Lothian Cemetery

 The word “Haunted place” is used variedly from movies to media as it can give hype and a spine thrilling interesting story that people love to hear but step back to experience or find the real mystery behind it.

Most places we use to label as haunted place are graveyards, cemeteries, old villas, peaceful beaches at nights and so many that we find looking ghostly.

Cemeteries and Haunted stories is a deadly combination. 

There is no diminution for haunted stories at cemeteries. One such cemetery is Lothian Cemetery, oldest Christian cemetery in Delhi, located in Lothian road near the General post office at Kashmiri gate.

 It is famous for its stories and myths.

 

History of Cemetery

The location of the cemetery is a dense forest with trees before it is used to bury dead bodies. 

It is made as Christian Cemetery by the British in 1808. This cemetery is used by Britishers between 1808 and 1867 to bury dead bodies of only Britishers or Indian Christians.

When the Indian rebellion of 1857 or the first battle of independence, 1857 happened it resulted in the death of so many British soldiers. 

So, the dead bodies of British soldiers are buried here in 1857. 

British people who died of the cholera epidemic in 1857 are also buried here including British women and children.

History states that the cemetery is a graveyard used by Royal Indian families before the British snatched it. 

The cool atmosphere around the graveyard with trees attracted the British, so they took it.

They cleared the entire graveyard by digging the dead bodies present there before converting it into their Christian cemetery, the bodies dug by their family members

. Coming to the haunted part there are a few interesting stories about this old Christian cemetery.

 

Myths

Cemetery without a haunted story is like a unicorn.

 Every cemetery or graveyard is linked with some superstitious horror story.

 There are two interesting stories about this cemetery.

1. Love-Sacrifice:

This is a story where a British soldier called sir Nicholas loved an Indian woman and that woman refused his proposal. 

So in that pain, he shot his head and died whose body is buried here.

Since then a headless ghost roams around the cemetery, which is claimed to be the ghost of Sir Nicholas, calling the name of his Indian lover. 

And the most interesting part is the ghost will become powerful in moonless nights.