The Haunted House at Benares in Theosophical Literature

Record summary

Late-nineteenth-century Theosophical publications carried reports and discussions about occult phenomena in India, including spiritually charged houses, sacred places and claimed communications associated with Benares. These materials are valuable for studying how European occultists interpreted Indian religious environments and how reports moved between correspondence, lectures and periodicals. The precise identification of individual houses and incidents requires checking the original Theosophist volumes rather than relying on later paranormal websites. The material is contested testimony, not independently verified evidence.