Ghost in Bangladesh

The abandoned school of Shaharpara where the ghost asylum

The ghost has loaded the school furniture into the longboat beside the abandoned high school of Shaharpara which was the old primary school of Shaharpara. I was studying in class one. The abandoned high school of Shaharpara is located in the Syedpur Shaharpara Union Parishad, Jagannathpur Upazila, Sunamganj District, Sylhet Division of Bangladesh by the main dirt roadside of Shaharpara in the heart of Kunabone (corner paddy field).

The school is a one-storey building and has four rooms abandoned as a shell, which are empty without any piece of furniture, windows or even doors. The high school was once the primary school of Shaharpara. It had been transformed into a high school at the beginning of the 80s when the new primary school of Shaharpara was erected beside the west of the old primary school of Shaharpara. 

It became abandoned at the beginning of the 90s when the new high school of Shaharpara was built behind the new primary school of Shaharpara in the heart of Kunabone. The high school was named Shaharpara Shah Kamal High School in honour of Hazrat Shah Kamal (RA) the fourteenth-century Sufi saint of Shaharpara. The event took place in the year 1993, it was in the middle of the flood season as I was walking through the main dirt road of Shaharpara towards west Tilak. 

It was a beautiful clear night sky with a full moon so I could see everything like it was daytime. The time was around midnight and I was going to my home. Master-bari aka Akbar-kutir of west Tilak also spelt Tilok from the Shaharpara Bazar where I was mingling with my village peers. The locality was silent around me as I was walking alone through the main dirt road of Shaharpara. In the tranquillity, there isn’t a sign of people in the surroundings where I was walking, and I could hear the sound resonance of my footsteps. 

I was going beside the abandoned high school, which is literally on my left, on the northern side of the Shaharpara main dirt road. As I was going through the dirt road, I saw a local traditional Jagannathpurian style shape of a farmer's longboat (locally called Fatami Nouw in Bengali it is called Nouka which is specialised for carrying cow feed such as water hyacinth its scientific name is Eichhornia and in Bengali, it is called Kusurifena locally it is called Fena) which is under the berry tree (its scientific name is Ziziphus also spelt Zizyphus, synonym jujube tree, in Bengali it is called Boroi Gach). 

The eastern side of the school building is fully loaded with furniture, full of school benches and tables. It was like a motion picture scene in a horror film. There is a strange-looking character that is an apparition of the human form. It was the ghost standing on the head of a boat with a rowing bamboo stick in his hand facing to the north. It is seemingly the direction of the boat head that is going to the northeast towards the west Tilak football ground. 

Because of this reason, the human form ghost figure stands with the rowing bamboo stick on the head of the boat in the southern part of the head of a boat and the boat cannot go to the south because the main dirt road of Shaharpara is blocked by the waterway. It was weird and freaked me out when I saw this extremely fearful scenario of terror. I was shaken, it gave me an eerie feeling, with extreme trepidation of this spooky scene of horror. 

My heartbeat doubled inside out because I was alone and was feeling apprehensive. After all, it was midnight and it is the right time for the ghost to be roaming around their haunting sites for facts, I knew the school is just an empty shell. The spooky occurrence of the horrific scene scared the hell out of me. This is the only abandoned school by the main dirt roadside, and there once I was a student of this school at the end of the 60s and the middle part of the 70s when I was studying class one and class two. 

Then again, the teacher sent me back to class one (the school was closed approximately for a year because of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971) thus the academic education I had in the village school. I also heard from the locals this is the haunted school where the ghost asylum and many night-goers witness the phenomenal sequence of horror which I encountered. Many people in the locality had experienced these paranormal activities before me where the ghost embarked on a journey by to the boat with the loaded school furniture.

There are many beliefs from various cultures around the world. The soul and spirit of accidental or unnatural deaths exist with the ability to assist loved ones or harm the lives of those who commit a wrong. Such as revenging or avenging until the quest is fulfilled, the roams around for vengeance. Then after a long span of life, they have a second death.