Naale Baa and Nishi Daak Explained: Meaning, Legends and Reported Paranormal Encounters
According to one legend, the houses of a small town once carried the same two words on their gates, written in human blood mixed with ash: Naale Baa, roughly "come tomorrow" in Kannada. The idea was to make a vengeful spirit knock, find the message and go away.
That is the first of two night-time legends covered in an interview between host Rahul Chaudhary and paranormal expert RJ Arsh Oracle. The second is Nishi Daak, a belief associated with Bengal in which a voice, sometimes that of someone you love, calls you to open your door in the middle of the night. According to the story, answer it and your spirit leaves with it.
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| Naale Baa and Nishi Daak |
Everything below is folklore, tradition or one narrator's personal claims. None of it has been independently verified, and this article keeps the line between what is told and what is proven as clear as it can.
What Are Naale Baa and Nishi Daak?
These are two separate legends with one shared image: a door, and something waiting on the other side. Naale Baa is tied to a small town near the Bengaluru–Mysuru highway. Nishi Daak is associated with Bengal, although the expert also describes an encounter he says he had in Rajasthan.
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| Naale Baa It means it will come tomorrow. |
What Is Naale Baa?
Naale Baa roughly means "come tomorrow." In the legend, it is written on doors and gates, in human blood, to keep a female spirit from entering.
The expert calls it an urban legend and says it is one of the most widely told stories from that area. He is clear that he wasn't there when any of it happened. He also says a big and very frightening story is attached to it, which the rest of this article follows.
Naale Baa and the Film Stree
The interview opens with the film Stree. The host says he is a big fan of its leads, Rajkummar Rao and Pankaj Tripathi. In the film, a female ghost, witch or dayan (the host isn't sure which) comes to a village and carries off its men. Every house has a message written on it: "O Stree, kal aana," or "Stree, come tomorrow."
The host says he later learned the story is based on true events, and the conversation adds that films are often inspired by real life. The expert says the film's central concept comes from a small town near the Bengaluru–Mysuru highway, where the legend is famous as Naale Baa. No source is given for the "true events" claim.
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| Someone is suddenly calling me in the middle of the night. |
What Is Nishi Daak?
Daak means "calling."
The host first framed Nishi Daak as a Bengal legend of a female spirit, a chudail, who attracted people with her voice and then killed them. The expert corrected him. It was not a chudail, he said, but an entity, a form of energy, and energies, as he put it, can take shape. More precisely, it was a kriya, a ritual action performed by an evil tantrik, through which the entity was sent into people's homes.
The Origin of the Naale Baa Legend: Burn One Half, Bury the Other
The interview gives directions rather than a name. Heading toward the Bengaluru–Mysuru highway, there is a very large banyan tree standing right in the middle. About 70 km beyond it, to the right, is the small town where the events are said to have taken place.
According to the story, the town had a cremation ground with a graveyard right beside it, because its people believed in both cremating and burying the dead. The expert admits this sounds odd but insists it is fact.
The town also had a custom for anyone considered bad. That meant a bad spirit, a bad tantrik or something like the dayan mentioned earlier, in other words anyone bad by their deeds. After such a person died, the body was cut into two parts. The upper part was buried and the lower part, the legs, was burned. The expert also puts it as "bury the head, burn the body."
The logic was simple. A spirit whose legs were burned could never walk back. A spirit whose upper body, eyes included, was buried could never see. Done this way, the town believed, no calamity would follow, and the expert says no incidents happened there afterward. This was the normal belief of the place, and nothing paranormal had happened there.
Then, according to the story, a woman who practised dark tantra lived in the town. When people found out about her, they did not burn her house. They strangled her in her sleep, and as they did, they cut her body in two. She screamed and shouted throughout. Following their custom, they burned one piece and buried the other.
They acted, the expert says, because they believed a bad person must not be allowed to flourish. They also knew that if a chudail ever came to their town, its ruin was certain. Then he adds a line of his own: everything has its right time, and that is what happened next.
The Naale Baa Story: The Goat Kid, the Vanishing Men and the Children
The Goat Kid in the Graveyard
The woman was buried, and her leg portion was burned. About two months later, a village man's daughter was carrying a baby goat. The kid ran off into the graveyard, an open one, and the girl went in after it.
The words "Naale Baa" were already written there. The expert explains what they meant in that place: whoever came should come, go, and not return for centuries. The interview does not say who wrote them or when.
