The White Lady Of Bangalore Airport
Deepti Lamba
Teaser advertisements on Radio Indigo in Bangalore have been asking people why they want to leave Bangalore and even have a site where people can give their reasons. No one can stop anyone from leaving a city to find greener pastures but they stand warned not to travel by air. Bangalore's spanking new airport is apparently haunted by no less than a white witch.
The witch, I mean, lady supposedly walked on the tarmac and was noticed by a pilot, the plane got delayed and obviously there was nothing, further on she hitched a ride with the airport officers and then disappeared. No official report had been made about the incident but Bangalore is rife with all sorts of rumors about this mysterious lady. Newspapers like Mid-day and even Radio Jockey Rohit Barker made fun of the ghost.
It doesn't take long for rumors to become urban legends. And legends then are treated are facts. Delhi had its flying monkey man, there was the 'nale ba' witch in Bangalore, and now the city has its own airport ghost.
Maybe before giving strange women rides in the middle of the night, the airport officials should check the womens' feet. Witches supposedly have feet turned backward.
Jokes apart what the deal with the haunting of places by white women in the middle of night? I've heard similar tales of white witches from people belonging to different countries.
It seems open dark spaces, woods and unlived homes are tagged as areas rife with hauntings.
We have all had that nasty feeling of someone watching us when we are all alone, of not wanting to go into a deserted house or even seeing something move from the corner of our eyes that we brushed off as the working of an overactive imagination.
But those who supposedly have undergone 'hauntings' say the experiences left them cold and some even terrorized. I laughed at the spoof played on Radio Indigo about the Malayalee lady who had seen a headless ghost on the turmac but would I laugh if a perfectly sane person swore that they experienced a haunting at the Bangalore airport?
A lot happens between heaven and earth which we know nothing of.











Malolan Cadambi
September 30, 2008
03:30 PM
woweee! i've always wanted to see a ghost.... i'm off to US in a short while and probably will try to meet her...he he
temporal
URL
September 30, 2008
04:35 PM
dee:
why "white"?
why not "black"
:)
RukmaniRam
URL
September 30, 2008
08:00 PM
ya, why white? what is this fascination of making ghosts white? To some extent, if you said "pale", I'd agree. But if I froze to death, I'd be blue, if I'd burned, I'd be brown/black. No matter how dead and pale I become, I'd never be white. We're so racist when it comes to ghosts! :D
Chandra
September 30, 2008
08:01 PM
hehehe...brilliant!! is she good looking?
blokesablogin
September 30, 2008
08:06 PM
Dah! She must have worn a 'white sari"!LOL! Hence, white!
suresh.naig
September 30, 2008
09:02 PM
I have heard my granny attributing some rumours such as "nale ba" to fabric dyeing industy. She used to recollect some wild rumours spread by the community engaged in fabric dyeing in Coimbatore.
At times, it appears the colours wouldn't stick to the fabric and it was the belief that these rumours would make it stick and hence they concoct one and spread it.
It's holiday on all new Moon days for the dyeing industry in Coimbatore, even today.
Deepti Lamba
URL
September 30, 2008
11:25 PM
She has to be white or else who would notice her in pitch darkness? We'd walk through transparent ghosts and black and brown would blend in with the environment;)
Its all about leaving an impression and the subtle threat of possession;)
Chaitanya S
October 1, 2008
12:40 AM
Even ghosts are white ! This is taking India's obsession with fair skin a bit too far ;-)
Lexiss
October 1, 2008
06:16 AM
Probably not going out in the sun is the secret of the ghost's fairness :)
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