The 23-year long-running, ever-popular and media-acclaimed Mystery Ghost Tours of South Africa will now run in Heidelberg.
The owner of the tours, Mark Rose-Christie, will open the tours in Heidelberg on June 10 as the final place in which it will run.
The opening will feature celebrity speakers, paranormal groups, and a banquet.
Heidelberg is a town not only famous as the capital of the old Transvaal Republic and the Second Anglo-Boer War but also because of the many famous people such as Gandhi, Churchill, Kruger, the Afrikaans poet AG Visser and many more, who either lived in the town or passed through it.
The famous Afrikaans song, Sarie Marais, has her roots in the town, as does Eugene Marais who stayed in the town at times. Marais had a deep belief in the supernatural and tried to prove that it existed scientifically.
Before them came the Voortrekkers and the clash between the Boers and the British who passed through the town’s haunted railway station during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Some of the highlights of the tour are the well-known haunted old jail, AG Visser’s house, the Klipkerk (Stone Church), the Höer Volkskool, the ‘spook bridge’, the old railway station (which also serves as a pub stop), the art-deco styled town hall and its link to the Freemasons, and much more.
With its exotic Victorian architecture, varied history, and even gold plus rumours of tunnels beneath its surface, Heidelberg won’t disappoint. Join the opening night tour for the history, and science of the paranormal, along with bewildering live demonstrations of the same as Rose-Christie bending your spare or old keys using PK mind power or for pure entertainment.
With ghost stories galore, the tour winds up in the town’s Kloof Cemetery, where several of the most famous people in the country’s history were buried.
For the opening night, there is the option to dress up as a Boer, Brit, Victorian lord or lady, Voortrekker or a Sangoma. Couples who dress up stand the chance to win prizes. The first prize is a weekend getaway in one of the oldest houses in the town, the Cornerstone House guesthouse.
The second prize is a crate of specialised Heidelberg Heritage Beer from the Heidelberg Heritage Museum.
The third prize is two books written by Anglo-Boer War expert author Rob Milne.
All details, prices and bookings are on www.MysteryGhostProductions.co.za
