Spirits of White Men and Women

Going towards Kashmere Gate, one encounters Lothian Bridge, and a road at the side of it which leads to the oldest Christian cemetery in Delhi, with graves dating back to the East India Company era. This place is also said to be haunted by spirits of white men and women who are buried there. But that doesn't prevent people from encroaching on the cemetery and actually living in it with their families. Ask them about ghosts, and they either ridicule them or sometimes solemnly affirm that all stories are not untrue. Kashmere Gate itself was believed to be haunted by a white lady who sat outside it smoking a cigarette and surprising travellers by suddenly appearing in front of them. Mercifully, the gate has been closed and a new entrance to ISBT made by knocking off a part of the old city wall. So the white lady seems to be passing her nights alone, as nobody goes past her now. Just across the road is Nicholson's Cemetery, where the legendary Brig-Gen John Nicholson is buried. He died during the Mutiny and is believed to rest fitfully. People try not going to the cemetery in the evening, but till recently, smack users and drug addicts found it a safe haven. The caretaker says he hasn't seen any supernatural activity, though a friend of his confided that he has seen many unusual things but is loath to admit so for fear of losing his job.

However, it is difficult to believe how the limitations of human perception could happen to many a dozen people who witnessed a white sari clad woman jaywalking a crowded Delhi street. People honked the woman from their cars and woman, blissfully ignorant, came under the wheels of a car and disappeared. But, on the face of the jaywalking woman incidence, it is difficult to believe a big mass of people paralysed by pareidolia. A woman ghost wearing white sari and glide around with a candle is a popular sighting in many parts of Delhi.a white sari clad woman in Delhi Cantonment. Possibly the lady was a hitchhiker while alive, hence she waves at lonely passersby to stop. If denied, she runs swiftly along side the vehicle.