JIM CORBETT Tribute

In Champawat Man eaters (see Man eaters of Kumaon) Jim Corbett did mentioned about spending a night in a dak bungalow alone and where he experienced something super natural. In reality, he fully explained his experience of encountering a ghost in his original manuscript sent to Oxford University Press. R.E. Hawkins who was Corbett's editor, approved the manuscript for publication, but returned the manuscript to Corbett with a request to remove the supernatural experience he mentioned in his first story. His friend and neighbor at the time was a gentleman named "Burma: Jarrow, and he told me that Corbett approached him with the returned manuscript and asked him to retype the page without the ghost story. Again I checked with a close friend and associate of the Corbetts- Mrs Audrey Baylis - about Corbett's encounters with ghosts. She confirmed that Corbett was indeed frightened by some forces the night he spent at the dak bungalow while hunting the Champawat man eater in 1907, and his servants found him outside the building covered with a blanket and shivering. For more details see the book: Under the Shadow of Man eaters