Bhangarh Fort

A fort at Bhangarh, India, held by the Archaeological Survey of India as a protected monument. Rana Safvi wrote in The Hindu in 2017 that Bhangarh is ranked India's most haunted fort and that entry is barred between sunset and sunrise.

In a 2017 answer in the Lok Sabha, the Ministry of Culture said the site is a Centrally Protected Monument and that the whole of it is held and run by the Archaeological Survey of India.

Night entry is barred. Rana Safvi, writing in The Hindu, gives the rule as no entry from sunset to sunrise. An Atlas Obscura contributor quotes the sign at the site: it forbids entry before sunrise or after sunset and warns of legal action against anyone who ignores it. The same contributor records a local saying that whoever goes in will never return. None of these sources gives a reason for the rule.

Wikipedia records more than one curse story. In one, a priest who practised black magic fell for a princess of Bhangarh who had many suitors, and at the market held out a love potion to her. She refused it and threw it at a large rock, which rolled onto him and killed him. Before he died he cursed the village to ruin and emptiness.

Safvi reported that the local guards denied ever seeing anything paranormal there.