Bhangarh

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• Alwar district, Rajasthan, India · Rajasthani

  Bhangarh

  Bhangarh Fort

  Told, never investigated

  

  Bhangarh, a ruined town below a hill in Alwar, is told to have been emptied by a curse: in one version the ascetic Guru Balu Nath allowed it to be built on condition that its shadow never fell on his dwelling, and the town fell when a later ruler raised the palace too high; in another a sorcerer, Singhia, cursed the kingdom as he died after Princess Ratnavati turned his love potion against him. It is now billed as India's most haunted place, and a signboard at the entrance bars entry between sunset and sunrise, a rule local historians put down to safety in unlit ruins near the Sariska reserve. P. W. Powlett's Gazetteer of Ulwur (1878) records no curse: it says the town declined after its rulers were driven out by Jai Singh of Jaipur, and was abandoned in the famine of samvat 1840 (about 1783).

  Earliest written source not verified

  WION, "Why is this fort called India's most haunted" (17 June 2026)

  Tradition · not evidence