Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 13, February 1996

Ghost hitch-hiker of the Barandas turn-off (television segment)

Barandas turn-off, old Uniondale-Oudtshoorn road, Uniondale, South Africa

What was reported

Writing up her visit to the BUFORA conference, Hind mentions that Jenny Randles is working with London Weekend Television on the series Strange But True, which had lately made a segment on ghost hitch-hikers. Hind took part herself, and the well-known South African apparition, a girl who appears at the Barandas turn-off on the old Uniondale to Oudtshoorn road, was the centrepiece. She expected the programme to reach South African screens shortly. The issue gives no dates, witnesses or description of the apparition; it is a passing mention inside her report on the British trip.

What Hind made of it

Mentioned only as a television segment she was involved in; no evaluation offered.

In their words

  • the infamous South African girl on the Barandas turn-off on the old Uniondale-Oudtshoorn road

    Cynthia Hind, spread 3

Cross references

  • Strange But True, London Weekend Television
  • Jenny Randles, Star Children

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 13 (February 1996), spread 3-4

In the archive

This case became a story on this site.

1968 · South Africa

The Uniondale hitchhiker

A young woman in dark clothes asks for a lift on the Willowmore road at Easter. A few kilometres on, the seat beside you is empty.

Press report