Ep. 601 - Haunted Pretoria

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Our listener Celia hails from South Africa and she wrote us about an experience she had at a historic museum located in the capital city of Pretoria. It's an awesome ghost story and we wondered if there were other haunted locations in Pretoria and sure enough, we found some! South Africa has only come up on the podcast one other time in all these years, so it was definitely time to revisit this country that has a history marked with turmoil because of apartheid and the ensuing massacres and uprisings and the struggle to transition to independence and Democracy. Ongoing challenges continue, but this is also a country of natural beauty in the landscape and its varied wildlife. The architecture is also diverse, represented with indigenous styles and contemporary styles, but also the historic styles of Victorian and Colonial. Join us for the history and hauntings of Pretoria, South Africa!

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1:12.6	Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to the 601st episode of the History Ghostbump podcast.
1:18.2	Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host, Diane.
1:20.9	And this is Kelly.
1:21.9	Kelly on this episode, we have a location that was suggested to us by our listener, Celia, and she hails from South Africa.
1:29.8	And we've only done one other location in South Africa. So I was like so excited that we had a
1:36.0	suggestion. And she had a crazy experience at this place that we're going to talk about. And when I
1:43.3	was looking at everything, I was like, well,
1:45.0	there's a lot here, but maybe not enough for a full episode. So I was like, well, it's in the city of
1:51.4	Pretoria. I wonder if there's other haunted locations there. And sure enough, we found a couple
1:56.0	others. So this is going to be about haunted Pretoria. Looking forward to bringing you the history and hauntings there.
2:03.7	And right off the bat, I do want to say that we want to acknowledge that there's a little bit of controversy over the name of Pretoria.
2:11.8	Many believe that it should be called Chwani, I think is how you say it, which is the main metropolitan municipality there.
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