Do you believe in ghosts ?

[HangiMaru]

I am sharing a true incident that happened in my life. I just want to know whether something like this happened in your life or if you believe in ghosts please share it with here with us. A year ago i went to my friend's house. He was living with his family in a remote villiage. My friend Shyam's cousin, Surabhi was 12 years elder to him and she also lived in the same family in their neighbourhood. They used to dine together, play together, celebrate together etc. Once, Surabhi, went to a village to attend a marriage of her relative with some of the family members.

When she came back, there was a change in her attitude. She started behaving like a man quite often. Initially, we never got used to that. But, one day when I was in my friend's house and they were sitting together to have their lunch. Suddenly Surabhi in a loud and manly voice said, "Hey, I am hungry and I am going to eat." I could not believe my eyes, she ate all the things that were kept in that hall and everyone was dumbfounded. We were scared to the bones. When I asked my friend Sam, he said that this was happening for the first time. After she took the food, she asked for a cigar. Sam's father gave her a cigar and after she smoked, she fell down. When she awoke, she was quite normal and said that she was feeling hungry. By that time, it was well over half an hour from what had happened and Sam's mother and his aunts, started cooking fresh food for the rest. To my dismay, when the food was cooked, she ate like everybody and was her usual normal self. I was told by Sam's father that this continued for 3-4 times after this first incident.

Later realizing that something must have happened to the girl, they called a priest to find out what had happened. The priest made elaborate arrangements and put kolam (is a form of drawing that is drawn by using rice flour) and asked Surabhi to sit down in that kolam. We were seeing the ritual with all seriousness and fear. After some time, the priest started asking questions to Surabhi. She did not answer well for the first 15 minutes or so and suddenly, we could feel that somebody or something in her body started talking to the priest. It said, "I am Paari. When she came to Ammanur village, she was wearing a white half saree, she was with her hair untied and I was in the tree and I wanted to enter her body because I was attracted towards her and I entered her body." Every one was shocked. But the priest continued and asked whether it would go away. To this it said, "Yes. I would. But you should give me a feast with non-vegetarian food, liquor and cigar. Then I would leave."
The priest immediately ordered Sam's father and Surabhi's father to arrange for the feast. It was a grand feast with all non-vegetarian stuff, chicken, mutton with spiced items besides a bottle of local liquor and a pack of cigars. We were witnessing with awe and to our dismay, it finished off the entire feast single-handedly and started drinking the local liquor without any hesitation. It smoked 2 cigars and later told the priest that it was satisfied and bade good bye. Surabhi fell down and was unconscious.

When she woke up, there was nothing unusual about her and she was her usual self. From that day on, her behaviour was normal and without any aberrations. But, for those 15-20 days when she was under the control of Paari, we were literally scared to go near her. Even after all these rituals happened, it took more than 2 months for us to go near her and started interacting with her. Now the exorcism, ceremonies, rituals differ from place to place depending on the culture and traditions. But the concept of ghost possession remains the same. Has anyone ever seen anything like this ?