haunted places by ali blackburn

							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.
                              Continued…
•   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.haunted-
  places.com/International.htm#Central%20
  and%20South%20America
• http://www.doctortravel.ca/uploads/images
  /southamerica.jpg
• http://blog.asiahotels.com/wp-
  content/uploads/2008/10/everest.jpg
• http://www.scaryforkids.com