Charleville Mansion is located in the dense forest of Shimla. This mansion was once a safe place for the British. It is said to be haunted by the spirit of captain Charles Pratt, a British officer who died under tragic incident.
Story behind the Charleville Mansion
In 1913, there was a person named Victor and his wife Mary shifted to the Charleville Mansion. He was hired as the assistant secretary of rail board and he was transferred due to his job. He was very happy to move in Charleville Mansion as his office was very close to Charleville Mansion and rent of mansion was not too high.
As victor was familiar with history of the mansion. An army officer, Charles Pratt and his family live in the mansion before him and one day he suddenly leaves the house with his family and never came back. People believed that he died. But victor did not believe on this story and not ready to accept the truth. He was in unacceptable state and believe that there are no ghosts and haunted houses exists at all.
What happened with Mary ?
One day, Mary went to the market to buy something and there she met with the her neighbour. Her neighbour asked her that will she really going to live in the Charleville Mansion? Mary said , ‘yes’ we are already shifted, and here I’m to buy some essential things for the house.
As the lady ask about that you didn’t know the history of Charleville Mansion. Does Brochure or landlord didn’t tell you anything ? Mary said ,No. Can you tell me about this?
Past story of Charleville Mansion
The lady tells her that when we cross the Charleville Mansion weird kind of noises came from the house. It seems like a woman is crying. Screaming voices came from the mansion, so we do not generally came near to the Charleville Mansion.
So, when we see the window of upper floor there is man standing in the window. After that when we try to know about that man, people say that he died many years ago in the mansion.
After listening all these stories from her neighbour, Mary ran to her husband. She saw that the victor was arranging things in the house and she asked him to stop managing the house.
Mary tells everything to Victor which she heared from their neighbour. After listening to Mary, Victor laugh out loud and doesn’t believe at all on all these stories. Victor tells Mary that people are jealous of us, because we live in beautiful mansion in very low rental price. Victor said that everyone wants luxury, we are living in the large luxurious mansion in a small amount. So, people started making fake stories because they are jealous of us.
What Mary experienced in the Charleville Mansion?
One day Mary and Victor was sleeping in their room. Suddenly, Mary noticed someone is walking outside of their room. Mary went outside the room to see if there is someone or not. But, there is no one. Now, she was going back to the room. And suddenly there is voice coming from the room of upper floor.
She thinks there is a thief and she ran to wake up the Victor. They both went to the room from which the voices are coming. They opened the door and see all the things are messed up and not on their place. The another thing they noticed that all lights of mansion are switched off but only the lights of that room are switched on. They are thinking that something is wrong in this room. All of a sudden the doors of that room are shut closed in front of their eyes. They feel trapped and hopeless.
Next day, Mary start packaging to leave the Charleville Mansion. She was not ready to live in the mansion. But, Victor force her to stay. Next day, Victor and his wife was going in a party and they told their house help Mahesh to not to cook food them. As he switched off the lights, he noticed some kind of noise is coming from the room of upper floor. He sees that the room is locked from which the voices are coming. Mahesh was just going back to sleep after checking the room. Suddenly, he turns back and he saw the man standing outside of the room. The man standing there across the door from one side to another. Mahesh started fainting and fall unconscious on the floor.
Conclusion
Victor and Mary came from the party and they started finding Mahesh their house help. They find Mahesh lying unconscious on the floor. They take him up and Mahesh started telling everything to them. So, they opened up the room and saw all the things are messed up. They enter the room and a voice came that “This house is mine, and it will be mine”. After listening this Victor ,Mary and Mahesh his immediately leave the house. Because they know the soul of man in the house will don’t let anyone stay in the house. So, this is why it is the most haunted house of Shimla.
After the independence the Charleville Mansion is allotted to the Indian man. He renovate it and then leave the house because of the soul in the mansion. It is believed by the local people of Shimla, the person who first made this house attempted suicide in the mansion. So, his soul always remain in the mansion and don’t let anybody stay here.
This house is really haunted. Some of the tourists claim that they click photographs in front of the Charleville Mansion, when they way back to the home, there was a human shaped shadow in the photograph looking down at them from the window.
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