It is June 1990. A customer browsing in a fabric shop in Midrand finds a slip of paper. On it, in a child's pencilled hand, is a message: she's being held by kidnappers, and her friend tried to phone but was cut off. The girl says her name is Anne-Mari.

Anne-Mari Wapenaar vanished in September 1989. And by June 1990, the only two people ever linked to taking her — Gert van Rooyen and Joey Haarhoff — had been dead, and cremated, for five months.

This is Part Two of The Missing Six.

We go into the 1996 demolition where police tore the House of Horrors apart brick by brick, vacuumed the roof, scanned the walls with sonar and sifted the soil, and still found nothing. We cover the note that shouldn't exist, the sons whose names resurfaced in courtrooms on two continents, 36 years of beaches dug and re-dug, and the theories about whether Van Rooyen and Haarhoff ever really acted alone.

Content warning: child abduction, sexual abuse and the murder of children. Listener discretion advised.

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In January 1990, a sixteen-year-old girl drugged and handcuffed in a Pretoria cupboard got herself out, flagged down a car, and cracked open the biggest child-abduction case in South African history.

This is part one of The Missing Six. We meet Gert van Rooyen, the churchgoing builder with a 1979 conviction the state ignored, and his partner Joey Haarhoff, the "motherly" woman who opened the doors a stranger never could. We name every girl, walk through exactly how the couple operated, and follow it all the way to the house on Malherbe Street and the day it came apart.

Content Note: this episode covers the abduction, abuse, sexual assault, and presumed murder of children. We tell it facts-first, victims at the centre, but we don't dwell on the worst of it.

Eish, That's Dark is a South African true crime and paranormal podcast hosted by Jess and Liz.

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No courtroom this week. Just four places in South Africa where the dead apparently never got the memo that it was time to leave.

We're covering the Uniondale Hitchhiker on the N9 in the Little Karoo, the famously haunted Lord Milner Hotel in Matjiesfontein, the heartbreaking love story behind the ghost at Kronendal in Hout Bay, and Charlotte - who has been tidying guests' rooms and ringing the bell for a room that doesn't exist at the Nottingham Road Hotel in the KZN Midlands since around 1902.

Turns out South Africa has way more going on in the paranormal department than we realised.

Eish, That's Dark is a South African true crime and paranormal podcast hosted by Jess and Liz. New episodes every Monday 🎙🎧

In December 1994, a 20-year-old diver disappeared into one of the deepest freshwater caves on Earth. His torch went dark. His body did not come up. For ten years, he lay there. In silence. In the cold. In the dark.

In 2004, an Australian airline pilot saw something at the bottom of that cave that he could not unsee. He made a promise to a stranger he had never met.

This is the story of that promise and of the morning the cave gave back what it had taken, in a way nobody expected.

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A burned body. A death certificate. A closed case. And a convicted murderer doing his weekly grocery shop at Woolworths in Sandton City while the state held his death certificate on file.

This is Part Two. We cover the murder of Katlego Bereng Mpholo, the year Bester spent living openly in Hyde Park, the GroundUp journalists who cracked it open, the flight through Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania, and where the trial stands right now.

Eish, That's Dark is a South African true crime podcast hosted by Jess and Liz.

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Thabo Bester was serving a life sentence for murder and rape when, in May 2022, he apparently died in his cell. The body was charred. The prison signed off on it. But Thabo Bester wasn't dead, and someone on the inside knew that.

This is Part One of the Thabo Bester story, one of the most audacious prison escapes in South African history, and the case that exposed just how deep the rot could go.

Hosted by Jess and Liz. Eish, That's Dark drops new episodes every Monday. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok at @eishthatsdark.

There is a ship off the coast of South Africa that has been seen for four hundred years. It never docks. Its sails are full of wind that isn't blowing. And almost everyone who has seen it first has met a terrible end.

A future king of England saw it. Naval officers logged it. Warships swerved to avoid it. Ordinary people watched it from a beach on a calm Sunday afternoon. It shouldn't exist. But it keeps showing up.

The real history behind the Flying Dutchman (the cursed captain, the deal with the Devil, the sightings that science still can't fully explain) is stranger than any version Hollywood has ever told you.

Liz takes Jess through the full story. This one anchors itself to you. Good luck sailing away from it.

Content warning: Death at sea

The Castle of Good Hope has stood in the centre of Cape Town since 1679, but it has never been quiet.

A governor cursed on the gallows and found dead of terror the same day. A woman's skeleton sealed into the walls for centuries. A bell tower bricked shut after a suicide that still rings on its own. Guards who didn't just transfer... they resigned.

What was built as a beacon of hope, turned into a castle full of tragedy and mystery.

Liz takes Jess through the full history of the Castle: who built it, who suffered in it, who died in it, and who, according to centuries of documented reports, never left.

Fair warning: This one won't just give you the chills. It will follow you home, so maybe leave a light on.

Content warning: slavery, suicide, torture, death by hanging. Listener discretion advised.

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