Kimberley's Paranormal Activities

 

Ghost hunters will love Kimberley's unsettling Rudd House. The sprawling property, which resembles the typical haunted house and has unsettling deep shaded verandas, is said to be a breeding ground of paranormal activity. Investigators have reported hearing a baby crying in the abandoned nursery and seeing glass and cutlery being violently flung to the floor in the pharmacy.

The Honoured Dead Memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker for the 27 British soldiers slain during the Siege of Kimberley between 1899 and 1900 during the Anglo-Boer War, is the starting point of a Kimberley ghost tour. To calm your anxiety, have a warm glass of sherry, and then leave.

You will tour some of the 158 haunted homes and buildings in Kimberley—well over 200 of them have not yet been independently verified by paranormal investigators—that are said to be home to ghosts.

The first librarian's restless soul roams the ancient Africana library. After being discovered falsifying the accounts, he drank arsenic. Many guests have witnessed books mysteriously falling to the ground and heard teacups tinkling at about 4 o'clock.

The first owner of Rudd House, Percy Rudd, haunts the former sick room, and the servants' quarters contain at least six spirits in the courtyard. A lady in white also frequently appears on the balcony.

A lovely old Kimberley Club is another stop on a Kimberley ghost tour. Here, a ghostly waiter serves in the dining room, an elderly guy strolls the upstairs corridor, and a woman dressed in historical attire stands on the staircase.

Lights strangely swing in the old De Beers boardroom as an unidentified ghost passes by, and a ghost dog howls on the porch. Fireballs have occasionally fallen from the porch ceiling.

The lid of a tin trunk inexplicably opens and closes at the Terry Hall of Militia, where a baby's cries may be heard. A ghostly nun wanders the grounds of the William McGregor Museum, which was originally a nunnery.

Additionally, over 50% of visitors say they have seen the flickering ghostly lanterns of the hospital bed and heard a phantom Scottish piper while at the Magersfontein Anglo-Boer battleground on a moonlit night.