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a group of paranormal investigators

drove through the countryside

up to the abandoned Bangor fort in the

aowa district of Rajasthan

the ruins of this historic town have

been rumored to be one of the most

haunted places in India

on this day in 2012 India's most

prolific ghost hunter Gaurav Tawari and

his team were about to do the

unthinkable spend a night within the

walls of the abandoned fort

two legends speculating about why the

town was abandoned have been passed down

through the generations

the first story is that of the arrogant

neighboring king Guru balinath who is Gaurav 28 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:05,439 believed to have cursed the city of

Bangor he proclaimed the moment the

shadows of your palaces touch me the

city shall be no more

many years passed and a young prince

came to power

he was not informed about the threat and

raised one of the towers of his palace

casting a shadow over guru Balingnoth's

property he did not forget the agreement

and devastated the city and all its

people

the second legend is about the princess

Ratnavadi with her spellbinding beauty

a tantric sorcerer who practiced

black magic fell in love with her but

knew she would never choose him over her

endless parade of young and handsome

suitors

he concocted a potion that would make

her love him and sent it to her

disguised as perfume

somehow Ratnavadi discovered his plan

and smashed the bottle of perfume which

turned into a boulder that rolled onto

the sorcerer

the scorn sorcerer used his dying breath

to curse the princess her family and the

entire city

the next year a battle was fought and

everyone within the fort's walls died

including the princess

because of the curse no one in Bangor

could be reborn

which is why it has been forsaken

forever

doomed to be haunted by its former

residents who will never find peace

throughout the years

countless people have reported strange

occurrences at the fort strange noises

at night an inexplicable feeling of

anxiety

at the entrance to the fort is a sign

that was erected by the archaeological

survey of India

entering the borders of Bangor before

sunrise and after sunset is strictly

prohibited

legend has it that if someone were to

stay at the fort after the sunset they

would not live to see the sun rise

gaurav Tawari was a paranormal

investigator who believed in science not

legends

by staying the night and finding no

evidence of paranormal activity he

debunked the myth of Bangor

he felt that people made too much of the

warning sign at the gate

the ruins back onto the Sariska tiger

reserve their sign was most likely

placed at the entrance to protect

visitors from wildlife predators who

hunt at night not ghosts

but when 32 year old Gaurav died in

mysterious circumstances five years

later

some people believed that his death was

a direct consequence of him taunting the

curse of Bangor

police have ruled his death a suicide

but was there something much darker

at play

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gaurav Tawari was born on the 2nd of

