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How Baba Neeb Karori Transformed a Haunted Graveyard into Hanumangarh Pilgrimage Site
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News18•09-10-2026, 14:43
How Baba Neeb Karori Transformed a Haunted Graveyard into Hanumangarh Pilgrimage Site
- •Baba Neeb Karori Maharaj established the Hanumangarh temple near Nainital in the early 1950s, consecrating a Hanuman idol on July 15, 1952.
- •The site was previously a children's graveyard nestled in a dense forest, causing immense fear among locals who avoided it even during the day.
- •Historian Professor Ajay Rawat notes that the region experienced severe landslides during the British era before turning into a dense forest.
- •During the temple's consecration Bhandara, a truck filled with ration supplies miraculously arrived despite blocked roads due to incessant rains.
- •Witness accounts claimed that Baba miraculously turned water into ghee and that the souls of children partook in the Bhandara to attain liberation.
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Baba Neeb Karori Maharaj first consecrated a small Hanuman idol on July 15, 1952, and later installed a massive idol of Lord Hanuman on June 16, 1953, at the Hanumangarh temple near Nainital.
The site used to be a children's graveyard where children who died of infectious diseases were buried, and locals believed the dense forest was extremely haunted with the cries and screams of children.
When the cooking ghee was about to run out during the community feast, Baba asked helpers to bring canisters filled with water, which he touched with his index finger to turn into ghee for cooking.
