6 Haunted Places in South Africa
Every case file on record in South Africa — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Castle of Good Hope — Cape Town's Garrison Ghosts
B · Cape Town, South Africa — South Africa's oldest colonial building (1666) — a Dutch star-fort whose dungeon deaths and 'lady in grey' made national news.…
Cape of Good Hope — The Flying Dutchman's Home Waters
A · Cape of Good Hope, Table Mountain National Park, Western Cape, South Africa — The world's most famous ghost ship — the Flying Dutchman, condemned to beat around the Cape of Storms forever — belongs to these waters: the legendary vessel sighted under full sail against the wind f…
Lord Milner Hotel — The Ghosts of Matjiesfontein
B · Matjiesfontein, South Africa — A perfectly preserved Victorian railway village in the Karoo — 'the most haunted town in South Africa' — whose grand old hotel hosts Lucy, Kate and a lady in white.…
Nottingham Road Hotel — Charlotte of Room 10
B · KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa — A coaching-inn-era country hotel in the KZN Midlands where the ghost of 'Charlotte' tidies rooms, rearranges flowers — and pulls sleepers' toes.…
Robben Island — Cape Town's Island of Ghosts
A · Cape Town, South Africa — The UNESCO-listed prison island where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years — a place of leper graves, lime quarries and reports even sceptical researchers can't fully shake off.…
The Uniondale Hitchhiker — Maria Roux on the N9
B · Uniondale, Western Cape, South Africa — South Africa's most famous road ghost: a bride-to-be killed in 1968, said to climb into cars on the Karoo highway and vanish from the passenger seat.…