Headless Lady

This is the first story I am posting and fairly an old story I remember...
I was too small when I heard this story from my grandmother and my big cousins

My grandmother's house is in a remote village in the Palghat District of Kerala. Its a very green and a beautiful village and I am sure you would agree most of the villages are in Kerala like that if you had your chance to visit the 'Gods own country'

The grand old houses line up my village and these grand houses are really huge mouting up to three floors and with a lot of rooms in them(something close to the 'Amityville Horror house'- a bit smaller...)
So these houses line up most part of the vilage and then you have this shady bylanes which connect the village to another villages.This bylanes would most of the time be covered by tall walls of these houses on both the sides...walking these bylanes often would lead you to the outer forest filled with tamarind trees and mango trees covered around by a dense undergrowth of bushes and shrubs.This was a scary way but it was the most convenient to reach to the other villages.There was a another way too which was better and a clearer one and the one mostly preferred by the village folks but a lot longer than the bylane road.

The bylane by my house would be the one most preferred during the day time as this would end up at a place from where you can virtually reach all the villages and this route was the most often used shortcut by the village folks.But at night time when it gets pitch dark nobody would venture through this bylane even though you had a very powerful torches.....these torches were mainly used by the village folks at night during the walks to prevent them from stepping over a poisonous Viper or a resting Cobra in no mood to be disturbed.

I remember asking by Grandma over and over again ...why no normal person in their right sense(although i have seen sometimes inebriated fearless people walk the road).. took this road during night time for their journey as they would end up reaching their destination faster for which I never was told any good logical reason...I usually thought that this would be due to the fear of snakes ...but later on I heard a story from my Grandma which made enough sense why nobody dared to walk this road during night...

The story was ..during old days this road was a regular road  for people and travellers.During this period a young beautiful lady who was travelling through the road at night to the nearby village was attacked brutally by some bandits.I am sure everyone knows during the early years we did have Bandits and Robinhoods...and then these bandits took all they wanted from her and brutally killed her and chooped her head off...

The next day when the villagers found her body ..they say that her head rolled over to one side at some distance from her body and stared at them...the most scary stare ayone could ever see in their lifetime....
After that incident there has been numerous occassions of  villager's seeing a headless woman folowing them at night if they walk the bylane.Some of the luckier ones only hear somebody following them and dont even dare to turn around ..usually making a run for their lives.Most of the unfortunate souls have ended up with high fevers and wished they never had walked that road.

The story remains even today and these days too people still dont walk this bylane at night..Growing up, I recently visited my grandma's house after so many years and  saw people walking this bylane during the day but even today when the sun goes down nodoby dares to walk this road even when the moon is awful clear.......Guess the only person walking this bylane at night is .....u know who...