South Africa's Most Famous Ghosts

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.

Spectres of the Cape Part 2 - The Flying Dutchman

There is a ship off the coast of South Africa that has been seen for four hundred years. It never docks. Its sails are full of wind that isn't blowing. And almost everyone who has seen it first has met a terrible end. A future king of England saw it. Naval officers logged it. Warships swerved to avoid it. Ordinary people watched it from a beach on a calm Sunday afternoon. It shouldn't exist. But it keeps showing up. The real history behind the Flying Dutchman (the cursed captain, the deal with the Devil, the sightings that science still can't fully explain) is stranger than any version Hollywood has ever told you. Liz takes Jess through the full story. This one anchors itself to you. Good luck sailing away from it. Content warning: Death at sea