The debate on the existence or absence of ghosts, ghouls and spirits can be postponed for another occasion but let us, through an exploration of Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, which was believed to be crawling with ghosts till a few decades ago, try to understand the possible reasons why certain places acquire the reputation of being haunted. To understand the reason for the high density of ghosts in this territory one needs to go back 160 years to 1857. It is a popular belief that those who die unnatural deaths turn into ghosts and are trapped in this world as ghosts till their natural death arrives. Right outside the Dehli Darwaza and all the way to the prison were huge peepal trees, popularly believed to be the abode of ghosts; all this was ideally suited to sightings of ghosts. Gradually offices, the medical college and newspaper offices that worked through the night came up and suddenly the ghosts disappeared.

Source: dna February 19, 2017 02:37 UTC