September 1984 in Lucknow India

he was close to his family and was well

educated

from an early age it was evident that

Gaurav was a talented young man

he loved acting writing singing and

learning new things

he also had a black belt in Taekwondo

despite his many talents Gaurav's plan a

was to become an actor

at the age of 16 his acting career

kicked off and he had a couple of gigs

like minor roles in Indian produced

films like tango Charlie and 16th

december

Gaurav soon realized that he probably

wouldn't achieve great success as a

serious movie actor and his parents

supported him to change direction

fortunately Gaurav had many interests

and he decided to go down another path

to explore another one of his passions

in 2006 the 18 year old went to America

where he studied to become a commercial

pilot

he trained at MVP Aero Academy in Texas

and also at Orlando flight training in

florida

the time Gaurav spent in Florida turned

out to be life-altering

during his pilot training he was lodged

in a shared apartment with fellow

students

this is where Gaurav and a couple of

other students experienced strange

occurrences

Gaurav would later refer to it as

poltergeist activity whispers footsteps

and so on

he even heard someone speaking and there

was no one but him in the room

raised to follow hinduism Gaurav wasn't

someone who ever believed in ghosts or

paranormal activity

hinduism believes in reincarnation the

belief that after death one soul takes

on another physical form in a new body

a spirit has many incarnations learning

new lessons as it matures

the Tawari family did not believe in the

supernatural or paranormal so Gaurav's

experience with the poltergeist

challenged his entire belief system

at first he tried to shake it all off

ghosts don't exist right

but the strange incidents at the

apartment in Florida did not stop

Gaurav realized that whatever it was it

wasn't going away

being someone who enjoyed research and

understanding the world he became

determined to make sense of it all

so while he was still completing his

commercial pilot's qualification he

enrolled to study metaphysics at the

IMHS Metaphysics Institute in Florida

Gaurav also went on to receive his

certification as a lead anomalous

investigator from the Paranexus

Anomalous Research Association in

Florida from the start he was a very

dedicated investigator

he visited more than 80 said to be

haunted locations to gain a better

understanding of the various phenomena

his tenacity garnered a lot of respect

from others working in the field of

paranormal investigation

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back to today's

episode Gaurav with his love for

engineering and flying had a logical

scientific mind that needed to

understand things

he was spooked when he couldn't explain

what was going on in their apartment

this is when he set out to learn about

paranormal activity as he could not find

a logical explanation

there had to be something else behind it

a magnetic field perhaps something

Gaurav referred to himself as a technical

guy and was not sure if he even believed

in the paranormal when he started his

studies

with his commercial pilot's license in

hand Gaurav Tawari went back home to

India but he would not be a pilot for

long instead he decided to take another

path

in 2009 he founded the Indian paranormal

society the first of its kind in India

with 1.3 billion people India is the

second most populous country in the

world after china

it has a rich history and the people are

deeply spiritual

almost 80 percent of the country follow

hinduism worshiping millions of gods

besides religion folklore and

superstition also play a significant

role in the collective consciousness of

Indian people

countless legends have been passed down

through generations and some stand by it

is factual history

people take a keen interest in haunted

places and ghost tours are widely

popular throughout the country

Gaurav Tawari saw an opportunity to learn

more about these countless stories in

his country

the Indian paranormal society aimed to

provide knowledge to people about

paranormal activities so they could get

rid of their fears fueled by information

from myths and legends

the Indian paranormal society attracted

a lot of interest

Gaurav was inundated with people wanting

him to come to their homes

his office in Delhi reportedly received

as many as 10 phone calls a day and

emails also came flying in

people reported that their homes were

haunted and wanted Gaurav to investigate

he soon became a household name as

India's best ghost hunter and some

people even called him India's ed warren

if you don't know who ed warren is he

was an American paranormal investigator

whose incredible work inspired the 2013

blockbuster film the conjuring

before long Gaurav found himself drowning

in work so much so that he had to employ

a team of people to help him

he called the team grip an acronym that

stands for ghost research and

investigators of paranormal because of

their work people in India began to

question the paranormal

being a paranormal investigator is not

your average 9 to 5 job

Gaurav's work took him to some of the

scariest places in the country

abandoned houses morgues graveyards and

even vacant churches

paranormal sightings typically come

about as a mixture of urban legend added

with the conviction of witnesses saying

that they experienced something

supernatural

if someone informed Gaurav about a

haunting he would go to a place with his

team and spend hours and hours gathering

information

Gaurav always a man of science and reason

believed that some of the strange