The girl saw her kid lying dead on top of a grave. After that, the expert says, she was probably possessed. In the legend's logic, the spirit had lost her legs to the fire and needed legs to get out. In the girl, she found them. Through her, the spirit returned to the town that had cut her in two, to take revenge. The host adds that the revenge would be all the stronger because she had practised tantra, so her becoming a chudail was certain.
The host also notes that the film shows a goat kid. The expert says he hasn't properly watched the film.
The Disappearances
According to the story, men began to vanish from the town one by one. When a man disappeared, all his clothes burned on their own. Everyone else in his household fell ill, and no medicine cured them. This went on for days, and nobody realised that a small girl was behind it. It happened mostly to men who went out at night.
The host suggests the spirit attracted and seduced men with her voice, and the expert agrees.
The Man Who Got Away
One man escaped and came back to tell what happened. One night he was out walking when he met a very beautiful girl. She said she was the daughter of the zamindar (landlord) from a nearby village and had lost her way. He set out to help her get home, but somehow, instead of reaching her village, he ended up in front of the graveyard.
The expert says the man perhaps had some experience of his own, because he sensed something and ran. He told people what he could. The last thing he managed to say was that the chudail's hands were about to cut off his legs. The expert stresses the detail: a chudail's hands, about to cut a man's legs. Then the man lost his voice and never spoke again.
He had also told the villagers that the girl appeared to him in two forms. Going by his account, the villagers went to the girl, tied her up again and tried to cut her through the middle.
The Children with Weapons
This time, as they tried, all the children of the town came and stood in front of them with weapons in their hands, as if ready to kill the villagers together. According to the story, the chudail had grown so powerful that she had possessed every child and was making them act at her signal.
The villagers had no choice and let the girl go. The chudail's last words were that she would come again. After that the harm continued, and many villagers began to leave the town.
The Naale Baa Protection: Blood, Ash and a Message on the Gate
Eventually, according to the account, a good siddha purush (a holy man of accomplished spiritual power) came. The expert later calls the same man a tantrik. He gave the villagers what he presented as the one way out:
- Every person mixes their own blood.
- Ash from that graveyard and that cremation ground is added to the blood.
- With this mixture, each household writes "Naale Baa," "come tomorrow," on its gate.
She would still come to every house, the holy man said, but she would knock on the door and go back. According to the legend, that is exactly what happened.
The harm she caused reportedly happened every night, not on specific nights. On particular nights, though, her power could double or triple.
The remedy came with a warning. Whatever your tradition, cremate or bury according to it, the holy man said, in this case under Hindu practice, and don't invent your own method. The expert adds his own reading: when we interfere with the laws of the universe, things go wrong for us too, and in his telling that is what happened in this town.
The Town Today: A Reported Daytime Visit
According to the expert, the place can still be visited. In daylight you can go, and you can see "Naale Baa" written on the gate. At night, he says, no ordinary person or paranormal expert has ever dared to go. So much energy has built up there, he says, that even experts stay away.
He says he did his own personal research there and went only in the daytime. He describes himself as not that big a paranormal expert. Even in daylight, he says, the energy felt so bad that he had no wish to stay the night. The fear there, he says, is the same today as it was before.
Nishi Daak: The Voice That Calls You at Night
How It Is Said to Work
The expert explains it with an example. Suppose a stranger, completely unfamiliar with the place, visits a home in Bengal and sleeps in the very first room, the one you enter first. At night, a voice says the stranger's name and tells them to open the door. Or it is the voice of someone dear to them: "Open the door, it's me."
According to the account, if the sleeper responds, the entity knocks three times, tak, tak, tak. If the sleeper answers that too, their spirit goes away with it, and they die in their sleep. Sometimes, the expert says, the body disappears as well.
Bengal, Kolkata and the Years 2002–2010
The expert says Nishi Daak was very famous in Bengal around 2002. He suggests the host may have heard or read about it in newspapers, though no articles are named. The incidents, he says, began to die out by around 2010.
He says he has not seen Nishi Daak cases with his own eyes. Isolated cases turn up now and then, he says, but there was once a time in Kolkata when Nishi Daak was used on an entire neighbourhood. Later, he says he has felt Nishi Daak himself and has seen a related case with his own eyes. These statements sit side by side in the interview without being reconciled.
A Reported Encounter in Chomu, Rajasthan
The expert says many people have felt Nishi Daak, and he is one of them. Because he already knew the concept, he did not answer.
