There are some railway stations in India that people believe are haunted ones. Begunkodor railway station is one of them.
Begunkodor is a small town in Purulia district of West Bengal.
A railway station came up here in the year 1960, thanks to the joint efforts by the then queen of Santals, Lachan Kumari and Indian Railways. For some years, six years to be precise, things used to be normal at the station.
An incident was later reported in 1967, and it changed the people’s mindset and they started referring to the station as ‘haunted station.’
According to the villagers, a railway employee was the first one to encounter a woman ghost. It was believed that the woman was mowed down by a train (perhaps she ended her life by suicide).
However, when the employee narrated what he had seen on the tracks, the local people laughed it away.
A few days later, the station master and his family members were found dead in their quarters. This forced the local people to believe the paranormal phenomena.
Subsequently, they stopped visiting the station. And, the station was also closed as trains hardly halted there.
However, in the late 1990s, the villagers demanded the reopening of the station. They formed a committee and took the matter up with officials and wrote a letter to then Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, requesting her intervention.
After 42 years, the station was eventually reopened in August 2009. But the tag of the hunted station is still with the station. Even today, people avoid visiting the railway station after sunset.