Page 36 - Compilation - Stories 101(v2)
P. 36
Life Footprints – 29
Ladleful of hot khichri…………
Queen Mary was maternity hospital but also treated patients
with other chronic illness.
Maternal granny had abdominal hernia - a bulge in tummy as
fatty tissue pushes through weakness in tummy wall. She gets
admitted at regular intervals.
Hospital had common kitchen with dilapidated windows
opening in adjoining graveyard. Attendants claim seeing
ghosts and witches and avoid cooking alone.
Mother was alone cooking khichri, when skeletal hand
appeared from window asking for food. Instinctively, she
poured ladleful hot khichri on the hand.
Hoarse and ghostly cry cracked like thunder.
Since then it is said that no one ever experienced anything
paranormal………..
36