occurrences could be explained logically

sometimes it was an optical illusion or

light phenomena

Gaurav always tried to reason his way

through it and relied on audio and video

recordings to gather evidence

interestingly he also theorized that in

many cases a paranormal sighting had a

lot to do with the person who saw it

sometimes a person who had been

tormented by grief or sadness wanted to

see something from the other side

sometimes people's own energy fields

were so vibrant that it caused objects

to move or doors to slam

Gaurav explored the psychology behind

people who see ghosts and witnessed

strange occurrences

in his constant quest for knowledge

Gaurav also became a qualified

hypnotherapist as well as an ordained

minister in the metaphysical church of

humanistic science

he spoke to people who reported

sightings to learn more about the whole

situation

not only what they saw but what their

personal circumstances were

in the end he concluded that 98 of the

cases were due to psychological issues

or hallucinations

Gaurav approached each case as a skeptic

hoping to find a scientific or

psychological reason for an apparition

in one interview gaurav said

our primary objective is to rid people

of the superstitions surrounding ghosts

we have a neutral approach to all of our

cases we investigate several scientific

possibilities and only after ruling

those out do we come to our conclusion

we do not just detect paranormal

activities but also give counselling and

help people learn to communicate with

spirits so far we have helped over 200

people

in his blog Gaurav recounts a case of a

young girl who is possessed her parents

called Gaurav to intervene and perform an

exorcism but Gaurav always knew to look

at the whole picture

instead of just accepting the fact that

the girl was possessed he tried to

understand the demon within her

at first he struggled to converse with

the girl because she refused to speak

unless she was given a glass of blood

she hurt insults and threats in a

growling voice calling herself Ajit

saying that he was going to take the

girl with him

Gaurav took the girl's father aside and

asked him if the girl knew anyone by the

name of Ajit

as it turned out she did

in fact it was quite a traumatic story

the boy had asked her to marry him and

she had said no

unable to cope with the rejection Ajit

ended his own life

the girl was consumed with guilt and

over time her mental state had become

very fragile

this made her susceptible to being

possessed

Gaurav felt that the girl was afraid that

Ajit's spirit would possess her as he

couldn't keep her in life

using hypnotherapy he gently talked to

the girl coaxing the dark energy to

leave which it did

according to Gaurav possession is

self-made

in this story he exercised the girl's

deep-rooted feeling of guilt not a demon

it was psychology not hocus pocus

after the session Gaurav insisted the

parents have a medical doctor tend to

the girl and suggested psychotherapy

going forward in conclusion he said

possession is not only done by spirits

it can be done by a living person too

we can only stop possession if we are

possessed by ourselves and strongly

believe in what we are

however in a handful of cases possession

and haunting defy all rational reasoning

those cases were the ones that made

Gaurav and his team believe in the

paranormal

he also investigated ufo sightings and

abductions strange creatures and

anything that warranted questioning

he went out of his way to provide

answers to clients based on research

in some instances homes or buildings

were plagued by unexplained events

the grip team would then spend a

significant period inside the place

using audio and video recorders and

magnetic plates to identify and

communicate with spirits they would then

purge the souls from their dwellings and

help the living residents to live in

peace again

Gaurav often referred to his work at

Bangor fort as the best example of a

hoax that has cemented itself into a

popularly believed notion

his equipment showed no signs of

activity and ultimately his whole team

was still alive so the curse was not

real

in Gaurav's opinion the paranormal world

is mostly docile and fun to explore

in his ted talk titled do ghosts exist

Gaurav claimed that ghosts are nothing to

be scared of he believed that spirits

move objects or communicate using ESP to

let people know that they are there not

to spook them

he felt that souls who are left to

linger are confused and need help to

take care of unfinished desires

Gaurav set out to communicate with

spirits and explain how he understood

the notion of ghosts

the ghost is nothing but the residual

consciousness of a deceased physical

body it's the anticipation of what a

ghost can do that can actually do

serious damage the fear of the unknown

before long the eloquent and

well-informed Gaurav Tawari caught the

attention of television producers

because he had had some experience in

front of the camera they saw potential

in using him for reality shows

it was tremendously exciting for him

that production companies came calling

he could carry on doing something that

genuinely interested him all the while

getting back to his dream of being a tv

personality

Gaurav's career as a television

paranormal investigator took off in the

fast lane

he appeared in television shows such as

MTV's girls night out fear files haunted

weekends with sunny Leone and boot aya

his gig on MTV's series girls night out

brought Gaurav international fame

it was the first show of its kind in

India and won the best reality show at

the asian television awards in 2011.

