Case file · Haunting
Writers' Building, Kolkata
On 8 December 1930 the revolutionaries Benoy, Badal and Dinesh shot Inspector-General N. S. Simpson in the Writers' Building; staff stories of footsteps and voices after hours followed.
1930 CE · 22.57, 88.35 · status: legend
The sceptical view
The 'Veranda Battle' is a celebrated event of the independence struggle; the ghost stories are office folklore.