![]() The present state of the fort is attributed to the curse of the wizard and people believe the ghosts in the fort are that of the princess and the wizard. All the people in the fort including the princess were killed. Subsequent to the curse Bhangarh Fort was invaded by the Mughals from the north and the city was surrounded and sacked 10,000 people lived in the fort city at that time. Before he died he cursed that Bhangarh would be destroyed soon and no one will be able to live within its precincts. However, the princess saw through the wizard’s trickery and when he offered her the bowl of potion, she threw it on a big boulder nearby and as a result the boulder started rolling down towards the wizard and crushed him. He offered the potion to her so that she took a liking for him and marry him. The wizard saw this and replaced the scent with some potion in order to ensnare the princess. One day while the princess, 18 years of age, went shopping with her friends and was buying Ittar (perfume). In another version, Singhiya, the wizard who was adept in black magic fell in love with the Ratnavati, the princess of Bhangarh who was very beautiful and had suitors to marry her from many royal families of the country. It was his injunction that any houses built in the precincts of the fort should not be taller than his house and in case the shadow of any such house falling on his house would result in destruction of the fort town. One version of the legend is that a sadhu named Baba Balanath lived within the fort area. ![]() There are two legends narrated to the history of the fort city which is reported to be haunted and no one is allowed to remain the precincts of the fort at night as per a notice board put up by the Archaeological Survey of India at the entrance. ![]() The Bhangarh Fort is a 17th century fort built by order of King Sawai Madho Singh in Rajasthan. Parapsychologists attribute haunting to the spirits of the dead and the effect of violent or tragic events in the building’s past such as murder, accidental death, or suicide.More scientific explanations for the perception that a house is haunted include misinterpreting noises naturally present in structures, waking dreams, suggestibility, and the effect of toxic substances in environments that can cause hallucinations. A haunted sites is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property.
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