Posted on 07/13/2007 12:56:55 PM PDT by Renfield
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Scores of Indian children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site, officials and residents said.
"I have stopped going to school after many dead people walked out of their graves and came into my dreams, ordering me to reach school on time," said six-year-old Raqib Ansari.
This week, hundreds of children at the school in the eastern state of Bihar, accompanied by their parents, marched to the office of a senior district official, asking for the school to be shifted away from the Muslim graveyard.
About 200 children study in the makeshift school set up several years ago after authorities refused to donate land for a school in Kohari village, 200 km (125 miles) southwest of the state capital, Patna.
Some parents say their children's sleep and health is being affected by dreams of ghosts.
"They used to play and study together and finish their lunch boxes while sitting on top of concrete graves but now the ghosts have come to haunt them at night and they are falling ill," said one father, Riyazuddin Ansari.
"We have no choice as the nearest other school is at least four hours away," he said by phone from Kohari.
There are more than 100 tombs in the graveyard but dozens of fresh graves -- most of them shallow -- have been dug in recent months, further crowding the burial ground.
Authorities in densely populated Bihar said they were trying to provide new land for the school.
"Maybe the dead are not enjoying the noise inside the graveyard any more, but we are looking into the matter," said Ram Yash Singh, a village council official.
“I see dead people.”
yeah, when I was their age I had to walk to school knee-deep in bodies, uphill both ways.
I grew up in a former funeral home next to graveyard. It ain’t the dead ones ya gotta worry about.
Hindus are. Its probably a mooselimb graveyard.
These people ARE Muslims.
Look at all the names mentioned. Except for the village official, all others mentioned are Muslims.
Duh on me. Of course. It makes more sense now. Frickin’ Muslim Ghosts, scaring the children. STAY DEAD, DAMN YOU!!;)
“....I grew up in a former funeral home next to graveyard. It ain’t the dead ones ya gotta worry about....”
Ooohh!!! Tell us some stories!!
“...I grew up in a former funeral home next to graveyard. It ain’t the dead ones ya gotta worry about....”
I bet that’s a great icebreaker at cocktail parties...
NOT my fault!
Lol! Never trust a wraith...
But can you account for your whereabouts during this time?
Now they know how the teachers feel.
don’t go messing with demons, seriously..they’re not “ghosts”!
COOL!
I can be trusted.
And I can account for my whereabouts.
I was busy giving nightmares to Sweets.
(That’s my excuse and alibi, I’m sticking to it!)
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