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GraveYard Tales

243: The Castle of Good Hope

GraveYard Tales

Adam Zero

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science, History

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week we take a look at The Castle of Good Hope! Interesting history here and some cool hauntings! 


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Sources

https://castleofgoodhope.co.za/index.php/news/100-news/149-history-of-the-castle#:~:text=Built%20between%201666%20and%201679,the%20Cape%20from%20approximately%201679.

https://theculturetrip.com/africa/south-africa/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-castle-of-good-hope-cape-town

http://earlycolonial.co.za/the-castle-of-good-hope/#:~:text=The%20Castle%20represents%2C%20in%20its,tiles%20were%20replaced%20with%20replicas.

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/castle-of-good-hope/#:~:text=The%20Castle%20of%20Good%20Hope%20was%20used%20as%20a%20prison,using%20just%20an%20iron%20spoon.

https://writingtoberead.com/2022/09/28/dark-origins-african-myths-and-legends-castle-of-good-hope-in-the-western-cape/

https://capetown.today/the-castle-of-good-hope-a-place-of-dark-history-and-hope/

https://www.capetown.travel/fun-facts-about-the-castle-of-good-hope/

https://mysterioustrip.com/castle-good-hope-stories/

https://www.adequatetravel.com/haunted/scotland/castle-of-good-hope-cape-town-horror-story-history-information-paranomial-activity?expand_article=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Good_Hope#:~:text=The%20Castle%20acted%20as%20local,Regiment%2C%20a%20mechanised%20infantry%20unit.

https://castleofgoodhope.co.za/index.php/news/100-news/149-history-of-the-castle

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/castle-of-good-hope/

https://traveltriangle.com/blog/haunted-places-in-cape-town/

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/ghosts-haunt-guards-at-cape-town-castle-63293

https://writingtoberead.com/2022/09/28/dark-origins-african-myths-and-legends-castle-of-good-hope-in-the-western-cape/

https://www.capetownetc.com/entertainment/haunted-places-in-cape-town/

https://mysterioustrip.com/castle-good-hope-stories/#Why_the_Castle_is_said_to_be_Haunted

https://www.turtlesa.com/ghosts.html

https://www.adequatetravel.com/haunted/south-africa/castle-of-good-hope-cape-town-horror-story-history-information-paranomial-activity?expand_article=1

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, so Matt, I was walking through the woods here the other day and I saw this suitcase

0:06.7

just laying randomly in the woods and I normally don't like touching stuff because you know it's

0:11.8

haunted it can be weird but I noticed curled up under the suitcase there was a fox and four cubs.

0:18.4

So yeah, I was a little worried about it so I called the game wardens, you know, told them

0:24.7

what I'd found and the guy was like, well that's terrible, you know, or are the foxes moving?

0:32.4

And I said, well, I don't know but I guess that would explain the suitcase.

0:35.6

Good evening everybody and welcome to the graveyard. Thank you for joining us tonight. My name is Adam

0:58.6

and my name's Matt. Now we'll up a tombstone or settle into your casket and get

1:05.3

comfortable because this is graveyard tails.

1:14.4

All right, everybody here we are again Matt. How you doing tonight brother?

1:20.2

Hey, I'm good brother. Excellent. Excellent. Same here. Just another day in paradise.

1:25.2

So, you know, something just really weird happened today just hours before.

1:31.5

I got home from work and all the kids had something going on which is rare

1:38.6

that I get home and there's not at least one child here. So the house was completely empty.

1:45.0

So you walked around naked, huh? So I walked around naked, you know, it's what I do.

1:49.4

Right. I get to do it maybe once, once in a blue moon. But now, so I went to the bathroom.

1:56.0

You know, I just got in the home. I went into the bathroom and so my oldest was she went up

2:02.6

to she had class today. So she was at, you know, an hour away. But I knew that she was on her way home.

2:12.8

So I didn't think anything about it. So I'm in the bathroom and I hear a door like open and close.

2:20.1

Like, okay, you know, Madison's home. No biggie. And I just kind of waited because she'll go,

2:28.2

hey, I'm back or something like that. And I didn't hear anything. The dogs barked everything.

2:33.8

You know, the dogs heard the door. So I looked and I thought, well, I didn't get a notification

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