A trip to Bhangarh Fort
A few days back we organized a one day trip to Bhangarh fort. Its located in Alwar district of Rajasthan and is approximately 80kms from Alwar City. Choosing Bhangarh for the trip was a really weird decision as there were many options available near the capital; Bhangarh being a good 207 km off Delhi. But there was something that was drawing us towards Bhangarh . No one was able to pin-point any reason, but still we were all so excited and sure about this place……..
Our bus left for the destination, 11 in the night. The whole night, we all sang and danced in the bus. We reached the Bhangarh boundary at around 6:30 in the morning. We soon realized our decision of choosing Bhangarh was one of the best desicion.
Outside our bus was nature in it’s full bloom. It was almost a picture-perfect scenery, with flora and fauna interacting in each and every possible way; small hills, fresh air, peaceful atmosphere, and our buses grunting and speeding on long empty narrow roads followed by sparkling golden rays of the newly born sun gave us the feeling of being in a totally different world. All of this added more to our anxiety and happiness.
Bhangarh fort is in itself a beautiful example of Indian architecture. Several temples in the vicinity drew everybody’s attention and gave the glimpse of various myths associated with the place. The premises of Bhangarh includes a number of temples most of them are “Hanuman Mandir”- temples devoted to the worship of Lord Hanuman.
“Staying After Sunset Is Strictly Prohibited In The Area”- announced an ASI signboard placed near the ruins, and I got reminded of the myth related to these ruins and the fort, which claim that this place is cursed. Archaeological Survey Of India (ASI) was suppose to setup an office in the fort but the government did not dare to do that and the nearest office of ASI is around a km away from the ruins of Bhangarh.
As per the myth, the charm of Princess of Bhangarh, Ratnawati, was matchless in the entire state of Rajasthan. At an early age of eighteen the princess started getting wedding offers from different provinces. In the same province, there lived a tantrik(a magician who performed black magic) by the name of Singhia who was desperately in love with the princess. One day, he saw the princess’ maid in the market buying scented oil for the princess. He used his black magic and put a spell on the oil which would hypnotise the princess by her mere touching the oil and she would immediately walk towards the tantrik. But when princess got the oil, she threw it on a block of a stone as she had seen the tantrik eyeing the oil. As soon as the oil touched the stone, the stone started rolling towards Singhia and crushed him. In his end moments, Singhia cursed the palace, saying, that there will be such an incident that everybody in the palace would die and their souls will stay here for centuries without rebirth. The very next year there was a battle between Bhangarh and Ajabgarh and no one survived in the battle nor in the palace, not even princess Ratnawati.
Interaction with local folk was something that I cherish; they were sure about the place being haunted inspite of not having any proofs for the same and treated us like their guests and even offered us food and water. After enjoying the place for few hours we left the place and carried back with us the valuable moments we all spent together. No sooner did the bus start all were lost in the world of dreams , sharing each other’s shoulder for supporting their heads.
We did not find any ghosts or spirits but only the beauty , peace and satisfaction. This journey strengthened the thread of friendship and teachers & students came to know each other better outside the usual classroom….!!!
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Why u guys didnt try to stay back after the sunset?
Dinesh
April 16, 2011 at 5:28 am
sorry dinesh for the late reply… actually staying there after sunset is not allowed. and moreover we were not having time .
shivansh
June 2, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Are you alive ?
Raja Mukherjee
June 28, 2011 at 2:57 pm
hii..jst want to share some thing with u shivansh…ITS TRUE..it is a haunted place ..sep1 2011 . my 3 friends and I left for bhangarh on that day ..full of energy.enthusiasm.and all that thing required ..we reached that place at 8:45 pm ….full of darkness and above that it was raining..before this incident i never belived in ghost and all that….so all four thought that lets get inside as it is raining very hard and we left our bikes in the front of the gate..by some how we managed to get in side the fort ..we lighted fire and opened our stuff like beers and all that …we started our show…at 12:45 in the night we realised that the stuff which we bought with us was finished and we thought that now we should leave . we were around 500 mts inside the fort frm the lord hanuman temple ehich is near by the entry gate.aswe planned to leave one of my friend went for loo ..and as he came back he said ..i will not go do what ever u want to do leave me alone..we thought that he is drunkenthats why he is saying all that.and by some how 3 of us managed to take him out ..suddenly when we were abt to leave ..I realised that i have misplaced my bike key so i told to one of my friend he sd 2 of us will go inside and 1 will handel that drunkenboy..so as we went to the same place we saw that one of my friend to whom we forcefully took outside ..was sitting there and he said “yaar kaha chale gaye the mai thumhara kab se wait kar raha hu”..the moment he sd this a cold sweat dragged me and i took my bike keys and started running with my friend as we were coming out side we saw the ghost market…and i cann’t explain how we came back to delhi trust me
vipin kumar
January 7, 2012 at 11:44 am
hav visitd der ..but in daylights
Chinmay Singh
March 6, 2012 at 3:54 pm
no ghosts in daylight
The Indian Fusion
March 6, 2012 at 5:54 pm
yep ;D
Chinmay Singh
March 6, 2012 at 5:55 pm
great stroy !
sujith
March 8, 2012 at 9:30 am
See!!!
Who created all these stupid ghost stories? ghosts don’t exist.
even if the ghosts of the past did exist there, they would be too scared to come near humans.
Humans are more dangerous nowadays!
Thanks for sharing these experiences
SGV
March 15, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Exactly but its interesting…
Nisha Oberoi
June 20, 2012 at 10:44 am
I have always read people mentioned that they have spent the night there and nothing happened. If only you guys had video clips then things would have been clearer for others. I went there in the day time and was shocked that it has become sort of a picnic spot. Schools take kids there for visits in the daytime. I saw couples kissing in the dark corners. I was overwhelmed when i saw all this as I was under the impression that its shit scary. Though I bet this place will be absolutely spooky at night. Also how does someone manage to spend the night there? I mean how do you manage to dupe the ASI security? Please share your knowledge and maybe we can actually get together and fund a trip with recorders and everything necessary. I am serious about this. If anyone else is then please revert back at gaurav.chaudhury@gmail.com
Gaurav Chaudhury
September 26, 2012 at 2:14 pm