Haunted Places In India Jatinga Valley

Jatinga Valley, Assam

flickr: Jatinga Valley, Assam

India Specially EAST-NORTH places are beautiful, attractive , made for tourist place in for all peoples either from India OR Foreign

Haunted Fact:

The birds migrate to this place every year but not one of them flies back. What's the reason for these bird suicides? Even scientists have been trying to figure out since a long time, but there's no definite answer.

flickr: Jatinga Valley, Assam

The Zeme Naga tribes were the natives of Jatinga, which was ruled by the Dimasa king. They were the first to witness the extraordinary behavior of the birds in which hundreds of birds seem to be attracted to their camp fires, descended from the sky and crashed to their deaths by colliding into the bamboos, trees, or other man made structures. Nowadays they also collide with buildings.
This phenomenon is unique and happens in the late evenings during the late monsoon months of September and November. The tribals were frightened with this rare phenomenon. They believed that it was wrath of the Gods that the evil spirits and demons were falling to death from the sky in the form of birds. Thus they abandoned the village and the settlement was deserted. In late 1950's British tea planter and ornithologist E.P.Gee and Salim Ali visited this place to find out the cause of mysterious death of migratory birds. The first record of this mysterious phenomenon is found in the book Wild Life of India (1957) by E.P. Gee. Gee, a naturalist, wrote that the suicides of birds only at the specific spot is extraordinary. The phenomenon did not occur at the nearby places even if they were illuminated just like Jatinga. He also recorded the conditions required for this phenomenon - fog, cloud and mist. The incident happens in the late monsoon months between September and November in the late evenings mostly between 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. It mostly happens in dark moonless nights with light rains when the South Westerly winds are blowing. Gee brought this mysterious phenomenon to the Global attention.

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