They went to visit that ancient holy place, and just on the outskirts of Kulina Gram, as they were entering the village, they passed by an old temple. Suddenly, a man came out of the temple and humbly asked them, «Please stay the night here. In the morning, you may enter the village and take darsan of all the places there.» Bhakti Vinod Thakur and our Guru Maharaj, who at that time was a young boy, stayed the night in that temple house.
Just after nightfall, as they were resting, Bhakti Vinod Thakur experienced something unusual. He found that brickbats were being thrown about from different directions. He thought, «How is this happening and why? Who would throw big brickbats like this?» Then he had some apprehension that there might be ghosts living there, creating disturbances. He began loudly chanting the Hare Krishna mahamantra. After some time, the disturbance disappeared, and Bhakti Vinod Thakur and Srila Bhakti Siddhanta passed the rest of the night there peacefully.
In the morning, they entered the village and began visiting different holy places. After some time, one of the local gentlemen noticed them and said, «You entered our village early this morning. Where do you come from? And where did you spend the night?» Bhakti Vinod Thakur explained, «We stayed in that temple just outside the village there.» One of them said, «Oh! How could you stay there? So many ghosts live there and throw stones and bricks at anyone who passes by that place at night. How could you stay there?» Then Bhakti Vinod Thakur said, «Yes, you are right. But when I found such a disturbance there, I began to loudly chant the Hare Krishna mahamantra, and subsequently the problem disappeared.» The men of the village then asked Bhakti Vinod, «Who are you, and where are you coming from?»
Then they came to know that he was Bhakti Vinod Thakur. They had already heard of him, and some of them had read his books. They welcomed the two of them and showed them all the holy places they had not yet seen. At one point, they said to Bhakti Vinod Thakur, «The gentleman who was formerly the priest of that temple was transformed into a ghost after his departure. Since that time, we have regularly seen the disturbances caused by that ghost. Why did he become a ghost? As the priest of that temple, he used to regularly chant the Holy Name of Krishna. We are witness to that fact; we have all heard him. Why was he turned into a ghost? We cannot understand this. Please explain.»