JALA PISHACH - WATER SPIRIT

The Water Spirit or Jala Pishach

Today I am going to narrate about an incident which happened to my grandfather when he was 16. Most of the people in our caste make a living by jobs related to temple activities.  So my grandfather also used to work in the temple.  During festival season he used to go to temples in distant places to earn some extra money.  

Once he went for such a festival, came back after a week and started his normal chores. It is mandatory to be clean before entering the temple premises. So my grandfather used to take bath in a pond near to the temple before sunrise. My great grandfather, my grandfathers father also used to work in the same temple so they used to go to the pond together. My granddad being young used to dive into water and have a great time. His father used to finish his bath and go to temple early and let his son play in the water for a while. But that day he got worried as my granddad did not come to temple even after 2 hours. 

Tensed my great grandfather asked one of his friends to go and fetch my granddad, when the friend went near to the pond he saw my grandfather floating in the water but his eyes were open and was enjoying what he was doing. The friend tried his level best to convince my grandfather to get out of the water but he would deny all the time. In the end the friend got frustrated and called couple more of guys and plunged into the water. But to their surprise my grandfather dived in and did not come out for almost 5 min. everybody thought he had drowned but after a while he came out of water.  Then they struggled very hard to pull him out. Once out of water my grandfather started talking in a different voice and started abusing everybody.  Later his father came, pacified him and took him home.

Once at home he kept on insisting that he is not clean and wants to go to the pond and take a bath. But his father convonced him and made him sleep. Even though he was worried by the sudden change in his boy’s attitude but ignored it at that point of time. My granddad slept the whole day and woke up in the evening when his father came home from work. At that time he looked normal and had supper with the rest of the family. Everybody slept after supper but my great grandfather, and when he was about to sleep he heard a noise from the nearby room. What he saw baffled him, my grandfather had got out from his bed and was walking towards the front door as if in trance. His eyes were closed and he walked straight towards the well near to our house. And climbed on to the fence and was about to jump, seeing this father came running and caught him at the last minute, took him back to home.

These things continued for a week’s time the whole family was worried as my grandfathers health was also deteriorating. After learning about these happenings,  priest of the temple called upon an astrologer to find out what was wrong with my grandfather. The person came and saw my grandfather and in an instant understood that he was possessed by a Jala pishach or water spirit.  Jala pishach are spirits of people who die accidentally in water.  That’s why people who are possessed by water spirit have high tendency to be near water all the time and that’s what had happened to my grandfather. Then he did some calculations and said that he was possessed by the spirit when he went for that festival. Later my grandfather also confirmed that he had felt some one tried to drown him when he took bath in the pond where he had gone but had luckily escaped.

 The Astrologer gave him a very powerful prayer ( a shloka ) of god Vishnu known as “”sudarshana mantram ““ and asked him to recite twice every day for 30 days. Which he did promptly and was freed from the evil effects of the entity. He lived a very happy life after that and had 5 kids, one of them my mother.  After narrating this story to me he wrote down the powerful hymn and gave it to me, saying I should have it as I am the eldest of his grand children. Thank you for taking time and reading my story and I hope you liked it. I would love to hear your comments and feedback. Cheers.

REAL GHOST HAUNTING

REAL GHOST HAUNTING THAT HAPPENED TO MY MATERNAL UNCLE

Hi to all readers, it’s been a pleasure reading your stories… So I felt I should share some thing which I know and have heard from my granny.  I am from kerala, a state in the southern part of India.  We belong to the Brahmin caste and are vegetarians.  Hindus usually have a family god and even we have a family god who is been idolized in our house. There is a separate worship room for the Goddess were no one enters frequently, as to maintain its sanctity. I forgot to tell that my house is around 200 years old and it has seen generations. My granny used to say that her granny also could not say when the house was built.  

This incident happened to my granny’s younger brothers ( lets call them aby and liby ), one is no longer with us and the other one when asked about this always denies, but we children could always understand that he is hiding some thing. These guys were around 16 or 17 at that time, back in 1960’s. During those days our place used to be a jungle and transportation was limited to couple of buses to the town in a day and most of the traveling was done by walking the distance. These 2 were great movie buffs and used to watch which ever movie that used to release in the near by town which was 15 kms away.  So one fine Friday a new movie released and these two went to watch, the show was at 9 in the night. It got over by 11.30 or so and they started back.

 It was raining heavily, but these guys since being young did not care and continued their trial back home. During those days possessions used to happen to people very frequently. The path was flooded with water due to heavy rains and while jumping a pit hole one of the guys ( aby ) fell inside it, this pit hole was 7 feet deep and he started drowning. After some times struggle the other guy with the help of some locals were able to pull him up. Guys .. now the story begins. I know I have dragged it a bit, my apologies as this is my first post J ….

The locals said to the guy who had been rescued from the pit, that yesterday a 16 year old muslim girl had drowned and died in the same pit hole. After hearing this aby was shocked as he was just 16 but liby consoled and said not to worry and lets go home.  They started back to home and reached home by 1 am or so. After half an hour aby ( who fell ) started shivering and was having high fever. Their mother got worried as there were no hospitals near by at that time and it was raining heavily too. They gave him some home made medicines, but after some time he became unconscious and started mouthing out words like “ get out “,  “ pls leave me “ and

 “ mum I am scared she is gonna kill me “ etc.. he struggled for almost an hour till 3 am he was mouthing these things and was unconscious. After 3 am all of a sudden he woke up and was fit like a horse. Every one was startled at this sudden change. His mother asked what had happened, then he said about the struggle that he had with the evil spirit. He said that the girl was trying to enter our house through the gate but was not able to as our family Goddess was stopping her from doing that. But the spirit was hypnotizing him ( as he had contact with the spirit when he fell in the pit. It had the power to control him ) to come out of the gate as her powers were weak inside our compound because of our Goddess. Then he said that our goddess assured him that nothing will happen and stood in between them and battled the spirit. At last the evil entity lost its fighting powers completely as it was nearing dawn and left the place. He said once it was over the goddess came and said to him not to worry as she is always there to protect him…. After saying this he fell unconscious again and woke up only the next day. All was well again. He never had a problem like this in his life ever….. we still have devotional days conducted for our goddess yearly…. I feel the goddess presence in my home and feel safe…. Hope u guys liked it…. Thanks for reading…