July 12
Patna, India - Hundreds of Indian children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site.
“I have stopped going to school after many dead people walked out of their graves and came into my dreams, ordering me to reach school on time,” a six-year-old student said.
About 200 children study in the makeshift school set up several years ago after authorities refused to donate land for a school.
Some parents say their children's sleep and health is being affected by dreams of ghosts.
“They used to play and study together and finish their lunch boxes while sitting on top of concrete graves but now the ghosts have come to haunt them at night and they are falling ill,” one father said.
There are more than 100 tombs in the graveyard but dozens of fresh graves - most of them shallow - have been dug in recent months, further crowding the burial ground.
“Maybe the dead are not enjoying the noise inside the graveyard any more," a village council official, said.
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