Some say it is just a rumour. Some say it is true. It might sound ridiculous but it seems to be a truth that a mysterious woman dressed in white (possibly a ghost) has been wandering in Delhi Cantt’s road.
Even as the city that never sleeps and is heavily guarded both by the cops and Indian Army, it is believed that the ghost woman scares commuters.
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 hoped 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. Some think of her as a vengeful spirit seeking vengeance on men, as a matter of fact any man who gave her a lift.
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.
However, the truth is that they are not ghosts. They are sex workers haunted by their own poverty, trying to make both ends meet.
These women wear white sarees and stand on the road to stop commuters for money and sex. This miserable condition of the women is really pity.
PNN
