Haunted Places in Uttarakhand: Let’s Explore

&NewLine;<p>Uttarakhand to many is known as one of the best places in India to have adventurous sports in&comma; such as going paragliding and going bungee jumping&period; However&comma; there are places you can also visit in Uttarakhand which will spook you out and get you asking questions&comma; getting scared or get you pretending to be brave&period; We’ve gathered a fine list of the best haunted places in Uttarakhand that you mustn’t fail to visit&period; These places will add spice and life to your stay in the already wonderful land&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>Know more about Uttarakhand and why it’s called&NewLine;the Land of the Gods<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Before getting into the best haunted places in Uttarakhand&comma; it’s&NewLine;important that you get to know a little more about Uttarakhand itself&period;&NewLine;Uttarakhand&comma; popularly referred to as Devbhumi or the Land of the Gods is one&NewLine;of the Northern states in the North of India&period; It is also considered as India’s&NewLine;ninth highest income earning state&comma; which makes it amongst the top 10 states in&NewLine;India where income earning for workers is presumably good&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>There are many ways to get into Uttarakhand&NewLine;including going by road&period; Many tourists visit this land to enjoy its scenic&NewLine;views of the Himalayan mountains&comma; to partake in the rich cultural diverse&NewLine;nature of the land&comma; to bask in the glory of nature&comma; for pilgrimage purposes and&NewLine;even also to visit and experience the spookiest and most haunted places in Uttarakhand&period; Uttarakhand&NewLine;was divided and created out of Uttar Pradesh and it was formerly called&NewLine;Uttaranchal&period; It’s highly esteemed for its vast green&comma; thick forests and view of&NewLine;the Himalayas where tourists can choose to go for a walk in nature and enjoy&NewLine;the bliss that comes with solitude&period; Campers also love visiting Uttarakhand as&NewLine;the thick trees and forests provide a perfect getaway from the noise and&NewLine;bustling of the city&period; Here in Uttarakhand&comma; you can live and be at zen with&NewLine;Mother Nature&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Besides paying visits to some the most haunted places in Uttarakhand&comma; Uttarakhand as a popular pilgrimage site is home to the original sources of the Ganga and the Yamuna which are two of India’s most sacred rivers for Hindus&period; Four of the most pious sites of pilgrimage to the Hindus which are Gangotri&comma; Kedarnath&comma; Badrinath and Yamunotri&comma; are found in Uttarakhand and many tourists and Hindus pay visits to Uttarakhand to pay homage to these four rivers&comma; collectively known as the Char Dhams&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The ancient temples&comma; national parks&comma; hill&NewLine;stations&comma; forest reserves and mountain peaks are &OpenCurlyQuote;<em>sweet<&sol;em>’ places you&NewLine;should pay visits too&period; But now that we’ve told you all about the nice places&NewLine;and beauties of Uttarakhand&comma; now is the time to tell you about the haunted places in Uttarakhand which&NewLine;you should surely visit by yourself&comma; or most recommended&comma; with your friends&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>Haunted Places in Uttarakhand <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Uttarakhand as you’ve read above is a very&NewLine;enchanting place to be in but do not be deceived&comma; there are gory tales&comma; scary&NewLine;stories about ghosts&comma; myths and tales of missing people that would leave you&NewLine;stunned and in disbelief&period; Since you’ve read up to this part&comma; there’s no point&NewLine;quitting and here are some of the best stories of haunted places in&NewLine;Uttarakhand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>1&period; The Abbey Bungalow&colon; The Doctor and the Ghosts<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;wildhawk&period;in&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;haunted-bungalow-abbey&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-1897"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption">The Abbey Bungalow<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Local stories have it that once upon a time in&NewLine;Lohaghat&comma; a certain British couple built their home right there in Lohaghat and&NewLine;they lived a happy life together for a longtime&period; However&comma; this beautiful place&NewLine;was donated as a hospital for the sick&period; The story has it that that the Abbey&NewLine;Bungalow when it turned into a hospital was home to so many deaths which&NewLine;occurred in one of its rooms or wards called Mukti Kothri &lpar;room of freedom&period;&rpar;&NewLine;And all of these happened during the mid 1900s&period; But what really went wrong and&NewLine;why would a hospital cause the deaths of so many&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Well&comma; the story has it that everyone loved the&NewLine;newly acquired hospital when it started out&period; It was really popular and many&NewLine;people came to visit the hospital and be treated&comma; not only because it was run&NewLine;on charity but also because it had clean surroundings and good facilities&period; As&NewLine;the hospital continued to grow&comma; a certain new doctor joined the hospital’s team&NewLine;of medical experts but he was so mysterious and he was alleged to have the&NewLine;power to see into a patient’s future and predict their death&period; Whenever a new&NewLine;patient was admitted&comma; he would pay them visits&comma; speak with them and determine&NewLine;the fate of their lives in the hospital — whether they were going to live or&NewLine;die&period; And not only did he predict their deaths&comma; he would also mention to them&NewLine;the exact dates they would die&period; Strangely&comma; every time he predicted this dying&NewLine;dates&comma; just a few days before it happened he would send the patient into Mukti&NewLine;Kothri — the room of freedom&period; Indeed&comma; none of them ever came out of that room a&NewLine;free&comma; living soul&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Locals believe that he was no seer of the future&NewLine;at all but rather a killer&excl; He would secretly kill his patients in the room of&NewLine;freedom just to prove his point