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The surge in the tourism industry has massively attracted tourists to India on a large scale to the places of dark tourism. Dark tourism is a niche within the tourism industry nowadays that concentrates on visiting places connected to sorrow, tragedy, or death. The darkest eras of human history, effects of war or disaster, impacted communities, dark incidents of infamous crimes, the popularity of social media, and stories of human history behind tragedies have all contributed to the rise in popularity of this type of tourism in recent years. The surge is not only because of the external and mysterious stories and reasons associated with the site it also involves certain internal human factors associated with human behavior and psyche. The paper aimed to study those internal factors like behavioral intention, motivation, and triggers that instill the urge among tourists to visit a destination of dark tourism. Research has tried to focus on the experiences of the tourists and the transition they observe in their feelings and emotions before, after, and during the tour. For serving this purpose narrative inquiry will be performed based on the interviews of those tourists that have visited a site of dark tourism. The results have justified that the tour is initiated as a result of curiosity, past human experiences, some emotional triggers, or a feeling of thrill. Findings have also stated that the emotions and feelings of the tourists can change a lot from curiosity to acceptance towards the negative energies, from thrill to the satisfaction of completing the tour, and much more.