First Part
In first part of this blog, I will cover on the various stories, folkfore about this site which I had head till date. During all my visits to this village, I had head different stories about this place. One such story was narrated by the jeep driver in 2013, who was born and brought up in the Jaisalmer area and according to him, this village was abandoned within a night due the curse on this village. According to him, his father, grand father had shared that, this village used to be a prosperous village once upon a time and due to some killings, this village was cursed and in an overnight it has been abandoned by the residents in fear and thus nobody resides in the village. He also claimed that, treasures are buried inside the village but being haunted, no one enters inside village.
He shared another story that, this village was occupied by the brahmins and there was dispute of the brahmins with the king and king tried to harass the residents, being angry over the exploitation and harassment, brahmin priest cursed this village and left overnight.
Another story, which I heard from the camel man during night safari stay, was altogether different. He was also a local resident and as per him, the village was never established and it was in a construction phase and the priest of the temple cursed this village of plague due to some reason. People started dying and hence all the residents decided to vacate this village overnight. Only temple and house of the head of village was complete, so only these two structures are standing perfect as on date, rest others are not complete and it looks like a destructed site.
So, there are numerous stories about this site and all have their own version, but one thing is common in all stories, that the village was abandoned in a single night, so something very bad might had happened there, due to which the village has been abandoned, but nothing is official from the government authorities, so all are speculations and I have no hope that the reality will ever be revealed.
The jeep driver and others who narrated above stories added that no one visits this place during night time and there are no wild animals around this village. He further added that sometimes animals are found dead near the village and some villagers had also experienced some suspicious activities around the village. I don’t verify any of the above incidents because I am not an eye witness to above stories, but one thing I remember clearly that, during my first visit to this village, when my jeep stopped near the only house which is still not demolished, he asked me not to go too far from jeep and remain at a visible length. I asked him reason for the same, on which he responded that,
“ hoga kuch nahi hai but kabhi kabhi kuch tourists batate hain ki unko kuch dikha tha, isliye bus aapko bata de rahe hain” ( nothing will happen but sometime some tourists have claimed that they have seen something, that”s why I am informing you).
“Hum log to yahan roz aate hain, isliye humko to aadat pad gayi hai, humko to kuch nahi dikha, but safety ke liye bata dete hain” (we come here daily and now we are habitual, we have not seen anything but as a precaution, we just inform).
The above statements may be just a hoax or to create a hype of this place but truth about this place is yet to be established, so it is better not to perform adventure without information. But what changed during my recent visit was that, there was not a single word of caution from the jeep driver and I was surprised. Reasons may be many for not cautioning but I have been to this place earlier, so I took my own caution. My vehicle was parked at the designated parking, so in case of any help or support, I have to manage it my own.
After many years of my visit to Kuldhara, I attended a Ted Talk session of a Paranormal Investigator in Delhi, where he referred the name of this place in his research and he claims that the place has something unusual. I have seen videos recordings done by him at Kuldhara village which shows some unusual sounds during the night time. If anyone is interested, please comment below and I will share his details and the link to watch his videos, being a copyright content, I can’t post his details here.
To be continued…