HAUNTED

Kundanbagh… most haunted house in Hyderabad and created a sensation in the year 2002. Even to this day, it is considered as one of the top haunted places in the city of Nizam. Kundanbagh house is situated adjacent to the St. Francis degree college in Begumpet which is said to be elegant place in Hyderabad.

The story has it that a family of four – father, mother and their two daughters lived in a house in Kundanbagh. It is told that one day the father left the house and never returned, and nobody knows anything about him ever since then. According to neighbors, the mother and the daughters were creepy and weird. In 2002, a thief barged into the house and found that 3 dead bodies which are badly decomposed bodies of Jayaprada, a 56-year-old woman, and her two daughters.

The house in question was nestled in the city colony Kundanbagh within the city of Hyderabad, which is the capital of the Indian state of Telangana. Mohammed Sajid was arrested sometime in early September of 2002, and the police soon began their investigation of the abandoned house about which he seemingly had so many stories. This police investigation either took place on the 7th of September 2002, or one week later - the sources are unclear. A 56-year-old divorced woman from West Godavari named Jayaprada lived in the house with her two daughters, but this small family hadn't been seen by their neighbours for months. The last time anyone had said that they'd seen them was in June - and the stories the neighbours had to tell about this family were worrying to say the least. The community said that the people who lived in the house were 'a queer people' who apparently practiced witchcraft or something very much like it.

Nobody took notice of the death, mentioned a break-in he had committed in the house some months ago. They were suspected to have committed suicide by consuming poison, as a bottle of black liquid was recovered from the room where the bodies were found. Neighbors wonder about the girls and songs which they hear at night and whom they are watching for 6 months…. It turned as big news in those times and the house was locked. The Three would light candles at midnight and walk around the house. They even hung bottles filled with blood on their corridor. The neighbors also used to hear weird sounds from inside the house. The mother would wield an axe and scare away people. It is said that no one works in the family and no one earns. No newspapers and no cable connection. Only electricity. This is all that people saw and concluded. It is also said that they would go to the garbage bin in their car daily, which is just two minutes’ walk from their house, to throw it. The weird thing about this house now is, this deserted property is with no electric supply. But no one knows about how light is seen on the first floor every night.

The police soon learned that the family had mysteriously gone missing in June of that year - nobody saw them and presumably everyone was much too scared of them to go up to their door and enquire as to their wellbeing. Newspapers from June 21st had piled up on their porch, and the front door was locked from the inside. The police soon found the entrance which had perhaps been used by Sajid, however, as they discovered that there was a side door which wasn't padlocked. When the policemen got inside the house, they noted that the entire place had been ransacked - perhaps thanks to Sajid's handiwork - and that the family's clothes had been neatly stacked next to their bodies. Various documents were scattered all over the floor. The bodies were badly decomposed. The temperature had not been too high during that period, and so putrefication had been much slower than it might otherwise have been, meaning that the neighbours had not even noticed the stench of decaying bodies. A bottle of black liquid was discovered in the room where the bodies lay, and it was promptly sent off to a lab for analysis along with the bodies for autopsy.

The house is a constant silence with overgrown trees and a big gate with a dim street light. It remained a mystery even for today and creates a lot of curiosity among people. hence then it is considered as one of the top haunted places in Hyderabad in India.