Moon Mausoleum
An online magazine about the paranormal, haunted and macabre. We collect the ghost stories from all around the world as well as review horror and gothic media.
After the mutilated body of Sir William Hay MacNaghten was brought back to Kolkata from Kabul, he was buried in the Lower Circular Road Cemetery. After his death it is said that he is haunting the place and the nearby tree shivers every time someone tells the tale.
In the old house of a famed Bengali poet and philosopher, the ghosts of Tagore House or Jorasanko Thakur Bari are said to linger. Throughout the years, the family of Rabindranath Tagore have told about the haunting said to have happened inside of the mansion.
On the rails of Rabindra Sarobar Metro Station in Kolkata people claim to have seen and heard ghosts from the departed both on the platform as well as in the tunnels. Who can be haunting the station otherwise known as ‘Paradise of Suicide’?
The old Christian cemetery sits as a gothic reminder from colonial times. Over the years, the South Park Street Cemetery has been reclaimed by weather and time, and rumors of it being haunted sits as a veil over the place.
The sound of anklets is heard throughout the old building of Calcutta High Court, thought to be the ghost of a woman who is still seeking justice in her afterlife.
The ghost of the last Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh is said to be haunting the Kolkata Dockyard. After being betrayed and left by the British he is waiting for the chance of retribution as he is waiting for his ship that never came.
Can a modern office building like the Wipro Office Building in Salt Lake City, Kolkata be haunted? According to frightened employees it can, and many believe it is because of the haunted ground it was built on.
The ghosts of two women allegedly murdered at the New Market in Kolkata is said to be haunting the area. As does the former police commissioner and the one that built the market.
Once an opulent warehouse, Putulbari mansion in Kolkata is today better known as The House of Dolls. Rumors of the rich and powerful murdering their servants as well as a story about a daughter’s obsession with dolls makes this one of Kolkata’s most haunted places.
Once a symbol of the oppressive British regime in India, the administrative Writers’ Building was the target of a bloody rebel attack said to echo hauntingly long after India’s independence.
The Howrah Bridge is a city icon in Kolkata, but it is also said the area is haunted by those dying from falling from it as well as drowning in the river below. And on the steps of the ghats along the river, people claim to have seen the ghosts.