This!... Is!.. KOLKATA!

The Black Hole of Kolkata was a pretty shady place. It's where they placed prisoners that did not deserve to live. It's where they left mortal souls to suffer. It was feared by the masses.

The name "Kolkatā" (and the anglicised name "Calcutta") has its roots in Kalikatā, one of the three villages (Kalikatā, Sutanuti, Govindapur) that existed in the area before the city was established by the British.  "Kalikata", in turn, is believed to be a version of Kalikshetra (Bengali: কালীক্ষেত্র, Kalikkhetro) literally meaning "Land of [the goddess] Kāli".  And as we all know, goddesses are always evil.  Because they are women. But anyway, the Black Hole of Calcutta was a dark place where many dark and evil activites took place. For example people that got stuck in it had to wash dirty clothes and drink lava from the same cup. As the group of people who survived described, there were camels with eights bumps on the back and with every bump they could carry three and a half people by the left leg. If they refused to be carried the camel would bite their left leg and carry them by left hand. Camels would stop every five minutes and asked them if they could move their body, just to check if they are still in the bumps. In the famous square-town  the prisoners had to stab stone monuments. Were they given a chisel and hammer? No. They received plastic butter knives. If one was to break their butter knife, the camels would once again return. Darn those camels, with their eight humps large enough to fit three people into. After stabbing the stone monuments, the prisoners of Calcutta would have to eat TACKS. But just not any tacks.. Rusty tacks dipped in demon blood. We suspect the demon to look a little something like this:



The demon goes by the name of Ktulu. He was a product of the BP Oil Spill of ancient times. The spill had opened up another dimension, allowing Ktulu to roam freely right to Calcutta. The great demon terrorized the prisoners. He'd put them into laundry detergent and give them a lovely flower scent. No prisoner enjoys smelling like flowers. But as was said in the above paragraphs; some prisoners survived these torturous activities, and lived to tell the tale.

Just kidding! The above entry was entirely fictional. We're sorry to disappoint. As dark and evil as it may sound, the Black Hole of Calcutta was actually just a small room where troops of the Nawab of Bengal held British prisoners of war. It was not just a room, though. It was a tiny room, where they crammed roughly 150 people. Most of them died from exhaustion and dehydration, although some of them did live and are not still alive today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_of_Calcutta