A group of rationalists spent a winter night in the small obscure railway station in West Bengal's Purulia district, which had been recorded as 'haunted' by the Railways, to bust the myth. The group found a few locals trying to scare them away from the station on Thursday night instead of any paranormal
presence, a member of the rationalist group said today.

Begunkodor station, located near the Ayodhya Hills and 50 km from Purulia town, had earned the distinction of being a 'ghost station' after 1967, the year its station master had reportedly died after seeing a white sari clad woman walking along the tracks in the night. The incident had caused passengers to desert the station and it had come to be known as 'haunted' in the Railways records.