Truth or
just rumours.
A lot of
stories about ghosts and spirits keep on spreading from one student to another
through time. It still isn’t clear if these stories are really true or just
rumours.
Before
coming to the college many students have heard stories of Sherubtse College.
Stories about the ragging system which was going on in the past but the one
that caught the students’ mind are the ghost stories. For some they may not
find it scary while for some it is frightening. A lot of ghost stories are
being circulated among the students and many believe it. Few places which are
said to be haunted are: the area above the Degree Hostel2 near the water tank,
the small pond in the B.Sc Peach garden, the junction near the boys hostels,
the junction where the Namgyel Khangzang was built recently and hostel such as
Thuptenling and Tshogayling.
Sonam Pelom,
a college student taking Political science and Sociology currently in her third
year said “I heard a lot of ghost stories from my friends. I do believe in ghosts
and so I tend to believe these stories. I heard about two boys who got drunk
late night. They were walking along the road and a strange dark figure started
following them. They looked back and it disappeared suddenly and appeared in
front of them. I think it was near the junction below the boys hostel.” She
shared another story which one of her friend experienced, “It was during one of
the department gatherings when my friend and another friend came back late at
night to the hostel. My friend said she saw a girl with long hair sitting on
the bench below the Tshogayling hostel. She tried showing the girl to her other
friend but she did not see it. My friend was the only one seeing the figure of
the girl. They got scared and quickly ran to their hostel chanting prayers.”
Dechen Pem
who graduated last semester from Sherbtse College said that one night when she
was walking alone near the Director’s house which is just above the Namgyel
Khangzang Chorten, a huge shadow figure kept following her. She said there was
no one around and she got scared. Since then she always took the long way to
the hostel around the college.
There are
stories going on about the hostels being haunted as well, Tshogayling in
particular conducts annual rimdro. So just because Tshogayling hostel is the
only hostel in the entire college to conduct the rimdro, people say it is
haunted.
While most
students get scared hearing these stories there are some who do not believe it.
Tashi Choden, a third year student taking Economics and Sociology said “all
these stories being spread may just be rumours. I do believe in ghosts and
spirits but I’ve never encountered one. I feel that such experiences are a work
of our mind when we are scared.”
Almost every
place has a history of stories being spread which keeps changing through time.
Ghost stories and experiences from past students keep on spreading to the next
ones and the ones after that. We may never know if such stories are actually
true or just rumours.
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