Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

A Stone From the tomb

Occult related folklores associated with remote places in rural areas have always fascinated me.  The incident that I am about to narrate,  took place near a well known  hill station. There are couple temples built in the 18th Century in the same district and tourists who visit the hill station mostly go to the temples as well. It was year 1995 , first half of November. This is the time when the tourist season is just about to begin. We were a large group , few families together and had just finished couple of days stay at the hill station. We had hired a mini bus exclusively for ourselves. On our way back we stopped at the temples where we were going to make an overnight stay before starting for Bombay on the next day.  I speak the local dialect well and  always make it a point to mingle with the villagers to ask few queries about haunted places.  This …