Supernatural Creatures and Haunted Places: True Spine chilling stories.

The Haunted Hills of Darjeeling

Dow Hill of Kurseong, around 30 kilometres from Darjeeling, is India's most haunted hill station, with no shortage of paranormal happenings and stories. Kurseong is a small hill station famed for its gorgeous panoramas, orchid gardens, forested hills, and tea plantations, as well as a death road, a headless ghost, a haunted school, and several true ghost stories.

Dow Hill is both beautiful and terrifying. Paranormal activity never stops here, no matter what time of day it is. Tourists that visit the area feast their eyes on the natural beauty of the area and their ears on the horror stories of the haunted locations that abound here.

The 'death road,' which runs between Dow Hill Road and the Forest Office, is not for the fainthearted people. The sight of a headless ghost of a little child walking and disappearing into the forest has been terrifying for the local woodcutters.

People have claimed to have been followed and watched over by an unknown entity. Some people have even reported seeing a red eye staring at them.

There's even a ghost of a woman in grey. The air in these forests is so foul that unlucky visitors have either lost their minds or killed themselves.

The 100-year-old Victoria Boys High School, which is pervaded by the gloomy vibes of the haunted forest, is located in the woods of Dow Hill, where countless unexplained deaths appear to have occurred in the past. When the school is closed for the winter vacations from December to March, the neighbours have heard loud whisperings and footprints.

Every town and neighbourhood in every city has a haunted house, a scary warehouse, or an ancient frightening graveyard that people avoid after dark. These are the haunted locations that have inspired decades of eerie tales. Kalimpong, a lovely hill station in Bengal noted for its groomed gardens and beautiful slopes, has one such mansion. The Morgan House, as it is known, was constructed in the 1930s.

Mr. George Morgan, a jute magnate, married a lady who owned an indigo plantation, and the Morgan House was built to commemorate the occasion. Following the wedding, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan moved into the British colonial residence on the Durpindara Mountain, which spanned 16 acres.

For a long time, it was their summer retreat. The property, which looked out over the spectacular Kanchenjunga Mountain range, turned out to be the ideal site to start a new life after marriage. The happiness did not last long.

Mrs. Morgan died suddenly, and Mr. Morgan departed the house soon after. Following its abandonment, the mansion was taken over by a trust, and after India's independence, the property was taken over by the government. The building is now used as a boutique hotel.

In terms of the mystery surrounding Mrs. Morgan's untimely death, it is thought that her husband tortured her before she died, and as a result, her unhappy soul now haunts the house. Although no sightings of Mrs. Morgan's ghost have been reported, high-heeled footwear has been heard tapping in the lodge's corridors.

Every old tea garden has its own unique tale to tell, and what better setting for them than that chill in the air, those stately bungalows with wispy ghosts of past residents and elderly bungalow-hands passing down tales. Margaret's Hope's ghost is the most well-known legend.

Bara Ringtong is a 150-year-old Darjeeling estate now owned by the Goodricke Group. It's famous for some of the best Darjeeling tea—and this story which is stretching over 1,450 acres and rising to 6,000 feet at its highest point.

J.G.D. Cruickshank, the estate's manager from 1896 to 1927, had a little daughter named Margaret. When she went to see the estate, she fell in love with it. She returned to England with the promise of returning. However, on the way back, Margaret became unwell and died on the ship.

Cruickshank thought he saw Margaret on the estate grounds shortly after. He renamed the estate Margaret's Hope. And thus the legend began.

The Puri family, who owns the tea company Teacupsfull, shares personal stories from N.K. Puri's time as a planter on its Instagram feed.The ghost of Chulsa Factory Bungalow is one such tale. Puri's wife called the wife of an assistant manager who had been hospitalised after a nervous breakdown in the 1980s, when he was employed at the Chulsa Tea Garden in the Dooars. She came back with this tale.

The young assistant manager's wife had sensed another presence in the room one evening while sitting in the drawing room. Looking up, she noticed a man reading a newspaper in the rocking rocker. Stranger things happened after that.

The sugar bowl went missing one morning and was discovered in the garden. For a few days, the sugar bowl would go missing in the morning, no matter where it had been concealed the night before, and would not be discovered in the same position every day.

She then began to hear music and voices, which caused her to have a nervous breakdown. That was not the end of the story. She was treated and released, and her life went back to normal. When she went to visit her husband at the factory, she noticed a photograph of the man she had seen in her drawing room on the walls.

When she inquired, she was informed that he had lived and died at the bungalow where she now resided. The couple resigned from the work and went back home. From that day, the ghostly apparitions stopped and the house rest in peace with no one to disturb the supernatural spirits thereafter.

The hills have a lot more to tell only if your heart is strong enough to bear!!