that he could see the future and fortell&NewLine;deaths&period; Now&comma; more stories have it that the souls of those killed are not at&NewLine;rest&period; They wander around the deserted hallways of the now deserted Abbey&NewLine;Bungalow unable to find freedom&comma; and people no longer venture into the bungalow&NewLine;after dark&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>2&period; Lambi Dehar Mines of Mussoorie&colon; The Screaming Witch and the Mines of Death&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;wildhawk&period;in&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;Mystery-of-Lambi-Dehar-Mines-Mussoorie&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-1900"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption">Lambi Dehar Mines&comma; Mussoorie<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The deserted houses and abandoned streets around the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;wildhawk&period;in&sol;haunted-lambi-dehar-mines-mussoorie&sol;">Lambi Dahar Mines<&sol;a> currently gives the area a very eerie and uncanny feeling&period; Being in such a place will spook you out and it has been considered as one of the haunted places in Uttarakhand<strong>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Mines are located in Mussoorie which happens&NewLine;to be a popular hilltown tourist attraction in Uttarakhand&period; It is rather very&NewLine;interesting how very beautiful places have very scary and gory stories&period; Now you&NewLine;might be wondering what really went wrong&period; The Lambi Dahar Mines is also known&NewLine;as the Mine of Death due to the mysterious death of so many of the mine’s&NewLine;workers during the 1990s&period; It was alleged to be the work place of over 50&comma;000&NewLine;people and over that period&comma; many of them died an agonizing death by choking on&NewLine;their own blood as a result of the improper mining facilities and systems put&NewLine;in place&comma; which couldn’t save the lives of even those who had died&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Ever since their death by choking&comma; the area has been deserted&period; Now only plants&comma; weeds and trees live on the abandoned properties&period; The locals have also refused to venture too close to the Mines because many bad accidents have happened near the site including an air crash&period; Twists of the story also have it that there is a witch who lives in the Mines&comma; causing these accidents and if you go near the Mines after dark&comma; you might hear<br>her scream or shriek&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>4&period; The Mullingar Mansion and Captain Young’s Wandering Ghost<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;wildhawk&period;in&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;Mullingar-Mansion&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-1906"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption">The Mullingar Mansion and Captain Young’s Wandering Ghost<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>One time in 1825&comma; Captain Young&comma; an Irishman&NewLine;built a house which he enjoyed so much and made it very lively&period; He lived in&NewLine;this house until the British rule came to an end&period; When the British surrendered&NewLine;and left&comma; Captain Young also retired from his services and he decided to return&NewLine;back to Ireland which was his original home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Many spooky sightings from people say that&NewLine;Captain Young’s spirit can be seen walking around the mansion he built&period; That he&NewLine;hasn’t left yet and his spirit seems to have returned to the Mulingar Mansion&NewLine;which it was considered as home&period; The stories have been debunked as mere&NewLine;superstitions&comma; while others say it is&comma; others believe it’s a true story&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>5&period; The haunted house in Jabarkhet<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;wildhawk&period;in&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;haunted-house-Jabarkhet&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-1908"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption">Haunted House Jabarkhet<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This particular story is a short one but the&NewLine;Jubarkhet Haunted House is one of the haunted&NewLine;places in Uttarakhand you should visit&period; Many people can tell you about&NewLine;the story of the man and woman who once lived in the house&period; Over 70 years ago&comma;&NewLine;one day the man’s wife died and the husband went missing without any traces&period;&NewLine;Some day the husband killed his wife and then himself&comma; now their spirits linger&NewLine;on in the house as during the night times&comma; voices can be heard with strange&NewLine;moaning sounds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>6&period; Pari Tibba&comma; the Hill of Fairies and place of lightening strikes<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;wildhawk&period;in&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;pari-tibba-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-1911"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption">Pari Tibba<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Here is another scary story from the beautiful land of Mussoorie&period; Pari Tibba also known as the Hill of Fairies is a place covered with thick woodland and is known for supernatural happenings and most especially&comma; or rather interestingly&comma; it’s a place known for lightening strikes&excl; While some say it’s only natural that lighting strikes should be appearing there&comma; another school of thought believes that there is a spiritual charm that attracts so much lightening to these woods&period; On visiting this place&comma; you would notice many black and grey trees that have been burned beyond beauty&period; Twists to the story also tell tales of two lovers who once went to Park Tibba but were unfortunately struck by lightening and burned to death&period; Their bodies were recovered days later&period; Now their ghosts roam around searching for eternal love&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This was our take on haunted places in Uttarakhand&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;ve experienced something spookier here&comma; let us know in the comments&period; 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