Narrate one activity of anyone of ghost?
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This is a real incident that occurred some 41 years back. I was about 17 years old back then. It was a small town with a population of less than 10,000 people. We used to play hide and seek during night time. We could hide anywhere in the town, which was about 1 km long.
One particular night, one boy from our team did not join us. We went to his house to enquire. He appeared to be quite frightened, yet he came with us. He informed us that just half an hour back he had sighted a ghost! It so happened that he was returning from the district headquarter by a public transport bus. Being the last bus, supposed to arrive in our town at about 8:30 PM, there were only 4-5 passengers in the bus. When the bus was just about a kilometre away from the town, it had to stop as the narrow road was blocked due to a bullock cart having overturned on the road. This was an age when there was hardly any traffic on the roads. I’m talking of 1977. In the whole town, there were not more than 5-6 scooters and not even a single car (even Maruti was yet to begin its production in India). Most of the people were used to bicycles for short to medium distances. As there was no way the bus could move forward due to the blocked road for next one or two hours, all the passengers got down and started walking towards the town which was only about a kilometre away. Just near the place where the bus had stopped, there was a cremation ground. It was near this cremation ground that this boy apparently saw a ghost, whose bones were shining, with no flesh or body and no clothes on. This boy got so frightened that he immediately ran away from there and stopped only when he arrived in his home.
I had become an atheist at the age of 13 years and had slowly developed scientific temperament. So, I did not believe in ghosts or any other supernatural powers. After listening to the story, I challenged him saying that there are no ghosts in the real life, and that he might have seen something else, or there might have been some illusion. However, other boys in the group also supported him. I tried giving example of our chemistry teacher narrating as to how when you apply phosphorus on black cloth, it would shine while the black cloth would not be visible during night time, and that it was possible to apply phosphorus on the black cloth so as to make it appear like bones of a ghost. However, other boys did not agree with me and challenged me to go in the cremation ground myself and prove that there were no ghosts.
I accepted the challenge. But, because no other boys were willing to come with me to or inside the cremation ground, so how do we confirm as to whether I had actually gone inside the cremation ground?
So, we made a plan. It was decided that I would have to go to the cremation ground past midnight on a day when there is a death in the town. It was believed that when a dead body is set on fire in the cremation ground, for 2-3 days, the person who died roams around that place as a ghost. Therefore, there were more chances of there being ghosts on that day. It was further decided that in the evening a notebook would be kept in the cremation ground, containing signatures of all the boys in the team, and I had to bring back that notebook after visiting the cremation ground past midnight. This was just to confirm my visit so that I could not bluff. Further, an old shirt would be given to me which I had to keep near the burnt dead body in the cremation ground at the time of my visit. This was to doubly confirm my visit.
A day came soon within a fortnight, when there was an unfortunate death in the town. The dead body was set on fire in the cremation ground. At about 6 PM, all our team members went there and hid a notebook with signatures of all boys almost in the middle of the cremation ground. All of us came back. At that time, the half burnt dead body was unattended because usually people return after some time after cremating the dead body. Being a small town, there was no attendant in the cremation ground. It was in the open field, about 1 km from the town and about 100 m off the road.
As planned, all our team members assembled in the town and played our usual hide and seek game at night time. Past midnight, they accompanied me till the end of the town. Being scared, also because they fully believed in ghosts, they did not want to accompany me any further. This was my challenge now.
So, I started walking alone towards the cremation ground which was about a kilometre away. I had a small torch in my hand and also a stick (to take care of snakes or any other emergency), and also the old shirt handed over to me by one of the boys which was to be kept by me near the burnt dead body in the cremation ground.