Dowhill haunted forest

Things you must know about Dowhill before Visiting

It is a small hill station known for its scenic beauty, orchid gardens, beautiful forest hills, and one of the famous tourist spots. kurseong, where Dowhill is situated, is called the "Land of White Orchids"

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Stories Behind this most mysterious place in India

Dowhill is a real-life beauty and the beast, the beauty of the hills left tourists to astound but the day and night paranormal stories gave them a spine chill.
one of the stories is of the cursed forest and a headless boy, there are many incidences where local woodcutters claim that they have seen a headless ghost of a young boy, roaming and disappearing into the forest. people have reported cases about being followed by an unseen entity. some of them also say that they have seen someone with a red-eye peering at them from the woods, some locals also talk about A woman ghost dressed in grey. the vibes in the woods become so negative with these mysterious beliefs and activities that many unfortunate tourists either lost their mental balance or end up killing themselves.
Another story which you can say the Centre of the unnatural deaths occurring around the forest from anonymous years is of the 'Victoria boys school' the school was initially named Dow Hill School(1879-1888). it is among the oldest schools in India, it shares a unique Historical Background, heritage, and also in addition a dark history.
locals claim that they hear footsteps, loud whispering, and other noises coming from the school when the school remains closed during the winter vacations from December to March.
This 100-year-old school had a horrifying history, the tale behind this terrifying, history is that after few years when the school was established many British soldiers forcefully entered the school campus and started open firing, all the students who were present- that day Died, locals belief that ghosts of the children who died a sudden and an unnatural death occupied the whole region and haunts the people who try to enter their area till now, locals avoid going nearby the school and the forest from afternoon onwards. the school timing is also till noon after that no-one dares to be in the school.

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my experience of this beautiful place filled with terrifying stories

It was the Month of December 2018 when I came to know about this place, I searched all kinds of articles, videos on the internet it gave me a kind of thrill and I decided that I wanna go and wanted to experience the freaky vibe by myself but at the same time I was scared and intimidated by the stories which people claim to be the real incidences. honestly, I can't say that I kind of believes those things completely but I can't deny that there might be some weird energy or things are present between us which we can't see and is hard to believe. so I called one of my friends who also love exploring new places like me, I narrate him about the place, about haunted stories which is sweeping over the hills of kurseong firstly he was denying about the idea but at last, we both headed towards our first ever haunted destination.

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It was a really chilled day and when we reached on the mountains we were freezing, dowhill is beautiful I mean just can't express its beauty in words and The weather was so cold that we were not able to move properly, we reached there around 2 in the afternoon, we were freezing, everything was so calm and quite the silence of the forest was so peaceful and terrifying at the same time. we were not understanding that it was really a weird vibe what we were getting or it's just because of the stories we heard before going, we were moving ahead on the road between the dense forest which became darker in color because of the freezing weather, no one was there on those roads of that forest that's what exactly written on the articles that no locals would be visible from the afternoon onwards and that was making us more terrified, the weather was getting colder and also the sun was setting and the forest was getting darker, we reached near the victoria school around 3 pm, the age-old structure of the school is the masterpiece, we find locals inside the school and around the area they were decorating the school campus for Christmas So we had some kind of relieved at that time, at least we were not alone there. after stopping by near the school for just 10 minutes we headed ahead to explore the forest, so we crossed the victoria school and we covered only 1 km of our way towards the forest and we already started feeling the freaky vibes, the calmness and the silence of the forest in that chilled weather made our blood cold, my friend Tejas who was struggling to drive ahead because of the cold, I asked him to stop driving, we both were so exhausted by the extreme weather and than we dared to stop in the middle of no where. surrounded by the dense forest of Dowhill. because of the fog and mists we were hardly seeing anything, the whole forest was covered by fog nothing was clearly visible, that moment of time we can both sense a weird vibe, it was making us sick, I can't express what we felt that day,  The place with all the horrifying incidences that it experienced was mourning till that day, we can feel a kind of sadness, remorse in the air, darkness which wants to convey something, the long trees with beautiful dark shaded leaves who witnessed the horrible and heartbreaking events which occur in the past were staring at us from everywhere because of the haze we cant able to see how far the wood goes,thejas was sitting on his bike at one side of the road and I was just staring around the woods and thinking how can this breathtaking forest be cursed. I went more inside, as I was moving ahead towards the haze, for some moment I was lost in my thoughts  I dint know where I was going it was just like I wanna see behind those haze. I was moving ahead and suddenly thejas called me from behind and in jerk, I came back to time. trust me I felt horrified I ran towards thejas and said that can we just go, he asked everything is all right or not and I tried not to frighten him and calm myself down and said yes, the day was getting darker we were returning, we don't know how far we have went but the forest was not ending it was going just on and on we haven't realized how far we drove, it was so strange it feels like the forest was increasing bit by bit on our returning, and we both were so scared, thejas was not saying anything but I can sense a kind of fear in his voice, at last, the woods ended and we took a deep breath, trust me the moment those woods ended we felt alive again.

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I don't know that those forests were haunted or not, those terrifying stories were true or not, but the feeling, being constantly watched by someone unseen and the sick vibes were definitely real.

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caution

Acquaint yourself well with the freaky side of the kurseong and steer clear of the prohibited territories after the dark if you wanna explore the haunted forest.
The fainthearted should definitely avoid the "the death road" which lies between the dowhill Road and the forest office.
Check out the small clip of the forest below: