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It was July, 1997. We were headed for Gazani, Sherpur...a forest located in the far northern side of Bangladesh along with India-Bangladesh border. A very good friend of mine...Tanvir was working as a cartoonist in a local Bangla newspaper as well as in the popular Bangla Satire magazine UNMAAD (inspired from MAD) that time. He came to let us know one day a pretty weird story that he heard at the UNMAD office. 2 University students had a trip at the Gazani few months ago and after their return to Dhaka they found a photo that they took on their trip to the jungle with an unknown ghostly figure standing along with them. Just after that they were in severe fever and died. So there was something in that jungle. So we...a group of 8 friends decided to go their & hope to have an adventure for real. Gazani is a beautiful remote jungle area. When we arrived the first shock came from the govt. tourist cottage (Hotel Obokash) that we planned to stay. That was closed at that point of time. We found the gardener. He was very quite & had a suspicious & creepy character & always move around with an axe. He informed us very rudely that we need to go the main town of Sherpur & contact with the Deputy Commissioner who can permit us to stay at Oboskash. We just moved on and found a construction site of a tower where 2 worker welcomed us to spent the night with them. Their kind hospitality amazed us. They were very nice. But we had no time for sweet chats as we were on a mission to see or experience something paranormal. They also told us that "yes!" there was something in the jungle that lurks in the dark every night and they were pretty sure that's something very evil & unearthly! They tried to stop us to go their but we were ready for any risks by that time; so they couldn't succeed to stop us. We went into the jungle & had a pretty awesome time in the eerie & haunting atmosphere of the jungle.
Still some of us claimed that they saw something in that night but the most surprising fact was after we came back home we also found one of the photographs that we took on the tour was something none of us can explain ever. A pile of smokes in front of a tree that in the shape of a human being! Still we aren't sure who took that picture...though every one of us swear to God that "I didn't took it" but 'may be' one or some of us is lying & keeping that thing as a mystery. But at that time the whole thing gave us a real eerie & haunted feelings that we still can't figured a proper or reasonable explanations. The good thing was we were okay & nothing bad happened to us. But somehow we lost that photograph along with the whole negative of our tour and now none of us have that photograph to share.:(
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