Mystical places in India
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Bhangarh Fort
The ruins of a 17th-century city in India, officially named by the Archaeological Survey of India as the country's most haunted site — visitors are barred after sunset.
Dumas Beach
A black sand beach on the Gujarat coast, long used as a Hindu cremation ground. Local accounts have the sand black from ash, and voices and laughter heard from the beach at night; disappearances are attributed to people who went walking along the waterline after dark. The authorities close the beach at night, which does the reputation nothing but good.
Kuldhara
A village in the Thar Desert near Jaisalmer that its inhabitants abandoned in a single night around 1825 and never returned to. The story goes that the state minister demanded the village headman's daughter, and rather than hand her over the whole community of eighty-four villages walked out in the dark — quietly enough that none of their neighbours noticed them going. On leaving, the brahmins cursed the place: anyone who tried to settle there would not survive the night. The houses have stood empty for almost two centuries since, in the middle of otherwise inhabited land. The stone walls, staircases and doorways are intact — not ruined, simply left, as though the owners had stepped out and never come back.