Stories of haunted places are not limited to poor, superstitious communities but are to be found all around the globe. In South Africa, the Cape Town Castle ghost has been appearing for over 300 years. It is described as a tall luminous figure most often seen walking along the battlement of the castle, built in 1665.Then there is the ghost of one of the men who died building the underground tunnel, which runs from the Post Office to the Main Railway Station in Johannesburg. It haunts the dark passageway to this day.In Asia, Singapore is believed to be the most haunted city. Strange lights flit through Hougang School, near East Coast Beach, and people are slapped by an unseen presence at the Changi Beach Houses. Ghosts appear from nowhere and beg for food along the coast near Lor Halus. St John Island is haunted by a ghost that calls for help and then runs away.In Fiji, a Prime Minister called for an exorcism that was performed in 1997 on the Parliament building, which was being haunted by ghosts.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 in September 1975 and has been seen several times since.Australia has been described as a very haunted continent. Victoria Market in Melbourne, which is built right on top of Melbourne’s first cemetery, is believed to be haunted. Reports of ghostly encounters at the market go back to the 1840s and continue to this day. Brisbane in Queensland is the most haunted city in Australia and locations covered from that city will include the Old Government House, Parliament House, the Brisbane Arcade and City Hall, where at least three ghosts haunt the hallways. One is an elegant woman, another a maintenance man who continually rides the elevator that killed him in a freak accident, and the last is an American sailor stabbed to death in a fight with another sailor in the downstairs tearoom.In Central and South America, buses travelling in the area where a former US Army facility, Fort Clayton stands 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 the north eastern part of South America. The unwelcome phantom bites a piece of flesh from the big toe of sleeping persons and saps their blood.
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