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प्रश्न
Was it really a ghost who Vijay Singh befooled? Who do you think it was?
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उत्तर
The ghost’s cave contained the wealth that he had collected by looting and killing the people travelling through the Haunted Desert. So in reality, he could have been a robber who had disguised himself as a ghost for scaring and over powering innocent travellers.
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