It happened in a village in the Chomu area of Rajasthan, 20 to 30 km further in, at the house of one of his students. He says the house was already haunted. He was sleeping in the very first room. At night he heard his mother calling him, saying his name, and someone was actually knocking at the gate. There were three knocks, with his name called out.
If he had answered, responded or even turned slightly, he says, he might not be alive today. At that moment he understood it was the Nishi Daak concept.
The Village Where 3 PM Was Dangerous
The expert says he saw a related case in a village in Bengal where the possession happened in the daytime. People died by day and survived by night, so night was normal for them and day was the dangerous part. He says chudail, dayan, shakchunni, dakini and hakini are concepts that are quite normal in such places.
Whenever a new officer arrived, such as the collector, he was given a house to live in. The house itself was not said to be cursed. On the first day, the new officer heard someone knocking at the gate, like children. He had no children, and it felt slightly wrong to him, so he did not respond. It happened a second time, and he still did not respond. The third time, he went to the gate, opened it and saw a huge black shadow, about ten to twelve feet tall. Then he fainted.
When he woke, a man from the neighbourhood, Sharma ji, was sitting in front of him. The officer told him it had been around 2:30 pm when he opened the gate and saw this. Sharma ji warned him never to open the door at 3 pm. That hour, it is said, becomes cursed in the village, because Nishi Daak is used here.
The expert separates this from a curse. Nishi Daak, he says, is a kriya, like Indrajaal, and it is kriyas that work this way. Daak, he adds, means calling.
Sharma ji also told him the village was cursed, and that a dayan had used Nishi Daak on it. That dayan was no longer in this world, but she used it on every new person who came. The villagers believed that once all those uses were finished, she would return and come back to life. The officer was frightened. Sharma ji left, repeating that whatever happened, he should not open the gate at 3 pm.
The next day at 3 pm, someone called him in his mother's voice. He didn't open the door. Around ten minutes past three he had to go out, and he opened it. Then he noticed that his own shadow was fading and getting smaller.
He was also uneasy that someone knocked every day, sometimes in his mother's voice and sometimes in another's, and he had begun to fear opening the gate. To find out more, he went to Sharma ji's house, where he had a shock: Sharma ji had died ten days earlier. It was Sharma ji's spirit that had been trying to warn him again and again.
A woman at that house told him the spirit was perhaps appearing because the dayan had made a promise to the spirits. Any spirit that told a new person about the shadow and about Nishi Daak would be set free. The host puts it that the spirit was, in a way, using another human being to free itself. The officer was now terrified, because Sharma ji had told him Nishi Daak was in use, which meant he was about to die.
He somehow made his way home, and his mother had already reached the house without his knowing. She spoke to many tantriks and many pandits. On Purnima (the full moon) they somehow got him and his mother out of the village. What procedure was carried out, and what exactly happened, nobody seems to know.
The Finger on the Door
Before leaving, mother and son each cut off one finger from their hand and hung it on that door. Then they left. The expert says that perhaps this is what quieted Nishi Daak there.
Naale Baa vs. Nishi Daak
Both legends centre on a door and a knock. Beyond that, they work differently.
| Feature | Naale Baa | Nishi Daak |
|---|---|---|
| Region associated with the legend | A small town near the Bengaluru–Mysuru highway | Bengal (a Kolkata neighbourhood, a small village); the expert also reports an encounter in Rajasthan |
| Meaning of the name | "Come tomorrow" | Daak means "calling" |
| Central figure | The spirit of a woman tantra practitioner, killed, cut in two, buried and burned, said to return through a possessed girl | According to the expert, not a chudail but a form of energy sent through a kriya by an evil tantrik; in the village case, a dayan is said to have used it |
| How it approaches people | Men out at night meet a beautiful girl who seems lost; the host suggests voice and seduction | A voice, often that of someone familiar, calls from outside the door, followed by three knocks |
| Reported outcome | Men vanish, their clothes burn, their households fall ill; one survivor loses his voice | The spirit is said to leave with the entity, the person dies in sleep, and sometimes the body vanishes |
| Reported protection | Blood mixed with graveyard and cremation-ground ash, used to write "Naale Baa" on the gate | Not answering (implied by the expert's own account); in the village case, a finger from each of mother and son hung on the door |
| Type of tradition, per the source | Urban legend (the expert's term) | A kriya, not a curse (the expert) |
Are Naale Baa and Nishi Daak True Stories?