the series was well produced and

researched each episode following a

serious investigation into reports of

haunted places throughout India

in 2015 Gaurav Tawari starred as one of a

team of five paranormal experts in the

Australian ghost hunting series haunted

australia

throughout the series it was evident

that Gaurav was more than just a slick

well-spoken presenter he was

knowledgeable and applied logic thinking

to his investigations

as a paranormal investigator he did not

rely on spooky sensation but instead

focused on things he could prove or

disprove

Gaurav and the haunted Australia team

went into some of Australia's most

haunted places

he was not afraid of getting his hands

dirty either when everyone else freaked

out or wanted to pull the plug on an

investigation Gaurav was the one who kept

his cool

Gaurav was the fearless guy who got

things done

in one scene the presenter refers to him

as gutsy Gaurav

haunted Australia took gore off to some

dark places

later on when asked to name the most

haunted place he'd ever visited without

missing a beat he always said it was the

Aradelle asylum

located on a hill outside of Arrarat

Victoria where astray is criminally

insane were housed for more than a

hundred years countless tortured souls

lost their lives

on a separate occasion the group of

haunted Australia decided to spend one

night filming inside the chiller of an

abandoned morgue

no one else was up for the task but

Gaurav on crutches with an injured leg

volunteered he went to lay down on the

slab of a chiller where countless dead

bodies had lain before

Gaurav stayed in there overnight with

nothing but a video camera and a torch

to him it was another investigation into

the unknown an opportunity to gain

knowledge in his own words

to me knowledge cancels fear

in the series Gaurav showed his methods

of detecting paranormal activity

he used rempods which emitted

electromagnetic fields

when a field was broken the device

beeped and a light flashed

Gaurav explained it like this

spirits are also made of energy

so if there is a disruption in the

electromagnetic field it is a sign of

paranormal activity

in one incident using the rem pod to

communicate with the spirit Gaurav asked

questions and instructed the spirit of

an unknown woman how to answer him

he said to trigger the light on the left

for yes or right for no

after a conversation during which the

spirit communicated that she wanted to

be left alone Gaurav walked around the

room with a device testing for

electromagnetic fields or EMF but

nothing showed up

he explained to the audience that a

flashing light didn't always mean you

were dealing with a spirit

high EMF could also have triggered the

devices but in this case there was no

electronic magnetic field in the room

and that was how Gaurav worked he always

tried to debunk his own methods and when

there was no scientific explanation the

only conclusion was that there had to be

another reason something unseen

something paranormal

after haunted Australia wrapped Gaurav

returned to India and carried on with

his work through the paranormal society

this was a job that he took very

seriously he wanted to help people

in a video posted on his facebook page

he makes it clear that he was not a

ghost hunter but a researcher

he didn't hunt ghosts he wanted to learn

from them so we could explain the

concept to people

his aim was to reduce fear and anxiety

especially in cases where families had

been driven from their homes due to

hauntings

Gaurav was not a thrill-seeker but a

seeker of answers

and the quest was relentless

Gaurav was a total workaholic the nature

of his job meant that he worked at very

odd hours through the night weekends

ghosts don't keep office hours

whenever there was a call Gaurav and grip

his team from the paranormal society

went to have a closer look

it was also clear that the nature of his

job became more physically challenging

as he said in one interview

the nature of spirits can vary i have

faced docile benevolent spirits and also

malevolent i've been pushed tugged

scratched by things that i couldn't see

despite his unabating routine Gaurav did

have time to fall in love

he met the beautiful arya kashyap and

the couple got married at the end of

January 2016.

