CNNGo shows Mumbai's most haunted locations

You can't get to the 13th floor of the Trident Hotel at Nariman Point because there isn't one. In fact, it is not uncommon for skyscrapers in Mumbai's commercial district to exclude "13" when numbering their floors. However, urban legends and local superstitions in Mumbai go beyond mere triskaidekaphobia. Stories of ghosts, unexplained serial suicides, abandoned mills, haunted houses and territorial widows in white saris determined to make people's lives miserable from the afterlife populate a large unofficial body of local folklore.

Despite the catalogue of gruesome urban legends, Mumbai is a city with its head on its shoulders; a city with too much grit to capitulate to ghost stories. No one will ever stop driving down the winding road from the Tower of Silence that offers one of the best views of the city and the price of an apartment will surely frighten a Mumbaiker before any old story about spiteful spirits.

Grand Parrari Towers

Located on the northern fringes of Mumbai, this large protected area is usually a place people go to spot wildlife. There are rumors however, that at night, people have sightings of a phantom hitchhiker that asks those who pass by for rides. Dubious as this sounds, forest guards insist it's true.

Mukesh Mills

Established in 1949, Aarey Milk Colony is a vast area in Goregaon East with long stretches of gardens, nurseries and lakes. Picnickers frequent this milking estate on the weekend along with members of the film and ad industry who use it as a location for shoots. Aarey Milk Colony is famous for its visits from various apparitions. Just as with Mukesh Mills, many in the film industry get the spooks here and refuse to work in the place after dark.

Tower of Silence

Well that's what is the objective of CNNGo which currently covers Bangkok, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. It's a web initiative from CNN and in time to come it promises to come up with more such exciting content about the chosen cities.