Who didnt hear of the Ghost Wagen in the Spokeveld as the older people called a piece of the Karoo? This story has its origin in the 1830s.. Transport wagons refuse to go near that place after dark. Quite a lot of people wrote about this. A certain major Ellis recounts the following events in an old book. On his way from Ceres towards Beaufort-Wes,. he was sitting up front with the coach driver when the wheel broke. They had to pull off the road in order to check what happened when they heard a wagon racing towards them. Ellis thought it was on the road heading straight towards them, but Anthony de Beer, the coach driver said No, the sound doesnt come up from the road. Apparently the noise the wagon made was amazing. As the wagon stormed past them Anthony shouted: Where the devil are you going? A loud voice answered, To hell and this was followed by a chorus of horrid laughter. As the wagon raced past, a gust of icy wind followed them, as can be expected during an encounter with the spirit world. They caught a glimpse of the driver, he had a deadly white face with deadly piercing eyes and a white bandana tied around the lower part of his face. Laughter followed this as well. A few seconds after the wagon passed, the noise disappeared and a scary calm descended over the landscape. Anthony and Ellis ran back towards the coach, but saw two men sitting next to a fire and approached them, the men turned to look at them with deadly white visages and disappeared. The fire which was burning moments earlier was dead and no trace of a recent fire was visible. Anthony was very depressed, because they knew the story of the ghost wagon.....the legend says that if the wagon races towards you, but no one does anything and it crashes into you, everyone is doomed; but if one person shouts out to the wagon (as Anthony did) he saves everyones lives at the cost of his own.... Anthonys body was found a week later at the bottom of a cliff with his coach and horses.......
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:58:59 +0000
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