Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum haunted-object stories

Record summary

The Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum’s large collection of death-related, ritual and domestic objects has sometimes been described in local lore as containing items associated with uncanny experiences or spirits. This is a potentially useful lead for comparing haunted-artefact narratives with museum display, provenance and Indian beliefs about ritual objects. The remembered material is not a single securely named apparition case, and the museum’s collection history may have been retroactively paranormalized. Researchers should search founder D. G. Kelkar’s writings and Pune press archives rather than assume the stories were official claims.