It has been thirteen years since that incident took place and that lone mango tree, standing in the abandoned corner of the garden still inspires fright in the minds of those who have been here for thirteen years or more.
Just as the mango tree is feared, the house of its gardener has also become a well known haunted place of the town after whatever happened there all those years ago.
Although no mysterious sightings or strange apparitions or clouds of bats seen circling the house after midnight or manifests of any ghostly presence as such have ever been reported, the gossip-hungry people of the town, like those of every other good town have fabricated numerous stories around the aforementioned mango tree and the gardener.
Now, I have consented to tell you the story of the gardener or at least the most consistent of those stories only on one condition: that tomorrow, should the spirit of Hemaram, this being the gardeners name, come haunting, looking for the source of such rumors, you must not blame it on me for I, like you, have received this story from someone else who in turn, has received it from someone else.
This story begins with the only tangible, definite fact of the story: Hemaram was the gardener of the public garden of Indunagar and lived in the house adjacent to it.
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The Mango Tree
Short Story13 years ago the gardener died under mysterious circumstances and his ghost is said to roam around in the garden since then. Find out what really happened.
