Category: South Africa

 Stoned by a spirit. Followed him when he flitted. Nobody has seen thrower. Neither detectives nor a witch doctor have been able to solve the mystery of the stoning of a white man by a

 Fire Mystery. Theory of Malay Magic. Baffling series of outbreaks. A series of mysterious fires, which the superstitious believe have been caused by a sorcerer’s curse raising ‘fire phantoms’ has “haunted” the house of Robt.

 Nigel, Transvaal: Police in this small farming town, about 40 miles from Johannesburg, have arrested an African woman on charges of practising witchcraft, and have called in a witch-doctor to help with the case. The

 Cape Town “Ghosts”. Knives, crockery, glass and furniture thrown about. Cape Town has been suffering from a ghostly presence which has thrown knives, crockery, glass and stones through the air, banged furniture about, and knocked

 A Ghost’s Joke. A weird occurrence which happened recently at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, is related by F. W. Fitz-Simmons, of the Natal Government Museum. “One evening a few months ago,” he says, “the door of one

 Pretoria. Strange story from Pretoria. Cape Town, October 13. Remarkable ghost stories are reported from a farmer living ten miles from Pretoria. Stones have been flung into the house apparently through the walls, while a

 Ghost plays tricks. Disturbs beds and throws stones. Strange tales have been told about ghosts, and in particular about the variety known as “goelery.” Mr Fraus du Toit, of the Krugersdorp district, tells of one

… Again, at Port Elizabeth, in South Africa, in 1916, the victim was another girl. Her food is reported to have caught fire when she attempted to eat it, and the blankets on her bed

 Missiles in Haunted House. Weird happenings have been taking place at a house in Troye Street, Johannesburg, where stones, bricks, nuts, bolts, tins, bread, planks, and other missiles have crashed through doors and windows. A