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Hundreds of students living at a school dormitory in India abandoned the building after some of their classmates fell ill and rumors spread that the youngsters had been possessed. According to a local media report, the peculiar episode began on July 22nd in the village of Chikhaldara taluka when four girls at the community's residential school began acting strangely. Specifically, the youngsters were said to have been overcome with alternating fits of laughter and crying. Word of the weird event spread like wildfire among the school's 800-strong student body, and speculation surrounding the situation soon turned to the supernatural.
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