This is a most haunting  incident that ever took place  in my life. There was small bridge in my native place. The bridge was so small and narrow that two huge vehicles,or one huge vehicle and another small vehicle were not able to pass from both the sides of the bridge together. During Navratri, I and my cousins visited a small temple a little far away from that bridge. During that time if we were crossing the bridge and if huge bus came we had no other option than waiting to cross the bridge until  the bus passed sway. So the people of our village called the bridge as " Pottu Sanka" which means " Spoilt bridge" .Today after a lot of discussion in village Panchayat the bridge has been widened but this incident took place when the bridge was narrow.

            One half moon night I was walking towards the bridge along  with my two friends. We went to the north Thottam in the morning due to some work and were returning back in the midnight. As we were walking towards the bridge we could see an old man sitting in the one of stands of the bridge and creepily putting his fishing rod to the pond beneath again and again and pulling the rod. We could clearly see it from far away due to moon's light. As we approached closer and closer to bridge we could clearly see the old man swirling the rod and throwing the trap towards the pond downside and pulling the trap.We came closer to the old man and he was repeating the process silently. We felt funny at the old man since he was catching fish in midnight. I told to one of my friends , " what is this Grandpa doing in such a dark night.?"

" Exactly is this a time to catch fish" my friend replied me.

" Let's see how many fishes Grandpa has caught. " My other friend said sarcastically and we all decided to see if grandpa had caught any fish.We had a torch in our hands and we put the torch light inside the plastic bag which was lying down but surprisingly there wasn't any fish there. And when we were enquiring the grandpa was busy  repeating his actions.

  So we put torch into the pond and were even more surprised!! The pond had no water. We looked at each other's face. We felt strange and all of us decided to call grandpa.

" Grandpa . grandpa " we called him slowly but he was busy repeating the process.

We called 3 to 4 times yet grandpa didn't reply us. So one of my friend who had torch in his hand put the torch light on grandpa's face  and aaaahhhh!!!!!

      Grandpa's face was not visible!!!!. We could see trees far away from inside his face but his hands and legs were moving .He was continuing the fish catching process!!!!!!!!

         My friend screamed loudly and we all ran away . Runningly when I turned back grandpa was still continuing his actions and actually when my friend removed torch from his face his face was visible once again. This was the creepiest incident that took place in my life . The next day my friend who held torch light on grandpa's face had got high fever due to fear. That day running and running we reached one of our relatives  home and stayed there whole night . There they told us that the place was haunted and there everyday after 7 they heard weird crying sounds and sound of anklets. They even said perhaps it was because the pond was connected to the sea and the deadbodies from sea might have reached the pond or it could be due to those weird people who came at night and threw some mysterious things to the pond.After that even today me and my friends are scared of the dark!!!

                   Rashmi R Kotian "Raashmir"   

This is an incident that took place when I went to travel Kolar(A district of Karnataka) with my 3 friends. We were returning from the place to our hostel at night 11:45 pm . I was driving the car. When it was close to 12 I was driving in one of the roads of Kolar & suddenly my driving was interrupted by a bus horn which was constantly hearing from behind us. When I noticed carefully the bus driver was waving at me and was telling me to stop the car.

     "Akash!! All the vehicles have stood behind us!!" One of my friends Nikhil said surprisingly peeping outside from the car window. When I myself turned behind to see what was the matter, I could see that all the bikes, Lorries ,auto rickshaws, cars and other vehicles were standing a little far from us. I was confused, I wondered why they all stood instead of moving ahead. when I was unable to realize what was the matter the bus driver shouted once again a little loudly telling me to move back and suddenly he became silent.

     I still didn't get the matter for there was nothing dangerous standing ahead neither the road was beside the mountains so that there might be a danger of stone falling from above. But still seeing the vehicles standing behind my heart started to beat with some unknown fear.

          Suddenly there was pin drop silence. Neither the driver didnt called us again nor any other people opened their mouths.When I looked at the time it was 12 !! & then my ears listened to that creepy female voice mourning  that I had never ever heard even in my nightmares. It was a creepiest sound of a women crying. It was so scary that even when I remember about it now I tremble out of fear.

            We listened to a creepy weeping sound of a woman which seemed to approach nearer and nearer to us. I was a man who never believed in ghosts or paranormal forces but that day my eyes shocked my brain that never believed in phantoms. As the sound of the weeping woman came near to us we could see a black shadow like dark image of a woman that suddenly flew and sat in the road and started weeping even loudly. I and my friends were terrified. We could clearly see the creepy image sitting on the road and weeping with the sound that could give anybody a shiver.

We saw it from such a small difference.

           The creepy image cried for few minutes and then flew in the air suddenly. The way it flew again scared me so much for it was 100% confirmed that it was a ghost and I drove the car with 140 speed and we all reached our hostel & slept fearing and shivering.

             The next day we visited Hanuman temple and gave a prayer. I never saw ghosts with my ***** eyes . For me this was the most terrifying incident of my life that I nearly felt as if I had an attack in my heart.

                 But even though I was scared I was curious to know what that creepy thing was and why had the vehicles stood the other day. Were they knowing about this creepy creature? What was the story behind this? To know this I went to the same driver who was horning at me and telling me to move back the previous night. When we approached him and asked him the reason about the vehicles standing he  said us,

"Sir, It happened that one day a mother and daughter met with an accident in that place and died on the spot. After that every night that creepy woman's image comes and mourns on that spot for 5(12:5) minutes and goes away. It happens everyday from 12 to 12:5 . During this time all vehicles stand until the the image goes away. We acknowledge those who are not aware of this everyday. The first day even I was terrified and I had got fever but now I and many of my friends are adapted to this paranormal phenomena. But till now accept you nobody faced that ghost from such a close distance. Its God's grace that the ghost didn't harm you sir. "

     When he said so we were even more terrified. This was the most haunting experience that I ever had in life. Even today in ***** in that road, on that spot , vehicles stand from 12 to 12:5 & until the creepy lady passes away. Strange huh!!  I wish you never have such a terrifying experience!!!

                       Rashmi R Kotian "Raashmir"