As folklore, they are real. That does not establish that the events in them took place, and nothing here proves they didn't.
- What is documented: Nothing in the interview points to a record, photograph, official report, date or named town. The film Stree exists, as the host mentions.
- What is folklore: Naale Baa, which the expert himself calls an urban legend, along with the door inscriptions and the account of the woman, the goat kid and the children. The expert presents the body-splitting custom as fact, but no place, date or record is given.
- What is reported: His daytime visit to the town, his experience in Chomu, his claim to have seen a related case in a village, the account of Nishi Daak used on a Kolkata neighbourhood, and his suggestion of newspaper coverage around 2002.
- What remains unverified: All the supernatural events, the claim that Stree is based on true events, and the claim that Nishi Daak incidents faded by 2010.
Final Thought: What the Interview Actually Tells Us
The Naale Baa legend, as told here, says a woman practising dark tantra was killed and cut in two by her own town. It says her spirit returned through a possessed girl, and that the survivors held her back by writing "come tomorrow" on their gates in blood and ash. The Nishi Daak accounts describe a voice at the door, followed by three knocks, as a summons not to be answered.
The expert tells these stories as personal research and personal experience. The interview offers no independent evidence for either legend. It ends as the host, after these "devilish" concepts, asks to turn toward the divine, and the expert frames it as divine possession, a subject this article doesn't cover.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What does Naale Baa mean?
Naale Baa is a Kannada phrase that roughly means "come tomorrow." In the legend as told in the interview, it was written on gates and doors in a mixture of human blood and ash so that a returning spirit would knock and go away. Inside the graveyard of the story, the same words were said to mean that whoever came should leave and not return for centuries.
2. What is Nishi Daak?
In the interview, Nishi Daak is described as a kriya, a ritual action performed by an evil tantrik, through which an entity or form of energy was said to be sent into people's homes. It calls a sleeper to the door at night, sometimes in the voice of a loved one. Daak means "calling," and the expert says it is not a curse.
3. Is Naale Baa a true story?
As folklore, yes: the expert himself calls it an urban legend. Whether the events took place is a separate question. The interview names no town and gives no dates, records or documents, so the claims about the woman, the possessed girl and the vanishing men remain unverified. The expert also says he visited the place in daytime, but that is personal testimony, not independent evidence.
4. Where did the Naale Baa legend originate?
According to the interview, the legend belongs to a small town near the Bengaluru–Mysuru highway. A very large banyan tree stands on the way, and the town lies about 70 km beyond it, to the right. The town is not named, and the account gives no date for the events.
5. What happens if you answer Nishi Daak?
According to the legend, if you respond to the voice, the entity knocks three times. Answering that as well is said to make your spirit leave with it, so that you die in your sleep. Sometimes, the expert says, the body disappears too. He says he did not answer when he experienced it in a Rajasthan village, and believes that answering, or even turning around, could have killed him.
6. Is Nishi Daak the same as a chudail?
No, according to the expert. The host first described Nishi Daak as a Bengal legend of a female spirit who lured people with her voice and then killed them. The expert corrected him: it is not a chudail but an entity, a form of energy, sent through a kriya by an evil tantrik. In one village account, though, a dayan is said to have used Nishi Daak.
7. Is Naale Baa connected to the film Stree?
The interview says so. The expert states that the central concept of *Stree* comes from the Naale Baa legend near the Bengaluru–Mysuru highway. The host says he learned the story is based on true events. No source is given for either claim in the interview, so both should be treated as unverified.
Would You Open the Door?
If you heard your mother's voice calling your name from outside your door in the middle of the night, followed by three slow knocks, would you open it?
Reference & Further Reading
1. Naale Baa — Wikipedia
Background information on the Naale Baa folklore, its meaning, regional association with Karnataka, and different versions of the legend.
2. Nishi Daak — Wikipedia
Reference material relating to Nishi Daak and its place in Bengali ghost folklore.
Disclaimer: This article is based on the supplied interview/script and the reference material listed above. The supernatural events, ghosts, spirits, rituals, possessions, and unexplained incidents discussed in this article are presented as folklore, traditional beliefs, reported experiences, or claims, and should not be understood as scientifically proven facts. Different regions, storytellers, and sources may describe these legends differently, and some details may be difficult or impossible to independently verify. This article is intended for folklore, cultural, historical, and entertainment purposes and does not claim that the supernatural events described actually occurred.
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