2 Haunted Places in Tanzania

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

1. Dunga Palace, Zanzibar — The Burnoosed Figure and the Lady with the Black Dog

   B · Dunga, Unguja island, Tanzania — The ruined inland palace of the Swahili Mwinyi Mkuu rulers, whose haunted reputation rests on a named 1895 sighting by a British doctor — a hooded figure that paralysed him with fear — and an Arab lad…

2. Mbweni Ruins — Caroline Thackeray's Evening Walk

   B · Mbweni, Zanzibar, Tanzania — The ruins of the mission school for freed slaves where a devoted English headmistress taught for decades — and where, by a tradition recorded beside the 1895 Dunga Palace apparition in Zanzibar's clas…