Ghosts, Hauntings And Manifestations....??? Options

[Reeth]

Although Ghosts and Apparitions have been reported for thousands of years, surprisingly very little
informatiom is available with regard to their nature or essence.
Ghosts are elusive and unpredictable, and, the ways in which they manifest are surprisingly diverse.
Contrary to popular belief most ,ghostly encounters are not visual but rather consist of noises, smell
sensations,voices, cold spots,electrical disturbances such as lights switching on and off,displacement
or movement of objects. The available data on this is prone to exaggeration and sometime outright
deceit.

studies suggest that approximateli 1 in 10 of us has the ability to perceive ghosts, those of us
who are actively looking for them are apparently the least likely ones to have a ghostly experience....
Children seem more apt to experience manifestations....
Women seem more attuned than men....
There are several interesting theories regarding the basics of ghostly manifestations

Ghosts are the earth bound souls of the deceased
This is the most common interpretation.....for most of us this theory is comforting, as it hints at a life
after the physical body is gone...
The theory is tht when the physical body dies this energy continues in some form and can be tapped
by living persons sensitive enough to perceive it....

Events are somehow recorded in certain surroundings to be replayed over and over to living people sensitive enough to discern them....

This theory accounts for a lot of our ghost legends and likely the source of all hauntings that repeat again
and again...
Frightening as these type of manifestations may be, the apparition is not a thinking entity, nor does it have
a will or a purpose, and it is no more a threat to an observer than watching a chracter on a telivision...

Ghosts are actual beings living in one or more parallel dimensions

To put it simply, this theory suggests that there are one or more complete universes co-existing with us

Ghosts exist only as Figments of our imagination

This theory can be made to apply to every kind of paranormal manifestation there is,and in some case it
is probably at least in part correct.
However there are still a lot of questions left unanswered by this theory, such as when more than one
person sees the same phenomenon....Skeptics use the term 'Mass hysteria' for situations like
this, but nobody has offered an explaination for the core catalyst causing many brains to suddenly go
haywire.....
This Theory needs a lot of research.....Only time will tell....
In the meantime....here are some photographs of ghotly manifestations...
Girl in the graveyard.......she appeared in the photograph!!!!!


The man seems to have come out of a tombstone in the graveyard......









Please come forward with your own views, theories and personal experiences if any.........

[Reeth]

Kaveri's ghost.......

This incident took place a year ago in kutta( my hometown )in the estates of my cousin who is my working partner here...

I am just giving a short description of the estate just to make it simpler,generally you have the estate house built right in the centre surrounded by coffeee plantation all round, there is a clearing around the house , and you have a few outhouses built around the main house for the live-in estate workers and others..... the estate boundary is demarked by planting certain variety of wild growing cactus which is a deterrant to animals like Wild bison, elephants and sometime even Tigers when they decide to pay a visit, which is very frequent.......
This particular estate owned by my cousin's family is very vast covering an area of almost 300 acres and the backyard ,so to say blends into the foothills of the western ghats, the Brahmagiri range...
My cousin decided to have a houseparty for a whole weekend in the estate with a few of his friends, i was supposed to have gone but had to drop out for some personal reason, so missed out all the excitement...
His parents were away, so it was him with 3 of our common friends and 2 of them , at the last minute decided to bring along their girlfriends as well......
They had a great time exploring the Nagaraholre forests during the daytime, and were relaxing at night in the estate house after dinner , and, somehow the talk turned to ghosts and such...

There had been a tragic incident in the past.....The estate workers during the day had noticed a young woman sitting under a tamarind tree just outside the estate boundary near the foothills, and they were naturally surprised to see her there ,since there is no road leading anywhere there and there are hardly any houses around. She seemed very disturbed,crying and hardly spoke..........they went on questioning her , when asked about her whereabouts she is supposed to have pointed to the hills beyond,and, they thought she had come from one of the smaller settlements they have there....later the ladies had persisted and finally she said her name was Kaveri.....that is the only word she seemed to have uttered......As it grew late in the evening one of the workers found her still sitting there under the tree, so told her to go back to her house as it was not safe there, at which she got up and started walking towards the hills....
But the next morning, she was found hanging from the branch of the same tree , under which she had sat the previous day, her saree was used as a rope,and how she got on to the tree was/is still a mystery.....there was a police enquiry etc; but nothing was known about her....till today no one has come forward to identify her.....what led the poor woman, she was little more than a girl , to take such a drastic step , has remained a mystery...but within a week there were rumors floating around about her spirit haunting the place, and it grew stronger by the day, with many people, mainly estate workers experiencing her so called wrath.....
Having learnt about this the youngsrers wanted to visit the spot then and there, it was nearly midnight, and they wanted to see the place at night....my cousin was apprehensive and was not too keen ,but finally they all decided to go, so they set forth armed with torches a revolver and a gun( most estate owners carry firearms)They wanted 2 estate workrs to accompany them,but the workers were reluctant, but finally agreed to go with them if the girls were left behind, but the girls apparently were the ones who had come up with the idea , so no way were they going to be left out, anyway the workers did go finally.......They reached the spot and crossed over to the other side where there ws a clearing after a landslide... and the 2 workers became restless and funnily enough it seems all of them could feel a kind of fear which might have been psychological but they all felt numb.....one of them then decided to go close to the tree and touch it , at this point the 2 workers protested and started walking back to the house....The brave guy started walking towards the tree and my cousin and the other guy were shining the torch directly at the tree.....as he reachd th tree they all heard a loud shriek ....like a startled feminine cry.......and this made both of them shift the torch and shine it up the tree from where they thought the sound had originated.....within seconds they again focused it back on the ground and found that Anil( tht is his name) had fallen down lying on his back, rushed to him and found him unconcious...........revived him and later he said that he was forcefully pushed back by something and that he had lost balance and had fainted with fear.....nothing, no amount of arguments or possible explainations have made him change his views....he says that he had actually felt a hand on his face and chest and was powerless at tht point of time...The 2 girls neeedless to say,have still not recovered from the shock...
Later I went there under similar circumstances,late at night,with another group of friends , but i felt nothing............
But till today people talk about it and there are many stories surrounding the mysterious Kaveri...

