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Glowing ghost figures float among snow-dusted, jagged mountains under a dark, mystical sky.

Glowing ghost figures float among snow-dusted, jagged mountains under a dark, mystical sky.

The "Chiltan horror story" is a folk legend about Koh-i-Chiltan in Pakistan, which tells of a couple who prayed for a child and were given forty. They abandoned 39 of the children on the mountain, but when the mother returned, she found all forty alive. When she came back again after leaving to get the last child, all the children had vanished, and their ghosts are said to haunt the mountain. The legend: A couple who desperately wanted a child had forty children but couldn't raise them all. The abandonment: The couple left 39 of the children on the mountain and took one with them. The disappearance: When the mother returned, she found all 40 children playing and laughing, but when she went back to retrieve the last one, all of them had vanished. The hauntings: The mountain is now said to be haunted by the spirits of these 40 children. See more