Category: South Africa

 South African Stone-Throwing Mystery. Inquirers Baffled. Not pane left in two houses. Police and unofficial investigators have so far been completely baffled in their attempts to solve the mystery of the showers of stones which

The Hayes and the Hobgoblin. Cape Town Experience of Ex-Fulham Family. A thirty-year-old newspaperman, Mr Robert Hayes and his wife, who until last October were living at Bishop’s Mansions, Bishop’s Park Road, are central figures

 Spirit Triumphant. An old mansion at Port Elizabeth now stands empty, the aroma of burned joss sticks mingling with mysterious tappings on the walls and the occasional splintering of window panes. Until recently it was

Stone-throwing Spirits In Natal. (Slightly abridged from “The Transvaal of To-day,” by A. Aylward, p.204. In 1869, a rumour spread over the county Weener that the house of a certain farmer on the banks of

Mystery Knockings and Blue Flame. Shower of stones from nowhere. Johannesburg, Saturday. For three months mysterious happings have disturbed the home of D. Neaves, chemist’s assistant, at Roodepoort. The house stands on a five-acre plot

 Bitten by a Ghost. A message from Johannesburg says that manifestations alleged to be of a ghostly character have been causing considerable excitement at Turffontein. Various members of a local family declare that they have