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1655 Adamastor, the giant of the Cape of Storms 1729 The Castle's regulars 1802 The rider of Tokai Manor 1833 The tokoloshe 1861 Kholumolumo, the swallower of the world 1870 The lightning bird 1873 The people who were here first 1875 The mantis who made the moon 1885 Farini's Lost City of the Kalahari 1900 The Lord Milner's guests 1902 Charlotte of Nottingham Road 1909 Van Hunks and the Devil 1914 The monoplane that flew all over the Union 1920 The Grootslang 1931 Lake Fundudzi 1939 The Flying Dutchman off the Cape 1946 The golden ball over the Langham Hotel 1951 The engineer and the stranger on Du Toit's Kloof 1954 The elliptical sausage over Lake McIlwaine 1954 The green ball over Tananarive 1955 Eight seconds over Mitsinjo 1956 Flying Saucer Hill 1956 Sundowner time on the Copperbelt 1957 Nyaminyami and the dam 1958 The whispering hills 1958 Everything works on wavelengths 1961 The photograph Bob kept 1965 Two constables on the Bronkhorstspruit road 1968 The Uniondale hitchhiker 1968 The consul and the island 1968 The circle of light on Mazowe Dam 1969 The transformer on Newlands Ravine 1970 A curtain of fire in the Namib 1972 The Rosmead tennis court 1972 The thing in the Fort Beaufort field 1974 The policeman outside Mvuma 1975 The caravan in the kraal at Loxton 1975 The bus that vanished on the Shabani strip road 1978 Three men in silver on the hill at Groendal 1978 The patrol that stood up at four o'clock 1979 The egg on Tindall Road 1980 The tanker over the café roof 1981 The fireball at La Rochelle 1981 The mountain that keeps people 1985 The Hawks over Bulawayo 1985 Die spook van die Kalahari 1985 The dam that emptied overnight 1985 The night visitors outside Lusaka 1987 The rain snake of the Tswapong Hills 1988 The flying mattress off Beira 1988 The horses on Hospital Hill 1989 The Kalahari crash that never was 1991 The blue flame at the pool filter 1992 The flash in the Nhlangano valley 1993 The sea light at Muizenberg and the man in the vlei 1994 The Ariel School encounter 1994 Lights over Kariba 1995 Two lights over the Cederberg beacon 1995 The serpent of Howick Falls 1996 The satchel on Pote Street 1996 The morning the police chased a light to Bronkhorstspruit 1996 The hospital that closed on Boxing Day 1996 The tsotsis on Lilfordia Road 1996 The Leribe documents 1997 The Mamlambo of the Mzintlava 1998 The Karoo lights 2003 The stones above Kaapsehoop 2004 The light that hung over Durban 2007 The Waterberg lights 2008 Lights over Gaborone 2008 The Namib object 2009 The Tofo photographs 2009 Something over Windhoek 2011 The ball that fell on Omusati 2012 The mermaids of Gokwe 2012 The tears at Phophonyane 2013 Over the Maluti 2015 The lights above Table Mountain 2016 The light that quietened the hippos