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Eureka City is a ghost town in South Africa. It was established in 1885, when gold was discovered on the Sheba Reef. [1] It is located 7 km from Barberton, Mpumalanga. [2] Its ruins are now located in the northern section of Mountainlands Nature Reserve. [3] A permit from the authorities is now required to enter the ghost town. [4]
Plaatjieskraal is a ghost town in the Western Cape province of South Africa located about 10 km southeast of Pearly Beach and 10 km southwest of Wolvengat. The town was established in the 1980s, [1] but was abandoned around 2010 and has since been taken over by sand dunes. [2]
Somerset Hospital: South Africa's oldest hospital in Green Point, Cape Town, where resident ghosts reportedly include Sister Henrietta Stockdale, a blonde girl combing her hair and others that roam the corridors at night. [9]: 157 [12] Grey High School in Port Elizabeth is well known for its paranormal occurrences. Tales of the school's past ...
This category is for settlements within South Africa that have been abandoned through human or natural causes. Pages in category "Former populated places in South Africa" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Leydsdorp is a former gold rush town situated in the Limpopo province of South Africa. [2] This ghost town is 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) south-west of Gravelotte and 53 kilometres (33 mi) south-east of Tzaneen. It developed from a gold-mining camp and was proclaimed in 1890, but was virtually abandoned when gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand.
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over two months during a standoff with authorities who demanded they surrender to police because they were mining illegally.
Kolmanskop was a filming location for the 1990 South African adventure film The Sandgrass People. The town was used as one of the locations in the 1993 film Dust Devil. The 2000 film The King Is Alive was filmed in Kolmanskop, with the town used as the film's main setting. [5] The town was featured in a 2010 episode of Life After People. The ...