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Indian kids at graveyard school face nightmares
Yahoo news ^ | 7-12-07

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.


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KEYWORDS: ghosts; graveyard; india; nightmares
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And YOU thought YOU had it hard when you were in school....
1 posted on 07/13/2007 12:56:59 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: Renfield

“I see dead people.”


2 posted on 07/13/2007 12:59:17 PM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: Renfield

yeah, when I was their age I had to walk to school knee-deep in bodies, uphill both ways.


3 posted on 07/13/2007 12:59:36 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (It's never a good time to get sucked into an evil vortex.)
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To: Renfield

I grew up in a former funeral home next to graveyard. It ain’t the dead ones ya gotta worry about.


4 posted on 07/13/2007 12:59:46 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: Renfield

5 posted on 07/13/2007 1:01:42 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (It's never a good time to get sucked into an evil vortex.)
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To: Renfield

6 posted on 07/13/2007 1:03:52 PM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: Renfield
I thought Indians were burned on funeral pyres.
7 posted on 07/13/2007 1:07:34 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness ( Bumper sticker idea: Hillary/Obama Nation '08. Let the desolation begin)
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Plans To Build Day Care Over Historic Graveyard Prompts Outrage [FR]
8 posted on 07/13/2007 1:09:15 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: small voice in the wilderness

Hindus are. Its probably a mooselimb graveyard.


9 posted on 07/13/2007 1:10:08 PM PDT by BullDog108 ("Conservatives believe in God; Liberals think they ARE God " -- Ann Coulter)
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To: small voice in the wilderness; BullDog108

These people ARE Muslims.

Look at all the names mentioned. Except for the village official, all others mentioned are Muslims.


10 posted on 07/13/2007 1:14:03 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick; BullDog108

Duh on me. Of course. It makes more sense now. Frickin’ Muslim Ghosts, scaring the children. STAY DEAD, DAMN YOU!!;)


11 posted on 07/13/2007 1:19:08 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness ( Bumper sticker idea: Hillary/Obama Nation '08. Let the desolation begin)
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To: cripplecreek

“....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!!


12 posted on 07/13/2007 1:24:38 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: cripplecreek

“...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...


13 posted on 07/13/2007 1:25:59 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: Renfield; Xenalyte; Slings and Arrows; null and void; nicmarlo; Lakeshark; derllak; grannie9; ...

NOT my fault!


14 posted on 07/13/2007 1:29:26 PM PDT by Darksheare ("Bah weep graaagnah wheep ni ni bong.")
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To: Darksheare

Lol! Never trust a wraith...


15 posted on 07/13/2007 1:33:10 PM PDT by derllak
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To: Darksheare
NOT my fault!

But can you account for your whereabouts during this time?

16 posted on 07/13/2007 1:36:29 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)
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To: Darksheare; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; OSHA; martin_fierro; NYC GOP Chick; ...
Indian kids at graveyard school face nightmares

Now they know how the teachers feel.


17 posted on 07/13/2007 1:37:26 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Gaza: Your one-stop schadenfreude entertainment center.)
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To: Renfield

don’t go messing with demons, seriously..they’re not “ghosts”!


18 posted on 07/13/2007 1:37:38 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Republicans if the don't beware ARE the new WHIGS! (all empty hairpieces..) :).)
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To: Darksheare

COOL!


19 posted on 07/13/2007 1:47:02 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: derllak; Monkey Face; sweetliberty

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!)


20 posted on 07/13/2007 1:49:12 PM PDT by Darksheare ("Bah weep graaagnah wheep ni ni bong.")
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