after their nuptials the newlyweds lived

with Gaurav's family and Dwarka

arya understood that this would be a

temporary arrangement

she had hoped that once they were

married Gaurav would settle down and

perhaps get a quote unquote real job

but Gaurav was busier than ever

the calls and emails kept coming and he

could not show people away

by this time he had visited no less than

6 000 haunted sites or believed to be

haunted

he would determine if it was actually

haunted or not

if anyone in India was going to help

with a paranormal situation it would be

gaurav

because he was genuinely passionate

about his work the paranormal society

took on most cases pro bono

Gaurav made most of his income from

courses he ran

the goal was to educate people about

scientific explanations for paranormal

activity his tv appearances also brought

in some money but only as long as he was

working on a series

on Wednesday night the 6th of July 2016

Gaurav worked late until the night again

he went to a suspected haunted house in

west Delhi's Janakpuri neighbourhood and

returned around 1 30 am

when he came home arya was waiting up

and she was not impressed

they argued about the fact that Gaurav

was still out seeking ghosts while his

new wife spent her nights home alone

with his parents

arya was eager to move out of her

in-laws house and start a family but

Gaurav always had something else going on

Gaurav was tired and upset and things

were said that could have remained

unsaid the fight was not resolved and

guava and arya went to sleep in separate

rooms

the next morning when they woke up the

newlyweds made up and cleared the air

between them Gaurav checked his emails at

the dining room table until 11am then

went upstairs to take a shower

arya and Gaurav's father Yudei heard a

thump

then there a jiggling sound like someone

turning a doorknob

they didn't think it was strange seeing

as the bathroom door did sometimes get

stuck

they carried on drinking coffee and

watching tv and when Gaurav didn't

reappear after his shower after an hour

arya grew concerned

she decided to go and see if everything

was okay the bathroom door was locked

which was not unusual she knocked and

called for him but he didn't answer

she listened to hear if the water was

running but it was not in fact it was

eerily quiet and arya knew something was

terribly wrong

arya called gaurav's dad and when there

was still no response from Gaurav they

broke down the door

they found Gaurav on the ground sweating

profusely gasping for air with his hands

around his throat they picked him up and

rushed him to the hospital but

unfortunately it was too late

hospital staff were unable to

resuscitate him and he was pronounced

dead shortly after arrival

news of Gaurav's death caused an outpour

of speculation and sensation

newspapers and magazines could not get

enough of the story of the ghost hunter

who died in mysterious circumstances

his friends and colleagues took to

social media spreading the news of his

death

everyone assumed he had died of a heart

attack

he never slept too much and kept

irregular hours

when he investigated reports of

paranormal activity he got straight in

there rolled up his sleeves and actively

climbed and crawled wherever he had to

go

his job caused him a lot of stress as he

was always dealing with people in

nerve-wracking situations

everyone looked at Gaurav to provide

answers and to comfort them with this

calm and confident manner

but Gaurav did not die of a heart attack

during the post-mortem examination

they found a thin dark line around his

neck

when the family was asked about the mark

none of them could remember seeing it

when they found Gaurav in the bathroom

the cause of death was said to be

asphyxia

the next step in the investigation was

to determine how the asphyxia occurred

Gaurav was alone in the bathroom so was

it self-inflicted

or had someone let themselves into the

bathroom and killed him

or perhaps

was there even a darker explanation

a month before Gaurav's death he told his

wife arya that a negative force was

pulling him towards itself

even though he tried his best to control

it he was not able to

he didn't say much more and arya didn't

make too much of it at the time

she knew he had been working day and

night for months he was exhausted and

stressed and she thought that perhaps

his work was getting to him

in the week before he died Gaurav also

confided in his father that something

was wrong

he wasn't himself at all

for the first time in years his father

could see that his son was scared

in a police statement jude Tawari

recalled his conversation with his son

gaurav said

i've been feeling extremely

uncomfortable for quite some time i am

being followed i'm being watched by

someone who refuses to leave me

his family also told police how gaurav

used to talk about his work around the

dinner table

no one in his family believed in ghosts

but his stories were interesting so they

humored him he was formulating a theory

about a recurring phenomenon

black marks on pictures and a possible

link to spirit to distress

to explain his blackline theory Gaurav

referred to the 1976 horror film the

omen

in the film the wealthy thorne family

loses their baby in childbirth

unbeknownst to the mother distraught

father robert takes a child whose mother

died during childbirth to raise as their

own

but there is something ominous about the

child they called damian

on his fifth birthday denanny hangs

herself in front of everyone proclaiming

that she's doing it for the boy

a priest approaches robert saying that

his son was the devil's spawn the

antichrist

after this revelation the priest dies in

a freak accident and ends up impaled at

the church

a journalist shows robert throwing

photos of the nanny and the priest taken

before they died

both had black marks on them

the nanny had a line around her neck

like a noose

and the priest's mark was in the shape

of a spear

gora reckoned that a black mark on a

person or a photo of a person meant that

a spirit had marked them for revenge

at the time

his family didn't really believe what

Gaurav was telling them they felt it was

a developing theory and that he was just

speculating

however when they heard about the black

lines on his neck discovered during the

autopsy they couldn't help but wonder if

something else was at play

did the dark presence following the

ghost chaser finally catch up with him

to exact its revenge

delhi police weren't interested in ghost

stories and supernatural theories they

looked at Gaurav's death from all

possible angles

police grew suspicious of Gaurav's family

when some of the information they

provided did not add up

they said that Gaurav had breakfast at

6am that morning he died about 5 hours

later

however his autopsy revealed the

undigested breakfast in his stomach

this could perhaps have been an honest

mistake an error by a family in shock

Gaurav usually woke up at 4 30 am and

started his day doing yoga and had

breakfast around 6.

