2 Haunted Places in Botswana

Every case file on record in Botswana — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.

1. Tsholofelo Park, Gaborone — The Grave That Stole the Rain

   A · Gaborone, Botswana — The grave of 'El Negro' — an African man stolen from his burial place in 1830, stuffed and displayed in a Spanish museum for 170 years, and reburied here with a state funeral in 2000 — which the capit…

2. Tsodilo Hills — The Sacred Mountain Family and the Taboo of Misfortune

   A · Ghanzi District, North West Botswana, Botswana — The quartzite hills where the San believe the world began and ancestral spirits still live — a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of rock art where hunting near the hills, fishing the sacred lake, or cas…