The Haunting Of Delhi Cantt- The Ghost Of Lady White
Delhi Cantt name is definitely in the Top 10, It completely sounded ridiculous primarily because it did not fit in the criteria. It is not a ancient site like Bhangarh, definitely not a place far away from civilization and there is no violent and gory past attached to it. It is just like any other residential colonies in cities all over the world. What’s more, it’s in a city that never sleeps and is heavily guarded both by the cops and Indian Army. Well illuminated roads with endless traffic that is alive 24 hours but to my surprise that is what the lore was attached to.
As per the belief, Delhi Cantt is haunted by a mysterious woman dressed in white. This woman, wrapped in a white-saree, is said to be hitch-hiking here for decades. She would waive at the passing vehicles asking for a lift. People who agreed to give her a ride were never seen again. If the driver did not bother to stop, she would start running with or after the vehicle at the same speed until the end of Delhi Cantt area. For people who stopped and asked her for directions, it is said that they did not find their way home the entire night and kept circling around the city, completely lost.
There are a few theories as to who this woman was in her life. Some say that she was one of the many unfortunate girls who have fallen prey to a sick mind’s lust in what is called as rape capital of India. It is believed that on the last night of her life, she asked for a lift elsewhere in the city. Guys she hopped on with raped in her a moving car and then dumped her body at Delhi Cantt. Ever since, she is stuck here in a death loop, asking for a lift and repeating the events of her death each night.
Another theory portrays her as a wicked woman herself. It is said that she found her husband cheating on her and in fit of anger, killed her two children with her own hands before killing herself but the guilt and shame of her deed forbade her spirit to enter her own house. Now she is stuck here as a lost soul trying to find her way home where she had murdered her own children and because she is a lost soul herself, anyone who asks her for directions ends up getting lost for the entire night, going around in circles all over the city.
Yes, I found the ghost that haunts Delhi Cantt but isn’t it the same ghost that haunts almost every other city in our country. Ghostly women standing on side of roads, waving at passing by vehicles. Ghosts of women haunted by their own poverty, trying to make ends meet?
Women roaming around at night on roads is indeed a site of horror but not because they are dead but because they are still alive but in such miserable conditions.