but remember he only got home at 1 30

a.m the night before

he had an argument with his wife and

then went to sleep in another room

it is fair to assume he didn't have a

great night's sleep

would he have woken up at his usual time

of 4 30

or would he perhaps have slept in

maybe he didn't feel like eating until

he had talked things out with his wife

and only ate after their discussion

using stomach contents to determine the

time of a person's death has also proven

to be fickle in terms of exact forensic

science

there are many factors to keep in mind

for instance if the victim was in

distress digestion would take longer

likewise if he had something to drink

with this meal digestion would only

start once 80 percent of the liquid had

been emptied out of the stomach

the theory that Gaurav died earlier than

11 am base solely on stomach content

evidence did not carry much weight

there was a rumor that arya might have

been behind his death

it was common knowledge that she did not

approve of his career choice

because he often worked through the

night she also suspected that he was

cheating on her

she was questioned for more than eight

hours by the police but could not give

them any answers regarding her husband's

death

investigators also found a second cell

phone with a sim card from an Indian

service provider but all the data on the

phone had been erased

no one in his immediate circle knew

about the second phone or why he had it

in the end

police concluded that it was suicide by

hanging

a senior police official told the media

shortly after his death

the preliminary autopsy report confirms

that he committed suicide

all his family members including his

parents and wife were present in the

dwarka flat when he hanged himself with

a cloth in the bathroom from an iron rod

used for hanging clothes

people who knew and worked with Gaurav

doubted that the 32 year old would have

taken his own life

he was tough as nails

a fearless man who dared put himself in

scary situations on his quest to find

out the truth

remember he's not in the morgue while he

was on crutches

that was the person everyone knew

having some late nights with a

discontented wife at home would not have

been too much for him to bear he was

trying to work things out as best he

could

of course standing on the outside one

never knows what a person goes through

before ending their own life

but Gaurav's co-workers and friends

attested to the fact that he was not

suicidal in the time leading up to his

untimely death

on the contrary

he had many television projects lined up

he was excited to get to work he was not

at a loss of hope or at a dead end

whatsoever

the day before he died he posted a photo

of youth incorporated magazine on his

facebook page

Gaurav was on the front cover along with

four other successful young Indian

professionals in a special called power

of the five

it was Gaurav's wife and his father who

told police about the dark forces

pulling him story

could it be that they would rather place

the blame on an unexplained entity than

considering the possibility that he had

ended his own life

Gaurav's family was religious in hinduism

suicide is seen every bit as sinful as

taking someone else's life

the sanskrit word for suicide atmahatiya

literally means soul murder

it is believed that ending one's life

sets off a series of karmic events which

prevents one soul of ever resting in

peace

could it be that his family tried to

conceal his suicide in an attempt to

save his soul

that is not very likely Gaurav spent his

life solving mysteries his family would

not have wanted to add to the mystery of

his death by making things up

in his lifetime Gaurav was called a

paranormal activist

he knew some people believed in the

supernatural and others didn't

he never believed until his experience

in florida after that he dedicated his

life to understanding something most

people would instead turn their backs on

or dismiss as make-believe

he was serious about his studies and

listened to people when they told him

stories that sounded crazy to most

perhaps we should take a moment to

ponder an alternative theory and

consider Gaurav's account of a dark force

that pulled him in

in an interview two years before his

death he said

the more you get scared the more they

feed on your negative energy and get

stronger

once you show that you can face them

they won't trouble you

he spoke to his dad and wife of a dark

force that he struggled to keep at bay

paranormal investigators typically take

measures to protect themselves from evil

forces

there is no clear-cut guide as to what

would serve as protection so it comes

down to personal choice

some were satchels around their necks

filled with herbs or stones others say a

protection prayer before entering a

haunted house

Gaurav didn't do any of this

if you want to stay protected you have

to believe in yourself

you just have to believe that nothing

can harm you

let me tell you a secret i have been to

so many haunted locations in for over

years but i never use any protection

because i want to explore it's just like

you go on hunting an animal

and you wear all the protection to keep

him away

so if you don't

call you animals towards yourself how

can you hunt

we don't hunt ghosts i don't call myself

a ghost hunter though because i research

on them i don't go and killing down

close and

i don't flaunt like a ghost hunter it's

a wrong term a lot of people use but

it's

acceptable now

uh

but yeah

if you're in search of ghosts you should

always

see to communicate with them not to

escape them not to keep them away this

is how you can become a good researcher

if forensic evidence points to suicide

but no one has a motive why Gaurav would

end his life is it possible that he did

in fact kill himself not because he

meant to but because he was forced to do

so

was he visited by the darkness on that

morning and found himself unable to

control it

Gaurav's friend and team member of grip

wakaraj visited thousands of locations

with Gaurav it was gaurav who taught him

not to be scared and to stand firm

against unseen and unexplained energies

welcar quoted something Gaurav had said

to him in an interview with the sunday

guardian

no human can kill himself if he does he

must be possessed

some people believe it was the curse of

Bangor that bided its time and patiently

waited until Gaurav was settled in his

personal and professional life before it

struck

others feel that a dark hostile energy

attached itself to Gaurav somewhere

during his thousands of investigations a

maleficent force

that played its final hand

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