25 Mysterious Places In IndiaIndia

[khujliwal]

Aata maajhi fatrelee.

 

[Levina]

yes it was .. if i am not wrong it was written by Ruskin Bond !

Nooo way I could have forgotten such stories.
I don't remember any such story in my book. But I do remember that books were changed by the time I entered grade 9.
Could you give me link to that story??

 

[anant_s]

You're imagining stuff!
I have not read any such story in CBSE. Lol

Nah remember for sure. I don't pride myself with good memory, but there are some stories (especially the spooky one) from school time that i still recall.

Could you give me link to that story??

here is a part of the same for the Lady!
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Mr Oliver ran as fast as he could and managed it back to the school without fainting. He panted hard as he unlatched the gate and then unlocked the door of his small bungalow in the school premises. As he got in, he banged the door shut behind him and was much relieved to be in the well-lit confines of his house.

He sunk his panting self in his rosewood rocking chair in the drawing room. The entire episode of his encounter with the boy and the old man flashed through his mind as he lay there with his eyes fixed on the wooden pendulum clock on the wall above the fireplace.



In one of those faint moments, his eyes unconsciously shifted from the clock to the mirror plastered next to the fireplace. And ‘NO!!!’ he gave out a thunderous yell in utter horror!



The face that the little boy and the old man had back in the woods was now fixed on Mr Oliver’s body! He was faceless! He rushed out horrified and shouting, out of the door and out of the gate. It was midnight. Mr Oliver ran, as fast as he could. He reached the woods. He found a lantern hanging midair. He grabbed the lantern hurriedly without thinking as he needed some light to show him the way.



Just then, a man popped out from behind a tree. He was a passerby headed towards the Shimla Bazaar and had stopped by in the pine forest to relax for a while. Mr Oliver lifted the lamp up. As soon as the man saw Mr Oliver’s face, he fainted.



He had no face…no eyes, nose, mouth – nothing!



The lovable, soft-spoken, school teacher of yesterday, was a dreaded faceless apparition today.
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Those days CBSE was undergoing a lot of changes and many new stories and books were being introduced. So that should be the reason why I did not get to read this story.

True!
I vividly recall that time 1993, CBSE shifted to a three book format (Poetry, Prose and Grammar workbook).
The story i told above was a part of reading comprehension exercise and is taken from book A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings (Ruskin Bond)

I'm asking this out of curiosity, were you in Class IX too in 1993-94?

yes it was .. if i am not wrong it was written by Ruskin Bond !

Bingo @punit

 

[Levina]

Nah remember for sure. I don't pride myself with good memory, but there are some stories (especially the spooky one) from school time that i still recall.


here is a part of the same for the Lady!
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Mr Oliver ran as fast as he could and managed it back to the school without fainting. He panted hard as he unlatched the gate and then unlocked the door of his small bungalow in the school premises. As he got in, he banged the door shut behind him and was much relieved to be in the well-lit confines of his house.

He sunk his panting self in his rosewood rocking chair in the drawing room. The entire episode of his encounter with the boy and the old man flashed through his mind as he lay there with his eyes fixed on the wooden pendulum clock on the wall above the fireplace.



In one of those faint moments, his eyes unconsciously shifted from the clock to the mirror plastered next to the fireplace. And ‘NO!!!’ he gave out a thunderous yell in utter horror!



The face that the little boy and the old man had back in the woods was now fixed on Mr Oliver’s body! He was faceless! He rushed out horrified and shouting, out of the door and out of the gate. It was midnight. Mr Oliver ran, as fast as he could. He reached the woods. He found a lantern hanging midair. He grabbed the lantern hurriedly without thinking as he needed some light to show him the way.



Just then, a man popped out from behind a tree. He was a passerby headed towards the Shimla Bazaar and had stopped by in the pine forest to relax for a while. Mr Oliver lifted the lamp up. As soon as the man saw Mr Oliver’s face, he fainted.



He had no face…no eyes, nose, mouth – nothing!



The lovable, soft-spoken, school teacher of yesterday, was a dreaded faceless apparition today.
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True!
I vividly recall that time 1993, CBSE shifted to a three book format (Poetry, Prose and Grammar workbook).
The story i told above was a part of reading comprehension exercise and is taken from book A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings (Ruskin Bond)
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I'm asking this out of curiosity, were you in Class IX too in 1993-94?



Bingo @punit

Thanks!
I had heard similar stories but never read in my school textbook. By the time I had entered 9th CBSE had made English literature very mechanical,it was more about group discussions ,class activities than reading stories.

 

[punit]

Nooo way I could have forgotten such stories.
I don't remember any such story in my book. But I do remember that books were changed by the time I entered grade 9.
Could you give me link to that story??

i am the one to be easily spooked.. but this story spooked me very deeply. faceless terror !

 

[Ajai Ghale]

Yanhi par mughlia saltanat ka kaam tamaam hua tha, salaam is jagah ko

Janab app Mughalia Saltanat sey kafi naraz lagtey hain

Interesting article. Some stories seem to be straight out of The X Files.


I've read a similar story (used to be in CBSE board's class 9 English literature book, back in 1993/94), where there was a faceless (meaning no eyes, nose , ears or mouth) in woods near hill town.

Sometime back I read an old Malayalam book(more like a leaflet with about 50-60pages),published in early 1900's, it had pictures of tribal ppl lighting fire for makaravellaku. But back then it was a common knowledge or may be not as controversial subject as it is today.

You're imagining stuff!
I have not read any such story in CBSE. Lol

Those days CBSE was undergoing a lot of changes and many new stories and books were being introduced. So that should be the reason why I did not get to read this story.

Personally I only visited Bhangarh and the place is creepy believe me .. Maybe bcz not many people visited there while the locals say that even Animals do no go their beyond the said time.

 

[special operation]

16) Loktak: Only Floating Islands in the World


Image Credit: Hemam Bishwajeet – Flickr

The Loktak Lake in Manipur offers a mysterious and spectacular sight. There are large circular clusters of vegetation that float on the surface. Termed as the only Floating Lake in the world, the formations (phumdis) are made of vegetation, soil and organic matter. This place has been a case of interest and fascination among many.

@punit @levina @anant_s @Butchcassidy
is it the same place colonel s s shekhawat conducted an Anti- terror operation..

 

[kurup]

4) Sabrimala: Celestial Lighting
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On 14th January every year, during the revelries of Makara Sankranti at Sabarimala Temple in Kerala, a rather mysterious phenomenon takes place. A kind of celestial lighting has been spotted on one particular hilltop. Hindus believe that this is none other than the act of Lord Ayyappan who asserts himself to bless his devotees.

However some state that the lighting is a manmade one. According to one theory, it is said to be the result of forest-dwellers who used to light up a lamp during this day. And even after they left, this ritual continued to take place. This theory is said to be debatable though.

Sometime back I read an old Malayalam book(more like a leaflet with about 50-60pages),published in early 1900's, it had pictures of tribal ppl lighting fire for makaravellaku. But back then it was a common knowledge or may be not as controversial subject as it is today.

Nothing mysterious about it .... It is man made .... the place where jyothi appears was where the temple orginally stood .... after the temple was relocated , the tribals used to offer pooja on the orginal location once in a year .... the tradition is still continued .... that's it .

Makarajyothi is man-made, aver leaders - The Hindu