Tollywood celebs and their real-life paranormal encounters

They are a part of showbiz and have either made horror films or have been a part of it. But even as they made sure that the audience was hooked to their spine-chilling stories, they have sometimes been left gathering their wits. Read on to know how these Tollywood celebs handled their real-life paranormal encounters.

Parambrata once encountered a paranormal existence! Yes, it’s true. The dashing actor recently revealed that the incident took place years ago in a Jamshedpur hotel room while he was attending a film festival there. He had an uncanny feeling when he felt the presence of someone in the room but nobody was there except his mother. It went even scarier when his mother too had the same feeling!

The veteran actor feels there’s some sort of a thrill in getting scared. "It happens more in the countryside during Kali Puja. In my younger days, I would get scared of ghosts. On a certain winter holiday, I went to my pishir bari on the city’s outskirts. There, I heard the sound of piano in the middle of the night. This happened many times. My pishi was old and she couldn’t hear the sound. Once, I mastered a lot of courage during the daytime and opened the piano. There was a mamma rat, which would feed its babies with paper shreds. After that, I realised fear has got to do with one’s inner darkness," shared Paran Bandopadhyay.

In the film 'Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy' there were four stories and Bhaswar was part of Brown Shaheber Diary. "There was a dusk shot, in which I, along with Biswajit Chakraborty and Abir Chatterjee were supposed to walk towards the camera. As part of the shoot, Abir had to ask me, ‘Anil babu, dekhun toh apnar ghorite kota baje?’. I was given a watch and shirt owned by the great Satyajit Ray for the shoot. The watch was not in working condition and the time showing on it was something around 10 am. My reply to Abir’s line was, ‘Paanchta ponero baje’. But when I looked at the watch and was about to deliver my line, I saw it was 5.15 pm on the watch and was completely stumped. It gave me goosebumps. For the next 10 minutes, no one on the set could even utter a word. There was pin-drop silence," recalled the actor.

While the filmmaker was in Europe for vacation a few years ago with family and friends they spent three nights in Florence. "One evening we were walking to pick up tickets for the Uffizi Gallery. There came a juncture when the sidewalk narrowed to the point where we could only walk in single file. I was the last in the line. All of a sudden, the first person in that line stopped, turned and looked back and then the three of us did the same. Something had run between our legs; something invisible. It was the oddest thing! It didn’t feel like wind, it felt like it had substance; I could feel it brush my legs as it ran through. It wasn’t frightening but was indeed very strange. It was unexplainably weird like an invisible dog ran past us! Florence is reputably haunted, it is an ancient city built on the Etruscan ruins. Perhaps all the primeval stones still harbour some kind of energy from the past; shades and movements that occasionally, under the right circumstances, reveal themselves to us," shared Birsa.

After marriage, the actor had moved to a highrise in Behala and he had some eerie experiences there. "I would feel the presence of someone. It felt as if a woman in distress was there and would wander about the flat. At the night too, I sometimes couldn’t sleep as I could hear a faint wailing sound. It became such a trauma for my family that I had to seek help. I asked someone who investigates paranormal activities to come over. That man said a woman was burnt to death in the same place where the highrise was constructed," shared Soham adding that he had to finally change his house.

When Prosenjit was new in the film industry, he used to work long shifts. Sometimes, his shoot would get over at 3 am and the next call time used to be at 5 am. He didn’t have enough time to go home and get some sleep. For a quick nap, the actor would stay over at Indrapuri Studio. "We were told that Makeup Room No. 2 was haunted and no one would use it. I sometimes slept in the next room and would hear weird noises coming out of Room No. 2. Sometimes, there would be faint laughter and on other occasions, sound of wails would fill up the air. I used to cover myself up, trying to sleep," Prosenjit had shared once while speaking about his brush with the supernatural.