'Girls Were Possessed': 600 Students Leave 'Haunted' Maha Hostel
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‘Possessed’ girls, haunted hostel: How rumours drove 610 students out of Amravati school
A few girls began crying, laughing and fainting without explanation; as rumours of ghosts, a ‘chakwa’ and a cursed tree spread across villages, nearly 610 of 852 hostel students were taken home
'Girls were possessed': 600 students leave 'haunted' Maha hostel
Nearly 600 tribal students abandoned a government-run hostel in Amravati, Maharashtra, after some girls exhibited strange behaviour, leading to claims of spirit possession. Officials suspect mental stress or selective hysteria, while local beliefs attribute the incidents to angry spirits from a cut 'mahua' tree or an encroached temple. Counselling efforts are underway to bring students back.
'Girls laughing, crying, then going numb': 608 flee Maharashtra school amid 'mass hysteria'
Students fled a school in Melghat fearing spirits after experiencing laughing fits. Officials diagnosed the unusual behavior as mass psychogenic illness, a collective stress reaction. The incident highlighted existing management issues at the Doma village ashram school. Overcrowding and poor sanitation contributed to the students' anxiety and fear. Authorities plan awareness drives to combat superstition in the region.
The administration in Maharashtra's Amravati district is grappling with an extraordinary crisis. Nearly 600 students have left the hostel of a government residential school. Recently, the girls' sudden bursts of laughter and crying have sparked panic.
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