Haunted Places!!!

1. Haunted Places!!! Presented By: Ali Blackburn

2. Africa’s Haunted Place… • South Africa has a lot of active spirits. The Cape Town Castle ghost has been appearing for over 300 years. The tall luminous figure is most often seen walking along the battlement of the castle, built in 1665. the ghost of one of the men who died building the underground tunnel which runs from the Post Office to Main Railway Station in Johannesburg haunts the dark passageway to this day. Spokeveld (“Spook Country”) is along the southern edge of the Great Karoo between the Patatas River and the Southkloff. The entire region is haunted by spectral wagons, Port Elizabeth Highway (between the Hex River Mountains and Drakensberg) is haunted by a phantom automobile that is blamed for causing more than one accident.

3. Asia… • Singapore is Asia’s most haunted city. Strange lights flit through Hougang School, near East Coast Beach, and people are slapped by an unseen presence at Changi Beach Houses. Ghosts appear from nowhere and beg for food along the coast near Lor Halus, and St. John Island is haunted by a ghost that calls for help and then runs away. The Hou Gang Tenements are haunted by the apparitions of screaming lady, and a person was reportedly killed by a ghost in Bedok Tenant House. In the Fort Sentosa district, the Punggol White House is haunted by a whole family who committed suicide together, while headless apparitions terrorize passengers as they pass through certain MRT mass transit stations in the city.

4. Continued… • At the Parliament House in Suba Fiji, security cameras recorded their ghost for five minutes. The footage was shown on national television and the Prime Minister called for an exorcism that was performed in 1997/ Chuang Mu are ancient Chinese ghosts who still possess beds in private residence and interfere with sleep, lovemaking, and childbirth. The spirit of Zashiki Warishi, a young Japanese boy is responsible for poltergeist activity in a whole neighborhood in Tokyo, while in the mountains, the ghost of Yama Uba is a blamed for the disappearance of small children. • Mount Everestis haunted by the ghost of climber Andrew Irvine who died there in 1924. His phantom ghost shares tents with climbers and encourages them to make the final ascent. The ghost was first reported by Dougal Haston and Doug Scott in September 1975 and has been seen several times since. In India, Brahmadaitya is ghost of an unmarried Brahmin monk who takes up residence in a tree after death, but the bitchy boogey will break people's necks if they trespass his property. Pretas are the rooming ghosts of Hindu men who died by violence and whose corpses were disposed of "unceremoniously." Mumiai is a Indian poltergeist that invades homes throughout Bombay, while Virikas are small spirits that appear surrounded by a reddish mist and make guttural sounds. Paisachi and Bauta are male and female ghosts who haunt so many homes that they have been given nicknames

5. Central and south America… • Buses traveling in the area of former U.S. Army facility Fort Clayton in Panama City report the sudden appearance of an extremely ill American soldier lying on the back seat of the bus. The pale man asks to be dropped off at the clinic and then disappears. The Azeman is a ghostly woman who haunts the villages of Surinam (Dutch Guiana) in northeastern South America. The unwelcome phantom bites a piece of flesh from the big toe of sleeping persons and saps their blood.

6. Bibliography… • http://www.haunted-places.com/International.htm#Central%20and%20South%20America • http://www.doctortravel.ca/uploads/images/southamerica.jpg • http://blog.asiahotels.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/everest.jpg • http://www.scaryforkids.com