2 Haunted Places in Freetown

Every case file on record in Freetown — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file.

1. Freetown Cotton Tree — The Prophecy Tree

   B · Freetown, Sierra Leone — The giant cotton tree at the heart of Freetown, under which the city's freed-slave founders prayed in 1792 — the national symbol whose prophesied fall ('if the tree falls, catastrophe comes') was cred…

2. Wilkinson Road — Mama Lungi, the Woman in White

   B · Freetown, Sierra Leone — The long road out of Freetown toward Lungi — in the city's contemporary ghost canon the road of Mama Lungi, a woman in white who died in the 1970s searching for a child who never came home, and who st…