Eish, That's Dark

The Missing Six - Part 1

In January 1990, a sixteen-year-old girl drugged and handcuffed in a Pretoria cupboard got herself out, flagged down a car, and cracked open the biggest child-abduction case in South African history. This is part one of The Missing Six. We meet Gert van Rooyen, the churchgoing builder with a 1979 conviction the state ignored, and his partner Joey Haarhoff, the "motherly" woman who opened the doors a stranger never could. We name every girl, walk through exactly how the couple operated, and follow it all the way to the house on Malherbe Street and the day it came apart. Content Note: this episode covers the abduction, abuse, sexual assault, and presumed murder of children. We tell it facts-first, victims at the centre, but we don't dwell on the worst of it. Eish, That's Dark is a South African true crime and paranormal podcast hosted by Jess and Liz. New episodes every Monday on all podcast platforms🎙️🎧

South Africa's Most Famous Ghosts

No courtroom this week. Just four places in South Africa where the dead apparently never got the memo that it was time to leave. We're covering the Uniondale Hitchhiker on the N9 in the Little Karoo, the famously haunted Lord Milner Hotel in Matjiesfontein, the heartbreaking love story behind the ghost at Kronendal in Hout Bay, and Charlotte - who has been tidying guests' rooms and ringing the bell for a room that doesn't exist at the Nottingham Road Hotel in the KZN Midlands since around 1902. Turns out South Africa has way more going on in the paranormal department than we realised. Eish, That's Dark is a South African true crime and paranormal podcast hosted by Jess and Liz. New episodes every Monday 🎙🎧

Boesmansgat: The Impossible Retrieval of Deon Dreyer

In December 1994, a 20-year-old diver disappeared into one of the deepest freshwater caves on Earth. His torch went dark. His body did not come up. For ten years, he lay there. In silence. In the cold. In the dark. In 2004, an Australian airline pilot saw something at the bottom of that cave that he could not unsee. He made a promise to a stranger he had never met. This is the story of that promise and of the morning the cave gave back what it had taken, in a way nobody expected. Hosted by Jess and Liz. Eish, That's Dark drops new episodes every Monday. 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts 📩 Send us your case suggestions: eishthatsdark@gmail.com 📱 Follow us: @EishThatsDark on

Thabo Bester: The Facebook Rapist - Part 2

A burned body. A death certificate. A closed case. And a convicted murderer doing his weekly grocery shop at Woolworths in Sandton City while the state held his death certificate on file. This is Part Two. We cover the murder of Katlego Bereng Mpholo, the year Bester spent living openly in Hyde Park, the GroundUp journalists who cracked it open, the flight through Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania, and where the trial stands right now. Eish, That's Dark is a South African true crime podcast hosted by Jess and Liz. Find us on Instagram and TikTok at @EishThatsDark.

Thabo Bester: The Facebook Rapist - Part 1

Thabo Bester was serving a life sentence for murder and rape when, in May 2022, he apparently died in his cell. The body was charred. The prison signed off on it. But Thabo Bester wasn't dead, and someone on the inside knew that. This is Part One of the Thabo Bester story, one of the most audacious prison escapes in South African history, and the case that exposed just how deep the rot could go. Hosted by Jess and Liz. Eish, That's Dark drops new episodes every Monday. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok at @eishthatsdark.