A Paranormal Rescue from Certain Death

Everything paranormal is not negative. Not all spirits or lost souls out there want to hurt you or are driven to do harm. I want to relate one of the positive experiences that I had.

A picture of what the roads look like around Bengal, India.

Over ten years ago, I was posted in North Bengal, India, and frequently traveled between Siliguri, Sikkim, Darjeeling and Bhutan. Most of the roads there are winding mountain roads with a rock face on one side and an abyss on the other.

One day, it was nearly 8:00 pm by the time I got to the taxi stand and set off. Now the taxi drivers here are experts on these roads and know every twist and turn blindfolded. They drive quite fast on these roads.

There were three other passengers in the taxi that night, and all of them were salespeople like me—tired and eager to get back to Siliguri. Around an hour into our journey we were on a pretty lonely stretch of road, and the driver was going pretty fast for the conditions, around 45 kph (28 mph). As we made another hairpin turn, suddenly the headlights hit a man just standing in the middle of the road. The driver braked very hard, skidding for some distance before coming to a complete stop. The engine stalled and the headlights went off. For half a minute, we all sat in the dark, horrified.

The driver managed to start the engine, and the headlights came back on. Then we all scrambled out into the pouring rain to see whether we had hit the stranger. But the road in front and behind us was completely empty with the rock face on one side and the abyss on the other. There was no one, and nowhere anyone could have run off in such little time.

That’s when it happened.

As we continued to look for the mysterious man, we heard a deep rumble. The heavy rain had triggered a landslide, and around 200 meters (218 yards) ahead of us, huge rocks started falling on the road. In just a few minutes, the road in front of us was almost completely gone. We just watched in stunned silence.

A picture taken a few days after the landslide.

If we had not stopped, our car would have been on that exact stretch of road where the landslide happened, and we all would have been dead. The event affected us so much that the strength in our legs just gave out and we all just sat down on the road in the pouring rain. For 15 minutes, we sat staring at each other and at the road ahead. Then we got back in the taxi, turned around, and headed back to Gangtok.

I don’t know who or what was on the road that night—a ghost, spirit or deity. Whatever it was, it meant us no harm and was there to save our lives.

Have you have had a similar experience, where a paranormal experience has helped you or saved your life?

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Debdut Pramanick is a business marketing and EdTech professional hailing from Mumbai, India. I originally found his fascinating story on Quora, which then led me to his MindAttic blog, an eclectic mix of tech, literary analysis, and even a bit of his own fiction. Well worth checking out!