Description

The Bhangarh fort was build by Bhagwant Das (one of the nine ratnas of Emperor Akbar’s court) in 16th - century for his younger son Madho Singh. It's believed that before allegedly deserted in bhangarh fort there was over 10,000 peoples were reside.

There are 2 stories which relate the fort according to legend.

1. Sadhu named Baba Balak Nath

2. Princess Ratnavati

Sadhu named Baba Balak Nath Story -

Before bhangarh fort made there was home of baba balak nath. Madho Singh order to take permission from sadhu before construct bhangarh fort. The permission were granted on a condition that the shadow of the fort must never fall on his home otherwise they have to face greater tragedy. But alas,  A ambitious of Madho Singh ignored the warning and built fortified Bhangarh Fort with higher walls then the shadow covered the sadhu's home. finally the curse came to fruition and The fort faces curse of sadhu. 

Princess Ratnavati

According to folklore,Ratnavati was a princess of Bhangarh. She was extremely beautiful woman.A magician of bhangarh hypnotized with her beauty and fall in love with her. and then he wanted to get her. He put a smell of black magic into the hair massage botal. He thought that she will use the hair to massage. Before His plan would work, Princess Ratnavati But, before his dirty ploy could work, Princess Ratnavati got a whiff of his trickery and threw off the magic-laden oil onto a huge boulder in the vicinity. This was when the doomsday clock of Bhangarh Fort and the whole town was set in a countdown. The black magic worked its way and caused the boulder to crush the tantric to his death. However, before breathing his last, he cursed the entire town of Bhangarh, struck down by grief and despondency, to slowly succumb to its utter desolation just like him.

Proving his dreading last words right, the next year itself the ruler of Bhangarh suffered a calamitous defeat at the hands of an enemy. His entire army was annihilated and all of the inhabitants of Bhangarh were brutally massacred. While the fate of the princess is still a mystery, it is said that she was condemned to roam in the precincts of Bhangarh stuck in a limbo. It is said, all of the people of Bhangarh can still be heard in Bhangarh Fort at Night; doomed to linger in this realm, never to leave the cold environs the place, hopeless and restless.