Kali Temple, Varanasi

The entry refers generically to a Kali Temple associated with Varanasi (Kashi), one of the major Hindu pilgrimage centers in India. Sources do not provide a specific temple name, founding date, ownership history, or precise location within the city. Varanasi itself is described in the sources as an ancient sacred city (sapta-puri) with a long history of devotional practices, pilgrimage, and ritual life. Ethnographic material includes an audio catalog record titled "Temple Bells and Drums of a Bengali Kali Temple—Bhajan," documenting ritual sound (bells, drums, and devotional song) associated with Kali worship in the Varanasi region. This recording and related archival descriptions document the temple's devotional soundscape but are secular/ethnographic in intent and do not claim any supernatural activity. No sources provided report hauntings, apparitions, curses, poltergeist activity, named ghosts, or other paranormal phenomena linked to a Kali Temple in Varanasi. The primary associated entity is the Hindu goddess Kali by virtue of the temple dedication; however, the sources do not describe Kali in a ghostly or uncanny form nor mention other spirits tied to the site.