Sonakshi Sinha’s Creepy Midnight Story Will Give You Goosebumps: 'I Literally Froze'

Ahead of her paranormal thriller Nikita Roy, Sonakshi Sinha opens up about a real-life ghostly encounter at home that left her shaken. “I froze. I couldn’t move,” she says in a candid interview.

Sonakshi Sinha is gearing up for her next outing — a paranormal thriller titled 'Nikita Roy'. While promoting the film, the actress revealed a spine-chilling personal experience that made her rethink her skepticism about the supernatural.

In a recent chat with Bollywood Hungama, Sonakshi confessed that she was once a firm non-believer when it came to ghosts. That changed after one particularly disturbing night at her home.

Sonakshi Sinha's paranormal encounter

“I used to not believe. I used to not believe at all,” she said. “But one day, something very weird happened to me in my own house. So, since then, I’m a little bit shaken in my belief. But then after that, nothing happened, so then I was like, maybe it was a dream, you know? So, I don’t know. It was a harmless ghost. Possibly.”

The Lootera actress described the incident as taking place around 4 a.m., when she found herself in that strange state between sleep and wakefulness.

Sonakshi froze and was not able to move

“So, I was sleeping. You know that sleep where you’re awake, but you’re not awake? Your eyes are shut, but your mind is on, and like that. So, it was just that. And it was around 4 am or something like that. And I don’t know if it was a dream or not. I suddenly felt, you know, some sort of pressure, like somebody’s just like, waking me up. I died. I was so scared. I didn’t even open my eyes. I didn’t even open my eyes to see, koi hai, nahi hai. I just froze. Like, I literally froze. I couldn’t move. And then, I didn’t open my eyes till the morning, till the lights came. It really shook me up," she said.

She was so affected by the unexplained occurrence that the next night, she addressed the “presence” out loud before entering her house again.

“The next day, when I was coming home, it was late at night again, so when I opened my door, and I peeked in first. And then I said, very loudly: Jo bhi aaya tha kal raat ko, phirse aise mat karo main bohot darr gayi thi. Agar kuch bhi baat karni hai toh mere sapne mein aana… no face to face conversation. And then I walked in. And I swear after that nothing of this kind has happened," she told Bollywood Hungama.