Podcast
Eish, That's Dark
Episodes — page 2
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 o…
- 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…
- 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…
- Specters of the Cape Part 1 - The Castle
The Castle of Good Hope has stood in the centre of Cape Town since 1679, but it has never been quiet. A governor cursed on the gallows and found dead of terror the same day. A wo…
- Black December - When the Natal Coast Ran Red
In December 1957, the South Coast of Natal was full of families on holiday. Hotels packed. Beaches busy. The Indian Ocean warm and green. Then nine people were attacked by sharks.…
