 Today's story is called The Nightrunners of Bengal. It's a story from my childhood and it is possibly the strangest story that I have ever come across. So in 1857, just before the First War of Independence, something very weird happened in India in the Bengal area. Out of nowhere, a group of men had suddenly appeared. Like, they're just materialized out of nowhere and their practice was that they would run from one village to the next at night in complete silence with two rotis on their head and when they got to each village, they would say just one thing, sub-lal ho jaigar. Everything will turn red. This went on for a couple of months and then just as suddenly they disappeared, they just vanished off the face of the earth. But here's the really weird thing. Till date, nobody knows who they were, where they had come from, where they got to, what are they trying to do? Of course, there have been thousands of theories. Somebody said they were spies, somebody said they were gathering armies. Somebody even said that this was a tantric ritual being performed because apparently the rotis had come from a Shiva temple in Bengal, but actually nobody really knows. But here's the next weird thing. Almost every mention of them has now disappeared from the internet. I used to collect all the articles written on them. I have a whole file of it because every now and then somebody would come up with a new theory about the night runners. All of these articles have disappeared. The only thing left now is this book. This is pure fiction. Well, they all were because nobody actually knew what was happening. But this is the only thing left. Who were these guys? Where did they come from? What were they supposed to be doing? And more importantly, why is every mention of them being wiped out now and who is wiping it out?