Ghost 'terrorising' Bulawayo residents

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Posted to the web: 21/04/2009 12:24:21
A NEWSPAPER reporter claims he “came across” a ghost that is said to be “terrorising” residents of Bulawayo’s Mpopoma suburb.

Mbongeni Ncube said the ghost “groans and screams when a person approaches” but provided little more description, apart from saying it “operates around Mpopoma Park”.

A man told the Chronicle newspaper he saw “a figure that I could not ascertain what it was”.

The paper says residents reported waking up in the morning “to find their things re-arranged especially those outside such as flower vases and scrap metal”.

The ghost, the residents said, was believed to be that of a woman murdered in cold blood last year by muggers who robbed her of a loaf of bread and R150.

But the grandmother of the dead woman told the Chronicle she was unaware of the allegations, adding: “My granddaughter is resting in peace.”

Mpopoma resident Dumisani Mankunzini said that the ghost had been “operational” since the beginning of the year.

He said: “The ghost has been terrorising us since the beginning of the year and it should be the woman who was murdered last year and I’m sure because it operates where she was murdered.”

Residents who live near the Park said things were being rearranged outside their homes during the night.

Derrick Sibanda, a neighbour of the murdered woman’s family, said: “I usually hear strange sounds at night. On the first day I woke up to check as I thought that it could be housebreakers but could not see anything conclusive so I went back to bed.

“On the second day I armed myself with a knobkerrie and went outside only to meet a figure that I could not ascertain what it was. I only got to know what was really happening when another neighbour told me about the strange things that had been happening at his home."

A senior editor at the Chronicle newspaper told New Zimbabwe.com on Wednesday that Ncube was on sick leave, and could not deal with our enquiries.
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