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  • Horror fiction: What haunts Usha and Vishal’s home – the supernatural or the past?

    Horror fiction: What haunts Usha and Vishal’s home – the supernatural or the past?

    Nikesh Murali
    · Nov 02, 2023 · 05:30 pm
  • What do ghosts in Bengal eat?

    What do ghosts in Bengal eat?

    Priyadarshini Chatterjee
    · Oct 29, 2022 · 11:30 am
  • Haunting guide: Aacheri or Besho Bhoot? Kollivai Pisaasu or Ulkamukhi? Can you identify all ghosts?

    Haunting guide: Aacheri or Besho Bhoot? Kollivai Pisaasu or Ulkamukhi? Can you identify all ghosts?

    Riksundar Banerjee
    · May 21, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • What Rakesh Khanna learnt while putting together a book on India’s ghosts, monsters and demons

    What Rakesh Khanna learnt while putting together a book on India’s ghosts, monsters and demons

    Sandip Roy
    · Feb 06, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • Victorian scientists came up with an explanation for ghosts, but the public was never convinced

    Victorian scientists came up with an explanation for ghosts, but the public was never convinced

    Karl Bell, The Conversation
    · Nov 05, 2019 · 11:30 pm
  • Watch: This person’s ghost prank went a little wrong (and might have hurt a bit)

    Watch: This person’s ghost prank went a little wrong (and might have hurt a bit)

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 10, 2019 · 08:38 am
  • ‘A Nail on a Tamarind Tree’: This eerie short story explores a popular Indian belief about ghosts

    ‘A Nail on a Tamarind Tree’: This eerie short story explores a popular Indian belief about ghosts

    K Madavane
    · Oct 09, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • ‘Nitish Kumar released ghosts in my bungalow’: Tej Pratap Yadav on vacating government house

    ‘Nitish Kumar released ghosts in my bungalow’: Tej Pratap Yadav on vacating government house

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 22, 2018 · 01:07 pm