These were eventually placed in the foundation of the main house at Meherazad; so these rock-hunting recreative walks with Baba were not without purpose!
Ever since returning to Pimpalgaon, something very mysterious and strange was happening to Krishna during his nightwatch. All the windows and doors of Baba's room were tightly shut. At midnight, Krishna would see a shadow fall across the window. Soon a spirit would appear inside the room. The apparition was that of an old man with slightly reddish eyes, a white beard, and no legs. He was wearing a white kafni, with a white cloth tied around his head. "He was wonderful and attractive to look at," Krishna related later, "so I wasn't afraid. But whenever he appeared, I lost all my strength. I couldn't move."
The spirit would approach Baba's bed. As soon as he was about to touch Baba's feet, Baba would snap his fingers and the spirit would disappear. Baba did not say anything and Krishna also did not report what he had seen. Every night the same thing happened: When the spirit appeared, Krishna would feel immobilized with his energy drained away. After a few days, he complained to Baba that the spirit was taking away his strength. Baba decided to move to a different room.
Half a mile from the Pimpalgaon ashram was a small cottage, belonging to Ratanshah Gyara, a Parsi resident of Poona who was devoted to Baba. After retiring from his job as an engineer, Gyara farmed some land he owned near Pimpalgaon. No one stayed in the cottage, as it was used to store grain and farm implements. So, from 9 February 1946, because of the ghost, Baba began going with Krishna to Ratanshah's small cottage every evening at nine o'clock to rest for the night. Because Krishna felt so weak, Baba instructed Kaka to come at 4:00 A.M. and relieve Krishna, but neither Kaka nor anyone else was told about the spirit.
The spirit never appeared at Gyara's cottage. For a few days things seemed to be going well when one night at about two o'clock, someone knocked on Kaka's door. "Kaka, wake up!" the voice cried. "It's four o'clock!" Kaka sprang out of bed, frightened that he would be late, and ran from Pimpalgaon to Gyara's cottage. From the window, he shone his flashlight on Krishna's face inside. Krishna came out and asked, "Kaka, why have you come so early?"