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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
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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