gates. Few have dared to venture in since!
Some hear screams and plates being broken, others see lights, yet no one knows who haunts this wretched house! What is the story? Will the truth ever come out?
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