A slew of stories claim that ghosts dwell in Chennai’s De Monte Colony, named after a Portuguese resident who led a miserable life with his mentally unstable wife and a son who died an untimely death. Fearful accounts range from a door which opens and closes by itself, and vehicles that ram into the crash guard at night. Even taxi drivers and rag pickers refuse to visit the area after dark. In this fairly deserted piece of land, perhaps the only insight about ghosts could be given by drunken teenagers who drop by to test the claims.