Transcript Haunted Places!!! - Daviess County Public Schools

Haunted Places!!!
Presented By: Ali Blackburn
Africa’s Haunted Place…
• South Africa has a lot of active spirits. The Cape
Town Castle ghost has been appearing for over 300
years. The tall luminous figure is most often seen
walking along the battlement of the castle, built in
1665. the ghost of one of the men who died building
the underground tunnel which runs from the Post
Office to Main Railway Station in Johannesburg
haunts the dark passageway to this day. Spokeveld
(“Spook Country”) is along the southern edge of the
Great Karoo between the Patatas River and the
Southkloff. The entire region is haunted by spectral
wagons, Port Elizabeth Highway (between the Hex
River Mountains and Drakensberg) is haunted by a
phantom automobile that is blamed for causing more
than one accident.
Asia…
• Singapore is Asia’s most haunted city. Strange lights
flit through Hougang School, near East Coast Beach,
and people are slapped by an unseen presence at
Changi Beach Houses. Ghosts appear from nowhere
and beg for food along the coast near Lor Halus, and
St. John Island is haunted by a ghost that calls for
help and then runs away. The Hou Gang Tenements
are haunted by the apparitions of screaming lady,
and a person was reportedly killed by a ghost in
Bedok Tenant House. In the Fort Sentosa district, the
Punggol White House is haunted by a whole family
who committed suicide together, while headless
apparitions terrorize passengers as they pass
through certain MRT mass transit stations in the city.
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At the Parliament House in Suba Fiji, security cameras recorded their ghost for
five minutes. The footage was shown on national television and the Prime
Minister called for an exorcism that was performed in 1997/ Chuang Mu are
ancient Chinese ghosts who still possess beds in private residence and
interfere with sleep, lovemaking, and childbirth. The spirit of Zashiki Warishi, a
young Japanese boy is responsible for poltergeist activity in a whole
neighborhood in Tokyo, while in the mountains, the ghost of Yama Uba is a
blamed for the disappearance of small children.
Mount Everest is haunted by the ghost of climber Andrew Irvine who died there in
1924. His phantom ghost shares tents with climbers and encourages them to
make the final ascent. The ghost was first reported by Dougal Haston and Doug
Scott in September 1975 and has been seen several times since. In India,
Brahmadaitya is ghost of an unmarried Brahmin monk who takes up residence
in a tree after death, but the bitchy boogey will break people's necks if they
trespass his property. Pretas are the rooming ghosts of Hindu men who died by
violence and whose corpses were disposed of "unceremoniously." Mumiai is a
Indian poltergeist that invades homes throughout Bombay, while Virikas are
small spirits that appear surrounded by a reddish mist and make guttural
sounds. Paisachi and Bauta are male and female ghosts who haunt so many
homes that they have been given nicknames
Central and south
AmericA…
• Buses traveling in the area of former U.S. Army
facility Fort Clayton in Panama City report the
sudden appearance of an extremely ill American
soldier lying on the back seat of the bus. The
pale man asks to be dropped off at the clinic and
then disappears. The Azeman is a ghostly
woman who haunts the villages of Surinam
(Dutch Guiana) in northeastern South America.
The unwelcome phantom bites a piece of flesh
from the big toe of sleeping persons and saps
their blood.
Bibliography…
• http://www.hauntedplaces.com/International.htm#Central%20
and%20South%20America
• http://www.doctortravel.ca/uploads/images
/southamerica.jpg
• http://blog.asiahotels.com/wpcontent/uploads/2008/10/everest.jpg
• http://www.scaryforkids.com