An Old Parsi Hotel

This will be my first submission to this site. I am a regular reader of Real Ghost Stories since very long time.

This is a real incident which I experienced during March, 2019. My wife and I, along with a friend and his wife, planned a weekend getaway to a nearby beach. It was approximately 2 hour drive along the coast of Northern Maharashtra (a state/province in India). We started our journey in the morning and reached the destination just before noon. Since it was an ad-hoc plan, we didn't book a hotel to stay overnight. After reaching the place, we saw an old hotel just in front of the beach entrance. Since it was old, we first enquired about rooms in some newly built hotels nearby, but they were all booked for the weekend. Now, it was 1.00 in the afternoon and we were tired and hungry. So, we decided to enquire for rooms in that old Parsi hotel. To our luck, there were only 2 rooms available and we decided to take them instantly. We checked in and went to our respective rooms. The hotel was old Parsi house, converted to hotel. The hotel building was 0 + 2 floors and we got our rooms on the first floor. My room had a pool facing and it had a balcony with pool view. The window against the balcony faced a large mirror which was placed in the room, and in between was the bed.

We settled down, freshened up and went out for lunch. After finishing lunch we directly went to the beach and spent time there until the place went dark (after sunset). We returned to the hotel and it was really dark. We already had our dinner at a restaurant nearby. We went to our rooms and crashed out.

Just as I was lying down on the bed, I felt that some one was watching us. I checked the balcony and there was no one. I didn't realize when I dozed off. Suddenly, I woke up in the middle of the night with a feeling that someone is sitting on my chest. I was unable to move. I was facing the balcony and I saw that someone was there. It was a shadow figure with no clean distinct features. I tried to wake up my wife, but I couldn't move. I started murmuring holy verses (Hanuman Chalisa) in a hope to scare off ghost. Listening me murmur, my wife woke up. She switched on the lights, and saw me unable to move. She shook me and then I became free. I had no guts to get up and check the balcony for someone's presence. We decided to keep the lights on and sleep for the rest of the night.

I was awake the whole night, while my wife was asleep. We freshened up and checked out in the morning. While my friend was busy doing some formalities at the hotel reception, I enquired about the hotel. It was really old building, built by the Parsis which moved to India from Persia due to persecution. This property belonged to someone who was among the initial settlers.