Recently, a friend of mine told me about some "unusual" or rather frightening events that took place in his office. No, I am not going to narrate those events here (there is no point in putting forth a secondhand story...with no strings attached to me directly).
Well...but this revives my "not so usual" experience at my training center (of one of the organizations I worked with) in Pune. It was the month of July, and the city was brisking in the glory of monsoon in its full swing. It rained in the light, it rained in the dark...sometimes the showers were heavy and sometimes it used to drizzle for long hours (I absolutely loved it!). The rains rendered our campus even greener and merrier. Amidst such endearing environs, we used to have long technical sessions the whole day, but the evenings were at our disposal. However, as the training center was somewhat off the city, we rarely moved out in the main city in the evenings. Most often, after having our supper, we used to go for a walk within the campus (it's a huge campus!). Here is an account of encounters we had on one such walk...
It was around 10 in the night, and we, a group of 5-6 people, were strolling in the "never ending" lane of our lush green campus. The fun and frolic within the group, together with refreshing and fragrant cool breeze was making the scene picture perfect! Some silly jokes...some crazy comments, little pranks and whacky moments...it was youth in its full vigor! The path was well lit with halogen lights, and we all were moving in completely relaxed and carefree manner. All of a sudden, one of the lights, under which we were passing through, went OFF. Yeah...nothing unusual, it must have gone faulty. But as soon as we crossed that light, it was ON again! We were quite amazed, and two of us turned back and moved under that light again...and guess what, yes...it want OFF again, and was ON as soon as we moved away from it! Now, this was quite unusual, and we all started speculating the reason. Now we all being engineers, tried to find some technical logic behind it. Nevertheless, we pondered over it over a while and then moved on.
This "light incident" turned on our adventurous spirits, and we all decided to leave the lane and trace "the path less travelled!" We started moving through a new path adjacent to the lane. It was quite dark there, and the place was encroached with some "not-so-wanted" plants. At a near distance we noticed some uninhibited huts. It was quite weird, why are these huts here in this training center? We spotted a man near the lane (some one from security) and asked him the mystery behind those huts. He told us that these huts were for built for workers who used to work here at the time of construction of this center. He added that this place is in existence since pre-independence, and that many of the workers lived and worked here all through their lives, and finally died at the same place! We decided to explore the place a bit more, but as we moved further some of us started choking and felt quite uneasy (it was definitely not pleasant!). Then, we heard a hushed voice...couldn't make it though what it was...a man, a woman or an animal (or their ghosts?)! Now, we were actually quite scared...and to add to our fear, someone made us notice subdued voice of bangles! Oh man...we were definitely not experiencing something that could be termed "normal!" Almost all of us felt an unknown presence, and witnessed something unusual. It was in our best of interest to stop investigating further and move away from that place. Back to the walking lane, we felt much relaxed. We didn't really talk about it much. But ya, on our way back...we again had to pass through the same "haunted light" and as expected...the light still behaved in the same spooky manner!
I don't know what it was...an unexplained truth or just make-up of our mind, but it definitely felt like a close encounter with so called paranormal or supernatural!
