Yesterday night while watching ”howl” movie I got reminded of my journeys by train in woods during night time surrounded by dense forests and some sneaky stories on that train route.
while howl movies depicted the story of full moon when human were killed by werewolf on the train which got stuck in the particular place.
when I was coming back from HasiMara railway station which connects India and Bhutan border. I had my train from there to Siliguri station in West Bengal.
Train got quite late and it started raining heavily it made me little worried as we were not able to figure out the scene how to make it to Siliguri. We were left with no option than waiting for the train to arrive which was exactly after three long hours of wait.
Then finally we boarded the train and started our journey to the destination. We settled ourselves and then a jhalmofhi wala arrive. We wanted to eat but I was little concerned also as it was night time.
Then finally when the train started crossing the dense forest en route a person sitting in front of my seat started chatting with us. He stated telling a story which used to happen on the route everyday last month.
You might have come across the news of elephants being killed on railway tracks during nights, trains drivers were informed to maintain a particular pace to trains.
So the man started the story who was military man going on leave for a month. He said do you know about this jungle and I was like no I have no idea that there is such a dense forest en route near the tracks, it said it’s a sad thing that the people do not care about animals and take them as granted for which they have to pay huge one. Then I eagerly asked what happened then he stared narrating the story about a elephant family who every night cross the track and disappear to the other side of the track in the jungle. It was open and no fencing was done On the sides of tracks so one night while crossing the track the elephant herd came in front of the train and while the train was in full speed after being informed of the speed limit in that area the family was stuck by the train and all herd was dead only the elder male member was left alone.
Then from that day onwards the elephant use to come on the train track and stood in between the track for hours and then he use to smell all the train bogie and it was horrified scene for everyone travelling on the route every night the train driver was very cautious about the time the elephant was on track and a particular driver was only allowed one on the route for period of time then slowly slowly the elephant stopped coming. Even people have seen tears in his eyes and it’s trumpeting was very painful and scary cause it was in anger to take revenge but being an elephant he was not able to figure out who killed their family except being aware that it was a human. They being the most sensible and emotional animals on planets one see‘s your face will remember you for life time.
So when I saw from the mirror I saw the dense forest and was hoping that I might come across that elephant any how as I was feeling sad about it. Those who viewed this scenario for them it might be horrifying but I was 😔.
The story was not scary but the train journey was little scary for me as it was all dark 11pm in night and raining heavily.
Hope you get reminded of your experience.
Love
bon voyage
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