Mysterious temples are not that uncommon in India. Every state has its list of mysterious temples, which science cannot explain. Each of these temples has an even-mysterious backstory for these weird features. Are you a little curious about what and where these mysterious temples are?
Veerabhadra Temple – not many mysterious temples can disprove gravity
This ancient temple of Lipakshi, Andhra Pradesh, is famous for numerous elements like beauty, spiritual factor, and architecture. This stone temple has 70 pillars, and one of those pillars hang in the air from the ceiling, by a quarter of an inch. You can test it by inserting a piece of cloth through the base of the pillar. How the heavy stone pillar stand with no support at the base without collapsing the roof?
Anantha Padmanabha Swamy Temple – The temple holding 22 billion dollar articles
The bizarre element of the Anantha Padmanabha Swamy Temple is the steel door vault, which opens only to a secret chant. The temple has seven vaults and the riches in the six vaults opened until the date estimate to more than 22 billion dollars. The seventh steel door has no visible latches. Forcing the door open can lead to universal catastrophe, according to ancient texts. There are numerous mysterious temples, which curses catastrophic disaster. Certainly, there is no such vault, which obeys abracadabra. What riches it beholds is another mystery, over and beyond.
Jagannath Temple of Puri – Not so subtle like other mysterious temples
Most of the mysterious temples have some hidden mysteries revolving more on stories riding on fear. But, Jagannath Temple of Puri has a straight forward mystery. The flag pole on top of the spire of this temple denies the laws of physics, and always flies in the direction opposite to the wind. The flag is changed every day, and every flag cloth does the same bizarre floating scene. The interesting fact about the flag is the ritual of changing it every day. If for some unknown reason, the flag remains unchanged, the temple should remain closed for 18 years. However, since 1800, the temple authorities managed to do the ritual religiously.
Sri Ranganathaswamy temple – the temple with the 1000-year-old self-mummified body
Sri Ranganathaswamy temple of South India holds 1000 years old body, mummified with no natural or chemical agent. Egyptians preserved dead bodies with an array of natural preservatives for the body to mummify. How about mummification of a sitting sage. Why doesn’t his body decompose like most of human beings? The temple’s main deity is Sri Ramanujacharya, who is in the mummified position. The mummified body is open to all for visiting. To add more weirdness to this already confusing story, the eyes of the sage is still intact. Even in perfectly preserved mummies, eyes do not last.
Jagannath temple of Kanpur – One of the mysterious temples dedicated to rain God
There are numerous rain God temples in India. For a land, which is dependent on rainfall for agriculture, it is not a big surprise. Wherein, the mystery lies in the Kanpur temple, which can predict the rainfall. Mysterious temples have more power of faith than science. On the contrary, the ability to predict something so random is quite eerie. Right before the monsoon, the priest checks the ceiling of the temple. There will be droplets on the ceiling. How did those droplets get to the ceiling? Well, nobody knows. If the droplets are small, the upcoming monsoon is bad. If the droplets are large, one can expect a flourishing monsoon. The roof starts to leak exactly a fortnight before rainfall. This temple is one of the very few mysterious temples, which has a practical use, especially for farmers.
Dholpur Shiva temple – The mysterious temple of color
Usually, mysterious temples have one bizarre fact over and beyond the scope of science. On the contrary, the Dholpur Shiva temple is rich with such facts. The first fact is the color of the main deity. The deity is a dome-shaped Shiva linga, which changes color thrice every day. Above all, there is no indication of how the material changes color. The deity does not have a base. The ASI (Archeological Survey of India) tried digging up to measure the length of the deity and failed. To their dismay, the Nandi statue started to spit water, from no apparent water source beneath it. According to legends, when Islamic invaders tried to demolish the temple, thousands of bees attacked the invaders.
Nidhi Van temple – One of the mysterious temples for love
The temple is not one of the mysterious temples of the land. However, the garden behind the temple is both mysterious and eerie. The plants and trees of the garden have branches that grow downwards like roots of a banyan tree. The holy basil plants grow only in pairs, here. According to legends, the trees and plants come alive as couples to dance all night. Those who witness this cosmic dance could go mad. Thus, the locals brick their windows to avoid accidental witnessing of the dance.
Kamakhya Devi temple – The most feminine of all mysterious temples
The first weird part about this temple is its deity, which is a stone vagina. During the monsoon season, the temple remains closed for three days, accounting for the deity’s menstrual cycle. The fact that turns this weird temple into the list of mysterious temples is the spring that runs closer to the temple. It turns out; the spring runs in a mild reddish tint for those three days. These three days are the fertility festival of the local people.
Jwala ka temple – the temple with 100 years of fire
This ancient temple of Himachal Pradesh worships Lord Sati. According to legends, Sati died by jumping into a fire pit. Today, there is a flame inside the premises, which is burning for the past 100 years, without any source of fuel.
Brihadeeswara temple – the mystery in construction
While other mysterious temples revolve around certain extra-ordinary happenings, the Brihadeeswara temple’s existence is a mystery by itself. The main reason for this temple to enter the list of mysterious temples is the building material. It is a granite temple. However, there are no granite sources closer to the temple. Say, they transported granite to the site on elephants. This temple of the 11th century has a very tall spire. How the elephants managed to lift the granite spire weighing 80 tons, 66 meters above ground, is a mystery.
Mysterious temples are deeply rooted in mythologies, which increases the spiritual element of the land. If you are planning to visit these mysterious temples, visit with an open mind.
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