Dumas Beach

Dumas Beach is a rural beach on the Arabian Sea approximately 21 kilometres southwest of Surat. It functions as a popular daytime tourist destination in South Gujarat. Multiple travel and folkloric sources describe the beach as having a long-standing reputation for being haunted, a reputation that is commonly attributed to the site's use as, or proximity to, a Hindu burial ground or former burial site. The published accounts and lists that treat Dumas as haunted are largely compilatory and folkloric: they repeat the association between the beach and burial grounds and note that locals and tourists regard the site as eerie after dark. The available sources do not provide named spirits, dated eyewitness testimonies, documented investigations, or specific sensory phenomena. Instead, the coverage consists of general statements that locals have encountered spirits and that visitors often avoid the beach at night. Because the claims about hauntings derive from popular lists, regional folklore, and travel-oriented pages rather than primary investigative reports, Dumas Beach’s paranormal profile is best described as a folkloric reputation tied to cultural beliefs about burial grounds and coastal liminal spaces. The beach remains an extant, publicly accessible site and continues to be included in media and listicles about haunted or mysterious places in India.