The old government rest-house at Nanigundi in Bombay Presidency of the old consisted of four rooms in row, with wide verandas all round the building, which is raised about two feet above the ground on a solid plinth made of old masonry. The floor is of hard beaten earth. There are no windows, as the doors also serve for these, and are composed of teak about two inches thick. There is a teak ceiling just under the tiles, which are mostly old ones made locally.
The doors of the end room on the right as one approaches the bungalow can never be kept shut at night. This room has six doors, four being outer ones, one leading to the bathroom, and one leading to the next room, and they are the usual Indian type of double doors opening in the centre. These doors are fastened by a bolt running into two staples, and on nearly every door there are several other hasps and staples, put on by various visitors. Most of these hasps and staples are screwed in with one-and-a-half-inch screws which are not visible from the other side of the door.
A man I knew once took his own hasps and staples, and screwed them in with strong screws, and before getting into bed by put on two 12-inch Chubb padlocks. Five minutes after he had extinguished the light he suddenly felt a breeze, but when he lit the lamp, he found all the doors wide open=not a sound was heard, and the locks were still locked on the staple.
In the ordinary way it would be impossible to open the hasp without undoing the lock, even if the screws were unscrewed
My friend felt nothing unusual, except that the first breeze was very cold-there is always the same sensation of cold in psychic phenomena-but that may be put gust of down to his imagination. However, the Indians would not go near the house at night, and no dog would enter the room- going anywhere near the bungalow. n-they even dislike anywhere near the Bangalow.