As of 2019 there's a total of 664,369 village, up from the 649,481 in the 2011 Census of India and the 638,365 recorded in the 2001 Census of India.
My native place or village is in the district of Mayurbhanj ( district in Odisha) approx. 279.6 km from my city Rourkela ( birthplace) . People from my village celebrate almost all rituals and festivals generally celebrated in our region. However Mayurbhanj is famous for its festival named " Makar Shankranti " .
But I had the experience of paranormal activity during " Kartik Purnima " which is also celebrated in our village. It generally occurs in month of November during winter season. We mostly celebrate it on the full moon day of the Karthika month of the Hindu lunar calendar. We pray to Lord Vishnu and devotees take early baths in any holy water or river and would light a wick on the floats made from the items of Banana tree and set it afloat on the river.
We a family of four people including my mother, father, younger brother and me reached to our village three days before Kartik Purnima.The day before Purnima was very exciting as all were discussing and preparing about the next morning puja. There's an old saying of my grandma that we should not speak about our plans or discussion before happening of any good event as negative entities around us might cause distruption in our way. But I never used to believe on that until this happened.
That night before I went to sleep I told my elder sister(cousin) to wake me up early in the morning so that we together can go to Riverside to take our bath before sunrise and follow the rituals ahead of the puja. After saying so I went to bed and nor did once I realised that she was sitting on the veranda at that time which was located out side our entrance of the house, but for me it's like just a word which I told to my sister. But it's actually not that simple as it seems to be, that day my words are heard not only heard by my sister but someone else also.
The next morning exactly the same thing happened as I mentioned to my sister she came to my bedroom to wake me up. I looked at her almost at dizzy eyes and then she told me it's time to go for taking bath and asked me to follow her. I asked her where's the other members of our family but told me that we would go fast then others will be following us. But wait a minute what happened to my sisters voice, why is it sounding so hoarse? But at that time I could not identify who she really is ? I continued following her , I even asked her several questions but she did not replied anything just told me to be quite and follow her. She was walking too fast then her normal days. We started crossing our street and started moving to the next which is the way to the Riverside. It's almost more than 5 minutes I have been walking but where's the rest of the people of the village went why are they not walking with us, nor do I could find anyone even outside their house. Seems as if no one has wake up till now and the entire street was silent. I thought we might have woke up too early otherwise there would have been too much of hustle and bustle till now. Those thoughts were just crossing my mind when suddenly my eyes just took a glance at my sisters feet and shockingly it was not there at all seems as if she is walking but without feet. I stopped following her, getting goosebumps all over my body, literally shivering out of fear, could not figure out anything that what should I do, then suddenly without giving any second thought to my mind I started running back towards house.All the way I was running and looking back if she is still there or not, but luckily I reached home safely and entered into my house and shut the door tightly from inside.My breathing is getting heavy I just could not understand what just really happened, nor did I woke up anyone else and entered into my bedroom immediately. Till now I had already understood that whoever she is she cannot be a human. I just kept sitting on my bed holding my pillow tightly and I could not even sleep, I noticed at the clock it was 1 am, but we were supposed to get up at 4 am. Then I kept chanting Hanuman Chalisha ( divine mantra) to keep myself protected. Hearing my mummering sound my mother woke up, and asked me what all happened, I explained to her the whole story and then she called me to sleep with her in the bedroom and there I noticed that my sister is already sleeping there, I was so sure that it was a ghost even my mom confirmed that, and she told me not to go alone anywhere even if someone calls me.
We attended the puja the next morning safely and then we returned back to our city. For my good fortune I was alright and nothing happened to me, but even a thought of that days incident shivers me. A girl who never used to believe on omens and any kind of supernatural power , this incident made me believe this.
We are educated people believing more on science and logic but still some hidden truth of the universe can be beyond our imagination. Just give it a thought!
Very good post. You have penned down your paranormal experience. Must have been scary. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteYes too scary more than I could express
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