Kuldhara abandoned-village spirit tradition

Record summary

Kuldhara’s abandonment is explained in a tradition involving the Paliwal Brahmins, a predatory official and a curse preventing resettlement. Later visitors and paranormal-tourism accounts describe voices, apparitions and a sense of presence among the ruins. It may be valuable for examining how an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century abandonment narrative was reframed as a twentieth-century ghost report. The requested period is not securely represented by a known contemporaneous case, so researchers should seek archaeological, district and local-language documentation rather than rely on paranormal websites.