'Haunted' Indian station reopens

A Indian railway station which was abandoned for 42 years because of fears that it was haunted has reopened in the eastern state of West Bengal.

 

Locals and railway workers say they lived in fear of a female phantom who frequented Begunkodor 260km (161 miles) from the state capital, Calcutta.In 1967, a railway worker is said to have died days after he saw a "woman ghost" draped in a white sari.Officials say the story was made up to avoid postings at the remote station.They argue that it was primarily railway employees who expressed fears about the "woman ghost" at Begunkodor.

"Soon all railway employees fled Begunkodor and trains stopped stopping there.It made life very difficult for locals," said Basudeb Acharya, former chairman of the parliament's standing committee on railways.
Mr Acharya says employees "cooked up the ghost story " to avoid a posting at such a remote station.

Source: Times Of India
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