Many of you can’t believe this story but, it is true. My name is sanju bansal (20). I am doing BE computer science in a reputed college in Patiala. My mom’s name is drishti bansal (41). she was head of the history department in a private college. My father left my mom when, I was 13. He thought my mom was cheating on him. My father paid a huge alimony to my mom hence, we led a luxury life.
My mom was a risk taker, an adventurer. She was also a history freak, no wonder why she had a Phd in Indian history. She loves to travel to historic places all over the world. For every summer vacation we used to visit places with historical importance. In this summer vacation she planned to visit a hunted village in rajasthan called kuldhara village. I was not okay with her plan. I was always afraid of ghosts and supernatural things. I thought we were going to a nice beach or something like that But, my mom was a lover of horror movies. She used to watch every horror movie and read every horror novel out there. She is a curious creature. She always had an interest in supernatural things. She said that she is doing a thesis about the kuldhara village. It is one of the prosperous towns of ancient rajasthan but, the population in the town vanished overnight. No one knows the exact reason why. She said that she is going to find out what happened. At first, I thought she was joking, but the serious look in her face showed me that she is not joking.
Soon mom and I were in a plane to rajasthan. We went to many historical places not only in india but even in foreign countries too. I never seen my mom such excited, so I asked her what is so special about this village. she started to tell the story behind the village. The legend goes like this, there was a girl named satyawati. She was so irresistable. Some even considered her as a goddess of beauty. Every male in the town wanted her to be their bride. But, satyawati and her step brother, vir singh were already in love with each other. They had a secret sexual relationship. Satyawati was married to a richest man in the town named rao. After a few months satyawati became pregnant. But somehow rao found out the affair she was having with her step brother. He killed her brother vir singh. And stripped satyawati nude and made her walk the whole town. All eyes in the village began to feast on the naked flesh of satyawati. She drowned herself in a well in the town and died. After that incident she began killing the villagers one by one. Unable to face the wraith, of the soul, the villagers fled the town overnight.
After hearing this I thought it was just a good old folklore. My mom went on about that village. she said that, “Archeological survey of india banned the village for any visitors”. I didn’t care much about it. I laughed out loud and said, “ma, are you trusting this?”. She said, “that’s what we are going to find out”. we landed in Jaipur. We had to take a train to reach this village which, was located in jaisalmer district. It was a 9hour long trip. We were exhausted during this trip. Finally, we reached a hotel in jaisalmer district at 4pm. It was not a fancy 3star hotel. It was a hotel constructed in 1970’s. it was little spooky. I asked mom, “ma, are you sure we are going to stay here?”. she replied, “yes, sanju”. I was not feeling right about the hotel. This hotel looked like a haunted mansion from a ghost movie. I knew mom selected this hotel because of its vicinity to kuldhara.