Corridor 66

Killford Hospital.

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Mental Hospital.Insanity hospital. Asylum. Sanitarium for the insane. You name it anything. In this cruel world,many would flee from the person who belonged to this place which is supposed to cure patients with psychological disorders. The Reason.Simple."Log Kya Kahenge?"(What will the society think?).What will the society think when they realize that one of our family members are appointed a psychologist and even worse admitted in this very mental hospital !!!

Many would make a joke out of these hospitals.Many would make a joke out of the people who belong here. Many would say that a certain mental hospital is haunted.Just like they say about the Kilford Hospital ;situated at the very location at Bandstand,Bandra,Mumbai. Behold if you think it would be easy to notice this hospital for to reach this hospital you would need to cross a number of alleys and dirt-roads.

Established in some 1965ish by a Britisher Frarier Kilford ,they say this hospital is eerily haunted.In the starting years of this establishment, Care for the mentally incapacitated wasn't always humane. Many of the poor souls trapped behind the gothic stone walls would spend their entire lives there, the daily suffering creating a mind-numbing existence that would never end. Some theorize that this old abandoned asylums are haunted because the dead were tortured and maimed to such a frightening degree, they couldn't tell the difference between life and death. They continue to live out their tragic lives as though caught in a horrible time warp of misery and suffering.

Some dead souls were accidentally freed into this open world and these very souls are said to haunt this establishment for years,troubling and sometimes killing, or driving the current patients more insane.

OK OK,End of story time.

But,ahem.Let me introduce you to myself.I am Raveena Chauhan.I don't believe in these stories and I say they are total myths. These people need to cope up with the modern times and for god's sake this is 2011 we are talking about. In a world of iphones, and nanotechnologies,virtual realities and space computing who the hell talks about bhoot-pret(ghosts-spirits). I have been wanting to work as a psychologist.My father himself was a psychologist in this very hospital but his time was short lived. He died mysteriously and right after I was born. Ofcourse,postmortem and all were done.His lungs were filled with water for some unknown reasons but I was small. I accepted it that he died of pneumonia. So now,me,Raveena Chauhan wants to work in a asylum.And I want to work in the very Killford Asylum.Don't get me wrong and say pagla gayi hai ladki!(the girl has lost her brains!).

But,hear me out,ok?

I have a very strange attractions to hospitals and specially to mental hospital since i was 12.Well,mostly to Kilford because I don't know any other mental institutes.But, ever since I saw this building, I had this sudden attraction and wanted to go inside and explore it, but my mom used to roughly drag me away.

I live on my own in a small but satisfying house in a dull street, only a fifteen minutes walk to the hospital. I used to live here with my mum and brother. When I was younger my brother was murdered under mysterious circumstances, nobody knew what happened to him.

My mother moved out as soon as she heard I wanted to work in the hospital. Kilford hospital. People around here in Mumbai get the shivers when they hear the name. It's more of an institution for the mentally ill people, they just called it ' hospital' to make it seem better. People around would always tell me that you can hear the screams of dead at night and hear the electric shocks and smell burning flesh, but I just reckon that they are trying to scare me, the shivers people get are all probably from pointless silly rumors being spat about from person to person.

I need a distraction from my brothers death and I really want to try and help people, dig deeper into people's minds, try and help them make sense of their life's again and I am NOT going to let silly rumors scare me or put me off.

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Hey Wattpaders!!So this was the first chapter.Yes,This story is set in India furthur Maharashtra state particularly in Mumbai city deep inside the Bandra locality.However,I don't see how this information would blossom in the story. So this is a real location but bear in mind the hospital is my imagination,a complete fantasy.I take the well-known haunted asylum,Waverly hospital as my inspiration.Also,If you would be kind enough to review my story and vote and comment ,I would give you guys a virtual thanks and a promised dedication with a shoutout to your book. :)