Friday, 29 June 2012

GaiRi ka Gadan: The Marghat - An Analysis



Often it is said that ‘spirits, rooh, bhoot, pret vaigairah’ are visible to some persons only. And indeed only some people tell stories of floating translucent ghosts, often a fudgy white silhouette resembling a human form floating around a dark, lonely house. The simple reason put forward is that their ‘grah’ are weak. But this same phenomenon afflicting a select set of people can have a more rational explanation. It is this; these people are highly imaginative and have low threshold for fear. As a result their perception of fear in dark is enhanced and imagination clouds reality. They seek to see something and their mind projects such a reality.

Question arises then, how some details which this person could not have known, are matched with description of some others? For instance in the case of Badolgaon sighting by Shubhakar Kala, who was completely unaware of the happening in the house, so well described the attire of the apparition matching word for word with ‘taiji’s’ description. The answer probably is that he borrowed the dream from her.

I am not excluding the possibility of real ghosts, a twilight zone where dead exist in transition but it is one explanation, there are other explanation as well to account for strange happenings…     

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