Skondhokatas: Bengal, India

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The headless ghosts of people decapitated in train accidents, skondhokatas haunt the places where they died. Passengers report seeing them in train stations at night, or from the windows of trains traveling in the dark. They’re said to be violent, but easy to outwit—after all, they have no heads.

Likely origin: Given the patchy safety record of India’s railway system, which is the fourth largest in the world, it’s not surprising that headless train wreck victims would warrant their own category of ghosts.

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