[nasir]

Kaveri's ghost.......

This incident took place a year ago in kutta( my hometown )in the estates of my cousin who is my working partner here...

I am just giving a short description of the estate just to make it simpler,generally you have the estate house built right in the centre surrounded by coffeee plantation all round, there is a clearing around the house , and you have a few outhouses built around the main house for the live-in estate workers and others..... the estate boundary is demarked by planting certain variety of wild growing cactus which is a deterrant to animals like Wild bison, elephants and sometime even Tigers when they decide to pay a visit, which is very frequent.......
This particular estate owned by my cousin's family is very vast covering an area of almost 300 acres and the backyard ,so to say blends into the foothills of the western ghats, the Brahmagiri range...
My cousin decided to have a houseparty for a whole weekend in the estate with a few of his friends, i was supposed to have gone but had to drop out for some personal reason, so missed out all the excitement...
His parents were away, so it was him with 3 of our common friends and 2 of them , at the last minute decided to bring along their girlfriends as well......
They had a great time exploring the Nagaraholre forests during the daytime, and were relaxing at night in the estate house after dinner , and, somehow the talk turned to ghosts and such...

There had been a tragic incident in the past.....The estate workers during the day had noticed a young woman sitting under a tamarind tree just outside the estate boundary near the foothills, and they were naturally surprised to see her there ,since there is no road leading anywhere there and there are hardly any houses around. She seemed very disturbed,crying and hardly spoke..........they went on questioning her , when asked about her whereabouts she is supposed to have pointed to the hills beyond,and, they thought she had come from one of the smaller settlements they have there....later the ladies had persisted and finally she said her name was Kaveri.....that is the only word she seemed to have uttered......As it grew late in the evening one of the workers found her still sitting there under the tree, so told her to go back to her house as it was not safe there, at which she got up and started walking towards the hills....
But the next morning, she was found hanging from the branch of the same tree , under which she had sat the previous day, her saree was used as a rope,and how she got on to the tree was/is still a mystery.....there was a police enquiry etc; but nothing was known about her....till today no one has come forward to identify her.....what led the poor woman, she was little more than a girl , to take such a drastic step , has remained a mystery...but within a week there were rumors floating around about her spirit haunting the place, and it grew stronger by the day, with many people, mainly estate workers experiencing her so called wrath.....
Having learnt about this the youngsrers wanted to visit the spot then and there, it was nearly midnight, and they wanted to see the place at night....my cousin was apprehensive and was not too keen ,but finally they all decided to go, so they set forth armed with torches a revolver and a gun( most estate owners carry firearms)They wanted 2 estate workrs to accompany them,but the workers were reluctant, but finally agreed to go with them if the girls were left behind, but the girls apparently were the ones who had come up with the idea , so no way were they going to be left out, anyway the workers did go finally.......They reached the spot and crossed over to the other side where there ws a clearing after a landslide... and the 2 workers became restless and funnily enough it seems all of them could feel a kind of fear which might have been psychological but they all felt numb.....one of them then decided to go close to the tree and touch it , at this point the 2 workers protested and started walking back to the house....The brave guy started walking towards the tree and my cousin and the other guy were shining the torch directly at the tree.....as he reachd th tree they all heard a loud shriek ....like a startled feminine cry.......and this made both of them shift the torch and shine it up the tree from where they thought the sound had originated.....within seconds they again focused it back on the ground and found that Anil( tht is his name) had fallen down lying on his back, rushed to him and found him unconcious...........revived him and later he said that he was forcefully pushed back by something and that he had lost balance and had fainted with fear.....nothing, no amount of arguments or possible explainations have made him change his views....he says that he had actually felt a hand on his face and chest and was powerless at tht point of time...The 2 girls neeedless to say,have still not recovered from the shock...
Later I went there under similar circumstances,late at night,with another group of friends , but i felt nothing............
But till today people talk about it and there are many stories surrounding the mysterious Kaveri...

So nothing was known about the antecedents of Kaveri? What a story!

NASIR.