8123 - Beware the Ghost who walks

[scottobear]

"Dead man" walking sends village into panic (Reuters)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian man who was believed dead caused panic when he returned, causing villagers to think he had come back as a ghost, the Times of India reported Monday.

Children screamed "Ghost! Ghost!" and villagers locked their doors when Raju Raghuvanshi returned from jail earlier this month to his village in Mandla district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

Raghuvanshi's brothers, who had shaved their heads to mourn his death in line with Hindu tradition, fled when he appeared, the paper reported.

Villagers and family members have ostracized him, forcing Raghuvanshi to file a complaint with local police. The village council has demanded he prove he is not a ghost, but the paper did not say what kind of proof the elders wanted.

Raghuvanshi's troubles arose after he was jailed last year. In prison, he was admitted to hospital with a stomach ailment from which he recovered but a distant relative told his family he had died.

Comments

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

I should laugh, but thats quite amusing.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I wonder how you prove you're not a ghost?

"Hey! Don't walk through that wall!"

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

LOL. Thats one way.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Even Daleks are powerless against Newton.

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

Has Newt ever thought about creating an army of Daleks for his own world domination?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Nah, he's got friendly Sasquatches to do his dirty work.

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

Thats a cool bit of animation.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

There's a bigger one, here -

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=88055087&size=o

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

To prove I'm not a ghost - I would let people pinch me. But to bolster my human-idity, for each person who pinches me; I get to knock 'em in the snoot.

Ginger kitty alert! http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/01/colonel_cupcake.html

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Oh, sakes... colonel cupcake is a dapper fellow. Newton would do his dangedest to get out of that bowtie!

I think your plan would work.. unless Indian ghosts are touchable and can kick!

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2005/12/this_just_in_th.html

Get a hat like that for Newton!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh!!

I wonder how long I could get him to wear something like that?

he'd more likely take it off and carry it in his mouth like a dead mouse.

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

I need insulin!!!!! That is undignified, yet obscenely adorable.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

frog-kittens are too much sugar at once!

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

And oddly addictive!